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Current issues in criminal justice, Jan 25, 2024

Journal of Learning Design, Feb 20, 2011

Student learning about legal skills in legal education is increasingly seen as important. These l... more Student learning about legal skills in legal education is increasingly seen as important. These legal skills include advocacy and negotiation. These skills are often taught through role-play. This article discusses the combination of role-plays with online tools, including wikis and blogs, to assist students to master legal skills. The article describes and discusses two case studies of the teaching of legal skills in a blended learning design. Additionally, through participant observation and selected data from student evaluation of one of the case studies the authors suggest implementation concerns for law teachers to consider when introducing this type of learning design.

Journal of Criminal Justice Education, Jul 2, 2023

's media annotation tool (MAT) is a computer software program dedicated to incorporating video fo... more 's media annotation tool (MAT) is a computer software program dedicated to incorporating video footage to the student learning experience in a novel manner. In addition to the usual functions associated with videos, MAT allows users to enter written comments at strategic and key positions to emphasise the required learning points. Innovatively introduced to creatively support learning for work-ready skills, in 2011 MAT was integrated into courses across nine student cohorts, over six disciplines, in the Vocational and Higher Education (undergraduate and post graduate) sectors of the university. This paper will focus on analysis of insights of teacher experiences using MAT, highlighting sustainable ways forward with university designed innovations. It will introduce the context of implementing MAT and discuss the process of evaluating the requirements for promoting MAT to the wider university community and, more specifically, to embed and sustain MAT into the long-term.

Authentic learning activities offer a significant contribution to legal education. Legal practice... more Authentic learning activities offer a significant contribution to legal education. Legal practice simulations provide opportunities for students to experience the application of legal theory in situations designed to replicate legal practice. This article reports on a case study that describes and discusses the use of simulations in authentic legal activities integrated within substantive law courses. Simulations including a mock legal firm and moots were introduced into selected courses in a postgraduate law degree to give students the experience of legal practice. Students were given feedback, and assessed by legal practitioners in the various legal tasks that they accomplished as part of the simulations. Notably, the simulations were assisted by the use of video to scaffold learning. Both students and legal practitioners evaluated the project. As a result of their feedback, several initiatives are described that are in development to improve student learning through the production of teaching videos.

Routledge eBooks, Aug 9, 2020

Journal of Criminal Justice Education

Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 2019

Journal of Learning Design, 2011

RMIT University‘s media annotation tool (MAT) is a computer software program dedicated to incorpo... more RMIT University‘s media annotation tool (MAT) is a computer software program dedicated to incorporating video footage to the student learning experience in a novel manner. In addition to the usual functions associated with videos, MAT allows users to enter written comments at strategic and key positions to emphasise the required learning points. Innovatively introduced to creatively support learning for work-ready skills, in 2011 MAT was integrated into courses across nine student cohorts, over six disciplines, in the Vocational and Higher Education (undergraduate and post graduate) sectors of the university. This paper will focus on analysis of insights of teacher experiences using MAT, highlighting sustainable ways forward with university designed innovations. It will introduce the context of implementing MAT and discuss the process of evaluating the requirements for promoting MAT to the wider university community and, more specifically, to embed and sustain MAT into the long-term.

Journal of Criminology, 2022

“No body, no parole” laws have been introduced in and expanded across Australia since 2015. These... more “No body, no parole” laws have been introduced in and expanded across Australia since 2015. These reforms were politically premised on the notion of providing closure to victims’ families by compelling prisoners convicted of homicide offences to disclose the location of their victims’ remains in order to be considered eligible to apply for parole. These laws are in operation in most states and territories across Australia despite low national numbers of reported no body homicides. Most Australian jurisdictions do not publish parole decisions, and Queensland is one of only two jurisdictions that require no body, no parole decisions to be made public. This article reviews the roll-out of the “no body” laws in Queensland and considers the potential to misuse the victims’ movement for political gain. We examine the ten published decisions made by the Parole Board Queensland under s193A of the Corrective Services Act 2006 (Qld) to date and discuss the extent to which the legislative aims of the reforms have been met. We argue that there is little evidence these reforms have achieved their aims, and there is a risk that the politicization of parole regimes exploits the victims’ rights movement by offering victims’ families false hope.

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Graduate attributes, such as communication and problem-solving, can be developed through student ... more Graduate attributes, such as communication and problem-solving, can be developed through student engagement with role-plays. This kind of learning and teaching strategy can be used in the face-to-face or online environments, or a combination of both experiences known ...

Alternative Law Journal, 2021

This article considers key non-disclosure cases in the United Kingdom and Australia and the poten... more This article considers key non-disclosure cases in the United Kingdom and Australia and the potential for prosecution disclosure failings to lead to miscarriages of justice. The authors discuss dis...

Current Issues in Criminal Justice

Since the death of Jill Meagher in September 2012, political rhetoric has highlighted perceived i... more Since the death of Jill Meagher in September 2012, political rhetoric has highlighted perceived issues with parole in Victoria, establishing it as an increasingly contentious issue in political debate within the state. The clamour to politicise parole in Victoria has been indicative of a broader trend in Australia, where a sweep of policy recommendations and recent reforms have seen a politicising of parole, such as the introduction of ‘no body, no parole’ laws. We contend a model of ‘parole populism’ has emerged in Australia that strips prisoners and parolees of significant rights, hampers rehabilitation efforts and fails to deliver on the promises made to the electorate. To highlight this, we explored the politicised framing of parole in parliamentary debates by employing a political discourse analysis of parliamentary debates in Victoria from 2012 to 2017. We argue the parole has become a focus of political debate in the name of prioritising victims, community safety and appearing tough on crime, which has resulted in divergence from the original purpose of parole.