Sentencing 2010 Conference
National Convention Centre, Canberra
Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 February 2010
PROGRAM
Saturday 6 February 2010
8.30am Registration
9.00am to 9.15am
Session 1 Welcome
Professor Michael Coper,
Dean, ANU College of Law
Chief Justice Wayne Martin,
Chair, Council of the National Judicial College of Australia
Session 2 Informing the Public about Sentencing
Informing the Public: Whose
job is it?
Ms Jenni Coady,
Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council
Using the jury to educate and inform the public about sentencing issues
Professor Kate Warner,
University of Tasmania;
Associate Professor Julia Davis,
University of South Australia
Labelling ‘Life’ as a Mandatory Sentence: Effective Denunciation
or Misleading Populism?
Dr John Anderson
University of Newcastle NSW
11.00am to 1.00 pm
Session 3A Sentencing indigenous offenders
Film presentation of 'Bush
Law' (aboriginal customary law in the Northern Territory)
The
aftermath of sentencing: naming and shaming of Indigenous youth in the
Northern Territory
Assistant Professor Robyn Lincoln,
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Bond University
Professor Duncan Chappell,
Faculty of Law, University of Sydney
The sentencing
response to defendants who have fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Associate Professor Heather Douglas,
School of Law, University of Queensland
The
impact of mandatory sentencing on indigenous offenders
Mr Stephen Jackson and Ms
Fiona Hardy, Department of Justice,
Northern Territory
11.00am to 1.00 pm
Session 3B The “warrior gene”: genetic
factors in sentencing
Lack of free will due to genetic factors
as a mitigating factor in sentencing
Dr Debra Wilson, Lecturer in Law,
School of Law, University of Canterbury NZ
Genetic mitigation
Mr Allan McCay,
University of Sydney Foundation Law Program
Genetic Factors in Sentencing
Professor Simon Easteal, John Curtin
School of Medical Research, Australian National University ACT
ABC
Radio Law Report - The crime gene
2.00pm to 3.00pm
Session 4A Sentencing of corporate offenders
The principles that apply to the sentencing
of corporate offenders - The $17 million speeding offence?
Justice Monika Schmidt
Supreme Court of New South Wales
Sentencing those convicted
of industrial manslaughte
Professor Rick Sarre,
University of South Australia
2.00pm to 3.00pm
Session 4B Sentencing by video link
Remote Sentencing:
possibilities and pitfalls
Professor David Tait, Justice Research
Group, University of Western Sydney NSW
Professor Jane Goodman-Delahunty,
Graduate School of Policing, Charles Sturt University
Ms Anne Wallace,
Faculty of Law, University of Canberra
Ms Emma Rowden,
Faculty of Architecture, University of Melbourne
Sentencing
by video link: the Western Australian experience
Chief Justice Wayne Martin,
Supreme Court of Western Australia
3.30pm to 5.00pm
Session 5 Sentencing for Commonwealth offences
Variations in Federal Sentencing
Mr David Adsett (Deputy Director
(QLD)) and Mr Mark Pedley (Deputy
Director (VIC)) Office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions
The quest for
sentencing consistency in the Federal System
Ms Wendy Kukulies Smith,
Lecturer, ANU College of Law ACT
A judicial perspective
on consistency in sentencing for Commonwealth offences
Judge Deborah Richards,
District Court of Queensland
7.00pm Conference dinner
Speaker: Dr Antonio Passini,
President of the Italian Wine Society (Italy)
Sunday 7 February 2010
9.00am to 10.30am
Session 6 Sentencing in Arson (Bushfire) cases
Sentencing
as an aspect of crime prevention to reduce deliberate bushfires in Australia
Dr Damon Muller, ARC Centre of Excellence
in Policing and Security, Australian National University
Managing arson offenders
– what do we know already and what do we need to know?
Dr Rebekah Doley, Clinical Psychology
Program, Bond University QLD
Defending people charged
with arson (bushfire) offences
Mr Mark Woods, criminal lawyer, Tyler
Tipping and Woods Traralgon, Victoria
ABC
Radio Law Report 16 February "Arson'
11.00am to 12.30pm
Session 7A Sentencing and Children
The specific deterrent effect of custodial
penalties on juvenile reoffending
Dr Andrew McGrath, School of
Social Sciences and Liberal Studies, Charles Sturt University NSW
Provisional Sentencing of Children
Ms Katherine McFarlane, Charles
Sturt University NSW
11.00am to 12.30pm
Session 7B Sentencing for offences motivated by
hatred or prejudice
Sentencing for
offences motivated by hatred or prejudice
Professor Arie Freiberg and
Ms Felicity Stewart, Victorian
Sentencing Advisory Council
Hate crime laws in Australia: Are they achieving
their goals?
Associate Professor Gail Mason,
Sydney Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney, NSW
1.30pm to 3.00 pm
Session 8 Sentencing in so called “technical
rape” cases
Judicial Sentencing
Remarks and the re-victimisation of Victims of Sex Offences
Mr Michael O'Connell,
Commissioner for Victims' Rights, South Australia
Commentary: sentencing
remarks in sexual assault cases
Judge John Nicholson, District
Court of New South Wales
3.00 pm Close
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