Eileen Baldry
Biographic Data
| ID | 196358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eileen Baldry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eileen |
| FAMILY NAME | Baldry |
| SIGNATURE | BALDRY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5599-5592 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 111 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Efficacy of Outsourced Employment Services for Adults Exiting Australian Prisons
Crime rates in Australia have declined or been steady over the past decade yet prison populations are at all-time highs. Similarly, unemployment rates have been low but unemployment for those ex-prisoners seeking work is very high. In this paper, we draw on the findings of an Australia-wide survey of government-funded employment service providers who support working-aged Australians including ex-prisoners in their search for work. We find that th…
Evaluating the impact of public housing after prison for a sex offence
This article evaluates the impact of housing assistance on the post-release pathways of people convicted of sex offences, in terms of a range of criminal justice outcomes and associated costs. Using linked administrative data from New South Wales government agencies, it compares outcomes and costs for two groups of formerly incarcerated sex offenders – one group who received public housing tenancies at some stage after their release, the other wh…
Trust and service engagement among people who inject drugs after release from prison
Influence of a residential drug and alcohol program on young people's criminal conviction trajectories
Reframing Gendered Disaster: Lessons from Nepal's Indigenous women
Policing disability: Alliance building, police divestment and community investment
Amidst the increase in protest, activism and scholarship about police violence and repression in recent years, considerations of disability and ableism continue to be relegated to the margins. This article draws on interviews with leading disability justice advocates in Australia to shed light on the nature of police interactions with people with disability. Our analysis contributes to critical scholarship, advocacy and activism in four key ways.…
It's a revolving door”: Ego-depletion among prisoners with injecting drug use histories as a barrier to post-release success
A tribute to Kevin Harris, philosopher of education
Structural competency in the post-prison period for people who inject drugs: A qualitative case study
CommUNIty-Led development: A partnership to realize Aboriginal Elders’ vision for change
This article outlines the development of “Yuwaya Ngarra-li” (YN), a holistic, community-led partnership with a university that aims to realize Aboriginal Elders’ vision for wellbeing in their community. The Dharriwaa Elders Group (DEG), a community-controlled organization in Walgett, a remote town in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, invited the University of New South Wales (UNSW) to partner with them to progress their long-held vision for syste…
Youth Justice and Penality in Comparative Context
This book represents the first major analysis of Anglo-Australian youth justice and penality to be published and it makes significant theoretical and empirical contributions to the wider field of comparative criminology. By exploring trends in law, policy and practice over a forty-year period, the book critically surveys the ‘moving images’ of youth justice regimes and penal cultures, the principal drivers of reform, the core outcomes of such pro…
Incarcerated Aboriginal women’s experiences of accessing healthcare and the limitations of the ‘equal treatment’ principle
Equal treatment' is an inappropriate strategy for providing equitable healthcare, which is required because incarcerated Aboriginal women experience significantly poorer health. Taking a decolonizing approach, we unpack and demonstrate the systems level changes needed to make health and justice agencies culturally relevant and safe.
