2025 Program

Program below is subject to change.

Wednesday 3 December

Pre-Congress Workshops

08:00 Registration | Hotel Lobby
Room Harbour View One Chancellor Room 6 Harbour View Two
09:00 – 17:00 Pre-Congress Workshops Pre-Congress Workshops Pre-Congress Workshops
09:00 – 10:30 Workshop 1
Assessing the potential for severe harm in cases of family violence, stalking and grievance-fuelled violence
Prof Troy McEwan 
Workshop 2
An Introduction to Behavioural Investigative Advice and Investigative Psychology: Myths, Realities, and Practical Applications
Cleo Brandt and Dr Michael R Davis
 
10:30 – 11:00 Morning Tea | Mezzanine Level
11:00 – 12:30 Workshop 1 (Cont’d) Workshop 2 (Cont’d)
12:30 – 13:15 Lunch | Mezzanine Level (provided only for those attending the full day or two half-day workshops)
13:15 – 14:45 Workshop 4
Fitness to Stand Trial assessments – how to formulate and communicate about cognition in the context of cognitive impairment
Dr Amanda Nielsen
Workshop 2 (Cont’d) Workshop 5
Ethics in the Deep End: Working with High-Risk Clients in Private Practice
Dr Tess Crawley
14:45 – 15:15 Afternoon Tea | Mezzanine Level
15:15 – 16:45 Workshop 4 (Cont’d) Workshop 2 (Cont’d) Workshop 5 (Cont’d)
17:15 Tasmanian Locals Networking Event | The Deck at Crowne Plaza Hobart

Thursday 4 December

8:00 Registration | Mezzanine
9:00 – 10:30 Opening & Plenary 1
Room Grand Ballroom 2 & 3
Chair Dr Amber Fougere
9:00 – 9:10 Welcome to Country
Alison Overeem
9:10 – 9:15 Welcome to the Congress
Dr Amber Fougere – ANZAPPL President
9:15 – 10:30 Keynote Speaker
A Line in the Sand: Ending the cycle of harm perpetuated under the pretence of community safety
Natalie Lewis,
Commissioner of the Queensland Family and Child Commission
10:30 – 11:00 Morning Tea, Exhibition and Poster Viewing | Mezzanine Level
11:00 – 12:30 Abstracts & Symposium #1
Sentencing Outcomes for justice-involved people Therapeutic approaches and restrictive interventions SYMPOSIUM: Enhancing expert psychological assessments in the Children’s Court: Evidence, insight and innovation
Room Grand Ballroom 1 Grand Ballroom 2 Grand Ballroom 3 Harbour View One
Chair Dr Nina Hudson Megan Niblett Dr Amber Fougere Prof James Ogloff
11:00 – 11:30 Evidence and effects of remorse in sentencing: Findings from a study of sentencing remark
Dr Michael Proeve
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Enhancing prison to community mental health care for First Nations people: The Moving Forward Project
Dr Carey Marr, Ms Minh Thu Nguyen
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Finding common ground about compulsory treatment for mental illness: Results from an Ontario study
Dr Sam Boyle
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Paper 1: Clinical Assessment of Child Maltreatment in Children’s Court: A Profile Analysis of Family Division Cases
Dr Maddison Riachi

Paper 2: Magistrate perceptions of expert psychological reports and witness testimony in Children’s Court family division matters
Dr Abigail Sheed
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Paper 3: Structured guidelines for child maltreatment assessments in the Children’s Court
Dr Maddison Riachi

