11,464 research outputs found
Has welfarist criminology failed? Juvenile justice and the human sciences in Victoria
No full textIn the present context of ‘get tough on crime’ and ‘back to criminal justice’ campaigns that continue to dominate political agendas throughout Australia, critics point to the inadequacy of ‘welfarist’ or reformist criminological and sociological theories that have informed interventions in the past, and reinforce the need for ‘retributive justice’ models of penal policy. This paper examines historical evidence on the role of the human sciences in juvenile justice administration during the 1940s, a formative time when psychiatric, psychological and social work expertise came together in the form of the Children’s Court Clinic in Victoria. It suggests that contemporary critiques about the failure of the welfare model of juvenile justice inadequately captures the historical functioning of expertise in justice administration and the real extent to which the welfare model as ‘actual rehabilitative intervention’ was ever implemented
Hunter S. Thompson, Transmetropolitan, and the Evolution from Author to Character
No full textThis thesis examines American author Hunter S. Thompson, in the context of his own works – primarily Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Rum Diary– as well as the representation of him as a character in the graphic text Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis. The evolution of Thompson from author to character and the development of that character in his own works is examined, as well as how this development allowed for his character to be fully realised in a completely fictional world. In turn, the fully developed use of Thompson’s character is the starting point for my analysis of Transmetropolitan could potentially be read as a work of New Journalism, albeit a fictional one.
The first chapter examines how Thompson began writing himself as a character in his early fictional work The Rum Diary. Though largely overlooked by critics because of its long delayed publication and the focus on the more flashy and better known Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Rum Diary is critical to Thompson’s development of himself as a character in his works in particular, and to his development as an author in general. Though The Rum Diary is ostensibly a purely fictional novel, this chapter examines how the character Paul Kemp is actually largely autobiographical, and how Kemp is an early version of the same character Thompson uses in his later nonfiction. I then analyse the development of that nonfiction version, Raoul Duke, in Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. As The Rum Diary is not actually purely fictional, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is not actually completely nonfictional. Thompson, as this chapter shows, did not believe in the divide between fact and fiction, and he uses the character he develops in Raoul Duke to write about himself while creatively embellishing the truth. I then look at how Thompson wrote himself so strongly into his character that he became inextricably viewed as actually being Raoul Duke, and how that character was in turn viewed and written about.
The second chapter examines the legacy of Thompson’s fully formed self-characterisation, as it is picked up by another author and written in the fully fictional context of the graphic novel series Transmetropolitan. I consider how Transmetropolitan’s main character Spider Jerusalem continues Thompson’s self-as-character through his characterisation, behaviour, and language. Furthermore I analyse how, within the world of the series, Spider as a journalist continues Thompson’s legacy as a writer.
The third and final chapter examines how Spider’s characterisation as a continuation of Thompson is an important contextual factor for considering Transmetropolitan as a work of New Journalism. I consider the connection to Thompson, the content of Spider’s articles, and the format in which the articles are depicted in the graphic nove
Marriage record of Thompson, William A. and Howell, Victoria
No full textMarriage license for William A. Thompson and Victoria Howell. Charles Donovan was the Notary Public
Total Quality Service at the Victoria University of Technology Library
No full textThe Victoria University of Technology Library has implementedantal
Quality Service (TQS) Program. The initial client market research, strat-
egy, formulation and staff training have been completed, process improve-
ment procedures established and mechanisms for measuring the success of
the program identified.
A methodology based on the work of Karl Albrecht and developed further
by the project consultants, Austin Thompson and Associates, has been
used. The project has been successfil in identifying Library priorities and
involving staff in an ongoing planning and quality improvement process
Psy-knowledges and the sociology of law: the case of juvenile justice
No full textThis article examines the application of the psy-sciences to the conduct of juvenile justice in Victoria in the period from 1940-1980, in order to reassess assumptions in contemporary sociology of law concerning psy-knowledge and judicial administration, welfare and justice, and their relations to liberal or conservative political mandates. It seeks to understand the implications of shifts in the production of knowledge of the child in the justice system, by reporting on analysis of both clinical and administrative files of the Children’s Court Clinic in this period. The study documents how particular kinds of offenders became know in order to be properly managed, and questions the extent of separations between science and juvenile justice administration
School of photography RAAF office building, Sale, Victoria, 1955 /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on inscription.; Part of the: Collection of aviation aircrafts and portraits, 1951-1983.; Inscriptions: "RAAF School of photography office building, Sale, Vic. 1955"--In pencil on reverse; Photographers stamp on reverse and signed by photographer lower right.; Also available online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6818316
African American Storyteller, Victoria A. Casey McDonald
No full textIn the deep resonance of storyteller Victoria A. Casey McDonald’s voice, you will hear her tell stories about growing up in Western North Carolina, and the kind of Christmas she had as a child. The late Victoria was our friend, a CSA board member, author, and “Stories of Mountain Folk” interviewer
Old tree stump showing erosion, Sale, Victoria, 1955 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on information from inscription on verso.; Part of the collection: Australian cultural personalities, landscape and town scenes, 1950-1975.; Inscriptions: "Old tree stump showing massive erosion, Sale Vic. 1954 [i.e. 1955]" --In pencil on verso; Photographer's copyright stamp on verso; Signed by photographer lower right.; Also available in electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4925914; Purchased from the photographer, 2010
RAAF search party looking for lost bushwalkers in Mount Baw Baw, Victoria, 1951 /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on inscription.; Part of the: Collection of aviation aircrafts and portraits, 1951-1983.; Inscriptions: "RAAF search party from east Sale looking for lost bush walkers in the Baw Baw Mountains"--In pencil on reverse; Photographers stamp on reverse and signed by photographer lower right.; Also available online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6846458
Art Forum - Lynn, Victoria
No full text4 September 2002. -- Victoria Lynn is a distinguished curator and writer who has worked in the field of contemporary and Australian visual arts over the last two decades. She has recently been appointed Director of Creative Development at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, an innovative exhibition venue located at Federation Square in Melbourne, due to open later this year. She is currently Chair of the Visual Arts/Crafts Board of the Australia Council. From 1991 to 2001 she was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the numerous exhibitions she has curated have received substantial critical acclaim. She is the author of many articles, catalogue essays and edited collections, and books on artists Marion Borgelt and Eugene Carchesio. In her lecture she will discuss both Australian and International work, the challenges at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, and the different modes and understandings of what the moving image can and might be understood as
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