Rebecca Sheehan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1448315 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rebecca Sheehan |
| NOMBRES | Rebecca |
| APELLIDO | Sheehan |
| FIRMA | SHEEHAN R |
| AFILIACIONES | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2818-1563 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 128 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Expert assessment of children’s criminal capacity
Recognising children as developing individuals, legal systems generally protect children from full criminal liability. Further to the minimum age of criminal responsibility, several jurisdictions include additional legal safeguards under the doctrine of doli incapax. This doctrine presumes that children within conditional age ranges (e.g. 10–13 years) are incapable of criminal intent, unless proven otherwise. Courts may seek expert assessment of …
Future Arctic regulatory interventions
The on-going reduction of sea-ice in the Arctic is now facilitating maritime activities in areas previously considered inaccessible. Numerous statistics indicate that fishing and tourism are clearly gaining momentum within the wider region under discussion. Furthermore, a certain number of private companies and state-affiliated actors are setting into motion plans for promoting the use of the so-called arctic passages, while certain interesting b…
An overview of the legal search and rescue framework and related infrastructure along the Arctic Northeast Passage
Commentary on Allegations of child sexual abuse
This commentary responds to Webb et al.’s ( Australian Journal of Social Issues , 2021) study of published judgements of allegations of child sexual abuse from the Family Court of Australia 2012–2019. The study offers important empirical data to inform critical debates about the challenges associated with legal decision making about children alleged to be at risk of sexual harm in the context of parental separation. The research findings form the…
Criminal exploitation of child protection-involved youth
Maltreatment and Delinquency
Child protection-involved children experience disproportionately high criminal justice system contact, yet little is known about the circumstances in which such children offend. This study sought to identify the contexts in which this group of children offend and factors associated with children being charged in each context. A mixed-methods analysis of Children’s Court case files was conducted utilising a cross-sectional sample of 300 children w…
Cumulative harm in the child protection system
Cumulative harm is a major child protection concern, with significant consequences for child well‐being and development often into adult life. This systematic literature review examines how the construct of cumulative harm is understood and operationalized within current Australian child protection legislation, policy, and practice and situates this within an international context. Scholarly articles and grey literature were qualitatively analyse…
Negotiating strategies in New Orleans’s memory-work
In this article, we explore the controversy surrounding the removal of four Confederate-inspired monuments in New Orleans through the narratives of key figures and organizations. We show how pro- and anti-monument supporters employed particular tactics that informed strategies on a continuum, from indirect to direct, to deny and to address white supremacy in the landscape and beyond. These strategies differed in their degree of deference to white…
Cumulative Harm in Child Protection
Cumulative harm remains a significant child protection concern yet effective responses across the protective and legal domains in Australia are negligible. This article reports on a study of cumulative harm in the Victorian child protection system and the factors contributing to recognition of such cases for intervention and decision-making, and how they moved both through the child protection system, and were responded to by the courts. An audit…
Children and the Law
This special issue of Australian Social Work explores “Children and the law: Contemporary approaches to children and vulnerability”, canvassing such issues as the protection of children under the law, child welfare and family law, and the vulnerability of specific groups of children. The issue examines the intersection between child welfare and the law in policy agendas, and the effectiveness of systems designed to respond to children’s vulnerabi…
The Compleat Social Worker
The 16 chapters of this book explore a series of debates about models of social work practice and the ideas that animate social work action. David Howe, a distinguished professor of social work in
Legal responses to child sexual abuse cases in the Children’s Court of Victoria
Child sexual abuse cases present Children’s Courts with distinctive challenges. The highly conflictual nature of child sexual abuse cases means they do not lend themselves to the usual adversarial court processes that characterise the conduct of Magistrate Court matters in Australia. With this in mind, the Children’s Court in Victoria established for 12 months in 2013 a pilot specialised judicial list (known as the ‘D’ List) which offered an inte…
Child Sexual Abuse Cases
