Jane Goodman-Delahunty
Biographic Data
| ID | 1237637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Goodman-Delahunty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodman-Delahunty |
| SIGNATURE | GOODMAN-DELAHUNTY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Professor Jane Goodman-Delahunty, Charles Sturt University (Manly Campus), Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security and School of Psychology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6764-6920 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Contradictory connectivity and hybrid spaces: LGBTQ+ identity negotiation in the Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia
A growing body of research has examined Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) identity negotiation through digital platforms, and how LGBTQ+ adults ‘produce’ safety in public spaces. Less well understood is how safety is co-produced in ‘hybrid’ spaces that bridge the online and in-person worlds through technology use in public spaces. This article contributes to addressing that gap through in-depth interviews with LGBTQ+ adults …
Early childhood memories of individuals convicted of sexual offences
This study used innovative transdisciplinary methods to describe the nature and extent of early childhood memories recalled by 84 adults convicted of sexual offences. The timing of the memories, level of detail recalled and way memories were recollected were largely consistent with extant memory research. One important finding, however, was that more than 30% of our participants recalled particularly traumatic and distressing childhood experience…
Effectiveness of a Domestic Abuse Program for Australian Indigenous Offenders
The subject of this study is to assess the effectiveness of a culture-neutral domestic abuse program (DAP) developed for offenders with domestic and family violence histories, when used for Australian Indigenous offenders, serving community-based supervised orders. The study employed a retrospective quasi-experimental research design and intention-to-treat program definition for 953 DAP-treated men and propensity score–matched controls, from dive…
Interpreting profanity in police interviews
Professional interpreters are obliged by their codes of ethics to interpret the speakers’ speech faithfully, including offensive, profane or vulgar language. In order to achieve this goal, interpreters need to be pragmatically competent, so as to understand the intention and effect of the offensive remark in the source language and be able to appropriately render it into the target language to achieve the same effect in the hearer. Research has s…
Prosecutorial Discretion about Special Measure Use in Australian Cases of Child Sexual Abuse
A Prosecutorial Reform Index developed for the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative included discretionary functions among 28 factors that provide "an empirical basis for examining the status and role of prosecutors and the environment in which they work in transitioning states throughout the globe". The chapter examines contemporary practices in Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) cases to present the complainant's evidence by reviewing prosecut…
Development of an information sheet providing rapport advice for interpreters in police interviews
The present paper reports the development of an information sheet designed to aid interpreters in police interviews in recognizing, conveying and inadvertently obstructing rapport-building efforts by police interviewers. The contents of this sheet were informed by past research defining rapport, and rapport uses in police interviews. We used a mixed experimental design to test the information sheet. One group (Intervention, n = 35) was randomly a…
Career decisions by Australian police officers: A cross-section of perspectives on entering, staying in and leaving policing careers
Australian police officers (N = 182) who were staying in policing (n = 96), orundecided about staying (n = 57), and former police officers who had changedcareers (n = 29) completed free-response questionnaires about their decisions tochoose and stay in (or leave) policing careers. Thematic analysis of responsesrevealed different considerations by group. Categories of the kaleidoscope careermodel were used to evaluate the relative importance of th…
Enhancing Police Responses to Domestic Violence Incidents: Reports From Client Advocates in New South Wales
In an online survey about experiences with the police complaint system, 239 client advocates described a recent incident in which a client with grounds to lodge a complaint declined to do so. Almost one third of those incidents involved domestic violence. Thematic analysis of case descriptions revealed that many police did not take domestic violence reports seriously. A typology of problematic police conduct was developed. Many officers failed to…
Complaints against the New South Wales Police Force: Analysis of risks and rights in reported police conduct
Citizens subjected to wrongful arrest, incivility or other police misbehaviour need access to a sound and objective system for making complaints about police conduct that infringes their fundamental human rights. This qualitative empirical study examined human rights violations in a sample of customer complaints against police. Descriptions by 91 legal practitioners and client advocates of events culminating in a formal complaint against the New …