Residential programmes for mothers and children in prison: Key themes and concepts
Like the United Kingdom and New Zealand, all eight Australian jurisdictions have legal provisions for the full-time accommodation of young children with their mothers in prison. Whether and how these laws are enacted varies, and there are no national or international norms. This article integrates a review of policies, principles and operating models with findings from a qualitative study, to describe the current landscape in residential programm…
Holistic Conceptualizations of Health by Incarcerated Aboriginal Women in New South Wales, Australia
While there has been extensive research on the health and social and emotional well-being (SEWB) of Aboriginal women in prison, there are few qualitative studies where incarcerated Aboriginal women have been directly asked about their health, SEWB, and health care experiences. Using an Indigenous research methodology and SEWB framework, this article presents the findings of 43 interviews with incarcerated Aboriginal women in New South Wales, Aust…
Community Justice in Australia: Developing Knowledge, Skills and Values for Working with Offenders in the Community
Brian Stout makes the case for Community Justice (CJ) to be embraced in Australia. In this book, he is aiming to introduce social work and criminology students to CJ and its potential to provide et
Aboriginal and non-aboriginal Australian former prisoners’ patterns of morbidity and risk of hospitalisation
Despite poorer health among Aboriginal people, there were broadly similar patterns of reasons for admission to hospital among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal former prisoners. There may be a number of explanations for this. The cohort was not a representative sample of the NSW prison population. There was an overrepresentation of individuals with cognitive disability (intellectual disability, acquired brain injury, dementia, fetal alcohol spectrum …
I feel like I failed him by ringing the police’: Criminalising disability in Australia
The stigmatisation, control, criminalisation and incarceration of people with disability have a long history. While in recent decades there has been increasing commitment to the rights of people with disabilities by governments in western nations, the over-representation of people with mental and cognitive disability in criminal justice systems has continued. Although there are similarities amongst Western jurisdictions in regard to the treatment…
Cruel and unusual punishment’: An inter-jurisdictional study of the criminalisation of young people with complex support needs
Although several criminologists and social scientists have drawn attention to the high rates of mental and cognitive disability amongst populations of young people embroiled in youth justice systems, less attention has been paid to the ways in which young people with disability are disproportionately exposed to processes of criminalisation and how the same processes serve to further disable them. In this paper, we aim to make a contribution towar…
Procuring Sexual Services: Evidencing Masculinity Diversity and Difference Through Sex Work Research
Violence in the Lives of Incarcerated Aboriginal Mothers in Western Australia
Drawing on in-depth interviews with incarcerated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers in Western Australia, we report on the women's use of violence in their relationships with others. Results reinforce that Aboriginal women are overwhelmingly victims of violence; however, many women report also using violence, primarily as a strategy to deal with their own high levels of victimization. The "normalization" of violence in their lives and …
Penal Culture and Hyperincarceration: The Revival of the Prison
What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies? What changes have there been in penality and use of the prison over the past 40 years that have led to the re-valorization of the prison? Using penal culture as a conceptual and theoretical vehicle, and Australia as a case study, this book analyses international developments in penality and imprisonment. Authored by some of Australia’s leading penal theorists…
Decolonising Social Work Research: Learning from Critical Indigenous Approaches
The increasing valorisation of Indigenous knowledges, methodologies, and approaches to social work renders visible the inadequacy of Western approaches to research by non-Indigenous social workers researching with Indigenous peoples. However, non-Indigenous social workers often remain unaware of the colonising and racist assumptions underpinning their praxis. This paper contends that for non-Indigenous social work researchers embedded in the norm…
Disability at the margins: Limits of the law
People with mental and cognitive disability are over-represented as both victims and offenders. In Australia, those with disability who are most likely to be incarcerated are persons from poor, highly disadvantaged families and neighbourhoods, as well as Indigenous Australians. This article first clarifies definitions of mental and cognitive impairment and complex needs. Evidence from studies using administrative data from criminal justice and hu…
Penal Culture and Hyperincarceration: The Revival of the Prison
What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies? What changes have there been in penality and use of the prison over the past 40 years that have led to the re-valorization of the prison? Using penal culture as a conceptual and theoretical vehicle, and Australia as a case study, this book analyses international developments in penality and imprisonment. Authored by some of Australia’s leading penal theorists…
Housing Instability among People Who Inject Drugs: Results from the Australian Needle and Syringe Program Survey
Decolonising Social Work Research: Learning from Critical Indigenous Approaches
