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  • Sisyphus and the System: criminal justice reform in the Australian Capital Territory

    Author(s)
    Holder, Robyn
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    Holder, Robyn L.
    Year published
    2009
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    Abstract
    This paper acknowledges that the challenge to reform the criminal justice system's response to domestic violence is akin to the unremitting task of Sisyphus. Rather than accept that a successful reform effort is as absurd as rolling a boulder up a hill, the paper suggests that the generation of knowledge through research and evaluation serves to give a richer and more purposeful meaning to the tasks. Knowledge-generation is posed as a means to build the capacity of the criminal justice system to reform itself. Research, in this context, is a collaboration amongst justice administrators, domestic violence advocates and ...
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    This paper acknowledges that the challenge to reform the criminal justice system's response to domestic violence is akin to the unremitting task of Sisyphus. Rather than accept that a successful reform effort is as absurd as rolling a boulder up a hill, the paper suggests that the generation of knowledge through research and evaluation serves to give a richer and more purposeful meaning to the tasks. Knowledge-generation is posed as a means to build the capacity of the criminal justice system to reform itself. Research, in this context, is a collaboration amongst justice administrators, domestic violence advocates and researchers to share and lighten the load of Sisyphus.
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    Journal Title
    Currents: New Scholarship in the Human Services
    Volume
    8
    Issue
    1
    Publisher URI
    http://currents.synergiesprairies.ca/currents/index.php/currents/article/view/4
    Subject
    Causes and Prevention of Crime
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/64177
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