Processes and Procedures of In/Justice

Dr Marg Liddell1, Ms Natalie Walker1 1Rmit University, Melbourne, Australia, 2PartnerSPEAK, Melbourne, Australia Over recent years knowledge about the impact of online child abuse offences on women and children in Australia has grown enormously.  Factors promoting this increased knowledge include...

Ms Natalia Maystorovich-Chulio1 1The University Of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Forensic exhumations are more generally associated with criminal prosecutions seeking to attribute individualised or collective group for the sequestration, torture and killing of civilians. Spain is distinct as often there is...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Mary Iliadis1 1Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Sexual assault cases have historically resulted in persistent victim dissatisfaction with, and alienation from, the prosecution process. As a result, some adversarial jurisdictions have moved somewhat contentiously towards integrating victim participation rights within the...