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Acoustic Surveillance In Brazil: The Car Wash Operation Panacousticon, Leonardo Cardoso Jan 2020

Acoustic Surveillance In Brazil: The Car Wash Operation Panacousticon, Leonardo Cardoso

Law Text Culture

In Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault famously described Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon as the emblematic representation of a shift in power from public and centralised punishment to diffuse and individualised surveillance. Within surveillance studies, Foucault’s panopticon has become a dominant analytical framework. Although Foucault considers the panopticon as a matter of optics and visibility exclusively, Bentham was not oblivious to acoustics. For instance, in his panopticon plans, he considered including a network of “sound pipes.” Compared to its visual counterpart, such a ‘panacousticon’ presents two distinctive traits. One trait is the symmetry between the inspector and inspected, as information could …


Illegal, Unreported And Unregulated Fishing And Transnational Organized Fisheries Crimes: Perspectives Of Legal And Policy Measures Of Indonesia, Zaki Mubarok Jan 2019

Illegal, Unreported And Unregulated Fishing And Transnational Organized Fisheries Crimes: Perspectives Of Legal And Policy Measures Of Indonesia, Zaki Mubarok

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+

It has been identified that Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing activities have severe impacts on, and continue to be a prominent problem to, marine ecosystems. In a 2012 report, FAO disclosed that 87.3% of fish stocks were fully exploited or overexploited. In accordance with the recent report, it is estimated that the economic losses from the practice are approximately between $10 billion and $23.5 billion per year, which is equal to between 11 and 26 million tons of fish catch. The FAO report revealed that fish stocks decreased from 90 per cent in 1974 to 71.2 per cent in …


A Record 29,000 Mexicans Were Murdered Last Year - Can Soldiers Stop The Bloodshed?, Luis Gomez Romero Jan 2018

A Record 29,000 Mexicans Were Murdered Last Year - Can Soldiers Stop The Bloodshed?, Luis Gomez Romero

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Exactly 234,966 people have died in Mexico's 11-year drug war. Now the government wants to deploy soldiers to criminal hot spots, a move many fear will just increase violence and weaken the police.


Mexico Seeks To Become 'Country Of Refuge' As Us Cracks Down On Migrants, Luis Gomez Romero Jan 2018

Mexico Seeks To Become 'Country Of Refuge' As Us Cracks Down On Migrants, Luis Gomez Romero

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Trump's anti-immigrant policies are leading more Central Americans to stay put in Mexico. Mexico's presidential candidates have a lot to say about that, and none of it involves mass deportations.


Dozens Of Migrants Disappear In Mexico As Central American Caravan Pushes Northward, Luis Gomez Romero Jan 2018

Dozens Of Migrants Disappear In Mexico As Central American Caravan Pushes Northward, Luis Gomez Romero

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Two trucks carrying migrants have gone missing in Veracruz, Mexico. A witness says that '65 children and seven women were sold' to a band of armed men. Other caravan members have reached the border.


Amnesty For Drug Traffickers? That's One Mexican Presidential Candidate's Pitch To Voters, Luis Gomez Romero Jan 2018

Amnesty For Drug Traffickers? That's One Mexican Presidential Candidate's Pitch To Voters, Luis Gomez Romero

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Mexico's presidential front-runner wants to end violence in Mexico by pardoning drug traffickers and corrupt officials. Some 235,000 people have died in the country's 11-year cartel war.


Mexico Elects A Leftist President Who Welcomes Migrants, Luis Gomez Romero Jan 2018

Mexico Elects A Leftist President Who Welcomes Migrants, Luis Gomez Romero

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor and career outsider, won Mexico's July 1 presidential election in a landslide. The US-Mexico relationship is about to change.


Perspectives On The Organisation And Control Of The Illicit Traffic In Antiquities In South East Asia, Christine Adler, Duncan Chappell, Kenneth Polk Jan 2009

Perspectives On The Organisation And Control Of The Illicit Traffic In Antiquities In South East Asia, Christine Adler, Duncan Chappell, Kenneth Polk

Faculty of Law - Papers (Archive)

We intend addressing three issues in till paper. First we will describe in detail not available elsewhere the patterns that are found in the illicit traffic in antiquities that flow out of Southeast Asia in particular from Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar Thailand and Vietnam. Second, we shall examine the focus of organized crime that have emerged in order to support that traffic. Third, we will propose initiatives that are both focused on the demand end of the market chain (rather than on the supply end), and on tho e approaches than give emphasis to persuasion' rather than punishment and prohibition.


Human Tracking Technology In Mutual Legal Assistance And Police Inter-State Cooperation In International Crimes, Katina Michael, G. L. Rose Jan 2007

Human Tracking Technology In Mutual Legal Assistance And Police Inter-State Cooperation In International Crimes, Katina Michael, G. L. Rose

Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)

The objective of this paper is to explore the role of human tracking technology, primarily the use of global positioning systems (GPS) in locating individuals for the purposes of mutual legal assistance (MLA), and providing location intelligence for use in inter-state police cooperation within the context of transnational crime. GPS allows for the 24/7 continuous real-time tracking of an individual, and is considered manifold more powerful than the traditional visual surveillance often exercised by the police. As the use of GPS for human tracking grows in the law enforcement sector, federal and state laws in many countries are to a …


Realized Applications Of Positioning Technologies In Defense Intelligence, Katina Michael, Amelia Masters Jan 2006

Realized Applications Of Positioning Technologies In Defense Intelligence, Katina Michael, Amelia Masters

Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)

Spurred by the recent escalation of terrorist attacks and their increasingly devastating outcomes, defense intelligence in the context of homeland security has been drawn into the spotlight. The challenge, at both national and global levels, of managing information in order to offensively resist attack or defensively keep citizens safe from further harm has never been greater. In meeting this challenge, the tools and strategies used by relevant defensive powers are a key factor in the success or failure of all activities, ranging from small-scale homeland security administration through to large-scale all-inclusive war. In all areas within this wide scope, the …