School of Justice affiliated academic Dr Dean Biron has published an essay titled “Dark Justice.” The piece appears in Arena Magazine (No. 416, February-March 2017).
“Dark Justice” investigates the case of a young international student who was placed into immigration detention after his arrest for a criminal offence and subsequently deported. It considers the intervention of the Australian Border Force into the student’s case and suggests that due process and procedural fairness were compromised as a result. The essay argues that Australia’s continual bypassing of justice in the name of national security threatens to both isolate and condemn us.
Copies of the article are available on request.
Dean’s previous work has appeared in such publications as Child Abuse & Neglect, Thesis Eleven, The Journal of Family Violence, The Journal of Paediatrics & Child Health, Children Australia and Continuum. His memoir essay on his time as a Queensland police officer was also recently published by Overland literary journal:
https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-223/feature-dean-biron/
Dean is currently teaching in QUT Justice undergraduate subjects ‘Deviance’ and ‘Policing in Context’.
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