Tara Renae Mcgee
Biographic Data
| ID | 4239312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tara Renae Mcgee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tara Renae |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcgee |
| SIGNATURE | MCGEE T R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1385-1931 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| 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…
Perpetrators of the Criminal Victimisation of Children: A Longitudinal Study
Excluding child abuse and neglect, children may experience violence in their day-to-day lives, but little is known about the frequency of such experiences or the characteristics of those who perpetrate this violence. Some characteristics of the environment in which the child is reared, e.g., family economic disadvantage, or of the perpetrator, e.g., mental illness, may contribute to the level of violence children may routinely experience. This st…
A Conceptual Framework for Child Well-Being in the Context of Maternal Incarceration: A Meta-Narrative Synthesis
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,…
Incorporating lived experience into social work practice: A personal and organisational journey
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: The case for a system navigator
An assessment of the Key Construct of the Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential (Icap) Theory: Psychometric Qualities of the Antisocial Attitudes Scale Among a Sample of Portuguese adolescents
Antisocial Potential is the key construct of the Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential (ICAP) theory, and it has been measured by the antisocial attitude (AA) scale. The ICAP theory is one of the main theoretical frameworks in developmental and life-course criminology. The present study aimed to examine the psychometric properties of the AA scale in the Portuguese adolescent population. Our sample was comprised of 485 participants. The Portug…
Parental imprisonment, childhood behavioral problems, and adolescent and young adult cardiometabolic risk: Results from a prospective Australian birth cohort study
Qualitative insights on help-seeking from older Australian women with lived experience of elder abuse
The consequences of elder abuse are often endured, and help is rarely sought. To change this, comprehensive responses are needed to address perpetrator behavior, the underlying stigma of elder abuse, improve service response, and harness the role of informal supporters to enable access to formal services
Service Accessibility in Prisons Under New Public Management: Incarcerated Women's Perspectives and Responses
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…
The temporal ordering of offending and victimisation in early adulthood among people who use substances in Chile: A multichannel sequence analysis
What predicts being a victim of bullying in adolescence? An examination of risk factors from childhood and adolescence
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine predictors of being a victim of bullying in adolescence. Design/methodology/approach Data come from mothers and their children who participated in the prospective longitudinal Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy and its Outcomes. The authors examine predictors of being a victim of bullying collected at the 5-year and 14-year follow-ups ( n = 2,815). Findings Adolescents (aged 14) more …
The development and psychometric properties of a scalable digital measure of social and emotional wellbeing for middle childhood
The need for a new measure of social-emotional wellbeing for children 6–12 years emerged in our collaboration with schools and community agencies in a disadvantaged region of Brisbane, Australia. Our search for an age-appropriate medium led us to develop Clowning Around, a computer game generating data which was assessed for validity and reliability in Study 1 (N = 3,461), revealing four wellbeing factors with satisfactory properties. The imperat…
Child well‐being before and after the 2020 Covid ‐19 lockdowns in three Australian states
This paper reports on changes in the social‐emotional well‐being of 6‐ to 12‐year‐old children tested before the COVID‐19 pandemic and during 2020 and 2021. Well‐being was assessed using a video game that empowers children to report their own well‐being, including school attachment, social and emotional well‐being, behavioural conformity and family support. We compared well‐being over time for two groups of children in government schools in Queen…
Navigating pregnancy and early motherhood in prison: A thematic analysis of mothers’ experiences
Parental imprisonment as a risk factor for cardiovascular and metabolic disease in adolescent and adult offspring: A prospective Australian birth cohort study
Using prospective cohort data, our results support research showing that parental imprisonment, particularly in early childhood, is associated with increased BMI, blood pressure, sedentary hours, and waist circumference in females in early adulthood. These findings implicate parental imprisonment as a risk factor for cardiometabolic health issues in later life among females
Do cannabis and amphetamine use in adolescence predict adult life success: A longitudinal study
