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Title Homicide : patterns, prevention, and control : proceedings of a conference held 12-14 May 1992 / edited by Heather Strang and Sally-Anne Gerull
Published Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, [1993]
©1993

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 W'PONDS  364.1520994 Str/Hpp 1992  AVAILABLE
Description 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series AIC conference proceedings ; no. 17
Conference proceedings / AIC, 1034-5086 ; no. 17
Conference proceedings (Australian Institute of Criminology) ; no. 17
Contents Welcome Address / Duncan Chappell -- Characteristics of Homicide in Australia 1990-91 / Heather Strang -- Preventing Homicide through Trial and Error /Lawrence Sherman -- A Scenario of Masculine Violence: Confrontational Homicide / Kenneth Polk -- Hot Spots for Violence: the Environment of Pubs and Clubs / Ross Homel Steve Tomsen -- Homicide: the Northern Territory Perspective / William L. Goedegebuure -- Homicide between Sexual Intimates in Australia: a Preliminary Report / Patricia Easteal -- The Law Reform Commission of Victoria Homicide Prosecution Study: the Importance of Context / Bronwyn Naylor -- Killed by a Stranger in Victoria, January 1990-April, 1992: Location, Victims' Age and Risk /Andros Kapardis -- The Police Perspective / Peter Halloran, Mike Hagan, Jim Litster, Kerryn Nicks -- Aboriginal Homicide: Customary Law Defences or Customary Lawyers' Defences? / Geoffrey M. Eames -- Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Homicide: 'Same but Different' / David F. Martin -- Homicide and Intellectually Disabled Offenders / Susan Hayes -- Current Legal Issues in Forensic Psychiatry Ian Freckelton -- Firearms Law Reform: the Limitations of the National Approach / Sandra Egger , Rebecca Peters -- Critical Factors in Firearms Control / Errol Mason -- Gun Control and Homicide: the Shooters' Perspective / Philip G. Brown -- The Role of the Pathologist in Homicide Investigations and Coronial Inquiries / David Ranson -The Abolition of Mandatory Life Imprisonment for Murder: Some Jurisprudential Issues / David Wood - Are There Too Many Murder Trials? / John Willis -- Concluding discussion / Kenneth Polk, Lawrence Sherman, Sandra Egger, Don Weatherburn, Bill Goedegebuure
Analysis Aborigines
Crime prevention
Federal issue
Gun control
Homicide
Mental disability
Prosecution
Statistics
Notes (Conference proceedings / Australian Institute of Criminology, ISSN 1034-5086 ; no. 17)
CIP confirmed
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index
Notes Also available in an online version
Subject Homicide -- Australia -- Congresses.
Homicide -- Australia -- Prevention -- Congresses.
Homicide -- Australia.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Gerull, Sally-Anne.
Strang, Heather.
Australian Institute of Criminology.
LC no. 93214897
ISBN 0642185832