Kelly Richards
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4076264 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kelly Richards |
| PRENOMES | Kelly |
| SOBRENOME | Richards |
| ASSINATURA | RICHARDS K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6829-8016 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) for culturally and linguistically diverse and First Nations people with convictions for sexual offending
Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) now exist in many locations across the globe to support core members (those with sexual offence convictions) reintegrate into the community after prison and reduce sexual recidivism. Despite the overrepresentation of culturally and linguistically diverse and First Nations people in prison for sexual offending in many of these locations, no prior research has considered if and how CoSA works for this co…
Sexual Offending with Childlike Sex Dolls in Australia
Childlike sex dolls (CLSDs) present an issue of growing concern for criminal justice professionals and child safety advocates around the globe, with legislation being rapidly introduced to combat this problem. Empirical research on this topic is limited, and little has been documented about individuals who import, own and/or use CLSDs. This study sought to contribute to knowledge by examining newsprint media reports concerning cases (n = 33) of C…
Victim/survivor input into circles of support and accountability (CoSA)
Victim/survivors of sexual violence have long served as volunteers in Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA); however, little has been documented about broader victim/survivor input into CoSA. This research addressed this gap through an online survey and in-depth qualitative interviews with CoSA staff and volunteers across the globe. It documented that in participants’ views, victim/survivors need to occupy the ‘Goldilocks’ position by evok…
How Do Female Perpetrators of Child Sexual Abuse Qualitatively Account for Their Actions? A Systematic Scoping Review
Less is understood about female than male perpetrators of child sexual abuse (CSA). This scoping review documented how female perpetrators account for their actions in studies that allow perpetrators scope to do so. It utilized the qualitative data from these studies to document male perpetrators’ narratives, and adopted Scott and Lyman’s (1968) “accounts” as an analytic framework. Studies (n = 13) were included if they were published between 1 J…
Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) for Core Members Who Identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual+ (LGBTQIA+)
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual+ (LGBTQIA+) individuals are overrepresented in prison and face increased criminal justice attention on sexual offending. Furthermore, LGBTQIA+ individuals experience challenges reintegrating into communities following prison. Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA)—a measure to support the community reintegration of people with sexual offence convictions—might therefore be mobiliz…
Victim/survivors’ reasons for volunteering in Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA)
Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) rely on community volunteers to operate; approximately one-quarter of these volunteers have lived experience of sexual violence. Research on the motivations of these victim/survivor volunteers has not utilised general community samples of victim/survivors but has focused on those victim/survivors who already volunteer with CoSA. This research addresses this gap. It involved a survey of 193 victim/survi…
Reintegrating Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people with convictions for sexual offending
Sexual Offending with Child-Like Sex Dolls in Australia
Framing Perpetrators of Sexual Violence Who Participate in Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA)
Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) are now part of the criminal justice landscape in various parts of the world. While CoSA have received considerable media attention, it is not yet known how they are portrayed in the media. This study addressed this gap by analyzing newspaper coverage of CoSA from across the English-speaking world. Overall, it identified that representations of those convicted of sexual violence in print media accounts…
Does Gender Matter?
Sociological and historical research into sexual violence against children has reported consistently that it is girls who have most often been the subject of sexual, psychological and physical violence in both familial and institutional settings in modernity. However, more recently, public inquiries have provided evidence that during the 20th century, boys were much more likely to be abused in particular kinds of religious settings. This has been…
Circles of Support and Accountability
Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) appear to reduce the sexual recidivism of core members (i.e., individuals convicted of sexual offending). It remains unclear, however, how they do so. While much previous scholarship has hypothesized that the relations between core members and CoSA volunteers promote desistance from sexual offending, there has been no theoretically-informed research that specifically interrogates these relations. This …
Does Gender Matter
Sociological and historical research into sexual violence against children has reported consistently that it is girls who have most often been the subject of sexual, psychological and physical violence in both familial and institutional settings in modernity. However, more recently, public inquiries have provided evidence that during the 20th century, boys were much more likely to be abused in particular kinds of religious settings. This has been…
Pedophile Hunters and Performing Masculinities Online