Background While some studies have reported that early age of onset of cannabis and amphetamine use predicts a range of adverse outcomes, these findings are rarely adjusted for other predictors of adverse outcomes or subsequent drug use over the adult life course. These studies have not addressed the possibility that it is subsequent rather than early age of onset of drug use that may predict adult life success.Methods Data are from the Mater-Uni…
When cyberaggression is personal: Gender differences in threats and betrayals of partners and friends
Purpose New ways of perpetrating relational aggression have been facilitated by the increased availability and adoption of technology for communication, resulting in growing cyberaggression rates over the past few decades. Few studies have examined whether perpetrators of cyberaggression are more likely to target friends or romantic partners (or both) and whether this differs across the gender of the perpetrator. This is the key focus of the curr…
Predicting Child Maltreatment over the Early Life Course: A Prospective Study
Evaluation of a place‐based collective impact initiative through cross‐sectoral data linkage
Australian governments fund many place‐based collective impact initiatives like Communities for Children (CfC); states fund family support services to keep at‐risk children out of the child protection system; and schools implement many extracurricular programmes. Do these services have a beneficial, cost‐effective collective impact on child well‐being? This paper describes a proof‐of‐concept attempt to address this question by linking for one CfC…
Developmental and Life-course Criminological Theories
This study examines whether morality and self-control have an interactional effect on offending. Drawing from the situational action theory, the authors hypothesize that self-control has a more important effect on offending for individuals with low levels of morality than for individuals with high levels of morality. To test this hypothesis, self-report data were used from three independent samples of young adolescents in Antwerp, Belgium (N = 2,…
Disentangling Operationalizations of Persistent Offending
Frequent peer problems in Australian children and adolescents
Purpose – Whilst overt bullying has received considerable attention for its negative impact on the emotional well-being of children and adolescents, peer problems such as excessive teasing and social exclusion have received less consideration. The purpose of this paper is to examine the prevalence, demographic, and clinical correlates of frequent peer problems in children and adolescents who participated in the Australian National Survey of Menta…
Adult-onset offenders: Is a tailored theory warranted
Agreements in Restorative Justice Conferences: Exploring the Implications of Agreements for Post-Conference Offending Behaviour
Agreements are key outcomes in restorative justice conferences. However, there is debate over the effectiveness of such agreements to reduce post-conference offending. Research suggests that many young offenders are satisfied with their agreements and perceive them as fair. We know less about the linkages between young offenders’ experiences with agreements and post-conference offending. Drawing on observation and interview data from 32 young off…
Risk, Resilience and Beyond: Introduction
Are There Any True Adult-Onset Offenders
In the extant literature, adult-onset offending has usually been identified using official sources. It is possible, however, that many of the individuals identified would have had unofficial histories of prior offending. To investigate this issue, the men from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD) were examined. The CSDD is a prospective longitudinal study of men from inner-city London, followed from age 8 to age 48. Onset of offen…
Utilization of social science research: Results of a pilot study among Australian sociologists and criminologists
Researchers, as well as decision-makers and practitioners, often wonder what becomes of the results of research in the social sciences. At present in Australia, we know very little on the subject. This article reports results from a survey of academic sociologists and criminologists about the utilization of their research. It tests an empirical model that derives its dependent and independent variables from prior studies on knowledge utilization,…
Adult-onset offenders: Is a tailored theory warranted
Evaluation of a place‐based collective impact initiative through cross‐sectoral data linkage
Australian governments fund many place‐based collective impact initiatives like Communities for Children (CfC); states fund family support services to keep at‐risk children out of the child protection system; and schools implement many extracurricular programmes. Do these services have a beneficial, cost‐effective collective impact on child well‐being? This paper describes a proof‐of‐concept attempt to address this question by linking for one CfC…
Child well‐being before and after the 2020 Covid ‐19 lockdowns in three Australian states
This paper reports on changes in the social‐emotional well‐being of 6‐ to 12‐year‐old children tested before the COVID‐19 pandemic and during 2020 and 2021. Well‐being was assessed using a video game that empowers children to report their own well‐being, including school attachment, social and emotional well‐being, behavioural conformity and family support. We compared well‐being over time for two groups of children in government schools in Queen…
