Samantha Jeffries
Biographic Data
| ID | 5238633 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samantha Jeffries |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samantha |
| FAMILY NAME | Jeffries |
| SIGNATURE | JEFFRIES S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8290-3363 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Working ‘from the heart’ under challenging circumstances: Thailand's probation workers discuss electronically monitored parole for women
This paper presents findings from an exploratory study undertaken with Department of Probation personnel in Thailand. The goal was to examine staff perspectives, experiences and practices regarding the support of women (formerly imprisoned for breaching illicit drug law) on electronically monitored (EM) parole. According to government rhetoric, EM parole should be rehabilitative, assist reintegration and operate per human rights standards and nor…
A life on hold: Women, drugs, and electronically monitored parole in Thailand
The United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-Custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules) advocate for the increased use of non-custodial measures alongside women-wise criminal justice programs, policies, and practices. In Thailand, since the Bangkok Rules were adopted, there has been increased attention paid to implementing affirmative action to counterbalance the gender discrimination women face behind pri…
Tomboys’ Pathways to Prison in Thailand: Insubordination, Support, Sacrifice, and Suffering
This paper presents findings from a feminist pathways study undertaken with imprisoned Tomboys, a gender sexual minority group in Thailand. Utilizing life-history interviews, we mapped Tomboys’ journeys into prison. Results showed two pathways. The first, insubordinate lifestyles, was characterized by substance abuse and life-long lawbreaking. The second pathway - support, sacrifice, suffering - was marked by romantic love and familial caregiving…
A gender-comparative exploration of women’s and men’s pathways to prison in Thailand
In feminist criminology, there is a growing body of research exploring gendered pathways into prison. However, this research has focussed predominantly on women. There are few gender comparative studies. Further, most feminist pathways research is western centric having, for the most part, been undertaken in the United States. Utilising categorical principal components analysis alongside descriptive statistics and illustrative case study examples…
Vulnerabilities, victimisation, romance and indulgence: Thai women's pathways to prison in Cambodia for international cross border drug trafficking
Women's pathways to prison in Kenya: Violence, poverty, familial caretaking and barriers to justice
Gendered Pathways to Prison in Thailand for Drug Offending? Exploring Women’s and Men’s Narratives of Offending and Criminalization
In criminology, there is a growing body of research exploring pathways into prison. However, few researchers have concerned themselves with qualitative gender-comparative studies of women’s and men’s journeys to offending and criminalization. Further, little is known about trajectories into non-Western prison systems. In this article, life course and feminist pathways perspectives are drawn on to describe, examine, and compare women’s and men’s p…
Media discourses of intimate partner violence in Queensland newspapers
Media discourse has a profound effect on public opinions. Prior research, the majority of which has been conducted internationally, shows that print media constructions of intimate partner violence (IPV) operate within a patriarchal framework which normalizes and constructs men's violence against women as acceptable. This research explored Queensland's print media representation of IPV. Results show that the reporting of IPV is episodic, sensatio…
Pathways to prison in Cambodia for homicide offending: Exploring women’s life history narratives
Studies undertaken on female homicide offenders are limited in both number and breadth, particularly within South East Asia. This article has consequently chosen to explore Cambodian women’s narratives of their journeys to prison for homicide offending using a feminist pathway approach. Results show a number of common threads in the women’s stories: childhood instability, economic marginalisation, criminalisation occurring within the milieu of a …
Prisoners of identity: The experiences of ethnic minority Vietnamese women categorised as foreign in Cambodian prisons
Romantic Terrorism: An Auto-Ethnography of Domestic Violence, Victimization and Survival
Romantic Terrorism offers an innovative methodology in exploring the ways in which domestic violence offenders terrorise their victims. Its focus on the insidious use of tactics of coercive control by
Gender and imprisonment in Thailand: Exploring the trends and understanding the drivers
Similar Punishment: Comparing Sentencing Outcomes in Domestic and Non-Domestic Violence Cases
Despite shifts in Western liberal democracies towards stronger criminal justice responses to domestic violence, the issue of sentencing disparity between domestic and non-domestic violence offending cases remains largely neglected. Using a population of cases sentenced in the New South Wales (Australia) lower courts between January 2009 and June 2012, we report multivariate analyses of the sentencing of domestic violence and non-domestic violence…
Gender, Indigeneity, and the Criminal Courts: A Narrative Exploration of Women's Sentencing in Western Australia