Protecting human rights in Australian investigative interviews: The role of recording and interview duration limits
In the past decade, police interviewing has been influenced by a movement away from a ‘criminal justice’ paradigm that values individualism, rights and process principles, towards a ‘control source’ paradigm that values minimising risk and ensuring the security of the group, and emphasises efficiency and flexibility of process (Dixon 2008; 2009). This shift has raised questions about potential infringements of individual human rights of police de…
Social persuasion to develop rapport in high-stakes interviews: Qualitative analyses of Asian-Pacific practices
Motivating cooperation in official police interviews is a central professional challenge across jurisdictions and cultures. Rapport-building is regarded as a critical antecedent of interviewee cooperation, but relatively little is known about how rapport is developed in practice. A total of 123 experienced intelligence and investigative interviewers from five Asian-Pacific jurisdictions (Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea and Sri Lank…
Impediments to Information and Knowledge Sharing Within Policing: A Study of Three Canadian Policing Organizations
Information sharing is the lifeblood of policing, yet information/knowledge sharing within and across organizations remains problematic. This article elaborated on previous research on organizational information culture and its impact on information use outcomes in policing by examining perceived impediments to information sharing of 134 officers in three Canadian police organizations. Inductive qualitative analysis of an open-ended question reve…
Adversarial Forensic Science Experts: An Empirical Study of Jury Deliberation
Surprisingly little is known about ways that juries resolve differences of opinion between competing scientific forensic experts. Concerns have been raised that juries defer unduly to scientific experts and are susceptible to the ‘white coat effect’. The study reported in this article examined jury decision-making in the context of a live, simulated homicide trial that incorporated traditional legal procedural safeguards against jury error: cross…
Insightful or wishful: Lawyers' ability to predict case outcomes
Lawyers’ litigation forecasts play an integral role in the justice system. In the course of litigation, lawyers constantly make strategic decisions and/or advise their clients on the basis of their perceptions and predictions of case outcomes. The study investigated the realism in predictions by a sample of attorneys (n=481) across the United States who specified a minimum goal to achieve in a case set for trial. They estimated their chances of m…
Pragmatic support for the reasonable victim standard in hostile workplace sexual harassment cases
Pragmatic support for the reasonable victim standard in hostile workplace sexual harassment cases
Training in law and psychology: Models from the Villanova conference
Although the domain of law and psychology is a burgeoning and popular field of study, there has never been a concerted effort to evaluate current training models or to develop newer, more effective ones. Forty-eight invited participants attended a national conference held at Villanova Law School to remedy this deficiency. Working groups addressed issues of education and training for the undergraduate level; for doctoral-level programs in law and …
Training in law and psychology: Models from the Villanova conference
Although the domain of law and psychology is a burgeoning and popular field of study, there has never been a concerted effort to evaluate current training models or to develop newer, more effective ones.Forty-eight invited participants attended a national conference held at Villanova Law School to remedy this deficiency.Working groups addressed issues of education and training for the undergraduate level; for doctoral-level programs in law and so…
Enhancing Police Responses to Domestic Violence Incidents: Reports From Client Advocates in New South Wales
In an online survey about experiences with the police complaint system, 239 client advocates described a recent incident in which a client with grounds to lodge a complaint declined to do so. Almost one third of those incidents involved domestic violence. Thematic analysis of case descriptions revealed that many police did not take domestic violence reports seriously. A typology of problematic police conduct was developed. Many officers failed to…
Insightful or wishful: Lawyers' ability to predict case outcomes
Lawyers’ litigation forecasts play an integral role in the justice system. In the course of litigation, lawyers constantly make strategic decisions and/or advise their clients on the basis of their perceptions and predictions of case outcomes. The study investigated the realism in predictions by a sample of attorneys (n=481) across the United States who specified a minimum goal to achieve in a case set for trial. They estimated their chances of m…
Social persuasion to develop rapport in high-stakes interviews: Qualitative analyses of Asian-Pacific practices