Young adult problem behaviour outcomes of adolescent bullying
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on the association between bullying victimisation and various internalizing and externalizing behaviours including anxiety and depression, somatic problems, withdrawn behaviour, aggressive and delinquent behaviour. Design/methodology/approach Data for this research come from the Mater‐University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy and its Outcomes (MUSP) a prospective cohort study of mothers and their c…
Disentangling Operationalizations of Persistent Offending
Agreements in Restorative Justice Conferences: Exploring the Implications of Agreements for Post-Conference Offending Behaviour
Agreements are key outcomes in restorative justice conferences. However, there is debate over the effectiveness of such agreements to reduce post-conference offending. Research suggests that many young offenders are satisfied with their agreements and perceive them as fair. We know less about the linkages between young offenders’ experiences with agreements and post-conference offending. Drawing on observation and interview data from 32 young off…
Histories Of Australian Sociology
This title brings together, in one volume, a comprehensive collection of original papers, previously published journal articles and book chapters, and unpublished essays that document the establishment and rise of the discipline of sociology in Australia and New Zealand. Contributors shed light on the major themes, debates and controversies in Australian sociology. This diverse collection is a valuable resource in teaching sociology and will appe…
Are There Any True Adult-Onset Offenders
In the extant literature, adult-onset offending has usually been identified using official sources. It is possible, however, that many of the individuals identified would have had unofficial histories of prior offending. To investigate this issue, the men from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD) were examined. The CSDD is a prospective longitudinal study of men from inner-city London, followed from age 8 to age 48. Onset of offen…
Risk, Resilience and Beyond: Introduction
Explaining Continuity and Change in Offending Behaviour after a Restorative Justice Conference
Over the past two decades, research has produced inconsistent results regarding the crime prevention potential of restorative justice conferencing for young offenders. Some comparative research has suggested that restorative justice conferencing reduces reoffending compared with other youth justice processes (Strang et al 1999). Other quantitative research has examined the circumstances under which conferencing reduces crime and has found that of…
Young adult problem behaviour outcomes of adolescent bullying
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on the association between bullying victimisation and various internalizing and externalizing behaviours including anxiety and depression, somatic problems, withdrawn behaviour, aggressive and delinquent behaviour. Design/methodology/approach Data for this research come from the Mater‐University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy and its Outcomes (MUSP) a prospective cohort study of mothers and their c…
Utilization of social science research: Results of a pilot study among Australian sociologists and criminologists
Researchers, as well as decision-makers and practitioners, often wonder what becomes of the results of research in the social sciences. At present in Australia, we know very little on the subject. This article reports results from a survey of academic sociologists and criminologists about the utilization of their research. It tests an empirical model that derives its dependent and independent variables from prior studies on knowledge utilization,…
Agreements in Restorative Justice Conferences: Exploring the Implications of Agreements for Post-Conference Offending Behaviour
Agreements are key outcomes in restorative justice conferences. However, there is debate over the effectiveness of such agreements to reduce post-conference offending. Research suggests that many young offenders are satisfied with their agreements and perceive them as fair. We know less about the linkages between young offenders’ experiences with agreements and post-conference offending. Drawing on observation and interview data from 32 young off…
Frequent peer problems in Australian children and adolescents
Purpose – Whilst overt bullying has received considerable attention for its negative impact on the emotional well-being of children and adolescents, peer problems such as excessive teasing and social exclusion have received less consideration. The purpose of this paper is to examine the prevalence, demographic, and clinical correlates of frequent peer problems in children and adolescents who participated in the Australian National Survey of Menta…
Adult-onset offenders: Is a tailored theory warranted
Developmental and Life-course Criminological Theories
This study examines whether morality and self-control have an interactional effect on offending. Drawing from the situational action theory, the authors hypothesize that self-control has a more important effect on offending for individuals with low levels of morality than for individuals with high levels of morality. To test this hypothesis, self-report data were used from three independent samples of young adolescents in Antwerp, Belgium (N = 2,…
