Prof. Mark Kebbell1 1Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia Sixty-six police officers took part in an experiment to study three questions concerning police risk assessment for domestic violence. The first question was whether police can determine risk of domestic violence by...
- August 7, 2018
Ms Nina (Christina) Hudson1 1University Of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia Prior to starting her PhD, Nina has spent the last 10 years working in a range of senior roles in independent advisory bodies in the South Australian and Victorian public service,...
- August 7, 2018
Dr Jennifer Neoh1 1private practice Research on the suggestibility of children and obtaining accurate accounts has greatly informed the practice of forensic interviewing of children particularly after the satanic ritual panic of the 1980’s. Forensic interviewing of children is a...
- August 7, 2018
Dr David Tuck1 1Forensic Mental Health Service (Tas), Hobart, Australia Background With the rapid proliferation of internet pornography, and more specifically, child exploitation material, a need was created to adopt a method for uniformed, standardised classification of the seriousness...
- August 7, 2018
Ms Natalie Martschuk1, Prof Jane Goodman-Delahunty1, Prof Martine Powell2, Dr Nina Westera2 1Charles Sturt University, Manly, Australia, 2Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia Little is known about the extent to which institutional child sex offending differs from non-institutional offending. Strategies to...
- August 7, 2018
Prof. Olav Nielssen1 1Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia It was previously believed that homicide by the mentally ill, or abnormal homicide, occurred at a constant rate and was linked to the epidemiology of mental illness, that the rates did not change...
- August 7, 2018
Dr Raj Darjee1 1Forensicare, Clifton Hill, Australia Sexual homicide is considered by some the ne plus ultra of crime, eliciting strong feelings of fear, revulsion, fascination and excitement in the public and professionals alike. Empirical research on sexual homicide...
- August 7, 2018
Dr Nicola Wake1 1Northumbria University, Northumbria University, United Kingdom This paper provides a critical review of the newly proposed sentencing guideline (E & W) for manslaughter by loss of control, in the context of domestic abuse victims who kill...
- August 7, 2018
Prof. John Dawson1 1Faculty of Law, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Clinicians sometimes consider imposing stringent ‘residence’ conditions on patients put on Community Treatment Orders under the Mental Health Act. Can such controls over patients’ living conditions be...
- August 7, 2018
Miss Carole Burrell1 1Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom Many detained patients in England exercise their legal right to challenge their subjection to the compulsory provisions of the Mental Health Act 1983. Those patients that that do not,...
- August 7, 2018