Dr Hannah Graham1 1Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University Of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom This paper illuminates the experience of being GPS tagged and tracked, taking part in an electronic monitoring (EM) technology trial and unorthodox participatory approach...
- September 26, 2018
Marilyn McMahon4, Paul McGorrery4 4Deakin University Recent reforms to domestic violence laws in England, Wales and Scotland have criminalised non-physical forms of abuse (such as psychological and financial abuse). These laws have been justified, at least in part, by reference...
- September 26, 2018
Les Humphreys1 1Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom Understanding the victim-offender dynamic in domestic abuse (DA) has important implications for policing and intervention. Questions in this field abound. Broadly this presentation will outline findings from an investigation into the frequency and...
- September 26, 2018
Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon3, Professor Sandra Walklate2 2University of Liverpool, 3Monash University This presentation examines the efficacy of coercive control as a conceptual device for improving access to law and justice outcomes for women as victim/survivors of intimate partner violence. Elsewhere...
- September 26, 2018
Dr Charlotte Barlow1, Dr Kelly Johnson1, Professor Sandra Walklate2 1Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, 2University of Liverpool Coercive and controlling behaviours were criminalised in England and Wales as part of Section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015. There has...
- September 26, 2018
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
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
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
Tara McGee1,Kate Freiberg1, Ross Homel1, Sara Branch1, Jacqueline Homel1 1Griffith University, Mt Gravatt, Brisbane, Australia The quality of the lives of children living in disadvantaged areas, as reported by children themselves, is seldom measured. Rumble’s Quest is a fun game...
- September 26, 2018
Kirsten Besemer1, Jacqui Homel1, Susan Dennison1, Joyce Arditti2 1Griffith University, Mt Gravatt, Brisbane, Australia,2Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, USA Research in the US found that the imprisonment of a parent increased children’s risk of heavy alcohol use in adolescence. However, there...
- September 26, 2018