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  • Brothels: outlaws or citizens? 
    Crofts Penelope (Cambridge Journals, 2010)
    Historically, sex services premises in New South Wales, Australia were regarded and regulated as illegal and disorderly entities; they were policed as outlaws. The Disorderly Houses Amendment Act 1995 [NSW] bestowed legal ...
  • A decade of illicit sex in the city 
    Crofts Penelope (Thomson Law Book Co, 2006)
    It has been a decade since the Disorderly Houses Amendment Act 1995 (NSW) was passed, which abolished the common law offence of keeping a brothel. Under this legislation, councils were to regulate brothels using ...
  • Design and Children's Courts 
    Crofts Penelope; Amarasekara Subhaga; Briffa Phillip; Makari Rebecca; Remedios Meryl (Legal Service Bulletin Co-op, 2008)
    Analysis of the design of children's courts in NSW.
  • Illegal dumping and crime prevention: A case study of Ash Road, Liverpool Council 
    Crofts Penelope; Morris Tara; Wells Kim; Powell Alicia (UTSepress, 2010)
    Illegal waste disposal is an increasingly significant and costly problem. This paper considers a specific hot-spot for illegal dumping in Sydney, Australia from criminological perspectives. We contribute to the developing ...
  • MONSTROUS WICKEDNESS AND THE JUDGMENT OF KNIGHT 
    Crofts Penelope (Griffith University, 2012)
    In February 2000, Katherine Mary Knight killed, then skinned, decapitated and cooked her lover in rural Australia. Knight pleaded guilty to murder and received a life sentence, against which she unsuccessfully appealed ...
  • Not in my Neighbourhood 
    Crofts Penelope (Thomson Law Book Co, 2003)
    This article details the current regime regulating home businesses (sexual services). It is argued that the imposition of notification requirements and locational restrictions upon home businesses (sexual services) ...
  • The proposed licensing of brothels in New South Wales 
    Crofts Penelope (Lawbook Co, 2012)
    The New South Wales Coalition government is proposing to introduce a licensing system for brothels in accordance with pre-election commitments. This article argues that there is no evidence that brothels are criminogenic ...
  • Sex in the Dark: The Brothels Legislation Amendment Act 2007 (NSW) 
    Crofts Penelope (University of Sydney, 2007)
    The Brothels Legislation Amendment Act 2007 (NSW) was passed by the New South Wales Parliament to expedite the closure of ‘disorderly and unlawful brothels’. This article details the enforcement regime introduced by the ...
  • What Kept You So Long?": Bullying's Gray Zone and The Vampire's Transgressive Justice in Let the Right One I 
    Crofts Penelope; Van Rijswijk Honni (Sage Publications Ltd., 2012)
    School bullying has been recognized only relatively recently by policy-makers, media and the courts as a serious and widespread social problem. But despite this recent notice, there has been no evidence that techniques ...
  • White Collar Punters: Stealing from the boss to Gamble 
    Crofts Penelope (Southhood Press, 2003)
    Gambling provides a significant motivation for employee theft. Recent research suggests that problem gambling provides a motivation for at least 15% of employee thefts in New South Wales. Problem gamblers may steal from ...