Melissa Bull
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3693217 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Melissa Bull |
| NOMBRES | Melissa |
| APELLIDO | Bull |
| FIRMA | BULL M |
| AFILIACIONES | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4740-5753 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Sharing Responsibility for Disaster Justice
In February 2022, millions of Australians were glued to their televisions and social media watching rolling footage of flooding in South-East Queensland and Northern New South Wales. When the rain finally ceased and the flood water subsided, residents were left to contend with damage estimated to exceed A$4.8 billion and an aftermath that extends to the present day (Insurance Council of Australia, 2022). With climate change accelerating, climate …
Sentencing and the over-representation of people with cognitive disability in the Australian criminal justice system
People with Cognitive Disability (PWCD) are over-represented in Australian and International Criminal Justice Systems (CJS). Research has focused on the disadvantages experienced by PWCD which bring them into earlier and more continuous contact with the CJS than the general population. There has been little empirical analysis of how sentencing might contribute to over-representation. This article reports on a project which investigated: (1) the c…
Women's Empowerment Through Access to Safe Transport
An examination of women's experience on public transport in Bangladesh and Cambodia found that victimization does reduce perceived safety or transport use. In a cultural context where women are socialized to fear and avoid public spaces, experiencing victimization may confirm rather than change previous beliefs. Moreover, it is possible that the participants’ use of public transport was driven by necessity rather than choice and that they were un…
Beyond the dark web
Common depictions of buying and selling illicit drugs online centre on how drug market actors engage in dark web drug cryptomarkets, but the supply of illicit drugs also takes place in ‘plain site’ on the surface web. Drawing on netnographic observations and qualitative interviews with hard-to-reach buyers and vendors (n = 20), this paper explores LeafedOut, a specific, popular surface web platform, that provides a conduit for local cannabis exch…
Sentencing for social supply of illicit drugs in Australia
In Australia, threshold quantities of illicit drugs act as an indicator of supply offences in distinguishing traffickers from users. This is problematic because it can be difficult for the courts to discriminate between heavy users or ‘social suppliers’ and ‘dealers proper’. Currently, there is no systematic analysis of how the judiciary in Australia navigate the relationship between different types of supply and the consistency and proportionali…
Women and policing in the South Pacific
Scholars have been critical of the gender-biased nature of policing, and its effects on service delivery. They highlight how law enforcement is male-dominated, and how this impacts negatively on women as offenders and victims of crime. Such criticisms have mobilised international and national institutional support for more gender equitable representation in policing agencies. A growing body of research has addressed the impact of increasing the n…
Do Online Illicit Drug Market Exchanges Afford Rationality
Rational choice perspectives have been the dominant models used for conceptualizing the nature of exchanges in illicit drug markets, but various critiques have found these abstracted assumptions inadequate for understanding concrete illicit drug market activity. Considerably less, however, is known about key aspects of rationality in exchanges within online drug markets. Recognizing the inadequacies of an underlying homo economicus , we instead c…
The movement and translation of drug policy ideas
Representations of women and drug use in policy
Beyond faith
Counterterrorism responses in Australia have mirrored trends in other nations with a focus on pre-emption, including the criminalisation of activities defined as preparatory offences. Security-based transnational approaches to combat terrorist activity and propaganda alone are ineffective. Sometimes security measures can actually damage efforts to counter the appeal and take-up of violent extremism. While such measures should be used in domestic …
Gender and Risk
Previous research concerned with the experience of immigration detention focuses on the general immigration detention population, which mainly consists of men. This means that the experiences of men are treated as the norm, despite it being likely that women experience immigration detention differently. This study addresses this gap by focusing on the experiences of women detainees in long-term immigration detention in Australia. It examines the …
The virtues of strangers? Policing gender violence in Pacific Island countries
