Janet Ransley
Biographic Data
| ID | 4115434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Ransley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Ransley |
| SIGNATURE | RANSLEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2414-4215 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What Supports Do Incarcerated Mothers and Their Families Need? The Views of Incarcerated Mothers and Service Providers
Maternal incarceration causes complex and diverse outcomes, affecting the mother, her family, and her community. Despite this, there are few evidence-based models of support. This paper aims to identify participant’s perspectives in developing a model of support by identifying needs, preferred services, and current barriers. Incarcerated mothers (n = 75) and service providers (n = 24) in Queensland, Australia contributed through workshops. Partic…
Ethical Issues and Scandals in Australian Federal Politics, 2013-2024
A Conceptual Framework for Child Well-Being in the Context of Maternal Incarceration
No single conceptual framework currently captures the overall well-being of children experiencing maternal incarceration. To address this gap, we examined whether an existing, population-based child well-being framework, developed by the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth’s (ARACY), is able to account for factors known to influence the well-being of children in the context of maternal incarceration. Using a meta-narrative method,…
Partnerships in Policing
Partnerships in policing are used worldwide to reduce crime and disorder problems. Police forge partnerships with businesses, government agencies, and communities to co-produce public safety. Third-party policing (TPP) is a particular type of partnership that involves the police addressing crime and disorder by working through (and with) third-party partners. This Element focuses on the nature and effectiveness of TPP partnerships. Using systemat…
Incorporating lived experience into social work practice
Social workers with lived experience of incarceration can be more relatable and empathetic, improving their ability to connect and advocate for those they support. However, they face significant barriers to entering the profession, including difficulty obtaining accreditation to work with children, placement requirements, professional association eligibility, and exclusion from employment through criminal history checks and accumulated marginalis…
Supporting children of incarcerated mothers
Service Accessibility in Prisons Under New Public Management
Whilst the policy purpose of prisons is containment and rehabilitation, prisons must also provide a range of services to people who are incarcerated. Researchers have examined how service provision is complicated by features of the prison environment directed at safety and security, but less attention has been paid to the impact of managerialist practices focused on economic efficiency, service quality and resource allocation. Largely imported fr…
Australia’s New National Anti-Corruption Commission
Australia has been the site of major advances in the creation of public sector anticorruption commissions since 1989. However, commissions with broad jurisdiction have been limited to the six states until 2023. The federal jurisdiction lagged behind, with a series of scandals driving intensified debates from 2013. Performance issues associated with state agencies formed part of the debate. The present paper reviews this history, focusing on the i…
Engaging non-policing partners to prevent or respond to crime
Multi-agency policing partnerships provide agencies with the opportunity to address underlying social issues that contribute to crime and allow for longer-term solutions. One partnership model is third-party policing (TPP). TPP theory was conceptualised as a way of engaging non-police agencies through the use of legal levers to perform a crime prevention or control role. The theory assumes that (1) police agencies seek out non-police partners bec…
Navigating pregnancy and early motherhood in prison
Policing health regulations in democratic societies
Bayley stated just four short years ago that “... policing has become dramatically more complex in six ways: its tasks, public demands, strategies, technology, accountability and resources” (p. 164). The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly escalated these policing complexities creating a range of new responsibilities, tasks and strategies for police as well as raising new accountability questions. In this paper, we examine a number of new health regula…
Medicalizing the Detention of Aboriginal People in the Northern Territory
The forcible removal and detention on reserves of many of Australia’s Indigenous people during much of the 20th century was pervasive and, according to Penny Pether, influenced her understandings of indefinite detention in other areas. She was interested in proliferating regimes of indefinite detention used as a technique to govern ‘dangerous’ populations. In this article, we examine how alcohol management schemes introduced in the 21st century i…
Disrupting domestic ‘ice’ production
The diversion of pseudoephedrine (PSE) into illicit drug markets is a major problem facing countries throughout the world. Domestic production of the illicit synthetic drug methamphetamine often relies on ‘drug runners’ obtaining PSE from community pharmacies that service the general public in a retail market. One approach to creating deterrence opportunities in this illicit market is the co-option of non-offending third parties to control or pre…
Psychological Violence in the Workplace
Analysing pseudoephedrine/methamphetamine policy options in Australia using multi-criteria decision modelling
Normalising and Neutralising Offending — The Influence of Health and Safety Regulation
One form of corporate malfeasance involves violation of workers' rights to a safe workplace. This article complements the dominant functionalist discourse concerned with defining, categorising and establishing antecedent conditions for psychological injury (and attendant physical health and social harm) arising from mistreatment at work. Drawing from claims heard in Australian courts and tribunals, this analysis examines the counterarguments pres…
