Month: August 2018

Dr Ashley Dunne1, Dr Flora Gilbert2, Dr Stuart Lee3, Prof Michael Daffern1 1Swinburne University of Technology, Alphington, Australia, 2Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health (Forensicare), Clifton Hill, Australia, 3Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, Melbourne, 3000   Contemporary social-cognitive aggression theory...
  • August 7, 2018
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Dr Clare-Ann Fortune1 1Victoria University Of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand   Historically, offender rehabilitation has taken a risk reduction focus. There is, however, increasing interest in expanding our understanding of effective rehabilitation approaches. The Good Lives Model (GLM) is a...
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Dr Clare Calvert1 1Regional Youth Forensic Service, Auckland, New Zealand   The issue of how to deal with children and young people who offend has been in debate since before the beginning of the nineteenth century. The early Youth Justice...
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Dr Christopher Lennings1, Ms  Megan Godbee1 1Lscpsychology, World Square, Australia   Juvenile Justice represents a closed system in which accountability is limited. The recent Royal Commission into Sexual Abuse has identified a number of concerning complaints of staff abusing young...
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Ms Phillippa Dean1, Dr Clare-Ann Fortune1 1Victoria University Of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand   Youth justice is one of the most highly disputed legal issues in the Western world. It is a complex, and often foreign environment that is full...
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Dr Amee Baird1, Professor Jeanette Kennett1, Dr Eliabeth Schier1 1Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia   When a murder is committed by an elderly person, the question of whether they have any cognitive impairment may be raised. A specific type of dementia,...
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Dr Tim Foley, Associate Professor Christopher Ryan 1St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst, Australia, 2University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia Background In 2015 the NSW Mental Health Act 2007 underwent reforms driven by the Convention on the Rights on Persons with Disabilities. These...
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Dr Yvette Maker1 1University of Melbourne, Carlton, Australia   Human rights bodies increasingly characterise the use of physical, mechanical and chemical restraint as violations of human rights, and call for their minimisation and elimination. People who have been subject to...
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Dr Stephen Tang1 1Australian National University, Canberra, Australia   This paper critically but pragmatically considers the administrative burden hidden within contemporary mental health legislation and examines its anti-therapeutic effects.  The Mental Health Act 2015 (ACT) is used as a case...
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A/Prof. Troy McEwan1, Dr Benjamin Spivak1 1Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Swinburne University of Technology and Forensicare, , Australia Family homicides account for almost half of all homicides in Australia. It is clear that in many cases police are aware...
  • August 7, 2018
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