This article considers the gap between reformist policy and practice in the policing of gender violence in Pacific Island Countries (PICs) with a key focus on Solomon Islands, Fiji and Kiribati. In doing so, we critically engage with two pervasive arguments in policing scholarship: (1) arguments regarding the value of hybridity and regulatory pluralism in PICs; and (2) the dominant critique of ‘policing by strangers’. We outline and acknowledge t…
Psychological Violence in the Workplace
Governing drug use through partnerships
Softening Up the State
What advice might Machiavelli offer critics of the contemporary market nation-state? In this striking reconstruction, lessons on corruption, inequality, immigration, mobilization—from Rome and Sparta, Florence and the Venetian Republic—yield proposals for open borders and universal basic income
Linking policing and human rights
The genesis of this special issue of the Australian Journal of Human Rights was an international conference on policing and human rights held in Canberra in 2013. The theme of the three-day conference, hosted by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS), was hardly original. Fifty years earlier, at the same hotel venue (the Rex Hotel, Canberra), the Commonwealth of Australia hosted the United Nations Sem…
Negotiating the Challenges of Coerced Treatment
The use of legal pressure to convince drug users to access treatment has become a popular drug-policy strategy in Australian and international jurisdictions. Providing drug treatment in this context necessitates partnerships between criminal justice agencies and drug treatment and support agencies, including community-based agencies. Drawing on data from qualitative interviews, this article explores the issues that coerced treatment presents for …
Sickness in the System of Long-term Immigration Detention
Since the introduction of mandatory detention of unauthorized non-citizens in Australia in 1992, there has been considerable public debate on the wisdom of such policy. The negative impact and long-term implications of indefinite detention on the health of detainees have been raised by medical practitioners and human rights advocates, with more strident argument emerging over the last five to six years. This article contributes to this debate thr…
The Acoustics of Crime
The topic of hooning has been a recent addition to the political agenda. Over the last 10 years states throughout Australia have engaged in law and order style auctions to see which jurisdiction can introduce the harshest penalties to prevent this behaviour. This paper explains that these legislative moves have not been inspired by the preservation of human life - which has tended to be the rationale behind the criminalisation of other traffic in…
The Problem of Terrorism
The way in which approaches that employ the concept of risk somewhat differently allow to engage with current responses to terrorism, particularly, by drawing on work from criminologists who have used the governmental formulations of risk to analyse the contemporary responses to crime is explored. It is argued that even though there is much debate about whether acts of terror amount to criminal behaviour or acts of war, consideration of the subst…
A comparative review of best practice guidelines for the diversion of drug related offenders
Power and Addiction
This article provides a genealogical analysis of the ‘discovery’ of the modern phenomenon of addiction. It considers how the emergence of a bio‐politics of the population in the industrialising West facilitated the invention of addiction and supported an argument for the regulation of opiate use. As a result of regulation, particular patterns of opiate use became increasingly visible. In response the medical profession, in the late nineteenth cen…
Sickness in the System of Long-term Immigration Detention
Since the introduction of mandatory detention of unauthorized non-citizens in Australia in 1992, there has been considerable public debate on the wisdom of such policy. The negative impact and long-term implications of indefinite detention on the health of detainees have been raised by medical practitioners and human rights advocates, with more strident argument emerging over the last five to six years. This article contributes to this debate thr…
Beyond faith
Counterterrorism responses in Australia have mirrored trends in other nations with a focus on pre-emption, including the criminalisation of activities defined as preparatory offences. Security-based transnational approaches to combat terrorist activity and propaganda alone are ineffective. Sometimes security measures can actually damage efforts to counter the appeal and take-up of violent extremism. While such measures should be used in domestic …
Gender and Risk
Previous research concerned with the experience of immigration detention focuses on the general immigration detention population, which mainly consists of men. This means that the experiences of men are treated as the norm, despite it being likely that women experience immigration detention differently. This study addresses this gap by focusing on the experiences of women detainees in long-term immigration detention in Australia. It examines the …