11:30 – 12:00 Judicial outcomes in sexual offence cases: A gendered but nuanced disparity
Dr Tess Patterson
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Offence-related trauma in those who commit violent offences: What do we know and what can we do?
Dr Helen Thomas
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A systematic review of therapeutic alternatives to separate confinement: Progress toward rehabilitative goals or a euphemistic rebranding?
Dr Ashley Batastini
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12:00 – 12:30 Trauma-informed sentencing practices in youth offending: A review of 25 years of sentencing remarks in New South Wales, Australia
Ms Sarah Stevenson
Life beyond forensic care: A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient outcomes
Mr James Mclauchlan
Designing for Restraint Reduction: A Retrospective Observational Study Comparing Environmental Restraint Rates in Old and New Purpose-Built Facilities of a Regional Forensic Psychiatry Hospital
Dr Bill Lu
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12:30 – 13:30 Lunch, Exhibition and Poster Viewing | Mezzanine Level
13:30 – 15:00 Abstracts & Symposium #2
Assessing Risk and Needs Stalking and Family Violence Responses Mental Health Expert testimony SYMPOSIUM: A mixed methods examination of the lived experience of dangerous sexual offender legislation across three countries
Room Grand Ballroom 1 Grand Ballroom 2 Grand Ballroom 3 Harbour View One
Chair Dr Melissa Hughes Dr Nina Hudson Dr Melisa Wood Prof Danielle Harris
13:30 – 14:00 Psychometric Properties of the LS/CMI Among Male Offenders in New Zealand and Across Ethnicity and Staff Groups
Dr Ryan Botha
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How does the relationship between stalking victim and offender determine the response by police and service-providers? A mixed methods comparative project across Victoria and the United Kingdom
Mr Matt Flood, Ms Cleo Brandt
Selecting the Right Expert: Competency, Reflexivity, and Ethical Practice in a Reforming Legal Landscape
Ms Panayiota Zingirlis, Ms Anita McGregor, Dr Amanda White
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Paper 1: Variations on a theme: An introduction to preventative detention across the world
Ms Amanda Bodker
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Paper 2: Too much, too little, too late: Comparing narratives of sexual recidivism and preventative detention in Norway and North America
Associate Professor Danielle Harris
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Paper 3: Understanding and preventing the collateral consequences of DSO legislation
Associate Professor Danielle Harris
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14:00 – 14:30 Reimagining RNR
Dr Richard Parker
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Using the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) Model to Inform Policing of Family Violence: Evaluating the Validity and Efficacy of a Proposed Reform
Dr Zhi Xiang On, Professor Troy McEwan
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Neurodivergence and the Verdins Principles: A clinical perspective on the impact of a diagnosis of autism and sentencing outcomes
Dr Joseph Sakdalan, Ms Vivien Leung
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14:30 – 15:00 Using Evidence to Steer the Ship
Ms Simone Shaw
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Proposed guidelines for assessing child-to-parent abuse: Drawing on clinical practice and the evidence base
Dr Abigail Sheed
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Personality Disorder and Sentencing in Practice: Lessons for Clinicians from Court Decisions
Dr Daniel Simsion, Dr Melisa Wood, Dr Joseph Sakdalan
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15:00 – 15:30 Afternoon Tea, Exhibition and Poster Viewing |  Mezzanine Level
15:30 – 16:45 Plenary 2
Room Grand Ballroom 2 & 3
Chair Stephen Bourne
Keynote Speaker
The ReINVEST Trial – A novel approach to domestic violence?
Professor Tony Butler,
Head of Justice Health Research Program, University of NSW, School of Population Health
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16:45 – 18:15 Welcome Reception | Mezzanine Level

