Victims and Trauma

Ms Holly Blackmore1 1University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia This paper will examine the post-homicide and/or sexual assault experience from the perspective of victims. It will draw upon data from a longitudinal study of victims over 12 months that...
  • August 22, 2018
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Dr Kath McFarlane1 1Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia The Trauma of Out-Of-Home-Care: the criminogenic consequences of, and institutional responses to, care-related abuse and neglect. This paper examines the Out-Of-Home-Care (OOHC) experience to explore the impact of abuse and neglect inflicted...
  • August 22, 2018
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Miss Natali Dilevski1, Dr  Helen  Paterson1,2, Dr Celine van Golde1,2 1University Of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia, 2Sydney Institute of Criminology, Camperdown, Australia Domestic violence often involves ongoing and multiple incidents of abuse by the same perpetrator. In legal proceedings, a victim’s...
  • August 22, 2018
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Ms Marianne Bevan1 1New Zealand Department Of Corrections , Wellington, New Zealand Over three-quarters of people within New Zealand prisons have experienced violent victimisation in their lifetime, with over half of men and three-quarters of women having experienced sexual and/or...
  • August 22, 2018
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Ms Daye Gang1, Associate Professor Bebe Loff2, Professor Bronwyn Naylor3, Doctor Maggie Kirkman4 1Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 2Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 3RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, 4Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Restorative justice has been offered in many forms as a justice option...
  • August 22, 2018
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Dr Kim  McGregor1 1New Zealand Government , Wellington , New Zealand The effectiveness of a criminal justice system relies on the trust, confidence, engagement, and participation of victims. Yet, adversarial criminal justice systems such as those in Australia and New...
  • August 22, 2018
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Dr Sarah  Tapper1 1Ministry of Justice, New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand Victims often report feeling re-victimised during their journey through the criminal justice system. This is particularly the case for sexual assault and family violence victims who face disbelief, judgement,...
  • August 22, 2018
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Miss Annaliese Wilson1 1Office of the Chief Victims Advisor to Government , Wellington , New Zealand In both the Australian and New Zealand criminal justice systems, victims have little opportunity to be involved in their own case, or when they...
  • August 22, 2018
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Dr Bronwyn Morrison1, Ms Marianne Bevan1 1Department of Corrections, New Zealand has one of the highest per capita rates of intimate partner violence among OECD countries. In 2017, almost a quarter of all sentences managed by the Department of Corrections...
  • August 22, 2018
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Lesley Simmonds1 1Plymouth University, Plymouth, United Kingdom Victim Services provision in England and Wales has undergone a seismic shift in recent years, following the move to the local commissioning of victim services.  This commissioning role was, contentiously, given to Local...
  • July 26, 2018
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