Roger Douglas
Biographic Data
| ID | 4371116 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Douglas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Douglas |
| SIGNATURE | DOUGLAS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6166-9790 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Law, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Terrorism
It is commonly believed that a state facing a terrorist threat responds with severe legislation that compromises civil liberties in favour of national security. Roger Douglas compares responses to terrorism by five liberal democracies— the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand— over the past 15 years. He examines each nation's development and implementation of counterterrorism law, specifically in the areas of info…
Does context matter? Importing US educational programs to schools overseas
Countries reforming their education systems frequently look outside of their borders for best practice and seek to import policies, practices and programs that appear to incorporate it. In so doing they appear to contribute to the increasing globalization of education. Scholars of comparative education examining this process have focused on the borrowing and lending of educational policy at the decision‐making levels of national education systems…
Treating Spousal Violence ‘Differently’
Commentators maintain that the criminal justice system deals differently, and therefore unfairly, with victims of spousal assault. Quantitative and qualitative studies supporting this contention, however, generally fail to make appropriate comparisons with the processing of like crimes. Police arrest rates for spousal violence, for example, are inappropriately compared with those for crime in general. Extrapolating from police arrest practices to…
Sentencing Political Offenders
Victims of Efficiency
The courts of summary jurisdiction in Victoria have recently streamlined procedures for the hearing of guilty pleas: sentencing decisions are now determined largely on the basis of a brief summary of ‘facts’ presented by the prosecution. To assess the extent to which these summaries detail the harm suffered by victims we analysed 276 assault case summaries. The data indicate that summaries rarely report details of victim injury even where this in…
State Sector Management and Reform in New Zealand
The director of public prosecutions
Tolerated contests? Plea and sentence in the Victorian magistrates' courts
Do Lawyers Make a Difference
While legal representation might be expected to make a difference to the outcome of criminal proceedings, much of the relevant evidence is either inconclusive or contrary to expectations. ‘This paper examines the relationship between legal representation and outcome in six Melbourne magistrates’ courts, arguing that, even after controlling for legally relevant variables, representation is strongly related to concessionary withdrawals, plea, verdi…
Occupation, economic fluctuations and support for the government
(1978). Occupation, economic fluctuations and support for the government. Politics: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 311-319
Public Figures and the Definition of Protest
Economy and Polity in Australia
One of the most firmly established pieces of Australia’s political conventional wisdom concerns the influence of the economy on the level of support for the government. When all is well, the government can look forward to continued office by courtesy of a grateful electorate. When unemployment is high or inflation galloping, its prospects become gloomy and political leaders are tempted to delay the date of the next general election as long as pos…
Judges and policy on the Latham court
Economy and Polity in Australia
One of the most firmly established pieces of Australia’s political conventional wisdom concerns the influence of the economy on the level of support for the government. When all is well, the government can look forward to continued office by courtesy of a grateful electorate. When unemployment is high or inflation galloping, its prospects become gloomy and political leaders are tempted to delay the date of the next general election as long as pos…
Victims of Efficiency
The courts of summary jurisdiction in Victoria have recently streamlined procedures for the hearing of guilty pleas: sentencing decisions are now determined largely on the basis of a brief summary of ‘facts’ presented by the prosecution. To assess the extent to which these summaries detail the harm suffered by victims we analysed 276 assault case summaries. The data indicate that summaries rarely report details of victim injury even where this in…
Does context matter? Importing US educational programs to schools overseas
Countries reforming their education systems frequently look outside of their borders for best practice and seek to import policies, practices and programs that appear to incorporate it. In so doing they appear to contribute to the increasing globalization of education. Scholars of comparative education examining this process have focused on the borrowing and lending of educational policy at the decision‐making levels of national education systems…
Judges and policy on the Latham court
Occupation, economic fluctuations and support for the government
(1978). Occupation, economic fluctuations and support for the government. Politics: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 311-319
Treating Spousal Violence ‘Differently’
Commentators maintain that the criminal justice system deals differently, and therefore unfairly, with victims of spousal assault. Quantitative and qualitative studies supporting this contention, however, generally fail to make appropriate comparisons with the processing of like crimes. Police arrest rates for spousal violence, for example, are inappropriately compared with those for crime in general. Extrapolating from police arrest practices to…
State Sector Management and Reform in New Zealand
Judges and policy on the Latham court
Economy and Polity in Australia
One of the most firmly established pieces of Australia’s political conventional wisdom concerns the influence of the economy on the level of support for the government. When all is well, the government can look forward to continued office by courtesy of a grateful electorate. When unemployment is high or inflation galloping, its prospects become gloomy and political leaders are tempted to delay the date of the next general election as long as pos…
Public Figures and the Definition of Protest
Occupation, economic fluctuations and support for the government
(1978). Occupation, economic fluctuations and support for the government. Politics: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 311-319
Do Lawyers Make a Difference
While legal representation might be expected to make a difference to the outcome of criminal proceedings, much of the relevant evidence is either inconclusive or contrary to expectations. ‘This paper examines the relationship between legal representation and outcome in six Melbourne magistrates’ courts, arguing that, even after controlling for legally relevant variables, representation is strongly related to concessionary withdrawals, plea, verdi…
Tolerated contests? Plea and sentence in the Victorian magistrates' courts
The director of public prosecutions
State Sector Management and Reform in New Zealand
Sentencing Political Offenders
Victims of Efficiency
The courts of summary jurisdiction in Victoria have recently streamlined procedures for the hearing of guilty pleas: sentencing decisions are now determined largely on the basis of a brief summary of ‘facts’ presented by the prosecution. To assess the extent to which these summaries detail the harm suffered by victims we analysed 276 assault case summaries. The data indicate that summaries rarely report details of victim injury even where this in…
Treating Spousal Violence ‘Differently’
Commentators maintain that the criminal justice system deals differently, and therefore unfairly, with victims of spousal assault. Quantitative and qualitative studies supporting this contention, however, generally fail to make appropriate comparisons with the processing of like crimes. Police arrest rates for spousal violence, for example, are inappropriately compared with those for crime in general. Extrapolating from police arrest practices to…
Does context matter? Importing US educational programs to schools overseas
Countries reforming their education systems frequently look outside of their borders for best practice and seek to import policies, practices and programs that appear to incorporate it. In so doing they appear to contribute to the increasing globalization of education. Scholars of comparative education examining this process have focused on the borrowing and lending of educational policy at the decision‐making levels of national education systems…
Law, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Terrorism
It is commonly believed that a state facing a terrorist threat responds with severe legislation that compromises civil liberties in favour of national security. Roger Douglas compares responses to terrorism by five liberal democracies— the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand— over the past 15 years. He examines each nation's development and implementation of counterterrorism law, specifically in the areas of info…
Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Legal Education and Practice Innovations (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works)