The damage done to children who are subjected to sexual abuse and the often lengthy delays in the resolution of these matters by the child welfare and legal systems is well documented. With this in mind, the Children's Court in Victoria established for 12 months in 2013 a pilot specialised judicial list (the “D” List) as an intensive case-management approach to more effectively respond to child sexual abuse concerns. The evaluation of the pilot a…
Emerging Adulthood in Time and Space
Limited research addresses the development of emerging adults who are homeless, and studies rarely explore their immediate and intertwined experiences of geography, social networks, and daily paths. These dynamic contexts may play significant roles in emerging adults' homeless experiences, continued chronic homelessness, and/or successful transitions to self‐sufficient adulthood. Applying geographic theory to emerging adult development among marg…
Responding to child deaths
The Victorian Child Death Review Committee (VCDRC) in Australia is a multidisciplinary Ministerial Advisory Committee established to review the deaths of children either currently child protection clients or known to the statutory child protection system. The Committee provides advice about each child death as well as insights into what are the surrounding patterns and issues. Key to this role is examining the contribution of the service sectors …
Roller derby's publicness
While scholars have considered the various meanings of roller derby for participants and discussed how roller derby critiques and stabilizes gender and sexuality normativity, their investigation into how a larger public is impacted by roller derby's public performances has received less attention. Here, we begin to address this oversight. Employing both participant and spectator data, we examine facets of publicness in the discursive and material…
Artists' positioning in and creating authentic identities through place and tourism in New Orleans's Jackson Square
In this paper, I explore how artist identities are constructed in relation to processes associated with tourism and a tourist site in New Orleans. My analysis draws from literatures concerning art, tourism art, and artist identities as well as from Goffman's work on identity, particularly in relation to impression management through setting, appearances, and manners in front and back regions. Relying on archival and ethnographic data, I show how …
Australia's Children's Courts
This article reports the findings of a study of the views of Victoria's Children's Court magistrates on the current status and challenges faced by the Children's Court as well as proposals for reform that have recently been canvassed in Australia and overseas. This study was part of a larger “national assessment” of Australia's Children's Courts.The Children's Court is a key social institution whose legal decision-making has major social conseque…
The Effectiveness of Support and Rehabilitation Services for Women Offenders
There is a large body of research evidence suggesting that support, rehabilitation, and supervision programs can help offenders to reduce recidivism. However, the effectiveness of these services is dependent upon the extent to which the workers who deliver them comply with “what works” principles and practices. Because most of this research has been conducted with men, this study focused on the extent to which these principles and practices apply…
Magistrates' Perspectives on the Criminal Division of the Children's Court of Victoria
The Children's Court is a critical social institution and important forum of social work practice. It decides important legal and social issues relating to children and families. This article reports the findings of a study of the views of Victoria's Children's Court magistrates on the current status and challenges faced by the Children's Court as well as possible reforms that have recently been canvassed in Australia and overseas. This study was…
Tourism and Occultism in New Orleans's Jackson Square
Though tourism performances usually promote dominant representations of iconic places like New Orleans's Jackson Square, I argue that some performances also disrupt those representations as well as support challenges to particular normative ideals. Using ideas of performativity and threshold space, I examine just one facet, tourism and Tarot card and palm reading, in Jackson Square's dynamic landscape. I discuss how tourism performances materiali…
Placing community through actor-network theory in Oklahoma's 'No Man's Land
Residents in sparsely populated Cimarron County, located at the end of Oklahoma's Panhandle in 'No Man's Land,' possess a strong sense of independence, yet also a strong sense of community. Building upon community research and applying an actor-network approach, we argue that the 'materiality' of meanings associated with and attachment to the cultural landscape play a significant role in how and why people construct community here. We assert that…
Transforming Children's Services
Transforming Children's Services: Social Work, Neoliberalism, and the Modern World Paul Michael Garrett Maidenhead, Berkshire, UK, McGraw Hill Education/Open University Press, 2009 190pp., ISBN 978
How Does Foster Care Work? International Evidence on Outcomes
