Preventive detention of high risk offenders: The search for effective and legitimate parameters

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)

Start year: 2008

Summary: The project will provide Australian policy makers with proposals for the management and treatment of high risk offenders that adopt international best practice standards and which are constitutionally valid and consistent with Australia's international legal obligations. It seeks to help safeguard the community from offenders considered at high risk of causing harm.

Keywords: preventative detention, high risk offenders, legislative schemes, community protection

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