The Status of Indigenous Women in Policing
A key recommendation of the 1991 report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was the employment of more Indigenous police officers, especially women, in part as a strategy to reduce the over-representation of Indigenous people in the criminal justice system. This article examines the working out of this recommendation in the Queensland Police Service by analysing the Indigenous employment process and by surveying 56 Indigenou…
Policing methamphetamine problems
Increasingly, governments and police agencies require evidence of effectiveness and efficiency with respect to law enforcement policies. The existing “what works” literature, specifically on drug law enforcement, focuses mainly on the effectiveness question when making complex choices between drug policy alternatives, but fails when it comes to incorporating empirical evidence and the experience of key experts in the decision-making process. In a…
Crime, Place, and Pollution
Sickness in the System of Long-term Immigration Detention
Since the introduction of mandatory detention of unauthorized non-citizens in Australia in 1992, there has been considerable public debate on the wisdom of such policy. The negative impact and long-term implications of indefinite detention on the health of detainees have been raised by medical practitioners and human rights advocates, with more strident argument emerging over the last five to six years. This article contributes to this debate thr…
Violence in and around Entertainment Districts
Violence in entertainment districts is a major problem across urban landscapes throughout the world. Research shows that licensed premises are the third most common location for homicides and serious assaults, accounting for one in ten fatal and nonfatal assaults. One class of interventions that aims to reduce violence in entertainment districts involves the use of civil remedies: a group of strategies that use civil or regulatory measures as leg…
Policing in an era of uncertainty
The twenty‐first century has brought new challenges for police, in Australia as in other Western democracies. Terrorism, globalisation, large‐scale population movements, and entrenched social problems pose crime control threats that are increasingly seen as beyond the scope and capabilities of traditional policing. New agencies have been established, private policing has boomed, and governments have sought to make individuals, businesses, and com…
The Fitzgerald Symposium
This article introduces the collection of six papers that commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the tabling of the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Possible Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct (the Fitzgerald Report). The report exposed the entrenched corruption among Queenslands political and police leaders, deeply ingrained abuses of process and power, and an inept public administration. It led to the prosecution and …
Police Education and the University Sector
University education for police officers continues to be heralded as a major component in the reform of police organizations and police culture. Interestingly, the extensive research literature from the United States over the past 30 years remains ambivalent about the extent to which education achieves these objectives. Individual officers doubtless gain personal and professional benefits, but the relationship between higher education and police …
Third Party Policing
Third party policing represents a major shift in contemporary crime control practices. As the lines blur between criminal and civil law, responsibility for crime control no longer rests with state agencies but is shared between a wide range of organisations, institutions or individuals. The first comprehensive book of its kind, Third Party Policing examines this growing phenomenon, arguing that it is the legal basis of third party policing that d…
Sickness in the System of Long-term Immigration Detention
Since the introduction of mandatory detention of unauthorized non-citizens in Australia in 1992, there has been considerable public debate on the wisdom of such policy. The negative impact and long-term implications of indefinite detention on the health of detainees have been raised by medical practitioners and human rights advocates, with more strident argument emerging over the last five to six years. This article contributes to this debate thr…
Violence in and around Entertainment Districts
Violence in entertainment districts is a major problem across urban landscapes throughout the world. Research shows that licensed premises are the third most common location for homicides and serious assaults, accounting for one in ten fatal and nonfatal assaults. One class of interventions that aims to reduce violence in entertainment districts involves the use of civil remedies: a group of strategies that use civil or regulatory measures as leg…
Engaging non-policing partners to prevent or respond to crime
Multi-agency policing partnerships provide agencies with the opportunity to address underlying social issues that contribute to crime and allow for longer-term solutions. One partnership model is third-party policing (TPP). TPP theory was conceptualised as a way of engaging non-police agencies through the use of legal levers to perform a crime prevention or control role. The theory assumes that (1) police agencies seek out non-police partners bec…
Policing health regulations in democratic societies
Bayley stated just four short years ago that “... policing has become dramatically more complex in six ways: its tasks, public demands, strategies, technology, accountability and resources” (p. 164). The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly escalated these policing complexities creating a range of new responsibilities, tasks and strategies for police as well as raising new accountability questions. In this paper, we examine a number of new health regula…
Disrupting domestic ‘ice’ production