The increasing valorisation of Indigenous knowledges, methodologies, and approaches to social work renders visible the inadequacy of Western approaches to research by non-Indigenous social workers researching with Indigenous peoples. However, non-Indigenous social workers often remain unaware of the colonising and racist assumptions underpinning their praxis. This paper contends that for non-Indigenous social work researchers embedded in the norm…
Building Indigenous Australian Social Work
An Indigenous social work guided by Indigenous Australians’ participation and experience that has, at its heart, human rights and social justice is in its infancy in Australia. The present paper continues a discussion on Indigenous Australian social work theory and practice developments being generated by those working in this field. Aspects of this “praxis” include recognition of the effects of invasion, colonialism, and paternalistic social pol…
Disabling criminology: Conceptualising the intersections of critical disability studies and critical criminology for people with mental health and cognitive disabilities in the criminal justice system
Increasing numbers of people with mental health disorders and cognitive disabilities (MHD&CD) are becoming caught in a cycle of social exclusion and criminalisation, resulting in their incarceration and re-incarceration in the criminal justice system. Our capacity to conceptualise and protect the human rights of such people, although recognised in a range of instruments, is questionable. Their over-representation in the criminal justice system co…
Defining the Role of the Hospital Social Worker in Australia
This study assessed the role of the hospital social worker during the hospital stay and post-discharge period. Findings revealed that social workers performed various tasks, and the most common concerns of patients were coping and/or post-discharge issues. Findings also demonstrated the complexity of this role in meeting the needs of patients
Neighbourhoods, Networks and Child Abuse
The ecological framework for the study of child abuse is briefly described and the present stud—of two adjoining economically depressed localities with contrasting rates of child abuse—is theoretically located within the framework. The study focuses on the neighbourhood as a potential source of support for families, the study design emphasizing the character of the neighbourhoods as social entities. The social character and reported child abuse h…
Cruel and unusual punishment’: An inter-jurisdictional study of the criminalisation of young people with complex support needs
Although several criminologists and social scientists have drawn attention to the high rates of mental and cognitive disability amongst populations of young people embroiled in youth justice systems, less attention has been paid to the ways in which young people with disability are disproportionately exposed to processes of criminalisation and how the same processes serve to further disable them. In this paper, we aim to make a contribution towar…
Urban Australian Aboriginal peoples’ experience of human services
English Urban Aboriginal communities were asked about their experiences of human services. The misuse of Aboriginal liaison staff, the attitudes of staff and policy-makers, the invisibility of Aboriginal clients, poor communication, lack of access to services, client rights and lack of integration were raised. Respect for Aboriginal persons’ social citizenship is discussed. French Il a été demandé aux communautés aborigènes urbaines de décrire le…
Holistic Conceptualizations of Health by Incarcerated Aboriginal Women in New South Wales, Australia
While there has been extensive research on the health and social and emotional well-being (SEWB) of Aboriginal women in prison, there are few qualitative studies where incarcerated Aboriginal women have been directly asked about their health, SEWB, and health care experiences. Using an Indigenous research methodology and SEWB framework, this article presents the findings of 43 interviews with incarcerated Aboriginal women in New South Wales, Aust…
Procuring Sexual Services: Evidencing Masculinity Diversity and Difference Through Sex Work Research
Defining the role of the hospital social worker in Australia: Part 2. A qualitative approach
English This study used qualitative methods to explore the role of the hospital social worker, providing further meaning to quantitative results reported in the first article. Findings revealed that social workers performed various tasks under the umbrella of discharge planning. Social workers' unique approach to patient care with its emphasis on self-determination often causes conflict with other medical professionals who tend to be directive. F…
CommUNIty-Led development: A partnership to realize Aboriginal Elders’ vision for change
This article outlines the development of “Yuwaya Ngarra-li” (YN), a holistic, community-led partnership with a university that aims to realize Aboriginal Elders’ vision for wellbeing in their community. The Dharriwaa Elders Group (DEG), a community-controlled organization in Walgett, a remote town in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, invited the University of New South Wales (UNSW) to partner with them to progress their long-held vision for syste…
I feel like I failed him by ringing the police’: Criminalising disability in Australia
The stigmatisation, control, criminalisation and incarceration of people with disability have a long history. While in recent decades there has been increasing commitment to the rights of people with disabilities by governments in western nations, the over-representation of people with mental and cognitive disability in criminal justice systems has continued. Although there are similarities amongst Western jurisdictions in regard to the treatment…
Domestic Violence and Children with Disabilities: Working Towards Enhancing Social Work Practice
Globally, domestic violence, where a family member, partner or ex-partner attempts to physically, sexually or psychologically dominate or harm the other, is now recognised as one of the most entrenched and pervasive forms of violence in society. Nevertheless, internationally and in Australia, the occurrence of domestic and other forms of violence in families affecting children with a disability is poorly understood. The present article examines t…