Friday 5 December

8:30 Registration | Mezzanine
9:15 – 10:30 Plenary 3
Grand Ballroom 2 & 3
Chair Stephen Bourne
9:15 – 10:30 Keynote Speaker
What Were They Thinking? – Young offenders with neurodevelopment disorders and/or mental health issues: one of the criminal law’s big challenges
Justice Andrew Becroft, High Court Judge, Auckland, NZ
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10:30 – 11:00 Morning Tea, Exhibition and Poster Viewing | Mezzanine Level
11:00 – 12:30 Abstracts & Symposium #3
Child sexual abuse Legislation, mental health, and disability SYMPOSIUM: Exploring intersecting vulnerabilities using linked administrative data: Mental health, victimisation, and justice system involvement SYMPOSIUM: Breaches, boundaries and beneficial rehabilitation of disciplined professionals
Room Grand Ballroom 1 Grand Ballroom 2 Grand Ballroom 3 Harbour View One
Chair Claire Anstis Dr Amber Fougere Dr Diksha Sapkota Prof Lois Surgenor
11:00 – 11:30 Before It Begins: A Narrative Examination of ‘Upstream’ Approaches to Child Sexual Abuse Prevention
Ms Lyric Buzza
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Words matter: the language of legislation and policy shaping how we think and act towards people with disability
Professor Keith Mcvilly
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Paper 1: Intersection of mental illness, victimisation, and preterm birth: Use of an Australian birth cohort data
Dr Diksha Sapkota
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Paper 2: Offending outcomes for individuals experiencing contact with outpatient mental health services from childhood to early adulthood in an Australian birth cohort
Dr James Ogilvie
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Paper 3: Sex Differences in criminal justice system involvement across adolescence and early adulthood: Identifying high-risk features of child protection and mental health system contacts
Dr Carleen Thompson
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Paper 1: Lawyer, heal thyself: Rehabilitation for breaches of professional norms and standards
Professor Kate Diesfeld
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Paper 2: Discipline of Regulated Professionals for Misconduct Outside Work: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Lawyers, Health Practitioners and Teachers’ Disciplinary Tribunal Decisions in New Zealand
Dr Marta Rychert
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Paper 3: ‘Consensual’ sexual relationships between health practitioners and their patients: what does the data say and what can be done?
Professor Lois Surgenor
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11:30 – 12:00 Child Sex Tourism: Case studies of offenders and the impact of the global pandemic on offending behaviour and prosecution
Dr Georgina O’Donnell
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The Differing Profiles of Mental Health Legislation in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and England and Wales (E&W) and impacts on Involuntary Hospitalisation Rates and Duration
Dr Anju Soni, Dr Ian Treasaden
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12:00 – 12:30 Hebephilia: Paraphilic Disorder or Just Simply Criminal Behaviour?
Dr Michael Davis
The Abolitionist Perspectives Report on Abolishing Mental Health Law: An Evaluation
Dr Kay Wilson
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12:30 – 13:30 Lunch, Exhibition and Poster Viewing | Mezzanine Level
13:30 – 15:00 Abstracts & Symposium #4
Therapeutic responses within justice settings Working with young people who offend Assessment and formulation SYMPOSIUM: Judicial wellbeing and stress in a changing society: Emergent issues and perspectives informed by the latest research with Australian judicial officers
Room Grand Ballroom 1 Grand Ballroom 2 Grand Ballroom 3 Harbour View One
Chair Dr Melissa Hughes Claire Anstis Dr Melisa Wood Dr Nina Hudson
13:30 – 14:00 Professionals’ experiences working with youth in the Youth Court in New Zealand
Dr Clare-Ann Fortune
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Engaging Adolescents Who Deny, Justify and Minimise their Offending
Dr Julianne Read
Cross-Cultural Fairness of the PCL: SV: A New Zealand Analysis
Dr Ryan Botha
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Paper 1: Risk and Protective Factors for Judicial Wellbeing: The JAWS Scale
Professor Richard Kemp,  Associate Professor Carly Schrever, Associate Professor Kevin O’Sullivan

Paper 2: Gender differences in work satisfaction and stress experienced by judicial officers
Emeritus Professor Kate Warner, Adjunct Associate Professor Terese Henning

Paper 3: Traumatic stress and Judicial Work: ‘the cumulative adverse impact of exposure to evidence of violence and sexual violence virtually every day, cannot be underestimated’
Professor Jill Hunter, Associate Professor Carly Schrever and Associate Professor Kevin O’Sullivan

Paper 4: Emotion(al) work and judicial identities:  Insights from the Judicial Wellbeing Project
Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor Sharyn Roach Anleu

Paper 5: Psychosocial Hazards in the Judicial ‘Work’ Place: Reflections on WHS Responsibility
Professor Kylie Burns

14:00 – 14:30 The ‘Elder Court’: A Proposed Specialised Court for Older Criminal Offenders
Dr Amee Baird, Professor John Anderson
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The First 24 Hours: Identifying Mental Health Needs in Adults and Young People at Custody Entry in NSW
Dr Carey Marr, Ms Meghan Murie
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Investigating the Quality of Case Formulations among Australian Forensic Practitioners
Mr Mahmoud Ghamraoui
14:30 – 15:00 Disordered Eating in Correctional Settings
Miss Caitlyn Jowett
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Attachment disruption and therapeutic alliance among youth offenders with and without child protection histories
Dr Bruce Watt
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Are Malingering Screening Instruments ‘Fit to Stand Trial’?
Mr Nishant Krishnan
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15:00 – 15:30 Afternoon Tea, Exhibition and Poster Viewing | Mezzanine Level
15:30 – 17:00 Abstracts & Symposium #5
SYMPOSIUM: The impact of evolving social norms and law reform on forensic practice in Singapore, with a special focus on drug trafficking cases facing the death penalty Therapeutic system reforms Young people who sexually harm SYMPOSIUM: Advances in Clinical Practice and Residential Treatment in Forensic Disability
Room Grand Ballroom 1 Grand Ballroom 2 Grand Ballroom 3 Harbour View One
Chair Dr Munidasa Winslow Stephen Bourne Megan Niblett Dr Matt Frize
15:30 – 16:00 Paper 1: Legal principles in death penalty drug trafficking offences in Singapore
Ms Jerrie Tan
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Paper 2: Mental disability, false confessions and a death sentence overturned
Dr Rajesh Jacob
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Paper 3: Depression, intellect and the scales of justice
Ms June Fong
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Paper 4: Dual diagnosis versus the self induced condition: A legal paradox
Dr Lynette Rama
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Developing legislative reforms for safeguarding against the abuse of older people: Insights from a Tasmanian study
Dr Nina Hudson
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Identifying typologies of adverse experiences and psychosocial functioning for youth who sexually harm
Dr James Ogilvie
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Paper 1: Family Violence in Context: Insights on Prevalence, Pathways and Practice in Forensic Disability
Mr Tristan MacGillivray, Alejandro Avendano-Jones

