Panel Session

Kate Gooch1 1University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom, In February 2017 HMP Berwyn became the first prison to open with the aim of becoming a ‘rehabilitation prison’. Situated in North Wales, it is the largest prison in the UK, with...

Prof. Yvonne Jewkes1,2 1University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom,  2University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Discourses of transformation, normalisation, trauma sensitivity and rehabilitation have recently come to the fore in the briefs given to prison architects. Drawing on recent collaborations with...

Dr Larissa (Lara) Christensen1, Susan Rayment-McHugh1, Dr Nadine McKillop1 1University Of The Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, Australia Effective prevention of sexual violence and abuse (SVA) must begin with a clear understanding of factors associated with its development, onset, and progression....

Susan Rayment-McHugh1 Dimity Adams, Dr Nadine McKillop1 1University Of The Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, Australia Traditional approaches to treating youth who perpetrate sexual offences have been dominated by individual pathology-based conceptualisations. Prevention efforts in this field have reflected this conceptualisation...

Dr Nadine McKillop1, Danielle Reynald, and Susan Rayment-McHugh 1University Of The Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, Australia The role of guardianship in preventing crime has received significant international attention. Although initially applied to property crimes, interest in its utility for understanding...

Dr Larissa (Lara) Christensen1 1University Of The Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, Australia As a result of traditional gender roles, society has difficulty understanding that females are capable of committing child sexual abuse (CSA). Earlier research has found that professionals (e.g.,...

Rashaam Chowdhury1 1School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia This paper utilises data gathered from interviews conducted in Bangladesh to explore victimisation experienced by Bangladeshis during the 1971 liberation war. It considers the multifaceted nature of...

Matthew Mitchell3 3School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, Between 2004-2017, the Family Court of Australia regulated minors’ access to gender-affirming hormones. In these cases, access to hormones depended upon being recognised as a legitimate subject...

Bethia Burgess2 2School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia Despite the military’s gradual withdrawal from the Myanmar government and the commencement of state-wide peace talks in 2016, armed conflicts remain virulent across several of the state’s...

Ms. Krystal Lockwood1 ,Susan Dennison, Anna Stewart, Lisa Broidy, Troy Allard and Nick Tilley 1Griffith University, Mt Gravatt, Australia, With the rise of the overuse of incarceration, collateral consequences of incarceration are infiltrating Australia. For First Nations families this is...