Pedophile hunting – abetted by digital technologies – has spread rapidly, resulting in detrimental outcomes, including suicides of hunters' targets. The scant research on these groups adopts a functionalist argument that they have emerged to fill a security deficit – to undertake work that police are incapable of due to resource and skill deficits in policing the cybersphere. This paper adopts a critical approach to argue that the expressive natu…
Desistance from Sexual Offending
This book explores how Circles of Support and Accountability can reduce sexual reoffending. The release of a notorious sex offender from prison strikes fear into members of the public. Media coverage often provokes further panic, casting such offenders as irredeemable monsters and ticking time bombs, destined to continue preying on innocent children and women. In the West, governments have responded by enacting heavily punitive and exclusionary p…
Survivors’ Beliefs About the Causes of Sexual Offending
Policies designed to prevent sexual (re)offending are often proposed on behalf of survivors of sexual violence. However, no research has examined survivors' beliefs about the causes of sexual offending. This is a critical gap, because how individuals understand the causes of sexual offending has long been thought to inform their support for particular policy responses. This article presents findings from the first study to specifically examine su…
Police perceptions of young people
Police views of young people inform the way they exercise discretion over this group. However, few studies have sought to formally document and examine police views of young people. The limited existing research is also mostly dated. This article begins to address this gap in the literature by presenting the results of semi-structured qualitative interviews with 41 police officers from Queensland, Australia. Stemming from a larger study of Police…
Young people with cognitive disabilities and overrepresentation in the criminal justice system
Young people with cognitive disabilities (YPWCD) are overrepresented as offenders in the criminal justice system. However, most existing research on this topic examines overrepresentation in courts and corrections rather than at the police gatekeeping stage of the criminal justice process. Furthermore, while the views of other groups have been documented, the perspectives of service providers – who often bear witness to YPWCD’s interactions with …
The resettlement of sex offenders after custody
While there has been considerable research interest in Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) since they emerged in the mid-1990s, much remains to be done, and there are profound gaps in our
Understanding Romance Fraud
Romance fraud affects thousands of victims globally, yet few scholars have studied it. The dynamics of relationships between victims and offenders are not well understood, and the effects are rarely discussed. This article adapts the concept of psychological abuse from studies of domestic violence to better understand romance fraud. Using interviews with 21 Australian romance fraud victims, we show how offenders use non-violent tactics to ensure …
Born This Way? A Qualitative Examination of Public Perceptions of the Causes of Pedophilia and Sexual Offending against Children
Understanding public opinion about the causes of pedophilia and/or child sex offending is vital, as the views of the public influence how governments respond to sexual offenders. However, little research has been undertaken on this topic. This study addresses this gap by examining the causes that members of the public ascribe to pedophilia and/or child sexual abuse using qualitative data from online forums. The etiological accounts that the publi…
Public Views About Reintegrating Child Sex Offenders via Circles of Support and Accountability (Cosa)
Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA) have recently become part of the criminal justice landscape. However, little has been documented on public views about COSA. The existing research on this topic is entirely quantitative, providing no insight into the reasons behind public support for COSA. This study addresses this gap by analyzing comments made on four online forums following the announcement of Australia's first COSA program. Finding…
Youth Justice, Restorative Justice and Gendered Violence — Oh My! The Rise and Rise of Offender ‘Accountability’ in Contemporary Penality
The notion of offender ‘accountability’ has emerged as a key concept in contemporary penality in recent years, perhaps especially in the areas of youth justice, restorative justice, and gendered violence. However, the criminological literature offers few definitions of and little critical scholarly engagement with the meanings, aims and parameters of offender ‘accountability’. This comment begins to address this gap by drawing attention to this w…
The ‘ACA Effect’
In recent years, numerous current affairs stories on online fraud victimisation have been broadcast on Australian television. These stories typically feature highly organised, international ‘sting’ operations, in which alleged offenders are arrested and investigated by law enforcement. These portrayals of police responses influence the expectations that some online fraud victims have about how their individual cases will be handled by law enforce…
Help-seeking strategies of victim/survivors of human trafficking involving partner migration
Victim/survivors of human trafficking involving partner migration employ diverse help-seeking strategies, both formal and informal, to exit their exploitative situations. Drawing on primary research conducted by Lyneham and Richards (forthcoming), the authors highlight the importance of educating the community and professionals from a wide range of sectors—including health, mental health, child protection, social welfare, social work, domestic vi…
Scared Straight