Using the focal concerns perspective, this study extends C. Bond and S. Jeffries's (2010 Bond , Christine E. W. and Samantha Jeffries . 2010 . “Sentencing Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Women in Western Australia's Higher Courts.” Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 17 : 70 – 78 .[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) past statistical sentencing research on Indigeneity and gender by undertaking a narrative exploration of sent…
Australian Domestic Violence Protection Order Legislation: A Comparative Quantitative Content Analysis of Victim Safety Provisions
In Australia, protection orders are a key legal response to domestic violence, and are often viewed as a way of providing for victim safety. For instance, recently the joint Australian and New South Wales Law Reform Commissions recommended that a common core purpose of all state and territory domestic violence legislation should be ‘to ensure or maximise the safety and protection of persons who fear or experience family violence’ (2010: Recommend…
Why do they Keep Going Back? Exploring Women's Discursive Experiences of Intimate Partner Abuse
This paper explores how different discourses of intimate partner abuse (IPA) may impact women's decisions to stay or leave their partners. More specifically, we ask: 1) what narratives are available to and used by heterosexual and non-heterosexual female survivors of IPA to make sense of their experiences? 2) How might these narratives impact women's ability, or lack thereof, to disengage from their abusive partners? Prior literature suggests tha…
Indigenous disparity in lower court imprisonment decisions: A study of two Australian jurisdictions, 1998 to 2008
This paper reports findings from statistical analyses of Indigeneity and lower court sentencing in New South Wales and South Australia from 1998 to 2008. The aim was to explore the probability of Indigenous versus non-Indigenous defendants receiving a prison sentence over time, while controlling for other key sentencing determinates (ie sex, age, criminal history, seriousness of current offence, plea, bail status). Across the study period, result…
The Impact of Indigenous Status on Adult Sentencing: A Review of the Statistical Research Literature From the United States, Canada, and Australia
The gross overrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in prison populations suggests that sentencing may be a discriminatory process. Using findings from recent (1991–2011) multivariate statistical sentencing analyses from the United States, Canada, and Australia, we review the 3 key hypotheses advanced as plausible explanations for baseline sentencing discrepancies between Indigenous and non-Indigenous adult criminal defendants: (a) differential in…
Does a therapeutic court context matter: The likelihood of imprisonment for Indigenous and non-Indigenous offenders sentenced in problem-solving courts
Harsher Sentences: Indigeneity and prison sentence length in Western Australia’s higher courts
Overall, reviews of international sentencing research conclude that offenders' race/ethnicity has a direct effect on sentencing outcomes. Although specific research on Indigenous status and sentencing is much more limited, there is emerging evidence that Indigeneity also has a direct impact on sentencing outcomes. While North American research suggests harsher outcomes, Australian research indicates more lenient outcomes at some stage of the proc…
Measuring Risk and Blameworthiness in the Sentencing of Criminal Defendants: An Exploratory Study in Western Australia's Higher Courts
The focal concern perspective dominates quantitative explorations of judicial sentencing. A critical argument underlying this perspective is the role of judicial assessments of risk and blameworthiness. Prior research has not generally explored how these two concepts fit together. This study provides an empirical test of the focal concerns perspective by examining the latent structure among the measures traditionally used in sentencing research, …
Indigeneity And The Judicial Decision To Imprison: A Study of Western Australia's Higher Courts
Internationally, sentencing research has largely neglected the impact of Indigeneity on sentencing outcomes. Using data from Western Australia's higher courts for the years 2003–05, we investigate the direct and interactive effects of Indigenous status on the judicial decision to imprison. Unlike prior research on race/ethnicity in which minority offenders are often found to be more harshly treated by sentencing courts, we find that Indigenous st…
Sex and Sentencing Disparity in South Australia's Higher Courts
In Australia, studies examining sex differences in sentencing are limited. Using data from South Australia's higher courts, this article explores a study on the impact of sex on the decision to imprison and the length of imprisonment. After adjusting for past and current criminality, results showed that men were significantly more likely than women to be sentenced to a term of imprisonment and that when sentence length was decided, men received l…
Narratives of mitigation: Sentencing Indigenous criminal defendants in South Australia’s higher courts
In their statistical analyses of higher court sentencing in South Australia, Jeffries and Bond (2009) found evidence that Indigenous offenders were treated more leniently than non-Indigenous offenders, when they appeared before the court under similar numerical circumstances. Using a sample of narratives for criminal defendants convicted in South Australia’s higher courts, the current article extends Jeffries and Bond’s (2009) prior statistical w…
