The Dublin Intermediate Prison System

International audienc

A Cluster of Mistrust: Safety in the Mining Industry

This article examines the relationship between mistrust, adversarial industrial relations and safety performance in 10 Australian coal mines, across three mining companies. Based on case study research and company safety data, the article identifies a 'cluster of characteristics' closely associated with the formation of mistrust, and examines the negative impact such characteristics can have on safety performance. The article considers the broader ramifications of these findings for non-mining sectors, in particular for companies with a corporate head office overseeing separate sites, and identifies ways of building trust.</p

Rethinking penal modernism from the global South: The case of convict transportation to Australia

Criminological accounts of penal modernization have generally overlooked the experience of convict transportation to, and in, the global South, an effect of the general tendency of metropolitan theory to embed particular experiences and perspectives, and present them as universal. In consequence, the implications for our understanding of crime and punishment of this momentous penal project, spanning more than 80 years in the case of Australia, have received limited attention. The article reflects on this lacunae in contemporary penal thought and considers some of the historical, conceptual and policy lessons that might be drawn from an effort to incorporate convict transportation into an account of modern penal development