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Abstract   This paper reviews Australian laws relating to compensation and financial support for victims and survivors of crime who have a prior history of offending or who have contributed to their injuries whilst committing a crime. The paper compares...

Katherine McLachlan, BA(Hons), LLB(Hons), LLM, GDLP, PhD has extensive experience working across criminal justice and social welfare agencies focused on child protection and child exploitation, youth justice, police intelligence, crime policy and research, victim support, and corrections. She is currently...

Dr Michael R Davis   Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Swinburne University of Technology Department of Psychiatry, Monash University Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne   Rapists and their offences are markedly heterogenous. As such, a variety of typological...

The challenges of working within and with Youth Justice Systems are widely understood and accepted. As a wicked problem that itself intersects with many other wicked problems, youth crime / recidivism is a genuinely difficult field in which to make...

Working with complex clients can be a challenging process and often barriers arise from within a stretched service sector. This presentation will present a thematic analysis of the work that Complex Psychology have done in their roles as coordinators under...

Addressing Trauma and Adversity: a data driven call to action for residential out of home care. Youth residential care is often perceived as the placement of ‘last resort’ for particularly vulnerable, complex, and troubled young people. Residential care is often...

The ability to communicate – speak, listen, read, write, and interact with others – is a fundamental skill affecting all aspects of life. Studies confirm a high prevalence of communication difficulties in people accessing forensic mental health services and this...

• First Nations people are outrageously over-incarcerated and over-represented in all areas of the criminal justice system. First Nations children are over-represented in the youth justice system, child protection system and poor education and health outcomes. Despite being the backbone...

Amee Baird, PhD,  MPsych (Clin Neuro), BA(Hons)Newcastle Neuropsychology and Newcastle Law School.   Dr Amee Baird has worked as a clinical neuropsychologist for over 20 years in clinical and research positions in Australia and overseas in London and Paris. She...

Howard M   Assessment of a person’s risk of sexual reoffending arguably has an established gold standard, in the form of the Static-99R. However, there continue to be challenges to routine use of this measure in local correctional settings, including...