Challenges anecdote-based views on the connection between refugee groups and crime using empirical findings

Provides case studies that highlight the complex plight of refugees in regard to the justice system
Moves from vernacular to first-hand accounts of settlement for Sudanese refugees in Australia, with a focus on Queensland

Autorentext

Dr Darren Palmer is an Associate Professor of Criminology at Deakin University. He has been involved in various funded research projects, and has published widely on policing and surveillance, and violence in and around licensed venues. His research addresses issues such as body- worn police cameras and public banning schemes. He is currently working on 'pandemic policing'. Dr Garry Coventry formally retired from teaching at James Cook University in November 2014, after an academic career that included positions at five Australian and two US universities. He was awarded the honour of Worldwide Who's Who Professional of the Year, 2014, for the Social Sciences Industry. Now as an Adjunct Senior Researcher at James Cook University, his main projects involve working with American colleagues and the Indigenous community to undertake a workable and viable justice re-investment development strategy; an historical account of women, Australian ex-convict gangs and vigilante justice in 1851 San Francisco; and, a critical criminology analysis of the poor and social activists as political targets of the Philippines War on Drugs.

Inhalt

Introduction: Criminological perspectives on crime and refugees.- Research methods.- Media predictions and moral panics: Representation of Sudanese refugees in Australia.- Serious talking: Community consultations.- Queensland's Sudanese community survey.- Police perspectives o Sudanese Australians.- Conclusion.