{"id":6,"date":"2026-02-16T06:27:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/?p=6"},"modified":"2026-02-17T02:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:49:14","slug":"seeking-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/seeking-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"SEEKING JUSTICE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN AUSTRALIA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learning from the past and planning for a better future<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter Norden AO<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fellow of the Australian &amp; New Zealand Society of Criminology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"863\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-863x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-863x1024.png 863w, https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-253x300.png 253w, https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-768x911.png 768w, https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 863px) 100vw, 863px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-text-display has-accent-3-color has-accent-1-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-f4a150c7480badb6c96e0bef9f284a8e is-style-text-display--1\">2nd Edition soon to be released: April 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>peter.norden@gmail.com <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-text-subtitle is-style-text-subtitle--2\">The Prisoners&#8217; Courtyard, Vincent van Gogh <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"792\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"31\" src=\"https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-prison-courtyard-Van-Gough-2-792x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-prison-courtyard-Van-Gough-2-792x1024.jpeg 792w, https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-prison-courtyard-Van-Gough-2-232x300.jpeg 232w, https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-prison-courtyard-Van-Gough-2-768x993.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-prison-courtyard-Van-Gough-2-1188x1536.jpeg 1188w, https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-prison-courtyard-Van-Gough-2.jpeg 1238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prison walls serve a dual purpose: they keep prisoners form escaping and they keep the community outside, and ignorant of what goes no behind those prison walls&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Let us hope that the future direction of the Australian criminal justice system will be founded on evidence, and not on a misguided model based on our past as a penal settlement&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>A significant change of direction is required to turn around this international scandal of the mass incarceration of Indigenous Australians.<\/p>\n<p>Through this publication I address the deficiencies of the retributive model of criminal justice and point to the future possibilities, if we were to consider a &#8216;restorative&#8217; model of justice&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I attempt to lay the foundations for a substantial change of direction for the future of our criminal justice system in Australia &#8211; a movement towards Justice Reinvestment.<\/p>\n<p>It is time for our community leaders to explore new paths in pursuit of true justice and greater community safety in Australia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seekingjustice.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}