How Does Foster Care Work? International Evidence on Outcomes Elizabeth Fernandez and Richard P. Barth (Eds.) Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London & Philadelphia, 2010 320pp., ISBN 9781849058124, A$
Actor-network theory as a reflexive tool
In this article, I argue that actor-network theory (ANT) provides an avenue to cogent reflexivity. I focus on ‘smaller’ networks and single links, those between the researcher and other actors, both at once enrolled to varying degrees in multiple actor-networks. Using my own ethnographic research experiences, I show that ANT enables effective and pertinent reflexive translations of the research project
I'm protective of this yard
Though research has examined the ways homeless persons work to be in public space, less research covers tying these ways to personal and social needs associated with home place and workplace. Additionally, scholars have given less attention to how central public spaces may not only be integral to long-term homeless persons' daily paths but also how they may be employed differently from marginal public spaces. In this article, I explain how long-t…
Child and Family Assessment in Social Work Practice
How Does Foster Care Work? International Evidence on Outcomes
How Does Foster Care Work? International Evidence on Outcomes Elizabeth Fernandez and Richard P. Barth (Eds.) Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London & Philadelphia, 2010 320pp., ISBN 9781849058124, A$
Negotiating strategies in New Orleans’s memory-work
In this article, we explore the controversy surrounding the removal of four Confederate-inspired monuments in New Orleans through the narratives of key figures and organizations. We show how pro- and anti-monument supporters employed particular tactics that informed strategies on a continuum, from indirect to direct, to deny and to address white supremacy in the landscape and beyond. These strategies differed in their degree of deference to white…
EBay and research in historical geography
Running in place
In this article, relying on participant observation and personal experiences, I show how tourism and play come together in road races like the Crescent City Classic in New Orleans and explain some implications of these intersections. I reveal how adult play in the Classic enables participants to engage corporeally with images of the city as tourist place. I seek to elucidate qualities of corporeal adult play in the event of the Crescent City Clas…
Placing community through actor-network theory in Oklahoma's 'No Man's Land
Residents in sparsely populated Cimarron County, located at the end of Oklahoma's Panhandle in 'No Man's Land,' possess a strong sense of independence, yet also a strong sense of community. Building upon community research and applying an actor-network approach, we argue that the 'materiality' of meanings associated with and attachment to the cultural landscape play a significant role in how and why people construct community here. We assert that…
Maltreatment and Delinquency
Child protection-involved children experience disproportionately high criminal justice system contact, yet little is known about the circumstances in which such children offend. This study sought to identify the contexts in which this group of children offend and factors associated with children being charged in each context. A mixed-methods analysis of Children’s Court case files was conducted utilising a cross-sectional sample of 300 children w…
Research Articles in Australian Social Work from 1998–2007
With the rise of evidence-based practice, there have been calls in social work for practice research that examines the efficacy of its interventions. For the present paper, the authors conducted a content analysis of all articles published in Australian Social Work in the period from 1998 to 2007 to examine the nature of published research and evaluation. Of the 313 articles, 138 (45%) reported on research findings. Of these, only six articles in…
Criminal exploitation of child protection-involved youth
Actor-network theory as a reflexive tool
In this article, I argue that actor-network theory (ANT) provides an avenue to cogent reflexivity. I focus on ‘smaller’ networks and single links, those between the researcher and other actors, both at once enrolled to varying degrees in multiple actor-networks. Using my own ethnographic research experiences, I show that ANT enables effective and pertinent reflexive translations of the research project
Emerging Adulthood in Time and Space
Limited research addresses the development of emerging adults who are homeless, and studies rarely explore their immediate and intertwined experiences of geography, social networks, and daily paths. These dynamic contexts may play significant roles in emerging adults' homeless experiences, continued chronic homelessness, and/or successful transitions to self‐sufficient adulthood. Applying geographic theory to emerging adult development among marg…
Artists' positioning in and creating authentic identities through place and tourism in New Orleans's Jackson Square
