Month: August 2021

Dr Chris Lennings1, Dr Katie Seidler1 1Lsc Psychology, Sydney, Australia Family Court mental health professionals face a dilemma when responding to terms of reference that require the analysis of claims of sexual abuse. There are two primary contradictory forces in...

Dr Andrew Carroll1,2,4, Mr Tim Marsh3 1Our Curious Minds, Melbourne, , 2Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Swinburne University of Technology, Alphington , 3Foleys List, Melbourne, , 4Forensicare, Clifton Hill In August 2020, the Victorian Court of Appeal handed down its...

Prof Mark Henaghan1,4, Dr  Jacqueline Short2,4, Dr Pauline Gulliver3,4 1University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 2Te Korowai Whariki Central Regional Forensic Service, Wellington, New Zealand, 3Health Quality & Safety Commission, Wellington, New Zealand, 4Family Violence Death Review Committee, Wellington, New...

Dr David Curnow1 1Corporate Forensic Psychology, Melbourne, Australia Despite costing $4 trillion worldwide and the widespread use of a 70-year-old theory,  forensic psychology has only started to consider embezzlement as a field of interest.  Surprisingly, Cressey’s model, still drives most...

Miss Kristie Dellar1, Associate Professor Lynne Roberts1, Dr Jonathan Bullen1, Dr Kristy Downe1, Dr Robert Kane1 1Curtin University, Bentley, Australia Indigenous youth are overrepresented in the Australian criminal justice system, yet little is known about how they differ from non-Indigenous...

Ms Ann-Maree (Annie) Fardell Hartley1, Dr Judith Crockett1, Dr  Shaun Wang1 1Charles Sturt University, Orange, Australia Psychological autopsy (PA) is one of the most valuable tools to better understand death by suicide.  Like a physical autopsy, PA attempts to synthesise...

Ms Katherine McLachlan1,2 1Justice and Society, UniSA, Adelaide, 2Parole Board Using a trauma-informed practice framework, this presentation explains how judges of South Australian superior courts identify and understand defendant trauma in sentencing. Trauma-informed sentencing requires that judges realise the presence...

Dr Rosemary Williams1, Dr Owen Haeney2,3,4 1Central Adelaide Local Health Network, Adelaide, Australia, 2Forensic Mental Health Service, Northern Adelaide Local Health Network, Northern Adelaide , Australia, 3The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, 4School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales,...