Violence in the Lives of Incarcerated Aboriginal Mothers in Western Australia
Drawing on in-depth interviews with incarcerated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers in Western Australia, we report on the women's use of violence in their relationships with others. Results reinforce that Aboriginal women are overwhelmingly victims of violence; however, many women report also using violence, primarily as a strategy to deal with their own high levels of victimization. The "normalization" of violence in their lives and …
Residential programmes for mothers and children in prison: Key themes and concepts
Like the United Kingdom and New Zealand, all eight Australian jurisdictions have legal provisions for the full-time accommodation of young children with their mothers in prison. Whether and how these laws are enacted varies, and there are no national or international norms. This article integrates a review of policies, principles and operating models with findings from a qualitative study, to describe the current landscape in residential programm…
Housing Instability among People Who Inject Drugs: Results from the Australian Needle and Syringe Program Survey
Prison Privateers: Neo‐Colonialists in NSW
Private for‐profit prison corporations are expanding in Australia faster than in any other country. These corporations are based in the USA and form part of the correctionscommercial complex. It is the contention of this paper, from observations in NSW, Australia, that the nature of these newly internationalised private prison corporations is neo‐colonialist, both economically and culturally. It can be compared with the expansion of the nuclear p…
Neighbourhoods, Networks and Child Abuse
The ecological framework for the study of child abuse is briefly described and the present stud—of two adjoining economically depressed localities with contrasting rates of child abuse—is theoretically located within the framework. The study focuses on the neighbourhood as a potential source of support for families, the study design emphasizing the character of the neighbourhoods as social entities. The social character and reported child abuse h…
Convicted Women: Before and After Prison
(1997). Convicted Women: Before and After Prison. Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 275-286
Social and emotional support for women being treated for breast cancer: Social workers involvement
A group of twenty women who had been diagnosed with breast cancer and had subsequently undergone a mastectomy and breast reconstruction participated in a study regarding their experience of these processes. Qualitative research method was used. The aim of the interview was to identify the emotional and social support needs and experiences of these women at selected points throughout the treatment phases, and to ascertain what they now felt the im…
Australian Prisoners' Post-release Housing
(2003). Australian Prisoners' Post-release Housing. Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 155-169
The Nagle Report—25 Years On Symposium
(2004). The Nagle Report—25 Years On Symposium. Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 93-111
Defining the Role of the Hospital Social Worker in Australia
This study assessed the role of the hospital social worker during the hospital stay and post-discharge period. Findings revealed that social workers performed various tasks, and the most common concerns of patients were coping and/or post-discharge issues. Findings also demonstrated the complexity of this role in meeting the needs of patients
Pat Carlen & Anne Worrall, Analysing Women's Imprisonment , 2004, Willan Publishing, Devon, UK
Pat Carlen & Anne Worrall, Analysing Women's Imprisonment, 2004, Willan Publishing, Devon, UK." Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 17(1), pp. 171–172
Keeping Children with a Disability Safely in their Families
With the trend towards keeping children with a disability in their families, intervention practices are seeking to ensure child safety. A research project in New South Wales, Australia, aimed to discover whether particular support programme(s) for children with a disability and their families significantly and positively influenced outcomes for the child and family, and if significant positive change did occur, which programme elements, strategie…
Defining the role of the hospital social worker in Australia: Part 2. A qualitative approach
English This study used qualitative methods to explore the role of the hospital social worker, providing further meaning to quantitative results reported in the first article. Findings revealed that social workers performed various tasks under the umbrella of discharge planning. Social workers' unique approach to patient care with its emphasis on self-determination often causes conflict with other medical professionals who tend to be directive. F…
Domestic Violence and Children with Disabilities: Working Towards Enhancing Social Work Practice
Globally, domestic violence, where a family member, partner or ex-partner attempts to physically, sexually or psychologically dominate or harm the other, is now recognised as one of the most entrenched and pervasive forms of violence in society. Nevertheless, internationally and in Australia, the occurrence of domestic and other forms of violence in families affecting children with a disability is poorly understood. The present article examines t…
Urban Australian Aboriginal peoples’ experience of human services
English Urban Aboriginal communities were asked about their experiences of human services. The misuse of Aboriginal liaison staff, the attitudes of staff and policy-makers, the invisibility of Aboriginal clients, poor communication, lack of access to services, client rights and lack of integration were raised. Respect for Aboriginal persons’ social citizenship is discussed. French Il a été demandé aux communautés aborigènes urbaines de décrire le…
Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice , 2nd edn, Sandra Walklate, Willan Publishing, Cullompton, Devon, 2004