Disentangling Operationalizations of Persistent Offending
Predicting Child Maltreatment over the Early Life Course: A Prospective Study
Evaluation of a place‐based collective impact initiative through cross‐sectoral data linkage
Australian governments fund many place‐based collective impact initiatives like Communities for Children (CfC); states fund family support services to keep at‐risk children out of the child protection system; and schools implement many extracurricular programmes. Do these services have a beneficial, cost‐effective collective impact on child well‐being? This paper describes a proof‐of‐concept attempt to address this question by linking for one CfC…
Navigating pregnancy and early motherhood in prison: A thematic analysis of mothers’ experiences
Parental imprisonment as a risk factor for cardiovascular and metabolic disease in adolescent and adult offspring: A prospective Australian birth cohort study
Using prospective cohort data, our results support research showing that parental imprisonment, particularly in early childhood, is associated with increased BMI, blood pressure, sedentary hours, and waist circumference in females in early adulthood. These findings implicate parental imprisonment as a risk factor for cardiometabolic health issues in later life among females
Do cannabis and amphetamine use in adolescence predict adult life success: A longitudinal study
Background While some studies have reported that early age of onset of cannabis and amphetamine use predicts a range of adverse outcomes, these findings are rarely adjusted for other predictors of adverse outcomes or subsequent drug use over the adult life course. These studies have not addressed the possibility that it is subsequent rather than early age of onset of drug use that may predict adult life success.Methods Data are from the Mater-Uni…
When cyberaggression is personal: Gender differences in threats and betrayals of partners and friends
Purpose New ways of perpetrating relational aggression have been facilitated by the increased availability and adoption of technology for communication, resulting in growing cyberaggression rates over the past few decades. Few studies have examined whether perpetrators of cyberaggression are more likely to target friends or romantic partners (or both) and whether this differs across the gender of the perpetrator. This is the key focus of the curr…
Child well‐being before and after the 2020 Covid ‐19 lockdowns in three Australian states
This paper reports on changes in the social‐emotional well‐being of 6‐ to 12‐year‐old children tested before the COVID‐19 pandemic and during 2020 and 2021. Well‐being was assessed using a video game that empowers children to report their own well‐being, including school attachment, social and emotional well‐being, behavioural conformity and family support. We compared well‐being over time for two groups of children in government schools in Queen…
The development and psychometric properties of a scalable digital measure of social and emotional wellbeing for middle childhood
The need for a new measure of social-emotional wellbeing for children 6–12 years emerged in our collaboration with schools and community agencies in a disadvantaged region of Brisbane, Australia. Our search for an age-appropriate medium led us to develop Clowning Around, a computer game generating data which was assessed for validity and reliability in Study 1 (N = 3,461), revealing four wellbeing factors with satisfactory properties. The imperat…
Incorporating lived experience into social work practice: A personal and organisational journey
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: The case for a system navigator
An assessment of the Key Construct of the Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential (Icap) Theory: Psychometric Qualities of the Antisocial Attitudes Scale Among a Sample of Portuguese adolescents
Antisocial Potential is the key construct of the Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential (ICAP) theory, and it has been measured by the antisocial attitude (AA) scale. The ICAP theory is one of the main theoretical frameworks in developmental and life-course criminology. The present study aimed to examine the psychometric properties of the AA scale in the Portuguese adolescent population. Our sample was comprised of 485 participants. The Portug…
Parental imprisonment, childhood behavioral problems, and adolescent and young adult cardiometabolic risk: Results from a prospective Australian birth cohort study
Qualitative insights on help-seeking from older Australian women with lived experience of elder abuse
The consequences of elder abuse are often endured, and help is rarely sought. To change this, comprehensive responses are needed to address perpetrator behavior, the underlying stigma of elder abuse, improve service response, and harness the role of informal supporters to enable access to formal services
Service Accessibility in Prisons Under New Public Management: Incarcerated Women's Perspectives and Responses
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…
Psychology (21 works) · Developmental psychology (13 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (9 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (7 works)