Paper 2: Integrated Systemic and Cognitive Behavioural Intervention for Addressing Harmful Sexual Behaviour in Adolescents with Cognitive Disability
Mr Robert Shirley
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Paper 3: Addressing Retribution from the Workforce in Secure Settings in the Face of Harmful Behaviour
Mr Tristan MacGillivray, Ms Jayne Dennis, Alejandro Avendano-Jones

Paper 4: Evolution, Validity, and Lessons from the Assessment of Risk and Manageability of Individuals with Developmental and Intellectual Limitations who Offend (ARMIDILO) Tool
Dr Matt Frize
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16:00 – 16:30 Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Practice: Representing Clients with Trauma Histories in the Family Court
Veronica Tone-Graham, Justin Thomas Graham
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Trauma symptomatology predicts psychiatric comorbidity and substance use in Australian youth with harmful sexual behaviours
Dr Dustin O’Shannessy
16:30 – 17:00 Integrated Therapeutic Justice Care: Transforming systemic responses to relational trauma recovery in family violence and prioritising a biopsychosocial wellbeing-informed approach for relational safety and wellbeing
Dr Effie Zafirakis
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A quasi-experimental evaluation of a specialized treatment service for youth adjudicated for sexual offences in Queensland, Australia
Professor Benoit Leclerc
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17:00 – 17:05 Room changeover
17:05 – 17:40 ANZAPPL AGM | Grand Ballroom 2
19:00 – 23:00 Conference Dinner | Franklin Wharf Function Centre

Saturday 6 December

8:30 Registration | Mezzanine
9:00 – 10:15 Plenary 5 – Grand Ballroom 2 & 3
Chair Prof. Troy Mcewan
9:00 – 10:15 Keynote Speaker
Modelling Drivers of Grievance-Fuelled Violence
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Dr Emily Corner, The Australian National University
10:15 – 10:35 Morning Tea, Exhibition and Poster Viewing | Mezzanine Level
10:35 – 11:35 Abstracts #6
Theme Offence classification and law reform Law and ethics Radicalisation
Grand Ballroom 1 Grand Ballroom 2 & 3 Harbour View One
Chair Dr Melisa Wood Dr Amber Fougere Dr Melissa Hughes
10:35 – 11:05 Beyond Self Reporting: Behavioural matrices used for social identity mapping of multiple social identity expression on multi-platform digital environments
Prof. Mark Nolan
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Incremental Erasing of the Idea of ‘Criminal’ as ‘Bad’ – Possible Effects on Self Conception, Legitimacy & Deterrence a.k.a. ‘New Zealand, a Nation of Crooks!’
Dr Gay Morgan
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Characteristics of autism that may make one vulnerable to criminal involvement and radicalisation
Professor Robyn Young
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11:05 – 11:35 Sexsomnia and the Criminal Law: Current Developments
Professor Ian Freckelton
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Expert evidence and Generative Artificial Intelligence: Ethical and legal issues
Emeritus Professor Bernadette McSherry
Forensic considerations for radicalised youth in an evolving global and legislative climate
Ms Sarah Stevenson
11:35 – 11:40 Room changeover
11:40 – 12:50 Plenary 6 – Grand Ballroom 2 & 3
Chair Dr Melisa Wood
Keynote Speaker
Beyond the Whinge: Impacts of a changing society on how we recognise schizophrenia
Dr Andrew Carroll
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12:50 – 13:00 Congress Closing
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