Review(s) of: Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice, 2nd edn, Sandra Walklate, Willan Publishing, Cullompton, Devon, 2004
Building Indigenous Australian Social Work
An Indigenous social work guided by Indigenous Australians’ participation and experience that has, at its heart, human rights and social justice is in its infancy in Australia. The present paper continues a discussion on Indigenous Australian social work theory and practice developments being generated by those working in this field. Aspects of this “praxis” include recognition of the effects of invasion, colonialism, and paternalistic social pol…
Mother Seeking Safe Home: Aboriginal Women Post-Release
The NSW Government has recently announced the establishment of a number of accommodation and reintegration services for offenders leaving prison and for others subject to non-custodial or parole orders. This shift recognises the established importance of post-release accommodation and individual case management for ex-prisoners as important steps towards addressing the high rates of re-incarceration of people in NSW. However, like the vast majori…
Disabling criminology: Conceptualising the intersections of critical disability studies and critical criminology for people with mental health and cognitive disabilities in the criminal justice system
Increasing numbers of people with mental health disorders and cognitive disabilities (MHD&CD) are becoming caught in a cycle of social exclusion and criminalisation, resulting in their incarceration and re-incarceration in the criminal justice system. Our capacity to conceptualise and protect the human rights of such people, although recognised in a range of instruments, is questionable. Their over-representation in the criminal justice system co…
Women in Transition: From Prison to
Over the past twenty years there has been significant development in theories and perspectives driving post-release (re-entry) approaches and work. On the whole, as with most other criminal justice theories and frameworks, these have been informed by the male experience of prison and release and have been imported to the Australian context largely from the United Kingdom and North America. These theoretical frames, like desistance, and approaches…
Housing Instability among People Who Inject Drugs: Results from the Australian Needle and Syringe Program Survey
Penal Culture and Hyperincarceration: The Revival of the Prison
What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies? What changes have there been in penality and use of the prison over the past 40 years that have led to the re-valorization of the prison? Using penal culture as a conceptual and theoretical vehicle, and Australia as a case study, this book analyses international developments in penality and imprisonment. Authored by some of Australia’s leading penal theorists…
Disability at the margins: Limits of the law
People with mental and cognitive disability are over-represented as both victims and offenders. In Australia, those with disability who are most likely to be incarcerated are persons from poor, highly disadvantaged families and neighbourhoods, as well as Indigenous Australians. This article first clarifies definitions of mental and cognitive impairment and complex needs. Evidence from studies using administrative data from criminal justice and hu…
Decolonising Social Work Research: Learning from Critical Indigenous Approaches
The increasing valorisation of Indigenous knowledges, methodologies, and approaches to social work renders visible the inadequacy of Western approaches to research by non-Indigenous social workers researching with Indigenous peoples. However, non-Indigenous social workers often remain unaware of the colonising and racist assumptions underpinning their praxis. This paper contends that for non-Indigenous social work researchers embedded in the norm…
Penal Culture and Hyperincarceration: The Revival of the Prison
What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies? What changes have there been in penality and use of the prison over the past 40 years that have led to the re-valorization of the prison? Using penal culture as a conceptual and theoretical vehicle, and Australia as a case study, this book analyses international developments in penality and imprisonment. Authored by some of Australia’s leading penal theorists…
Aboriginal and non-aboriginal Australian former prisoners’ patterns of morbidity and risk of hospitalisation
Despite poorer health among Aboriginal people, there were broadly similar patterns of reasons for admission to hospital among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal former prisoners. There may be a number of explanations for this. The cohort was not a representative sample of the NSW prison population. There was an overrepresentation of individuals with cognitive disability (intellectual disability, acquired brain injury, dementia, fetal alcohol spectrum …
I feel like I failed him by ringing the police’: Criminalising disability in Australia
The stigmatisation, control, criminalisation and incarceration of people with disability have a long history. While in recent decades there has been increasing commitment to the rights of people with disabilities by governments in western nations, the over-representation of people with mental and cognitive disability in criminal justice systems has continued. Although there are similarities amongst Western jurisdictions in regard to the treatment…
Cruel and unusual punishment’: An inter-jurisdictional study of the criminalisation of young people with complex support needs
Although several criminologists and social scientists have drawn attention to the high rates of mental and cognitive disability amongst populations of young people embroiled in youth justice systems, less attention has been paid to the ways in which young people with disability are disproportionately exposed to processes of criminalisation and how the same processes serve to further disable them. In this paper, we aim to make a contribution towar…
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