Pub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2253719
Anna M. Kretowicz, Martine B. Powell
Legislation permits or requires the use of audio-visual recordings and closed-circuit television where child witnesses give evidence in certain matters. Since its introduction, problems with the technology have been reported, such as poor audio-visual quality and connectivity issues, causing trial delays and exacerbating witness anxiety. This study analyses the perceptions of 18 professionals (n = 18) across 5 Australian jurisdictions (Queensland, the Northern Territory, the Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and Western Australia) who regularly work with the technology. We used non-directive prompts to determine what problems (if any) still exist in Australian courtrooms, the cause and impact of these problems, and potential solutions. Key themes emerged in the analysis. Problems were still commonplace, which included operator error, quality of the recordings, and issues with the recording technology and devices. The detrimental impacts of these problems included added stress to court employees and witnesses, extended and disrupted trial proceedings, poor quality evidence, and added costs of fixing problems. Tangible recommendations for change were provided by the participants, and the overall findings and their implications were discussed.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-06DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2253721
Marlee Bower, Mark V. A. Howard, L. Stapinski, Michael F. Doyle, Nicola C Newton, Emma L. Barrett
{"title":"The profile of people entering the ‘EQUIPS’ offender treatment programs in New South Wales’","authors":"Marlee Bower, Mark V. A. Howard, L. Stapinski, Michael F. Doyle, Nicola C Newton, Emma L. Barrett","doi":"10.1080/10345329.2023.2253721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2023.2253721","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43272,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Criminal Justice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42345653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-04DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2248670
Cassandra Cross
{"title":"Romance baiting, cryptorom and ‘pig butchering’: an evolutionary step in romance fraud","authors":"Cassandra Cross","doi":"10.1080/10345329.2023.2248670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2023.2248670","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43272,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Criminal Justice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49027804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2225244
Helen Taylor, Catherine A. Flynn, S. Harrigan, L. Bartels, Susan Dennison
ABSTRACT It is generally understood that visits to see incarcerated family members are good for children, families and those in prison. Much research has focused on the impact of prison visits on children and incarcerated mothers, ‘parents’ as a generic group or barriers to contact, while less attention has been paid to the effect of prison visits on incarcerated fathers. When COVID-19 spread across the globe in early 2020, prisons restricted in-person visits. In Australia, alternative forms of communication between prisoners and their families were utilised, including phone calls and video visits. Drawing on data from an online survey of caregivers of children with a family member in prison (n = 84), this paper specifically focuses on a sub-sample, reporting on imprisoned fathers (n = 70), describing and evaluating experiences with video visits. Most respondents reported that the father was not coping well with the lack of face-to-face contact, and almost two-thirds of respondents reported problems with keeping in contact after in-person visits were suspended. However, a small cohort of fathers were found to be coping well. These findings are explored, highlighting barriers to technology-facilitated visits, and point to a range of issues that need to be addressed for such visits to be beneficial.
{"title":"Caregiver views on father-child contact in prison during the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for the use of video visits","authors":"Helen Taylor, Catherine A. Flynn, S. Harrigan, L. Bartels, Susan Dennison","doi":"10.1080/10345329.2023.2225244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2023.2225244","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT It is generally understood that visits to see incarcerated family members are good for children, families and those in prison. Much research has focused on the impact of prison visits on children and incarcerated mothers, ‘parents’ as a generic group or barriers to contact, while less attention has been paid to the effect of prison visits on incarcerated fathers. When COVID-19 spread across the globe in early 2020, prisons restricted in-person visits. In Australia, alternative forms of communication between prisoners and their families were utilised, including phone calls and video visits. Drawing on data from an online survey of caregivers of children with a family member in prison (n = 84), this paper specifically focuses on a sub-sample, reporting on imprisoned fathers (n = 70), describing and evaluating experiences with video visits. Most respondents reported that the father was not coping well with the lack of face-to-face contact, and almost two-thirds of respondents reported problems with keeping in contact after in-person visits were suspended. However, a small cohort of fathers were found to be coping well. These findings are explored, highlighting barriers to technology-facilitated visits, and point to a range of issues that need to be addressed for such visits to be beneficial.","PeriodicalId":43272,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Criminal Justice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42888709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2229523
Natalia Hanley, C. Flynn
{"title":"Technology-enabled prison visiting: learning from research and practice during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Natalia Hanley, C. Flynn","doi":"10.1080/10345329.2023.2229523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2023.2229523","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43272,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Criminal Justice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49621712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-20DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2245592
Calum A. F. Henderson, M. Bull
{"title":"Sentencing and the over-representation of people with cognitive disability in the Australian criminal justice system","authors":"Calum A. F. Henderson, M. Bull","doi":"10.1080/10345329.2023.2245592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2023.2245592","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43272,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Criminal Justice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43291305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-10DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2238378
A. Tippett
{"title":"Shining light on an unspeakable crime: necrophilia and the need for legal reform","authors":"A. Tippett","doi":"10.1080/10345329.2023.2238378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2023.2238378","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43272,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Criminal Justice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47669245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-10DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2245096
L. Stevens, C. Morris
{"title":"The Intersections of Family Violence and Sexual Offending","authors":"L. Stevens, C. Morris","doi":"10.1080/10345329.2023.2245096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2023.2245096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43272,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Criminal Justice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44609676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1080/10345329.2023.2231112
Emma Genovese
{"title":"Administering harm: the treatment of trans people in Australian criminal courts","authors":"Emma Genovese","doi":"10.1080/10345329.2023.2231112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2023.2231112","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43272,"journal":{"name":"Current Issues in Criminal Justice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47022052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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