Criminal Justice Research Consortium Workshop Speaker Notes. Potential CJRC collaborators. Speaker Faculty Seat Areas of research interest

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1 Criminal Justice Research Consortium Workshop Speaker Notes Speaker Faculty Seat Areas of research interest Name of speaker Where they are located in Monash University Where people sat during the event (see last page) As described by the attendee on the day. Arie Freiberg Law 6 Non-adversarial justice, therapeutic jurisprudence (i.e. the use of healing rather than destructive forces) such as the creation of drug courts and community courts, truth and reconciliation commissions, alternative dispute resolution, challenging the current law/court paradigm, family law, criminal law Collaborators identified based on information presented at the workshop. Does not include existing. Chris Trotter MN&HS 26 Effectiveness of supervision and counselling of offenders, supervision skills in juvenile justice, the effect of supervision of offenders on their propensity to re-offend/ability to be rehabilitated, women s access to welfare after prison, counselling family s of young offenders; supervises 4 research students in the areas of case management in juvenile justice, violence around licence premises and the use of confrontation in dealing with offenders Bronwyn Naylor Law 25 Corrections, women offenders, rehabilitation after sentence has been served, gender issues in criminal behaviour, effects of conviction on life after sentence has been served (i.e. effects of having a criminal record) Colleen Lewis Arts 24 Accountability of police, intersection between the law and politics, lack of accountability of the Australian Federal Police democracy at the cross-roads, policing and human rights and the role of non-government organisations, policy management and accountability and leadership Cosmas Moisidis, Pamela Snow, Georgina Heydon 1

2 Louise Farnworth MN&HS 23 Forensic psychiatry, integration of female prison officers into male prisons, boredom in young people, use of time while staying in hospitals/prisons/etc, opportunity of people to undertake acts to promote health and wellbeing in these situations, medication induced obesity in mentally ill imprisoned populations, victims of crime and their responses, transitional programs, cycle of poverty Pamela Snow, Teresa Flower Cosmas Moisidis Georgina Heydon Law 7 Law and how it relates to criminal procedure, criminal discovery, police interrogations, committal process, right to silence, privilege against self-incrimination, complexity of trial process and jury decisions, would like to investigate how effective a jury trial is Arts 28 Linguistics, analysis of language, works in the intersection between sociology and language, forensic linguistics, police interview process, narratives in police interview, language used in voluntary confessions, effect of legislation and policing strategies on confessions, language used by people in interpreting legislation Colleen Lewis, Georgina Heydon Stuart Thomas, Colleen Lewis, Pamela Snow, Cosmas Moisidis Anna Kaempf Law 9 Confidentiality and doctor-patient relationships, concept of involuntary detention, comparisons of such across countries, victim and witness rights in courts, ethical and legal guidelines for professionals, forensic medicine, forensic psychiatry, criminal and constitutional law, Joanna Kyriakakis Law 12 Issues pertaining to the extension of responsibility to corporations in international crime, complexity of international crime, comparisons of international law systems, commonwealth criminal law Colleen Lewis, Gerald Acquaah-Gaisie David Baker Arts 13 Industrial disputes and lock-outs and pickets, policing of protests in general, civil rights at protests, occupational health and safety in policing pickets/protests, deaths in picket lines, police unionism, justification of police use of force, Australian policing role in the Asia-Pacific region Stuart Thomas 2

3 Stuart Thomas MN&HS 17 An epidemiologist involved in the establishment of a new course and new centre (forensic and behavioural science) in the School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine (within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences). Research interests include perceptions of risk amongst sex offenders (from an offender and policing angle), evaluation of sex offender treatment programmes, in-patient psychiatric violence, interface between police and mentally-ill patients, outcome measurement, cost and service David Baker, Georgina Heydon Gavin Sullivan MN&HS 27 Self-harm, personality disorder treatment (has developed a manual for the treatment of people with border line personality disorders), frameworks for understanding risk, risk in semi-secure psychiatric environments, risk assessment, mindfulness therapy, effects of violence on recovery and rehabilitation, women offenders and mental illness, effects of violence on recovery and rehabilitation, pride shame and guilt, mindfulness therapy Rachel Kessel, Louise Farnworth Rachel Kessel Law 11 Preventative detention of dangerous offenders from various perspectives (state, national and international), how decisions are made, inviting range of professionals to comment on the Australian system Gavin Sullivan Lisa Warren MN&HS 16 A clinical and forensic psychologist investigating people who make threats of violence (e.g. bomb, terrorist), will these people carry out their threat?, is this related to mental illness?, risks to potential victims, risk to threateners (especially with the new anti-terror laws), data mining of police and court databases, association between problem gambling and crime, association between female problem gamblers and prostitution/drug muleing, threat as a means of communication, 3

4 Steven Yannoulidis Law 18 Criminal responsibility of mentally ill offenders, would like to investigate the effects of de-institutionalisation of mental illness treatment, the resultant effect on crime rates and prison systems treating the mentally ill Jason Ceddia IT 19 Data mining, especially from ambiguous sources (e.g. open text fields), application of reasoning to open text field data, development of websites and applications for data mining/collection, has experience with a data mining project for the Victorian Coroner s Office Pamela Snow MN&HS 21 Oral language abilities of young male offenders, early intervention for high risk boys, service delivery in the justice system, what school was like, how well do police interviewing techniques elicit an appropriate linguistic response from young offenders, high rate of oral language impairment of juvenile offenders (unrelated to IQ of offenders) Rosemary Sheehan Rosemary Sheehan, Georgina Heydon, Teresa Flower Teresa Flower Gerald Acquaah- Gaisie MN&HS 15 Stalking and intrusive behaviours, interventions and treatment, understanding young offenders, young female offenders, ability of female offenders to raise children (i.e. what happens the children of female offenders while they are in prison), competency and fitness to plead, prevalence of Asberger s syndrome in young offenders BusEco 120 Criminal justice system (in Ghana), corporate accountability, grand corruption (should it be considered a crime against humanity?), third world corruption, third world right to social and economic development, equal corporate governance mechanisms across the world Louise Farnworth, Pamela Snow Joanna Kyriakakis 4

5 Joe Hovel MN&HS 4 Psychiatric and geriatric nursing, health service management in prison, spread of blood borne diseases (AIDS and hepatitis C) in prisons, needle exchange programmes in the prison system, spread of blood borne diseases from prison populations to general populations when prisoners have served their time Rosemary Sheehan Ann Nicholson (& Kevin Korb) Jill Walker Bernadette McSherry MN&HS 8 Children s court, child welfare and the law, judicial decision making processes in child welfare, women offenders, parents as prisoners and trying to maintain these relationships throughout the sentencing period, south pacific youth courts summary, judicial and corrections responses to offenders, with particular reference to women offenders, family violence, mental health IT 22 Artificial intelligence, reasoning under uncertainty, risk assessment, Bayesian networks (making use of probability, prior probability and prior decision making process to predict/make decisions), data mining to construct Bayesian networks Caulfield Library 14 Restorative justice, mediator, equity and diversity Law 10 Human trafficking in the Asia-Pacific region, law enforcement training programmes to combat human trafficking, how hospital orders and restricted community training orders are made, do they work?, in code offences (i.e. planning or preparing a crime), mental health and human rights, confidentiality and forensic patients, preventative detention Jason Ceddia, Pamela Snow 5

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