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Professor Melissa Bull, Centre Director, QUT Centre for Justice has been involved as part of a team researching the sentencing for the social supply of illicit drugs in Australia.\u00a0 The research team included Professor Melissa Bull, Professor Ross Coomber\u00a0 Dr Leah Moyle, Dr Lisa Durnian and Dr Wendy O’Brien.<\/p>\n
This research came out of a Criminology Research Grant and was featured in an Australian Institute of Criminology Trends and Issues Paper.\u00a0 The full report can be found here<\/a> and a copy of the paper can be found here.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Abstract<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n In Australia, threshold quantities of illicit drugs act as an indicator of supply offences in distinguishing traffickers from users. This is problematic because it can be difficult for the courts to discriminate between heavy users or \u2018social suppliers\u2019 and \u2018dealers proper\u2019. Currently, there is no systematic analysis of how the judiciary in Australia navigate the relationship between different types of supply and the consistency and proportionality of the sentence applied. This analysis maps out how current sentencing practices respond to offenders involved in \u2018social supply\u2019 and \u2018minimally commercial supply\u2019 who are charged with drug trafficking. It makes recommendations that could inform future drug law reform, including that review is needed of the system of thresholds; that sentencing objectives of general and specific deterrence be reconsidered in cases of social supply and minimally commercial supply; and that consideration be given to expanding the scope of current diversion programs to accommodate the needs of the types of offenders and offending behaviour addressed in this study.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Professor Melissa Bull, Centre Director, QUT Centre for Justice has been involved as part of a team researching the sentencing for the social supply of illicit drugs in Australia.\u00a0 The research team included Professor Melissa Bull, Professor Ross Coomber\u00a0 Dr Leah Moyle, Dr Lisa Durnian and Dr Wendy O’Brien. This research came out of a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4341,"featured_media":4689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4690,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions\/4690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"