Detention centres

Instead of giving them a few months in detention centres or fining them, I think it would be better to humiliate them in... 

The Davies case was an extreme example. The hundreds of routine Mods and Rockers offences processed by the courts displayed some of the more subtle facets of the complicated relationship between belief systems and the operation of social control. One might quote the case of Peter Jones to show the use of situational logic and, subsequently, the deviant s social background, in justifying control measures. Jones was sentenced to three months in a detention centre for using threatening behaviour in Brighton on Whit Monday, 1965. He had thrown a... 

On appeal, his counsel said that Jones had passed six O levels and wanted to sit for three more. He had never been in trouble before and was shocked at his first contact with the law. A letter was read from his headmistress saying what a disgrace it was that a school prefect and house captain with an example to show, had shown it this way. The Deputy Recorder allowed the appeal because, although the detention centre would give Jones a chance to study, he would not get the same facilities as at school. 

Margate will not tolerate louts like you (to an i8-year-old, given six months in a detention centre). 

The courts are also found wanting There was this case last month of the Recorder commuting a six-month detention centre sentence to a fine. .. and then I heard a rumour that the lo fine was not allowed because it was too difficult to collect. .. people don t see the need for a radical solution to a radical problem. Look at something like kicking a policeman in the face-you know what the sentence here forthatwas A 2 fine. ... 

The characteristics of the occupants and the building People who are wide awake, fit and mentally alert have the potential to escape quickly whereas others who may be less fit or alert will take longer to escape. In some cases individuals may be unconscious or non-ambulant in which case they will need extra consideration when planning emergency evacuation procedures. In the case of secure accommodation, e.g. detention centres and prisons, the occupants of a building may wish to leave faster than the emergency procedure allows. 

Christmas Island, 28,000 km (17,398 mi) northwest of Perth, Western Australia, 380 kilometers south of Java in the Indian Ocean is home to 1200 people of Chinese, Malay and Caucasian heritage. The 135 km (51.7 mi ) island is jungle-clad mountainous consisting mainly of limestone with volcanic rock. More than 60% of the island is national park with one of the world s largest and most diverse land crab populations. The Christmas Island Permanent Immigration Reception and Processing Centre (Detention Centre) was constmcted on a relatively flat 30 hectare (74.1 acre) piece of land in the remote northwest tip of the island (Fig. 98.4). 

After a tour of the Detention Centre, these groups A Just Australia, Amnesty International Australia, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Asylum Seekers centre of NSW, Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture, Immigration Advice... 

ABC Radio Broadcast (2002). Christmas Island detention centre. 4 June. Retrieved July 30,2008, from wwwislandcare.otg.ex/Earthbeat.htm... 

Australian Human Rights Commission. (2007). Immigration detention centres. Sydney AHRC. Retrieved December 4, 2008, from www.humanrights.gov.au/human rights/immigration/... 

Tuckey, W. (2002). 41.3 million funding to support new detention centre. Minister for Regiontil Services, Territories and Local Government, media release, 14 May. Retrieved July 30, 2008, from www.infrastructure.gov.au/department/statements/2002 2003/media/wt02 budget... 

Nethery, A. (2009) " A Modern-Day Concentration Camp" Using History to Make Sense of Australian Immigration Detention Centres. Pp. 65-80 in K. Neumann and G. Tavan (eds.). Does History Matter Making and Debating Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Policy in Australia and New Zealand. Canberra ANU e-press. 

Deportation is also an increasingly important dynamic in the forced movement of people between Central America and tire United States, with the United States establishing hundreds of new detention centres and spending milhons to remove... 

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