The virtues of strangers? Policing gender violence in Pacific Island countries
This article considers the gap between reformist policy and practice in the policing of gender violence in Pacific Island Countries (PICs) with a key focus on Solomon Islands, Fiji and Kiribati. In doing so, we critically engage with two pervasive arguments in policing scholarship: (1) arguments regarding the value of hybridity and regulatory pluralism in PICs; and (2) the dominant critique of ‘policing by strangers’. We outline and acknowledge t…
Do Online Illicit Drug Market Exchanges Afford Rationality
Rational choice perspectives have been the dominant models used for conceptualizing the nature of exchanges in illicit drug markets, but various critiques have found these abstracted assumptions inadequate for understanding concrete illicit drug market activity. Considerably less, however, is known about key aspects of rationality in exchanges within online drug markets. Recognizing the inadequacies of an underlying homo economicus , we instead c…
Power and Addiction
This article provides a genealogical analysis of the ‘discovery’ of the modern phenomenon of addiction. It considers how the emergence of a bio‐politics of the population in the industrialising West facilitated the invention of addiction and supported an argument for the regulation of opiate use. As a result of regulation, particular patterns of opiate use became increasingly visible. In response the medical profession, in the late nineteenth cen…
Power and Addiction
This article provides a genealogical analysis of the ‘discovery’ of the modern phenomenon of addiction. It considers how the emergence of a bio‐politics of the population in the industrialising West facilitated the invention of addiction and supported an argument for the regulation of opiate use. As a result of regulation, particular patterns of opiate use became increasingly visible. In response the medical profession, in the late nineteenth cen…
A comparative review of best practice guidelines for the diversion of drug related offenders
The Problem of Terrorism
The way in which approaches that employ the concept of risk somewhat differently allow to engage with current responses to terrorism, particularly, by drawing on work from criminologists who have used the governmental formulations of risk to analyse the contemporary responses to crime is explored. It is argued that even though there is much debate about whether acts of terror amount to criminal behaviour or acts of war, consideration of the subst…
Sickness in the System of Long-term Immigration Detention
Since the introduction of mandatory detention of unauthorized non-citizens in Australia in 1992, there has been considerable public debate on the wisdom of such policy. The negative impact and long-term implications of indefinite detention on the health of detainees have been raised by medical practitioners and human rights advocates, with more strident argument emerging over the last five to six years. This article contributes to this debate thr…
The Acoustics of Crime
The topic of hooning has been a recent addition to the political agenda. Over the last 10 years states throughout Australia have engaged in law and order style auctions to see which jurisdiction can introduce the harshest penalties to prevent this behaviour. This paper explains that these legislative moves have not been inspired by the preservation of human life - which has tended to be the rationale behind the criminalisation of other traffic in…
Negotiating the Challenges of Coerced Treatment
The use of legal pressure to convince drug users to access treatment has become a popular drug-policy strategy in Australian and international jurisdictions. Providing drug treatment in this context necessitates partnerships between criminal justice agencies and drug treatment and support agencies, including community-based agencies. Drawing on data from qualitative interviews, this article explores the issues that coerced treatment presents for …
Linking policing and human rights
The genesis of this special issue of the Australian Journal of Human Rights was an international conference on policing and human rights held in Canberra in 2013. The theme of the three-day conference, hosted by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS), was hardly original. Fifty years earlier, at the same hotel venue (the Rex Hotel, Canberra), the Commonwealth of Australia hosted the United Nations Sem…
Psychological Violence in the Workplace
Governing drug use through partnerships
Softening Up the State
What advice might Machiavelli offer critics of the contemporary market nation-state? In this striking reconstruction, lessons on corruption, inequality, immigration, mobilization—from Rome and Sparta, Florence and the Venetian Republic—yield proposals for open borders and universal basic income
The virtues of strangers? Policing gender violence in Pacific Island countries
