‘Politics and Crime Control in the 21st Century: Controversies and Challenges’ has been chosen as the symposium theme to highlight the social problems in the definition and policing of crime, the culturally mediated understandings of crime, and the consequences which these understandings have on policy. The symposium will investigate different aspects of the field of crime control by exploring the complex practices and institutional influences, which shape the contemporary nature of crime.

Symposium Presenters:

Keynote address 1: Pathways to hyperincarceration: criminalisation, management and control, Professor Eileen Baldry

Keynote Address 2: Where there’s Smoke there’s Eddie, Professor Scott Poynting

Paper 1: Wicked problems or Fair Process? Market influences on restorative practices with young people, Ben Lohmeyer

Paper 2: A commentary on risk classification tools for young offenders, Harriet Westcott, Jessica Anderson, Garner Clancey, Roman Marchant

Paper 3: The efficacy of New South Wales grooming laws, Malory Plummer

Paper 4: The Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad: Policing the Risk of ‘Middle Eastern Crime’ and ‘Middle Eastern Criminals’ in New South Wales, Megan McElhone

Paper 5: ‘Secondary Prisonization’ in Australia’s Onshore Immigration Detention Network, Michelle Peterie