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ON CRIME AND LAW
Vol. 66, no. 3, 2007
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Guest Consultant Editor: Jennifer Digby

Editorial

Ian Britain  The Long Arm

Fiction

Stories by Peter Corris, John Kinsella, Colin Oehring, Robert Drewe, Tim Richards

Essays

Lucy Sussex Mokbel & I
The relationship between organised crime and ‘legitimate’ big business in Melbourne

David S. Caudill Legal Fictions
Reflections on In Cold Blood, the new Truman Capote movies and their significance for legal ethics

Penny Pether The Prose and the Passion
Searching for an Australian ‘constitutional epic’ in our recent literature and cinema

Julian Burnside Law and Justice
On the need for a human rights Act

Michael Crennan On Sedition
Surveying the history of the law of sedition and its implications for justice in Australia today
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Megan Richardson Candid Camera
Pros and cons of legal restrictions on street photography

Helen MacDonald Possessing Bodies
On the Old-Bailey case that exposed how medical schools acquired bodies for dissection

Bain Attwood Thieves Like Us
On John Batman’s ill-fated land treaty with Aborigines

Nonie Sharp Learning to Listen

Revisiting the story of Mabo

Jen Jewel Brown Sex Crimes in Suburbia

Welcoming recent advances in assistance given to victims of sexual assault

Michael Kirby Remembering Wolfenden
Personal reflections on fifty years of homosexual law reform

John Heard The Privilege of Anger
On the homosexual panic defence and other instances in our criminal law that exculpate acts of wilful homicide

Gillian Bouras The Eleventh  Commandment
‘Thou shalt not be found out’: how loopholes and faultlines in the legal system militate against justice

John Bryson The Culture of the Juryroom
On the workings of our modern jury system

Michelle de Kretser A Perfect Murder
A vignette of colonial Ceylon

Richard McGregor Dead or Alive?
On a classic study by Balzac of the legal and social obstacles facing a war hero who returns from the dead

Chris Andrews Varieties of Evil
On Roberto Bolaño’s chilling studies of state-sponsored crime in South America and Europe

Richard Pennell Enemy Law
What happens when people face trial in foreign countries

Review Essays

Wilfrid Prest The Lawyer’s Tale
On Geoffrey Robertson QC’s recent excursion into historical biography

Duncan Reid The False Dawn of Civil Society
On the exposés by Anna Politkovskaya and others of the precarious state of law and order in contemporary Russia

Cinema

Brian McFarlane Crime Does Play
On the enduring popularity of cops and robbers in movies worldwide

Poetry

Poems by Kate Middleton, David Brooks, Stephen Edgar, Anthony Lawrence,
Stuart Cooke, Michael Farrell, Bella Li, Roberta Lowing, M.T.C. Cronin, Win Weir, Brendan Ryan, Paul Mitchell.
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