Motivating cooperation in official police interviews is a central professional challenge across jurisdictions and cultures. Rapport-building is regarded as a critical antecedent of interviewee cooperation, but relatively little is known about how rapport is developed in practice. A total of 123 experienced intelligence and investigative interviewers from five Asian-Pacific jurisdictions (Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea and Sri Lank…
Impediments to Information and Knowledge Sharing Within Policing: A Study of Three Canadian Policing Organizations
Information sharing is the lifeblood of policing, yet information/knowledge sharing within and across organizations remains problematic. This article elaborated on previous research on organizational information culture and its impact on information use outcomes in policing by examining perceived impediments to information sharing of 134 officers in three Canadian police organizations. Inductive qualitative analysis of an open-ended question reve…
Interpreting profanity in police interviews
Professional interpreters are obliged by their codes of ethics to interpret the speakers’ speech faithfully, including offensive, profane or vulgar language. In order to achieve this goal, interpreters need to be pragmatically competent, so as to understand the intention and effect of the offensive remark in the source language and be able to appropriately render it into the target language to achieve the same effect in the hearer. Research has s…
Training in law and psychology: Models from the Villanova conference
Although the domain of law and psychology is a burgeoning and popular field of study, there has never been a concerted effort to evaluate current training models or to develop newer, more effective ones. Forty-eight invited participants attended a national conference held at Villanova Law School to remedy this deficiency. Working groups addressed issues of education and training for the undergraduate level; for doctoral-level programs in law and …
Training in law and psychology: Models from the Villanova conference
Although the domain of law and psychology is a burgeoning and popular field of study, there has never been a concerted effort to evaluate current training models or to develop newer, more effective ones.Forty-eight invited participants attended a national conference held at Villanova Law School to remedy this deficiency.Working groups addressed issues of education and training for the undergraduate level; for doctoral-level programs in law and so…
Pragmatic support for the reasonable victim standard in hostile workplace sexual harassment cases
Pragmatic support for the reasonable victim standard in hostile workplace sexual harassment cases
Insightful or wishful: Lawyers' ability to predict case outcomes
Lawyers’ litigation forecasts play an integral role in the justice system. In the course of litigation, lawyers constantly make strategic decisions and/or advise their clients on the basis of their perceptions and predictions of case outcomes. The study investigated the realism in predictions by a sample of attorneys (n=481) across the United States who specified a minimum goal to achieve in a case set for trial. They estimated their chances of m…
Adversarial Forensic Science Experts: An Empirical Study of Jury Deliberation
Surprisingly little is known about ways that juries resolve differences of opinion between competing scientific forensic experts. Concerns have been raised that juries defer unduly to scientific experts and are susceptible to the ‘white coat effect’. The study reported in this article examined jury decision-making in the context of a live, simulated homicide trial that incorporated traditional legal procedural safeguards against jury error: cross…
Complaints against the New South Wales Police Force: Analysis of risks and rights in reported police conduct
Citizens subjected to wrongful arrest, incivility or other police misbehaviour need access to a sound and objective system for making complaints about police conduct that infringes their fundamental human rights. This qualitative empirical study examined human rights violations in a sample of customer complaints against police. Descriptions by 91 legal practitioners and client advocates of events culminating in a formal complaint against the New …
Protecting human rights in Australian investigative interviews: The role of recording and interview duration limits
In the past decade, police interviewing has been influenced by a movement away from a ‘criminal justice’ paradigm that values individualism, rights and process principles, towards a ‘control source’ paradigm that values minimising risk and ensuring the security of the group, and emphasises efficiency and flexibility of process (Dixon 2008; 2009). This shift has raised questions about potential infringements of individual human rights of police de…
Social persuasion to develop rapport in high-stakes interviews: Qualitative analyses of Asian-Pacific practices
Motivating cooperation in official police interviews is a central professional challenge across jurisdictions and cultures. Rapport-building is regarded as a critical antecedent of interviewee cooperation, but relatively little is known about how rapport is developed in practice. A total of 123 experienced intelligence and investigative interviewers from five Asian-Pacific jurisdictions (Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea and Sri Lank…