This article considers the gap between reformist policy and practice in the policing of gender violence in Pacific Island Countries (PICs) with a key focus on Solomon Islands, Fiji and Kiribati. In doing so, we critically engage with two pervasive arguments in policing scholarship: (1) arguments regarding the value of hybridity and regulatory pluralism in PICs; and (2) the dominant critique of ‘policing by strangers’. We outline and acknowledge t…
Representations of women and drug use in policy
Beyond faith
Counterterrorism responses in Australia have mirrored trends in other nations with a focus on pre-emption, including the criminalisation of activities defined as preparatory offences. Security-based transnational approaches to combat terrorist activity and propaganda alone are ineffective. Sometimes security measures can actually damage efforts to counter the appeal and take-up of violent extremism. While such measures should be used in domestic …
Gender and Risk
Previous research concerned with the experience of immigration detention focuses on the general immigration detention population, which mainly consists of men. This means that the experiences of men are treated as the norm, despite it being likely that women experience immigration detention differently. This study addresses this gap by focusing on the experiences of women detainees in long-term immigration detention in Australia. It examines the …
The movement and translation of drug policy ideas
Do Online Illicit Drug Market Exchanges Afford Rationality
Rational choice perspectives have been the dominant models used for conceptualizing the nature of exchanges in illicit drug markets, but various critiques have found these abstracted assumptions inadequate for understanding concrete illicit drug market activity. Considerably less, however, is known about key aspects of rationality in exchanges within online drug markets. Recognizing the inadequacies of an underlying homo economicus , we instead c…
Sentencing for social supply of illicit drugs in Australia
In Australia, threshold quantities of illicit drugs act as an indicator of supply offences in distinguishing traffickers from users. This is problematic because it can be difficult for the courts to discriminate between heavy users or ‘social suppliers’ and ‘dealers proper’. Currently, there is no systematic analysis of how the judiciary in Australia navigate the relationship between different types of supply and the consistency and proportionali…
Women and policing in the South Pacific
Scholars have been critical of the gender-biased nature of policing, and its effects on service delivery. They highlight how law enforcement is male-dominated, and how this impacts negatively on women as offenders and victims of crime. Such criticisms have mobilised international and national institutional support for more gender equitable representation in policing agencies. A growing body of research has addressed the impact of increasing the n…
Beyond the dark web
Common depictions of buying and selling illicit drugs online centre on how drug market actors engage in dark web drug cryptomarkets, but the supply of illicit drugs also takes place in ‘plain site’ on the surface web. Drawing on netnographic observations and qualitative interviews with hard-to-reach buyers and vendors (n = 20), this paper explores LeafedOut, a specific, popular surface web platform, that provides a conduit for local cannabis exch…
Sentencing and the over-representation of people with cognitive disability in the Australian criminal justice system
People with Cognitive Disability (PWCD) are over-represented in Australian and International Criminal Justice Systems (CJS). Research has focused on the disadvantages experienced by PWCD which bring them into earlier and more continuous contact with the CJS than the general population. There has been little empirical analysis of how sentencing might contribute to over-representation. This article reports on a project which investigated: (1) the c…
Women's Empowerment Through Access to Safe Transport
An examination of women's experience on public transport in Bangladesh and Cambodia found that victimization does reduce perceived safety or transport use. In a cultural context where women are socialized to fear and avoid public spaces, experiencing victimization may confirm rather than change previous beliefs. Moreover, it is possible that the participants’ use of public transport was driven by necessity rather than choice and that they were un…
Sharing Responsibility for Disaster Justice
In February 2022, millions of Australians were glued to their televisions and social media watching rolling footage of flooding in South-East Queensland and Northern New South Wales. When the rain finally ceased and the flood water subsided, residents were left to contend with damage estimated to exceed A$4.8 billion and an aftermath that extends to the present day (Insurance Council of Australia, 2022). With climate change accelerating, climate …
Political science (20 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Criminology (13 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Business (5 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (4 obras) · Criminal justice (4 obras)