Month: August 2018

Miss Niamh Fields1 1Queensland Advocacy Incorporated, South Brisbane, Australia Niamh practiced as a criminal lawyer in the private sector for two and half years prior to her appointment at QAI. Niamh completed a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours...
  • August 7, 2018
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Dr KC Soh1 1Department of Psychological Medicine, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital,  , Singapore Introduction The focus of psychiatric services in the general hospital setting is clinical care for the community-based population. This represents a departure from the subspecialized role of...
  • August 7, 2018
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Mr Bob Green1 1QFMHS, Brisbane, Australia A key question regarding persons found not criminally responsible due to mental illness concerns the person’s mental state at the time of the offence. Given the relationship between mental illness and violence it follows...
  • August 7, 2018
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Dr David Keatley1 1Murdoch University, Perth, Australia The complex interaction between Law Enforcement Interrogators and guilty suspects attempting to avoid prosecution is a verbal arms race. Clearly, leniency in interrogations would make it easier for criminals to avoid detection; however,...
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Prof. Ian Freckelton1 1Barrister, Melbourne, Australia The sentencing in Victoria of the impostor gynaecologist, Raffaele Di Paolo, to nine and half years’ imprisonment for a range of deception offences raises the issue of what leads unqualified persons to obtain registration...
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Prof. Yuji Itoh1, Mr. Daisuke Shimane1, Dr. Hiroshi Miura2 1Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, 2Kyorin University, Tokyo, Japan In the psychological literature on person identification, it is emphasized that people are poor at identifying unfamiliar faces but quite good at identifying...
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Dr Inbar Levy1, Professor  Andrew Higgins2 1Melbourne Law School, Carlton, Australia, 2University of Oxford , Oxford , United Kingdom The right to an impartial and independent tribunal is fundamental to the administration of justice and public confidence in it. However...
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Dr Karen Fisher1, Judith  Fraser 1Drug And Alcohol Service, NBMLHD, Kingswood, Australia The issues of out of home care are complex, with recent Royal Commissions, reviews and scholarship suggesting far more consideration and caution be given to decisions to place...
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Ms Perks Danielle1, A/Prof. Bruce Watt1 1Bond University, Robina, Australia Juveniles are overrepresented among arson offenders, resulting in significant distress for society and considerable costs in damage to property and potential for harm to others.  Previous research has been mixed...
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Dr Anthony Duncan1 1Forensic Coordination Service (ID) , Karori, New Zealand A meme is an idea, behaviour, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture, often with some mutations over time. This paper proposes that Foetal...
  • August 7, 2018
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