Policymakers often engage in blame avoidance behaviour that affects the ways in which
they structure their organisations, adopt policies and operating routines, and present their …

The question of when a person is culpable for taking an unjustified risk of harm has long
been controversial in Anglo-American criminal law doctrine and theory. This survey of the …

This book brings the insights of theatre theory to law, legal interpretation and the
jurisprudential to reshape law as a practice of response and responsibility. Confronting a …

ABSTRACT On Tuesday 25 October 2016, four people were killed on the popular Thunder
River Rapids Ride (TRRR) at Dreamworld, Australia. Ardent Leisure Ltd pleaded guilty to …

The recently concluded Australian Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking,
Superannuation and Financial Services Industry presented evidence of malfeasance …

The concept of state-corporate crime has emerged in criminological discourse to explain the
nexus of political and economic decision-making by states and corporations, and the ways …

Finding emotions in medieval and early modern sources is one of the more difficult
challenges currently facing historians. The task of uncovering emotions in legal records is …

The Exorcist is an exemplar of the classic horror film trope of possession in the 1960s–70s.
In the film, Regan's gradual possession by the devil is depicted by signs of transformation …

Although there is increasing academic recognition of corporations as criminogenic, the
criminal legal system has demonstrated difficulties in conceptualising corporate culpability …

This article analyses how the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Reponses to
Child Sexual Abuse negotiates the figure of the pedophile as monster through the horror …