Judicial Supervision: Evidence current practice and implications for mainstream court settings

Magistrate Pauline Spencer1  1Dandenong Magistrates Court Bail and sentencing legislation in Victoria, Australia allows for judicial officers to require offenders to return to court for regular reviews before the same judicial officer.  This practice of ‘judicial supervision’ evolved out of...
  • September 26, 2018
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Dr Benjamin Spivak1, Magistrate Pauline Spencer2, Professor James Ogloff1 1Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Swinburne University of Technology, 2Magistrates’ Court of Victoria Judicial monitoring allows for an accused/offender to appear before the same magistrate on multiple occasions to encourage and monitor engagement...
  • September 26, 2018
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Michael Trood1, Dr Benjamin Spivak1, Professor James Ogloff1 1Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Swinburne University of Technology  Judicial supervision is a key component of problem-solving courts. Meta-analytic research investigating the effectiveness of interventions that utilize judicial supervision has found mixed...
  • September 26, 2018
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