Impediments to Information and Knowledge Sharing Within Policing: A Study of Three Canadian Policing Organizations
Information sharing is the lifeblood of policing, yet information/knowledge sharing within and across organizations remains problematic. This article elaborated on previous research on organizational information culture and its impact on information use outcomes in policing by examining perceived impediments to information sharing of 134 officers in three Canadian police organizations. Inductive qualitative analysis of an open-ended question reve…
Career decisions by Australian police officers: A cross-section of perspectives on entering, staying in and leaving policing careers
Australian police officers (N = 182) who were staying in policing (n = 96), orundecided about staying (n = 57), and former police officers who had changedcareers (n = 29) completed free-response questionnaires about their decisions tochoose and stay in (or leave) policing careers. Thematic analysis of responsesrevealed different considerations by group. Categories of the kaleidoscope careermodel were used to evaluate the relative importance of th…
Enhancing Police Responses to Domestic Violence Incidents: Reports From Client Advocates in New South Wales
In an online survey about experiences with the police complaint system, 239 client advocates described a recent incident in which a client with grounds to lodge a complaint declined to do so. Almost one third of those incidents involved domestic violence. Thematic analysis of case descriptions revealed that many police did not take domestic violence reports seriously. A typology of problematic police conduct was developed. Many officers failed to…
Development of an information sheet providing rapport advice for interpreters in police interviews
The present paper reports the development of an information sheet designed to aid interpreters in police interviews in recognizing, conveying and inadvertently obstructing rapport-building efforts by police interviewers. The contents of this sheet were informed by past research defining rapport, and rapport uses in police interviews. We used a mixed experimental design to test the information sheet. One group (Intervention, n = 35) was randomly a…
Prosecutorial Discretion about Special Measure Use in Australian Cases of Child Sexual Abuse
A Prosecutorial Reform Index developed for the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative included discretionary functions among 28 factors that provide "an empirical basis for examining the status and role of prosecutors and the environment in which they work in transitioning states throughout the globe". The chapter examines contemporary practices in Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) cases to present the complainant's evidence by reviewing prosecut…
Effectiveness of a Domestic Abuse Program for Australian Indigenous Offenders
The subject of this study is to assess the effectiveness of a culture-neutral domestic abuse program (DAP) developed for offenders with domestic and family violence histories, when used for Australian Indigenous offenders, serving community-based supervised orders. The study employed a retrospective quasi-experimental research design and intention-to-treat program definition for 953 DAP-treated men and propensity score–matched controls, from dive…
Interpreting profanity in police interviews
Professional interpreters are obliged by their codes of ethics to interpret the speakers’ speech faithfully, including offensive, profane or vulgar language. In order to achieve this goal, interpreters need to be pragmatically competent, so as to understand the intention and effect of the offensive remark in the source language and be able to appropriately render it into the target language to achieve the same effect in the hearer. Research has s…
Early childhood memories of individuals convicted of sexual offences
This study used innovative transdisciplinary methods to describe the nature and extent of early childhood memories recalled by 84 adults convicted of sexual offences. The timing of the memories, level of detail recalled and way memories were recollected were largely consistent with extant memory research. One important finding, however, was that more than 30% of our participants recalled particularly traumatic and distressing childhood experience…
Contradictory connectivity and hybrid spaces: LGBTQ+ identity negotiation in the Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia
A growing body of research has examined Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) identity negotiation through digital platforms, and how LGBTQ+ adults ‘produce’ safety in public spaces. Less well understood is how safety is co-produced in ‘hybrid’ spaces that bridge the online and in-person worlds through technology use in public spaces. This article contributes to addressing that gap through in-depth interviews with LGBTQ+ adults …
Psychology (16 works) · Political science (12 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Poison control (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works)