How Justice ‘Gets Done’: Politics, Managerialism, Consumerism, and Therapeutic Jurisprudence
How criminal justice ‘gets done’ ultimately depends on the social context at any given historical moment. This paper: a) highlights how adversarial sentencing practice which has traditionally sat in the domain of Australia’s criminal courts is changing with moves towards therapeutic jurisprudence, i.e. problem-solving courts and restorative justice, b) outlines what social and theoretical forces are contributing to these modifications, c) provide…
Pathways to Sex‐based Differentiation in Criminal Court Sentencing
Using a matched sampling method, this research examined the process of sex‐based differentiation in sentencing outcomes for 194 men and 194 women, sentenced over a seven‐year period in Christchurch, New Zealand. Consistent with past research, our results showed that judicial processing treated women more leniently than men. Path analyses revealed that judges were less likely to sentence women than men to imprisonment terms because of gendered inf…
Indigeneity And The Judicial Decision To Imprison: A Study of Western Australia's Higher Courts
Internationally, sentencing research has largely neglected the impact of Indigeneity on sentencing outcomes. Using data from Western Australia's higher courts for the years 2003–05, we investigate the direct and interactive effects of Indigenous status on the judicial decision to imprison. Unlike prior research on race/ethnicity in which minority offenders are often found to be more harshly treated by sentencing courts, we find that Indigenous st…
Similar Punishment: Comparing Sentencing Outcomes in Domestic and Non-Domestic Violence Cases
Despite shifts in Western liberal democracies towards stronger criminal justice responses to domestic violence, the issue of sentencing disparity between domestic and non-domestic violence offending cases remains largely neglected. Using a population of cases sentenced in the New South Wales (Australia) lower courts between January 2009 and June 2012, we report multivariate analyses of the sentencing of domestic violence and non-domestic violence…
Does a therapeutic court context matter: The likelihood of imprisonment for Indigenous and non-Indigenous offenders sentenced in problem-solving courts
Narratives of mitigation: Sentencing Indigenous criminal defendants in South Australia’s higher courts
In their statistical analyses of higher court sentencing in South Australia, Jeffries and Bond (2009) found evidence that Indigenous offenders were treated more leniently than non-Indigenous offenders, when they appeared before the court under similar numerical circumstances. Using a sample of narratives for criminal defendants convicted in South Australia’s higher courts, the current article extends Jeffries and Bond’s (2009) prior statistical w…
Media discourses of intimate partner violence in Queensland newspapers
Media discourse has a profound effect on public opinions. Prior research, the majority of which has been conducted internationally, shows that print media constructions of intimate partner violence (IPV) operate within a patriarchal framework which normalizes and constructs men's violence against women as acceptable. This research explored Queensland's print media representation of IPV. Results show that the reporting of IPV is episodic, sensatio…
Gender and imprisonment in Thailand: Exploring the trends and understanding the drivers
Why do they Keep Going Back? Exploring Women's Discursive Experiences of Intimate Partner Abuse
This paper explores how different discourses of intimate partner abuse (IPA) may impact women's decisions to stay or leave their partners. More specifically, we ask: 1) what narratives are available to and used by heterosexual and non-heterosexual female survivors of IPA to make sense of their experiences? 2) How might these narratives impact women's ability, or lack thereof, to disengage from their abusive partners? Prior literature suggests tha…
Vulnerabilities, victimisation, romance and indulgence: Thai women's pathways to prison in Cambodia for international cross border drug trafficking
Pathways to prison in Cambodia for homicide offending: Exploring women’s life history narratives
Studies undertaken on female homicide offenders are limited in both number and breadth, particularly within South East Asia. This article has consequently chosen to explore Cambodian women’s narratives of their journeys to prison for homicide offending using a feminist pathway approach. Results show a number of common threads in the women’s stories: childhood instability, economic marginalisation, criminalisation occurring within the milieu of a …
Harsher Sentences: Indigeneity and prison sentence length in Western Australia’s higher courts
Overall, reviews of international sentencing research conclude that offenders' race/ethnicity has a direct effect on sentencing outcomes. Although specific research on Indigenous status and sentencing is much more limited, there is emerging evidence that Indigeneity also has a direct impact on sentencing outcomes. While North American research suggests harsher outcomes, Australian research indicates more lenient outcomes at some stage of the proc…
Pathways to Sex‐based Differentiation in Criminal Court Sentencing
Using a matched sampling method, this research examined the process of sex‐based differentiation in sentencing outcomes for 194 men and 194 women, sentenced over a seven‐year period in Christchurch, New Zealand. Consistent with past research, our results showed that judicial processing treated women more leniently than men. Path analyses revealed that judges were less likely to sentence women than men to imprisonment terms because of gendered inf…