In this paper, I explore how artist identities are constructed in relation to processes associated with tourism and a tourist site in New Orleans. My analysis draws from literatures concerning art, tourism art, and artist identities as well as from Goffman's work on identity, particularly in relation to impression management through setting, appearances, and manners in front and back regions. Relying on archival and ethnographic data, I show how …
Australia's Children's Courts
This article reports the findings of a study of the views of Victoria's Children's Court magistrates on the current status and challenges faced by the Children's Court as well as proposals for reform that have recently been canvassed in Australia and overseas. This study was part of a larger “national assessment” of Australia's Children's Courts.The Children's Court is a key social institution whose legal decision-making has major social conseque…
Magistrates' Perspectives on the Criminal Division of the Children's Court of Victoria
The Children's Court is a critical social institution and important forum of social work practice. It decides important legal and social issues relating to children and families. This article reports the findings of a study of the views of Victoria's Children's Court magistrates on the current status and challenges faced by the Children's Court as well as possible reforms that have recently been canvassed in Australia and overseas. This study was…
Parents with Mental Illness
Mental illness is listed as a child protection concern for a number of families reported to child protection agencies in Australia. Parents with mental health problems are more vulnerable, as are their children, to having parenting and child welfare concerns. Studies undertaken in the Melbourne Children's Court (Victoria) have found that the children of parents with mental health problems comprise at least one‐quarter of all new child protection …
The marginalisation of children by the legal process
A major study carried out in the Melbourne Children's Court, Victoria, Australia, during 1993–1995, of the factors that influence magistrates' decision-making in child abuse cases, found that magistrates relied more on their legal training and individual discretion than on information from the child protection service when making these decisions. Magistrates' emphasis on adversarial procedures meant that the need to establish the facts in a case …
Cumulative Harm in Child Protection
Cumulative harm remains a significant child protection concern yet effective responses across the protective and legal domains in Australia are negligible. This article reports on a study of cumulative harm in the Victorian child protection system and the factors contributing to recognition of such cases for intervention and decision-making, and how they moved both through the child protection system, and were responded to by the courts. An audit…
Roller derby's publicness
While scholars have considered the various meanings of roller derby for participants and discussed how roller derby critiques and stabilizes gender and sexuality normativity, their investigation into how a larger public is impacted by roller derby's public performances has received less attention. Here, we begin to address this oversight. Employing both participant and spectator data, we examine facets of publicness in the discursive and material…
Parental Imprisonment and Child Protection
This paper reports on a study funded by the Criminology Research Council, Australia, which set out to investigate the intersection between the child protection and criminal justice systems and the extent to which children before the Melbourne Children's Court on child protection matters had a parent currently in prison, awaiting sentencing, or previously in prison. Magistrates identified 156 children as meeting these criteria during the study per…
The Effectiveness of Support and Rehabilitation Services for Women Offenders
There is a large body of research evidence suggesting that support, rehabilitation, and supervision programs can help offenders to reduce recidivism. However, the effectiveness of these services is dependent upon the extent to which the workers who deliver them comply with “what works” principles and practices. Because most of this research has been conducted with men, this study focused on the extent to which these principles and practices apply…
Tourism and Occultism in New Orleans's Jackson Square
Though tourism performances usually promote dominant representations of iconic places like New Orleans's Jackson Square, I argue that some performances also disrupt those representations as well as support challenges to particular normative ideals. Using ideas of performativity and threshold space, I examine just one facet, tourism and Tarot card and palm reading, in Jackson Square's dynamic landscape. I discuss how tourism performances materiali…
The children's court and child protection
Solutions to family and child welfare problems are increasingly sought from the courts. The Children's Court in particular is increasingly asked to decide child care and parenting issues and to decide when the state has a claim in these matters. Child protection workers are also increasingly turning to the courts to confirm welfare concerns and justify their involvement in a family's life. Magistrates therefore have a significant role in child pr…
The children's court and child protection
