This book asks how we should we make sense of sentencing when, despite huge efforts world-wide to analyse, critique and reform it, it remains an enigma. It reveals how both research and policy-thinking about sentencing are confined by a paradigm that presumes autonomous individualism.
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Questions about why such affluent western societies are facing a reversal in life expectancy are sounding loud alarm bells for Professor Fran Baum, Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor and Director of the Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity.
Professor Baum is lead author of a study that offers a new perspective on why women live longer than men - noting with concern that while women live longer, many of the recognised social determinants of health are worse for women than men.
The study serves an important reminder of why policy makers need to receive more carefully nuanced research that drills into specific gender data that can best inform public health policy initiatives.