The diversion of pseudoephedrine (PSE) into illicit drug markets is a major problem facing countries throughout the world. Domestic production of the illicit synthetic drug methamphetamine often relies on ‘drug runners’ obtaining PSE from community pharmacies that service the general public in a retail market. One approach to creating deterrence opportunities in this illicit market is the co-option of non-offending third parties to control or pre…
Unconscious Racism
Like other western legal systems, Australian law is based on notions of the rule of law, justice and equality. Legal formalistic ideology would have us believe that as long as the law as it appears 'on the books' is applied equally for all, justice will prevail. For Indigenous Australian people, formal equality means that their claims for land, compensation and the recognition of their culture must be assessed through the eyes of white judges in …
Crime, Place, and Pollution
Australia’s New National Anti-Corruption Commission
Australia has been the site of major advances in the creation of public sector anticorruption commissions since 1989. However, commissions with broad jurisdiction have been limited to the six states until 2023. The federal jurisdiction lagged behind, with a series of scandals driving intensified debates from 2013. Performance issues associated with state agencies formed part of the debate. The present paper reviews this history, focusing on the i…
Medicalizing the Detention of Aboriginal People in the Northern Territory
The forcible removal and detention on reserves of many of Australia’s Indigenous people during much of the 20th century was pervasive and, according to Penny Pether, influenced her understandings of indefinite detention in other areas. She was interested in proliferating regimes of indefinite detention used as a technique to govern ‘dangerous’ populations. In this article, we examine how alcohol management schemes introduced in the 21st century i…
Policing methamphetamine problems
Increasingly, governments and police agencies require evidence of effectiveness and efficiency with respect to law enforcement policies. The existing “what works” literature, specifically on drug law enforcement, focuses mainly on the effectiveness question when making complex choices between drug policy alternatives, but fails when it comes to incorporating empirical evidence and the experience of key experts in the decision-making process. In a…
Unconscious Racism
Like other western legal systems, Australian law is based on notions of the rule of law, justice and equality. Legal formalistic ideology would have us believe that as long as the law as it appears 'on the books' is applied equally for all, justice will prevail. For Indigenous Australian people, formal equality means that their claims for land, compensation and the recognition of their culture must be assessed through the eyes of white judges in …
Third Party Policing
Third party policing represents a major shift in contemporary crime control practices. As the lines blur between criminal and civil law, responsibility for crime control no longer rests with state agencies but is shared between a wide range of organisations, institutions or individuals. The first comprehensive book of its kind, Third Party Policing examines this growing phenomenon, arguing that it is the legal basis of third party policing that d…
Police Education and the University Sector
University education for police officers continues to be heralded as a major component in the reform of police organizations and police culture. Interestingly, the extensive research literature from the United States over the past 30 years remains ambivalent about the extent to which education achieves these objectives. Individual officers doubtless gain personal and professional benefits, but the relationship between higher education and police …
Policing in an era of uncertainty
The twenty‐first century has brought new challenges for police, in Australia as in other Western democracies. Terrorism, globalisation, large‐scale population movements, and entrenched social problems pose crime control threats that are increasingly seen as beyond the scope and capabilities of traditional policing. New agencies have been established, private policing has boomed, and governments have sought to make individuals, businesses, and com…
The Fitzgerald Symposium
This article introduces the collection of six papers that commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the tabling of the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Possible Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct (the Fitzgerald Report). The report exposed the entrenched corruption among Queenslands political and police leaders, deeply ingrained abuses of process and power, and an inept public administration. It led to the prosecution and …
Crime, Place, and Pollution
Sickness in the System of Long-term Immigration Detention
Since the introduction of mandatory detention of unauthorized non-citizens in Australia in 1992, there has been considerable public debate on the wisdom of such policy. The negative impact and long-term implications of indefinite detention on the health of detainees have been raised by medical practitioners and human rights advocates, with more strident argument emerging over the last five to six years. This article contributes to this debate thr…
Violence in and around Entertainment Districts
Violence in entertainment districts is a major problem across urban landscapes throughout the world. Research shows that licensed premises are the third most common location for homicides and serious assaults, accounting for one in ten fatal and nonfatal assaults. One class of interventions that aims to reduce violence in entertainment districts involves the use of civil remedies: a group of strategies that use civil or regulatory measures as leg…
The Status of Indigenous Women in Policing
A key recommendation of the 1991 report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was the employment of more Indigenous police officers, especially women, in part as a strategy to reduce the over-representation of Indigenous people in the criminal justice system. This article examines the working out of this recommendation in the Queensland Police Service by analysing the Indigenous employment process and by surveying 56 Indigenou…
