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Professor Tony Butler1 1University of NSW, School of Population Health Biography: Over the past 25 years Tony has conducted numerous projects in the justice health area and currently heads the Justice Health Research Program, UNSW, School of Population Health. His work has...

Natalie Lewis1 1Queensland Family and Child Commission Biography: Natalie Lewis is a Gamilaraay woman and the Commissioner of the Queensland Family and Child Commission.   Natalie is fiercely committed to progressing a transformational reform agenda to strengthen Queensland’s focus on children’s...

Most young offenders age out of offending with little need for formal justice involvement.  But all the research shows that a much smaller group of youth offenders, up to 20 per cent, may become life course, persistent adult offenders.  These...

Prof. Mark Noaln1, Dr Peita Richards, Dr John Gaffey 1 Charles Sturt University Biography: Professor Mark Nolan* is a Professor at Charles Sturt University, Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia. He is an interdisciplinary academic trained in law and social psychology (with...

Acts of extreme violence perpetrated by lone offenders have become increasingly common in liberal democracies over the past 20 years. Some describe these acts as ideologically motivated, while others attribute them to mental disorder or criminal intent. This has led...

Our contemporary chronic crisis in mental healthcare is generally attributed to a simple failure to fund services to the degree required (“the whinge”). In this presentation, jointly developed with a fellow forensic psychiatrist Dr Calum Smith, I argue that underfunding...

This symposium presented by Forensic Disability Services Victoria (Dept. Families, Fairness, & Housing) examines the critical intersections within forensic disability practice, focusing on treatment and assessment advances, alongside, therapeutic, and systemic responses to complex clients. Explored will be the prevalence,...

This symposium presents three empirical and practice-focused papers exploring the critical role of expert psychological assessments in the Children’s Court. Each presentation addresses a unique facet of forensic psychological practice within Family Division proceedings, where decisions about child safety and...

Nowhere is the intersection between psychology, psychiatry, and law more apparent than in Dangerous Sexual Offender (DSO) legislation. This symposium considers the nature and extent of DSO laws across time and space. We begin by providing a brief overview of...

This symposium brings together research on the intersection of mental health, experiences of violence during adulthood or childhood, and their impact on health and justice outcomes. Using longitudinal linked administrative data for birth cohorts, the papers examine key transition points:...