Solutions to family and child welfare problems are increasingly sought from the courts. The Children's Court in particular is increasingly asked to decide child care and parenting issues and to decide when the state has a claim in these matters. Child protection workers are also increasingly turning to the courts to confirm welfare concerns and justify their involvement in a family's life. Magistrates therefore have a significant role in child pr…
Family preservation and child protection
Ainsworth and Maluccio (Australian Social Work, December 1998) drew attention to the increased use of kinship care for children who need care away from their parents. This paper discusses the aim of family preservation, on which kinship care is predicated, and the challenges for legal decision-makers to meet this aim when children are before the courts in need of care and protection. It draws from findings of a study of magistrates' decision-maki…
Readers' response
The pressure to attract funds and produce research, to spend more time on scholarship rather than on teaching and practice links challenges the nature of social work education. This paper outlines the impact of both funding cuts and the managerial and business culture of contemporary Australian Universities on the teaching of social work. It addresses social work practitioners concerns' about these changes, and outlines attempts made by social wo…
The marginalisation of children by the legal process
A major study carried out in the Melbourne Children's Court, Victoria, Australia, during 1993–1995, of the factors that influence magistrates' decision-making in child abuse cases, found that magistrates relied more on their legal training and individual discretion than on information from the child protection service when making these decisions. Magistrates' emphasis on adversarial procedures meant that the need to establish the facts in a case …
EBay and research in historical geography
A River and Its City . Ari Kelman; Cities
(2004). A River and Its City. Ari Kelman; Cities: Reimagining the Urban. Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift; Making Sense of Cities: A Geographical Survey. Blair Badcock. Urban Geography: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 83-88
Parents with Mental Illness
Mental illness is listed as a child protection concern for a number of families reported to child protection agencies in Australia. Parents with mental health problems are more vulnerable, as are their children, to having parenting and child welfare concerns. Studies undertaken in the Melbourne Children's Court (Victoria) have found that the children of parents with mental health problems comprise at least one‐quarter of all new child protection …
Child and Family Assessment in Social Work Practice
Important Date for Your Diary
Alternative Dispute Resolution in Child Protection Matters
Pre-hearing conferences were introduced in 1992 into the Family Division of the Children's Court, Victoria. Pre-hearing conferences take place when there is a dispute between the Child Protection Service and the child's family about the need for statutory intervention in their family's life. The conference is held prior to any formal hearing so that the family, their legal representatives and the welfare authority can see whether they can negotia…
Running in place
In this article, relying on participant observation and personal experiences, I show how tourism and play come together in road races like the Crescent City Classic in New Orleans and explain some implications of these intersections. I reveal how adult play in the Classic enables participants to engage corporeally with images of the city as tourist place. I seek to elucidate qualities of corporeal adult play in the event of the Crescent City Clas…
Research Articles in Australian Social Work from 1998–2007
With the rise of evidence-based practice, there have been calls in social work for practice research that examines the efficacy of its interventions. For the present paper, the authors conducted a content analysis of all articles published in Australian Social Work in the period from 1998 to 2007 to examine the nature of published research and evaluation. Of the 313 articles, 138 (45%) reported on research findings. Of these, only six articles in…
Parental Imprisonment and Child Protection
This paper reports on a study funded by the Criminology Research Council, Australia, which set out to investigate the intersection between the child protection and criminal justice systems and the extent to which children before the Melbourne Children's Court on child protection matters had a parent currently in prison, awaiting sentencing, or previously in prison. Magistrates identified 156 children as meeting these criteria during the study per…
I'm protective of this yard
Though research has examined the ways homeless persons work to be in public space, less research covers tying these ways to personal and social needs associated with home place and workplace. Additionally, scholars have given less attention to how central public spaces may not only be integral to long-term homeless persons' daily paths but also how they may be employed differently from marginal public spaces. In this article, I explain how long-t…
