Sisyphus and the System: criminal justice reform in the Australian Capital Territory
Author(s)
Holder, Robyn
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2009
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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 ...
View more >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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View more >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
Subject
Causes and Prevention of Crime