How Justice ‘Gets Done’: Politics, Managerialism, Consumerism, and Therapeutic Jurisprudence
How criminal justice ‘gets done’ ultimately depends on the social context at any given historical moment. This paper: a) highlights how adversarial sentencing practice which has traditionally sat in the domain of Australia’s criminal courts is changing with moves towards therapeutic jurisprudence, i.e. problem-solving courts and restorative justice, b) outlines what social and theoretical forces are contributing to these modifications, c) provide…
Sex and Sentencing Disparity in South Australia's Higher Courts
In Australia, studies examining sex differences in sentencing are limited. Using data from South Australia's higher courts, this article explores a study on the impact of sex on the decision to imprison and the length of imprisonment. After adjusting for past and current criminality, results showed that men were significantly more likely than women to be sentenced to a term of imprisonment and that when sentence length was decided, men received l…
Narratives of mitigation: Sentencing Indigenous criminal defendants in South Australia’s higher courts
In their statistical analyses of higher court sentencing in South Australia, Jeffries and Bond (2009) found evidence that Indigenous offenders were treated more leniently than non-Indigenous offenders, when they appeared before the court under similar numerical circumstances. Using a sample of narratives for criminal defendants convicted in South Australia’s higher courts, the current article extends Jeffries and Bond’s (2009) prior statistical w…
Measuring Risk and Blameworthiness in the Sentencing of Criminal Defendants: An Exploratory Study in Western Australia's Higher Courts
The focal concern perspective dominates quantitative explorations of judicial sentencing. A critical argument underlying this perspective is the role of judicial assessments of risk and blameworthiness. Prior research has not generally explored how these two concepts fit together. This study provides an empirical test of the focal concerns perspective by examining the latent structure among the measures traditionally used in sentencing research, …
Indigeneity And The Judicial Decision To Imprison: A Study of Western Australia's Higher Courts
Internationally, sentencing research has largely neglected the impact of Indigeneity on sentencing outcomes. Using data from Western Australia's higher courts for the years 2003–05, we investigate the direct and interactive effects of Indigenous status on the judicial decision to imprison. Unlike prior research on race/ethnicity in which minority offenders are often found to be more harshly treated by sentencing courts, we find that Indigenous st…
Indigenous disparity in lower court imprisonment decisions: A study of two Australian jurisdictions, 1998 to 2008
This paper reports findings from statistical analyses of Indigeneity and lower court sentencing in New South Wales and South Australia from 1998 to 2008. The aim was to explore the probability of Indigenous versus non-Indigenous defendants receiving a prison sentence over time, while controlling for other key sentencing determinates (ie sex, age, criminal history, seriousness of current offence, plea, bail status). Across the study period, result…
The Impact of Indigenous Status on Adult Sentencing: A Review of the Statistical Research Literature From the United States, Canada, and Australia
The gross overrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in prison populations suggests that sentencing may be a discriminatory process. Using findings from recent (1991–2011) multivariate statistical sentencing analyses from the United States, Canada, and Australia, we review the 3 key hypotheses advanced as plausible explanations for baseline sentencing discrepancies between Indigenous and non-Indigenous adult criminal defendants: (a) differential in…
Does a therapeutic court context matter: The likelihood of imprisonment for Indigenous and non-Indigenous offenders sentenced in problem-solving courts
Harsher Sentences: Indigeneity and prison sentence length in Western Australia’s higher courts
Overall, reviews of international sentencing research conclude that offenders' race/ethnicity has a direct effect on sentencing outcomes. Although specific research on Indigenous status and sentencing is much more limited, there is emerging evidence that Indigeneity also has a direct impact on sentencing outcomes. While North American research suggests harsher outcomes, Australian research indicates more lenient outcomes at some stage of the proc…
Gender, Indigeneity, and the Criminal Courts: A Narrative Exploration of Women's Sentencing in Western Australia
Using the focal concerns perspective, this study extends C. Bond and S. Jeffries's (2010 Bond , Christine E. W. and Samantha Jeffries . 2010 . “Sentencing Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Women in Western Australia's Higher Courts.” Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 17 : 70 – 78 .[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) past statistical sentencing research on Indigeneity and gender by undertaking a narrative exploration of sent…
Australian Domestic Violence Protection Order Legislation: A Comparative Quantitative Content Analysis of Victim Safety Provisions