Policing methamphetamine problems
Increasingly, governments and police agencies require evidence of effectiveness and efficiency with respect to law enforcement policies. The existing “what works” literature, specifically on drug law enforcement, focuses mainly on the effectiveness question when making complex choices between drug policy alternatives, but fails when it comes to incorporating empirical evidence and the experience of key experts in the decision-making process. In a…
Normalising and Neutralising Offending — The Influence of Health and Safety Regulation
One form of corporate malfeasance involves violation of workers' rights to a safe workplace. This article complements the dominant functionalist discourse concerned with defining, categorising and establishing antecedent conditions for psychological injury (and attendant physical health and social harm) arising from mistreatment at work. Drawing from claims heard in Australian courts and tribunals, this analysis examines the counterarguments pres…
Psychological Violence in the Workplace
Analysing pseudoephedrine/methamphetamine policy options in Australia using multi-criteria decision modelling
Disrupting domestic ‘ice’ production
The diversion of pseudoephedrine (PSE) into illicit drug markets is a major problem facing countries throughout the world. Domestic production of the illicit synthetic drug methamphetamine often relies on ‘drug runners’ obtaining PSE from community pharmacies that service the general public in a retail market. One approach to creating deterrence opportunities in this illicit market is the co-option of non-offending third parties to control or pre…
Medicalizing the Detention of Aboriginal People in the Northern Territory
The forcible removal and detention on reserves of many of Australia’s Indigenous people during much of the 20th century was pervasive and, according to Penny Pether, influenced her understandings of indefinite detention in other areas. She was interested in proliferating regimes of indefinite detention used as a technique to govern ‘dangerous’ populations. In this article, we examine how alcohol management schemes introduced in the 21st century i…
Policing health regulations in democratic societies
Bayley stated just four short years ago that “... policing has become dramatically more complex in six ways: its tasks, public demands, strategies, technology, accountability and resources” (p. 164). The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly escalated these policing complexities creating a range of new responsibilities, tasks and strategies for police as well as raising new accountability questions. In this paper, we examine a number of new health regula…
Navigating pregnancy and early motherhood in prison
Engaging non-policing partners to prevent or respond to crime
Multi-agency policing partnerships provide agencies with the opportunity to address underlying social issues that contribute to crime and allow for longer-term solutions. One partnership model is third-party policing (TPP). TPP theory was conceptualised as a way of engaging non-police agencies through the use of legal levers to perform a crime prevention or control role. The theory assumes that (1) police agencies seek out non-police partners bec…
Australia’s New National Anti-Corruption Commission
Australia has been the site of major advances in the creation of public sector anticorruption commissions since 1989. However, commissions with broad jurisdiction have been limited to the six states until 2023. The federal jurisdiction lagged behind, with a series of scandals driving intensified debates from 2013. Performance issues associated with state agencies formed part of the debate. The present paper reviews this history, focusing on the i…
Partnerships in Policing
Partnerships in policing are used worldwide to reduce crime and disorder problems. Police forge partnerships with businesses, government agencies, and communities to co-produce public safety. Third-party policing (TPP) is a particular type of partnership that involves the police addressing crime and disorder by working through (and with) third-party partners. This Element focuses on the nature and effectiveness of TPP partnerships. Using systemat…
Incorporating lived experience into social work practice
Social workers with lived experience of incarceration can be more relatable and empathetic, improving their ability to connect and advocate for those they support. However, they face significant barriers to entering the profession, including difficulty obtaining accreditation to work with children, placement requirements, professional association eligibility, and exclusion from employment through criminal history checks and accumulated marginalis…
Supporting children of incarcerated mothers
Service Accessibility in Prisons Under New Public Management
Whilst the policy purpose of prisons is containment and rehabilitation, prisons must also provide a range of services to people who are incarcerated. Researchers have examined how service provision is complicated by features of the prison environment directed at safety and security, but less attention has been paid to the impact of managerialist practices focused on economic efficiency, service quality and resource allocation. Largely imported fr…
What Supports Do Incarcerated Mothers and Their Families Need? The Views of Incarcerated Mothers and Service Providers
Maternal incarceration causes complex and diverse outcomes, affecting the mother, her family, and her community. Despite this, there are few evidence-based models of support. This paper aims to identify participant’s perspectives in developing a model of support by identifying needs, preferred services, and current barriers. Incarcerated mothers (n = 75) and service providers (n = 24) in Queensland, Australia contributed through workshops. Partic…
Ethical Issues and Scandals in Australian Federal Politics, 2013-2024
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Criminology (15 works) · Law (15 works) · Law (11 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (8 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (8 works)