Law and norm: justice administration and the human sciences in early juvenile justice in Victoria

A recurring motif in law and legal studies literature is the relations between justice and legal administration on the one hand, and the social and human sciences on the other. Judicial and non-judicial systems of knowledge and practice are viewed as separate and distinct, as in some recent critique of the ‘New Penology’ that posit fundamental tensions between justice and welfare models of penality. Alternately, theorists have ‘de-centred’ law by focusing on the way in which problems form at the intersection of both legal and extra-legal institutions. This paper reviews the literature on the close interconnectedness of ‘welfare’ and ‘justice’ models of penal policy and ways of conceiving these relations in terms of a ‘complex’ involving justice administration and the conduct of the human sciences. It then attempts to demonstrate these relations, historically, in the ‘cross-talk’ of agencies involved in establishing the children’s court and the court clinic in Victoria. Finally, the paper argues that the specific effects of law in this particular jurisdiction were to mandate the social scientific instruments needed to construct and promote the notion of a ‘normal family’. This account may have implications for contemporary juvenile justice policy and images of family in the present

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Corrugated battery electrode

Performance of porous electrodes in batteries and other electrochemical cells is greatly improved when supports for active material have pores of uniform size, extending completely through electrodes, from side to side, with no interconnections between pores

Planning and state housing : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Geography at Massey University

Within the framework of the comparison of planning theory and practice, the thesis explores the implications of the statement that the planning process of the Housing Division, Ministry of Works (now part of the Housing Corporation) for its residential subdivisions , is not one based on a theoretically rational model but on a series of ad hoc decisions, framed by current government policy or lack of policy and derived from the accummulated experience of the personnel involved. Chapter One investigates the theoretical models of the planning process including comprehensive, structure, advocacy and systems-approach planning and theories which are more closely related to the actual practic of organisations and personnel involved in planning and decision-making. The planning and subdivision development operations of the Housing Division are described in Chapter Two where it is identified that within the planning role there are no formal steps corresponding to a comprehensive-rational model, nor, if the advocacy approach is followed is there evidence of a comprehensive understanding of the wants and desires of the underprivileged populace the Division is housing. Housing Division staff were administered an informal questionnaire on the planning of State house subdivisions which confirmed that a development process aimed at constructing a number of houses within an annual programme is adhered to, rather than a planning process. The planning and development by the Housing Division of the Sherriff Block, Gisborne, is used as a case study, showing a lack of goal and objective formation and feedback of information and a similarity with an incremental decision-making process. Chapter Three makes a tentative assessment of a State house subdivision, namely, the Sherriff Block, Gisborne. Based on a questionnaire of the residents, comparison of the characteristics of the Sherriff Block is made with other research on State housing and some of the factors affecting satisfaction with living in the Block are presented. Housing, shopping, educational and recreational facilities are examined and the process of residential development is outlined. The conclusion further defines problem areas in State housing, notes recent developments and suggests greater use of structured planning units and the adoption of a comprehensive-rational planning process

Climate Change and Migration: The Intersection of Climate Change, Migration, and Gender through Policy

This article explores the intersectional nature of the issue of climate change, especially as it relates to migration. Both migration and climate change are issues of global significance, with benefits and burdens distributed unevenly across gender, racial, and class lines. This intersectional approach takes note of the unequal power structures at play when attempting to combat these issues with policy

On the Relationship Between Determinate and MSV Solutions in Linear RE Models

This paper considers the possibility that, in linear rational expectations (RE) models, all determinate (uniquely non-explosive) solutions coincide with the minimum state variable (MSV) solution, which is unique by construction. In univariate specifications of the form y(t) = AE(t)y(t+1) + Cy(t-1) + u(t) that result holds: if a RE solution is unique and non-explosive, then it is the same as the MSV solution. Also, this result holds for multivariate versions if the A and C matrices commute and a certain regularity condition holds. More generally, however, there are models of this form that possess unique non-explosive solutions that differ from their MSV solutions. Examples are provided and a strategy for easily constructing others is outlined.

Dependency Parsing with Dilated Iterated Graph CNNs

Dependency parses are an effective way to inject linguistic knowledge into many downstream tasks, and many practitioners wish to efficiently parse sentences at scale. Recent advances in GPU hardware have enabled neural networks to achieve significant gains over the previous best models, these models still fail to leverage GPUs' capability for massive parallelism due to their requirement of sequential processing of the sentence. In response, we propose Dilated Iterated Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (DIG-CNNs) for graph-based dependency parsing, a graph convolutional architecture that allows for efficient end-to-end GPU parsing. In experiments on the English Penn TreeBank benchmark, we show that DIG-CNNs perform on par with some of the best neural network parsers.Comment: 2nd Workshop on Structured Prediction for Natural Language Processing (at EMNLP '17