School of Law - Research
Faculty of Business and Law
Civil | Criminal (Mandatory Sentencing | Capital Punishment) |
See also Civil Procedure
Business Regulation and Australia's Future
Book at the Australian Institute of Criminology - edited by Peter Grabosky and John Braithwaite 1993
Civil and Administrative Penalties in Australian Federal Regulation
ALRC Discussion Paper 65, April 2002. View online or download in PDF or RTF formats. Comprehensive report of 626 pages.
Principled Regulation: Federal Civil & Administrative Penalties in Australia
Report 95 of the ALRC released December 2002 - 1043 pages.
See also criminal law
Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (Australia)
About the DPP, making contact, annual report, review of the DPP, Director’s speeches, links, statutory functions, prosecution policy, FOI and a file list.
Crime Research Centre
Includes information about the Centre, media releases, staff information, publications information, Crime statistics (to 1996), 1998 study program information and links to other sites of interest
Sentencing Law in Victoria
Includes an introduction, main sentencing options, sentencing facts and matters, sentencing factors which a court must regard, sentencing purposes, principles of proportionality, totality and parity, instinctive synthesis and further notes. By Don Just, Victorian barrister.
The Errors of Retribution [2000] MULR 5
Article by Mirko Bagaric and Kumar Amarasekara
Mandatory Sentencing resources
Government site - provides links to documents relating to mandatory sentencing - focus is on the Western Australian and the Northern Territory legislation.
Capital Defence Network
This site provides support for capital defense lawyers.
Death Penalty Information
Information and statistics, papers, fact sheets, litigation and legislation, general information, links to death penalty resources and more.
Death Penalty Project
"The Cornell Law School Death Penalty Project was organized in 1997. The Project is composed of several elements including a capital punishment clinic, a committment to provide continuing education programs for capital defense attorneys and the active collection and study of data in this field." Includes relevant statutes and cases as well as other resources
Federal Death Penalty Cases
Recommendations Concerning the Cost and Quality of Defense Representation, prepared by the Subcommittee on Federal Death Penalty Cases Committee on Defender Services, May 1998.
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (USA) - Death Penalty Defense
Resources for lawyers opposing the death penalty - includes critical information, death penalty updates, links and more, including a members only section.
Ninth Circuit Capital Punishment Handbook
According to the site: 'This 2000 electronic edition of the Capital Punishment Handbook contains United States Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit opinions issued through December 2000. All state and federal statutes are also current. Monthly updates to the Handbook will occur in 2001. Although the Handbook is intended to be a comprehensive annotation of helpful and applicable capital habeas law, the handbook does not contain all opinions issued in habeas corpus cases.'
