Month: November 2019

Professor Alfred Allan1, Associate Professor Hilde Tubex2 1School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Australia, 2Law School, Faculty of Arts, Business, Law & Education, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia The assessment of risk of future sexual reoffending is...
  • November 28, 2019
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Dr. Faith Gordon1 1Monash University, Melbourne, Australia November 2019 marked the 30 year anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).  The CRC is one of the most ratified rights treaties in history and it...
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Dr Caroline Spiranovic1 1Faculty of Law, College of Arts, Law & Education, University Of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia The majority of risk assessment tools used to predict recidivism in Australian sex offenders have been developed on predominantly Northern American populations of...
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Professor Harry Blagg2 2University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Through a process of what I call ‘decolonisation through stealth’, place-based Aboriginal organisations are taking the lead in developing alternative mechanisms for reducing contact with the White Settler justice system.  We...
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Associate Professor Thalia Anthony3 3University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia In 2016, Aboriginal young people came forward to tell their stories of the trauma they endured in youth detention in the Northern Territory, Australia. These stories were punctuated by chemical...
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Dr Michelle Byrnes1,2,3,4 1Director, Grow Your Life, Perth, Australia, 2Head of Clinical Psychology Unit, Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Sciences, Perth, Australia, 3Adjunct Associate Professor, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, 4Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia  ...
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Clinical Associate Professor Raewyn Mutch2, Hayley Passmore2 2University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Objectives: Neurodevelopmental impairments such as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) can predispose young people to engagement with the law. This presentation will discuss how translation of research...
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Shelley Turner1 1Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Directly including justice-involved children and young people in research emphasises that they are worthy of being listened to and may help counter the silencing of their voices once they become mandated clients of the...
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Dr Justin Ellis6 6University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia Despite the use of empirical police scandal as the basis for a range of popular media representations of policing, rarely have criminologists explored scandal as a concept or its attempted management by...
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Professor Murray Lee4, Dr Emmeline Taylor5 4University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 5City University of London, London, United Kingdom Police organisations have embraced the use of body worn cameras (BWC) across an increasing number of jurisdictions. The motivations for this include...
  • November 28, 2019
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