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Seeing the Criminal for the Crime single work essay

Author:agent Mahmood Fazal

Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Seeing the Criminal for the Crime

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'On 16 January 2005, John Silvester, Australia’s most respected crime reporter, published an article in the Age titled ‘Police braced for bikie crime rise following Mohammad Akbar Keshtier’s release’. Keshtiar (correct spelling) was due to face the parole board the following month, having served the non-parole period of a 12-year sentence for a double shooting.' (Introduction)

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I had hoped that the voice of a criminal might be heard: not in complaint but in exultation. What impels me is a pointless need for honesty, honesty not so much in matters of fact as in obedience to the somewhat ragged tones of voice in which I express my feeling and truth, the feelings and truths of my friends.

—Jean Genet, The Criminal Child

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y Meanjin vol. 79 no. 3 Spring 2020 20192147 2020 periodical issue Abstract
'In our September edition, there's a brace of fine writing in the time of Covid-19.

'From Jack Latimore, 'Through a Mask, Breathing': an expansive, lyrical essay that couples a local response to the Black Lives Matter movement to ideas around gentrification, St Kilda, Sidney Nolan and the life and music of Archie Roach, all of it set against the quiet menace of the pandemic.

'In other pieces drawn from our Covid moment, Kate Grenville charts the troubled progress and unexpected insights of days under lockdown, Fiona Wright finds space and rare pleasures as the world closes in, Krissy Kneen takes on the sudden obsession with 'iso-weight', Justin Clemens searches for hope in the world of verse, Desmond Manderson and Lorenzo Veracini consider viruses, colonialism and other metaphors, and there's short fiction from Anson Cameron, 'The Miserable Creep of Covid'. ' (Publication introduction)
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