Carleen Thompson

Biographic Data

ID4438550
NAMECarleen Thompson
GIVEN NAMESCarleen
FAMILY NAMEThompson
SIGNATURETHOMPSON C
AFFILIATIONSGriffith University
ORCID0000-0001-5053-3401
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • What Supports Do Incarcerated Mothers and Their Families Need? The Views of Incarcerated Mothers and Service Providers

    Kim Lockwood, Diksha Sapkota et al.ARTICLEWomen & Criminal Justice2026

    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…

  • Maternal Experiences of Stressful Life Events and Its Association With Teenage Pregnancy and Preterm Birth

    Open AccessDiksha Sapkota, María Atiénzar-Prieto et al.ARTICLETrauma Violence & Abuse2026

    The role that stressful life events (SLEs) play in the etiology of teenage pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes, including preterm birth (PTB), has been increasingly acknowledged in the literature. However, studies in this area have revealed inconsistent findings, and existing research syntheses have not examined the temporal relationship between major SLEs (i.e., childhood maltreatment, intimate partner violence [IPV], severe mental illness [SMI…

  • Developmental trajectories of outpatient mental health service contact from childhood to early adulthood in an Australian birth cohort

    Open AccessJAMES M OGILVIE, Belinda Crissman et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2026

    GBTM can assist examination of variations in MHS contacts across the life course. Efficacious intervention with a small but distinct group of vulnerable individuals may meaningfully impact available system resources and improve their outcomes

  • A Conceptual Framework for Child Well-Being in the Context of Maternal Incarceration

    Open AccessChris A Williams, Corrie Williams et al.ARTICLEChild Indicators Research2026References: 24

    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,…

  • Supporting children of incarcerated mothers

    Open AccessCorrie Williams, Tara Renae Mcgee et al.ARTICLEFamily Relations2025

  • Examining the timing of mental health contacts across female offending trajectories

    Open AccessAydan Kuluk, Troy Allard et al.ARTICLEHealth & Justice2025

    BACKGROUND: There is a strong relationship between mental health and female offending, but few studies use longitudinal data to capture the differences in mental health service contact and diagnoses across diverse female offending trajectories. Most studies focus on broad trends, often overlooking how mental health contacts and diagnoses differentially unfold across female offending trajectories. We address this gap by utilising state-wide, linke…

  • Offending Trajectories in an Australian Birth Cohort

    Open AccessAydan Kuluk, Troy Allard et al.ARTICLECriminal Justice and Behavior2024

    Despite the rise in female offending, we know little about how female offending patterns vary with age and how they compare to those of males. In this study, we used linked administrative data from a 1983 and 1984 Australian birth cohort ( N = 83,362) to estimate offending trajectories separately for males and females and to examine how these patterns vary within and across sex. Results indicated that there was significant heterogeneity within se…

  • Examining the characteristics of children who experience contact with the youth justice system in Queensland

    Open AccessJames Ogilvie, Carleen Thompson et al.ARTICLECurrent Issues in Criminal Justice2024

    In jurisdictions such as Queensland, where the minimum age of criminal responsibility (i.e., 10 years of age) is out of step with international law and Australian human rights obligations, there are significant concerns about the criminalisation of children. These concerns include the potential for ensnaring young people, particularly First Nations children, into the criminal justice system rather than addressing their underlying needs. We use a …

  • Mental Disorders Among Mothers in Contact with the Criminal Justice System

    Open AccessDiksha Sapkota, Susan Dennison et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal2024

    This scoping review critically assessed evidence regarding mental disorders among mothers involved with the criminal justice system (CJS) and provided pooled prevalence rates of mental disorders. In total, 27 studies were included in the review, with 23 studies from the United States of America and 26 focused on incarcerated mothers. The findings supported the evidence on substantial burden of mental disorders, among CJS-involved mothers. Several…

  • New directions in intergenerational child maltreatment research and responses

    Open AccessEmma F Mckenzie, Emily Hurren et al.ARTICLEAustralian Journal of Social Issues2024References: 45

    While there is much research on the topic of child maltreatment more broadly in Australia, a nuanced understanding of intergenerational child maltreatment is needed to improve our responses. Little work has considered all four intergenerational patterns of child maltreatment: cycle maintainers (maltreated parents with maltreated children), cycle breakers (maltreated parents with non‐maltreated children), cycle initiators (non‐maltreated parents w…

  • Timing, frequency, and duration of incarceration and their impact on mental illness

    Open AccessDiksha Sapkota, James Ogilvie et al.ARTICLEJournal of Criminal Justice2024References: 51

    Incarceration is linked to mental illness (MI), but limited evidence exists on the impact of the timing, duration, and frequency of incarceration on the mental health of males and females. Data were drawn from a cohort of 83,049 people registered as born in Queensland in 1983/84 and followed to age 29–31 years. Cox regression analyses were conducted to predict the risk of MI diagnosis post-incarceration (youth detention or adult prison). There we…

  • The Overlaps between Intergenerational (Dis)Continuity of Child Protection Services Involvement and Mental Illness Diagnoses from Hospital Admissions

    Open AccessEmma F Mckenzie, Carleen Thompson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Violence2023

  • Lifetime prevalence of mental illness and incarceration

    Open AccessAnna Stewart, James Ogilvie et al.ARTICLEAustralian Journal of Social Issues2021Cited by: 4References: 41

    Individuals with mental illness are overrepresented in custodial settings. We examine the overlap between incarceration and diagnosed mental illness in a population‐based cohort born in Queensland in 1990. Data were extracted when the cohort was 23 or 24 years old. The population included 44,952 individuals (6.3 per cent Indigenous Australians, 45.8 per cent male), of which 1.5 per cent ( n = 690) had at least one custodial sentence, and 6.1 per …

  • Are Female Stalkers More Violent Than Male Stalkers? Understanding Gender Differences in Stalking Violence Using Contemporary Sociocultural Beliefs

    Open AccessCarleen Thompson, Carleen M Thompson et al.ARTICLESex Roles2010Cited by: 7References: 7