Transforming Children's Services
Transforming Children's Services: Social Work, Neoliberalism, and the Modern World Paul Michael Garrett Maidenhead, Berkshire, UK, McGraw Hill Education/Open University Press, 2009 190pp., ISBN 978
How Does Foster Care Work? International Evidence on Outcomes
How Does Foster Care Work? International Evidence on Outcomes Elizabeth Fernandez and Richard P. Barth (Eds.) Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London & Philadelphia, 2010 320pp., ISBN 9781849058124, A$
Actor-network theory as a reflexive tool
In this article, I argue that actor-network theory (ANT) provides an avenue to cogent reflexivity. I focus on ‘smaller’ networks and single links, those between the researcher and other actors, both at once enrolled to varying degrees in multiple actor-networks. Using my own ethnographic research experiences, I show that ANT enables effective and pertinent reflexive translations of the research project
The Effectiveness of Support and Rehabilitation Services for Women Offenders
There is a large body of research evidence suggesting that support, rehabilitation, and supervision programs can help offenders to reduce recidivism. However, the effectiveness of these services is dependent upon the extent to which the workers who deliver them comply with “what works” principles and practices. Because most of this research has been conducted with men, this study focused on the extent to which these principles and practices apply…
Magistrates' Perspectives on the Criminal Division of the Children's Court of Victoria
The Children's Court is a critical social institution and important forum of social work practice. It decides important legal and social issues relating to children and families. This article reports the findings of a study of the views of Victoria's Children's Court magistrates on the current status and challenges faced by the Children's Court as well as possible reforms that have recently been canvassed in Australia and overseas. This study was…
Tourism and Occultism in New Orleans's Jackson Square
Though tourism performances usually promote dominant representations of iconic places like New Orleans's Jackson Square, I argue that some performances also disrupt those representations as well as support challenges to particular normative ideals. Using ideas of performativity and threshold space, I examine just one facet, tourism and Tarot card and palm reading, in Jackson Square's dynamic landscape. I discuss how tourism performances materiali…
Placing community through actor-network theory in Oklahoma's 'No Man's Land
Residents in sparsely populated Cimarron County, located at the end of Oklahoma's Panhandle in 'No Man's Land,' possess a strong sense of independence, yet also a strong sense of community. Building upon community research and applying an actor-network approach, we argue that the 'materiality' of meanings associated with and attachment to the cultural landscape play a significant role in how and why people construct community here. We assert that…
Artists' positioning in and creating authentic identities through place and tourism in New Orleans's Jackson Square
In this paper, I explore how artist identities are constructed in relation to processes associated with tourism and a tourist site in New Orleans. My analysis draws from literatures concerning art, tourism art, and artist identities as well as from Goffman's work on identity, particularly in relation to impression management through setting, appearances, and manners in front and back regions. Relying on archival and ethnographic data, I show how …
Australia's Children's Courts
This article reports the findings of a study of the views of Victoria's Children's Court magistrates on the current status and challenges faced by the Children's Court as well as proposals for reform that have recently been canvassed in Australia and overseas. This study was part of a larger “national assessment” of Australia's Children's Courts.The Children's Court is a key social institution whose legal decision-making has major social conseque…
Emerging Adulthood in Time and Space
Limited research addresses the development of emerging adults who are homeless, and studies rarely explore their immediate and intertwined experiences of geography, social networks, and daily paths. These dynamic contexts may play significant roles in emerging adults' homeless experiences, continued chronic homelessness, and/or successful transitions to self‐sufficient adulthood. Applying geographic theory to emerging adult development among marg…
Responding to child deaths
The Victorian Child Death Review Committee (VCDRC) in Australia is a multidisciplinary Ministerial Advisory Committee established to review the deaths of children either currently child protection clients or known to the statutory child protection system. The Committee provides advice about each child death as well as insights into what are the surrounding patterns and issues. Key to this role is examining the contribution of the service sectors …
Political science (30 obras) · Law (27 obras) · Law (25 obras) · Psychology (24 obras) · Sociology (20 obras) · Child Abuse and Trauma (18 obras) · Medicine (17 obras) · Child protection (11 obras) · Criminology (10 obras) · Social Work (10 obras)