Current Posts

  • Generative AI and Sexual Based Images

    This post is the final one for the theme the first two have been exploring. I previously explored whether sufficient laws were satisfactory for manslaughter, why anti-hate speech laws were needed to handle Nazi vilification and in this one I want to make the claim that new laws will need to be introduced to handle…

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  • Hate Law and Nazi Expressions

    In my previous post I talked about when Victoria was experiencing a series of king hits and the legislated response by the government was adding an alternative pathway for prosecutors to charge people under dangerous act manslaughter; more recently however, the Victorian government has banned both Nazi symbology and associated gestures.The law is a product…

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  • Manslaughter and the King Hit Epedemic

    As a cultural criminologist, I feel that the public looks to the government to intervene and act when crime or other social problems gets out of hand, in this case it was the uptick of violent youth crime resulting in people ‘king hitting’ or violently striking the back of the head happening close to a…

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