Imprisonment is a growth industry in Australia. Over the past 30-40 years all state and territory jurisdictions have registered massive rises in both the absolute numbers of those imprisoned and the per capita use of imprisonment as a tool of punishment and control. Yet over this period there...

Many democratic theorists continue to view scientific expertise as either an apolitical resource for competent decision making or a dangerous source of technocracy and disenchantment. Constructivist science studies, in contrast, shows how expert claims often embody and perpetuate political...