In Australia, protection orders are a key legal response to domestic violence, and are often viewed as a way of providing for victim safety. For instance, recently the joint Australian and New South Wales Law Reform Commissions recommended that a common core purpose of all state and territory domestic violence legislation should be ‘to ensure or maximise the safety and protection of persons who fear or experience family violence’ (2010: Recommend…
Why do they Keep Going Back? Exploring Women's Discursive Experiences of Intimate Partner Abuse
This paper explores how different discourses of intimate partner abuse (IPA) may impact women's decisions to stay or leave their partners. More specifically, we ask: 1) what narratives are available to and used by heterosexual and non-heterosexual female survivors of IPA to make sense of their experiences? 2) How might these narratives impact women's ability, or lack thereof, to disengage from their abusive partners? Prior literature suggests tha…
Similar Punishment: Comparing Sentencing Outcomes in Domestic and Non-Domestic Violence Cases
Despite shifts in Western liberal democracies towards stronger criminal justice responses to domestic violence, the issue of sentencing disparity between domestic and non-domestic violence offending cases remains largely neglected. Using a population of cases sentenced in the New South Wales (Australia) lower courts between January 2009 and June 2012, we report multivariate analyses of the sentencing of domestic violence and non-domestic violence…
Romantic Terrorism: An Auto-Ethnography of Domestic Violence, Victimization and Survival
Romantic Terrorism offers an innovative methodology in exploring the ways in which domestic violence offenders terrorise their victims. Its focus on the insidious use of tactics of coercive control by
Gender and imprisonment in Thailand: Exploring the trends and understanding the drivers
Pathways to prison in Cambodia for homicide offending: Exploring women’s life history narratives
Studies undertaken on female homicide offenders are limited in both number and breadth, particularly within South East Asia. This article has consequently chosen to explore Cambodian women’s narratives of their journeys to prison for homicide offending using a feminist pathway approach. Results show a number of common threads in the women’s stories: childhood instability, economic marginalisation, criminalisation occurring within the milieu of a …
Prisoners of identity: The experiences of ethnic minority Vietnamese women categorised as foreign in Cambodian prisons
Vulnerabilities, victimisation, romance and indulgence: Thai women's pathways to prison in Cambodia for international cross border drug trafficking
Women's pathways to prison in Kenya: Violence, poverty, familial caretaking and barriers to justice
Gendered Pathways to Prison in Thailand for Drug Offending? Exploring Women’s and Men’s Narratives of Offending and Criminalization
In criminology, there is a growing body of research exploring pathways into prison. However, few researchers have concerned themselves with qualitative gender-comparative studies of women’s and men’s journeys to offending and criminalization. Further, little is known about trajectories into non-Western prison systems. In this article, life course and feminist pathways perspectives are drawn on to describe, examine, and compare women’s and men’s p…
Media discourses of intimate partner violence in Queensland newspapers
Media discourse has a profound effect on public opinions. Prior research, the majority of which has been conducted internationally, shows that print media constructions of intimate partner violence (IPV) operate within a patriarchal framework which normalizes and constructs men's violence against women as acceptable. This research explored Queensland's print media representation of IPV. Results show that the reporting of IPV is episodic, sensatio…
A gender-comparative exploration of women’s and men’s pathways to prison in Thailand
In feminist criminology, there is a growing body of research exploring gendered pathways into prison. However, this research has focussed predominantly on women. There are few gender comparative studies. Further, most feminist pathways research is western centric having, for the most part, been undertaken in the United States. Utilising categorical principal components analysis alongside descriptive statistics and illustrative case study examples…
A life on hold: Women, drugs, and electronically monitored parole in Thailand
The United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-Custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules) advocate for the increased use of non-custodial measures alongside women-wise criminal justice programs, policies, and practices. In Thailand, since the Bangkok Rules were adopted, there has been increased attention paid to implementing affirmative action to counterbalance the gender discrimination women face behind pri…
Tomboys’ Pathways to Prison in Thailand: Insubordination, Support, Sacrifice, and Suffering
This paper presents findings from a feminist pathways study undertaken with imprisoned Tomboys, a gender sexual minority group in Thailand. Utilizing life-history interviews, we mapped Tomboys’ journeys into prison. Results showed two pathways. The first, insubordinate lifestyles, was characterized by substance abuse and life-long lawbreaking. The second pathway - support, sacrifice, suffering - was marked by romantic love and familial caregiving…
Criminology (24 works) · Political science (23 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (21 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Law (19 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Law (11 works) · Prison (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Medicine (9 works)