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Victims | Forensic psychology | Criminology | Police administration procedures and practice
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-05-2023
DOI: 10.1057/S41300-023-00179-Z
Abstract: Sports settings have been identified as important locations for the prevention of violence against women, with numerous prevention initiatives currently running in many sports internationally. However, little is known about how those involved in sporting organisations, who are often tasked with delivering such initiatives, conceptualise the prevention of violence against women. This research draws on a survey of people who were invited to participate if they had professional experience in the development or delivery of violence prevention programs in their sporting organisation. We found that a cohort of participants had a limited understanding of primary prevention and how it applies to the prevention of violence against women through sport. Broadly, they were not aware of the difference between primary, secondary and tertiary prevention techniques. These findings suggest that there is a need for better education of those working in sporting organisations about the nature of primary prevention of violence against women as well as deeper consideration of the complex nature of doing violence prevention work through sport.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-07-2019
Abstract: Sport settings have great potential to influence social change and are therefore important locations to engage in the prevention of violence against women. The following study draws on in-depth interviews with 16 stakeholders who have been involved with the implementation of prevention programmes within competitive/team sport settings. A qualitative thematic analysis of the interviews was undertaken to examine how sporting organisations understand, strategise and practise prevention work in Australia and New Zealand. Implications for long-term changes in the prevention of violence against women are discussed with reference to key prevention actions and frameworks.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-05-2020
Abstract: We examined whether specialist training can have an immediate and lasting impact on investigators’ attitudes in sexual offense cases. Australian police officers participated in a 4-week training program that focused on the dynamics of sexual offending. Officers completed questionnaires before, immediately after, and 9 to 12 months following training. They were presented with scenarios involving adult and child complainants with varying levels of evidence (strong, weak, or ambiguous) and rated their confidence that the case would be approved for prosecution, the likelihood of a guilty verdict, and the level of responsibility attributed to the victim. Following training, investigators became more confident in case approvals and guilty verdicts, less likely to attribute responsibility to victims, and demonstrated better understanding of sexual offense dynamics. Ratings of victim responsibility and guilty verdicts were maintained 9 to 12 months post-training however, confidence in case approvals decreased after working in the field. Implications for police training programs are discussed.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2017
DOI: 10.1111/AP.12196
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-11-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-11-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-06-2017
DOI: 10.1111/LCRP.12098
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-03-2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-05-2023
DOI: 10.1177/26338076231174667
Abstract: Coordinated multi-agency approaches are a key strategy for responding to reci ist family violence. This paper presents a follow-up quantitative evaluation of Alexis: a coordinated police-social services approach to reci ist and high-risk family violence piloted in Victoria, Australia. State-wide police data was collected for 75 perpetrators 20 to 36 months since case closure following Alexis intervention. Results indicated that 38 perpetrators (51%) had no further recorded incidents of family violence. The remaining non-mutually exclusive categories indicated that 17 (22%) had perpetrated family violence against the original Alexis victim in another location (outside the pilot catchment zones) 28 (37%) had perpetrated family violence against a different victim and 8 of the prior two groups (11%) had perpetrated violence against both Alexis and non-Alexis victims. Those classified as low reci ists before intervention were less likely to have a further recorded incident of family violence during the follow-up period compared to high reci ists. Implications for police and policy-makers are discussed with reference to intimate partner violence and parent abuse by adult children.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 26-07-2017
Abstract: In the early morning of Saturday 22 September 2012 an Australian woman, Gillian ‘Jill’ Meagher, was reported missing after spending an evening out with work colleagues in suburban Brunswick (Melbourne, Victoria). Thousands of Australians followed the crime event as it unfolded via the mainstream news and online. On Sunday 23 September, a Facebook group ‘Help Us Find Jill Meagher’ was created, accumulating 90,000 followers in just four days, while the hashtags #jillmeagher and #meagher were two of the highest trending topics on Twitter across Australia. This article focuses on the social media narrative constructions of this crime: from Jill’s initial disappearance, to the identification of her alleged killer and discovery of her body, through to the street march held in her memory on Sunday 30 September 2012. Through a qualitative analysis of a Twitter dataset comprising over 7000 original tweets, the article explores meta-narratives of sexual victimisation, ‘risk’ and ‘safety’, as well as ‘digilantism’ and activism that characterised Australian Twitter users’ responses to this violent crime. In doing so, the article reflects on collective practices of meaning-making in response to public crime events that are enabled in a digital society.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-05-2017
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 13-08-2019
DOI: 10.1126/SCISIGNAL.AAU1468
Abstract: BDNF produced by skeletal muscle in female mice enables switching of fuel sources during fasting.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 19-07-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.1016/J.CHIABU.2015.11.004
Abstract: This study inspected a s le of 70 interview transcripts with Australian Aboriginal children to gain a sense of how frequently verbal shame responses were occurring in investigative interviews regarding alleged sexual abuse. Transcripts were examined to determine how children articulated shame, how interviewers reacted to these responses, and how shame related to children's accounts. Examination of frequencies revealed that verbal shame responses occurred in just over one-quarter of the interviews. One-way analyses of variance indicated that children who expressed shame within the interview spoke the same amount as children who did not express shame, however, they required more interviewer prompts before a disclosure was made. Interviews where children expressed shame also included a greater number of interviewer reminders compared to interviews without shame responses. Results emphasize the importance of interviewer awareness of shame, and also point to the value of reassurance, patience, and persistence with non-leading narrative prompting when interviewing children who express shame during discussions of sexual abuse.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-12-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-05-2016
DOI: 10.1080/10538712.2016.1158762
Abstract: This study examined the investigative interviewing of Australian Aboriginal children in cases of alleged sexual abuse, with a focus on three commonly included components of interview protocols: ground rules, practice narrative, and substantive phase. Analysis of 70 field transcripts revealed that the overall delivery and practice of ground rules at the beginning of the interview was positively associated with the spontaneous usage of rules in children's narratives of abuse. When specifically examining the "don't know" rule, however, only practice had an effect of children's usage of the rule (as opposed to simple delivery or no delivery at all). Children spoke more words overall, and interviewers used more open-ended prompts during the substantive phase when the interviews contained a practice narrative. Children most often disclosed sexual abuse in response to an open-ended prompt however, they produced the most words in response to suggestive prompts. This article concludes with a discussion of the effectiveness of ground rules, practice narratives, and questioning with Aboriginal children.
Location: United States of America
Location: United States of America
Location: United States of America
Start Date: 2024
End Date: 09-2027
Amount: $460,157.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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