The Liberal National Party ('LNP') 'tough on youth crime' policy mantra was well publicised in the months leading up to the 2012 Queensland state election. Boot camp trials were espoused as a quick-fix panacea - a way of addressing youth offending. The idea was particularly favoured in the far northern regions of the state. In line with the new government's policy, the Youth Justice (Boot Camp Orders) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2012 (Ql…
Understanding Romance Fraud
Romance fraud affects thousands of victims globally, yet few scholars have studied it. The dynamics of relationships between victims and offenders are not well understood, and the effects are rarely discussed. This article adapts the concept of psychological abuse from studies of domestic violence to better understand romance fraud. Using interviews with 21 Australian romance fraud victims, we show how offenders use non-violent tactics to ensure …
Public Views About Reintegrating Child Sex Offenders via Circles of Support and Accountability (Cosa)
Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA) have recently become part of the criminal justice landscape. However, little has been documented on public views about COSA. The existing research on this topic is entirely quantitative, providing no insight into the reasons behind public support for COSA. This study addresses this gap by analyzing comments made on four online forums following the announcement of Australia's first COSA program. Finding…
Restorative Justice and “Empowerment
Is Training in Psychology Associated With Increased Responsiveness to Suicidality
Training is associated with improved responses to suicidal individuals, but it is not clear whether any training helps or whether the training needs to be in psychology. The authors compared beginning and advanced psychology graduate students and practicing psychologists to nursing graduate students. A total of 139 participants in these 4 groups read a vignette about Pat, who had either contemplated suicide or never contemplated suicide, then com…
Born This Way? A Qualitative Examination of Public Perceptions of the Causes of Pedophilia and Sexual Offending against Children
Understanding public opinion about the causes of pedophilia and/or child sex offending is vital, as the views of the public influence how governments respond to sexual offenders. However, little research has been undertaken on this topic. This study addresses this gap by examining the causes that members of the public ascribe to pedophilia and/or child sexual abuse using qualitative data from online forums. The etiological accounts that the publi…
Scared Straight
The Liberal National Party ('LNP') 'tough on youth crime' policy mantra was well publicised in the months leading up to the 2012 Queensland state election. Boot camp trials were espoused as a quick-fix panacea - a way of addressing youth offending. The idea was particularly favoured in the far northern regions of the state. In line with the new government's policy, the Youth Justice (Boot Camp Orders) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2012 (Ql…
Compensation to Dependants of Accident Victims
Journal Article Compensation to Dependants of Accident Victims Get access R. Kidner, R. Kidner University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar K. Richards K. Richards University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 84, Issue 333, 1 March 1974, Pages 130–142, https://doi.org/10.2307/2230…
Compensation to Dependants of Accident Victims--A Reply
Journal Article Compensation to Dependants of Accident Victims--A Reply Get access R. Kidner, R. Kidner The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar K. Richards K. Richards The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 86, Issue 341, 1 March 1976, Pages 104–106, https://doi.o…
Is Training in Psychology Associated With Increased Responsiveness to Suicidality
Training is associated with improved responses to suicidal individuals, but it is not clear whether any training helps or whether the training needs to be in psychology. The authors compared beginning and advanced psychology graduate students and practicing psychologists to nursing graduate students. A total of 139 participants in these 4 groups read a vignette about Pat, who had either contemplated suicide or never contemplated suicide, then com…
Taking Victims Seriously? The Role of Victims' Rights Movements in the Emergence of Restorative Justice
It is widely accepted in the literature on restorative justice that restorative practices emerged at least partly as a result of the recent shift towards recognising the rights of victims of crime, and increasing the involvement of victims in the criminal justice system. This article seeks to destabilise this claim. Although it accepts that there is a relationship between the emergence of a strong victims' rights movement and the emergence of res…
Is it Time for Australia to adopt Circles of Support and Accountability (Cosa)
Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA)—an innovative process for reintegrating child sex offenders into the community after a period of incarceration— have not yet been firmly established in any Australian jurisdiction. This is the case despite their widespread use in Canada, the United Kingdom, and parts of the United States of America, and despite a growing body of research evidence that demonstrates their efficacy in reducing recidivism …
Restorative Justice and “Empowerment
Researching Crime and Justice
It is encouraging to note the recent appearance of methodological textbooks in criminology and sociolegal research that move away from abstract ‘how to’ advice towards presenting and exploring real-world, lived research experiences. Both Halliday and Schmidt’s (2009),Conducting Law and Society Research: Reflections on Methods and Practices and Westmarland’s (2011)Researching Crime and Justice: Tales from the Field fall into this category. Both te…
Scared Straight
The Liberal National Party ('LNP') 'tough on youth crime' policy mantra was well publicised in the months leading up to the 2012 Queensland state election. Boot camp trials were espoused as a quick-fix panacea - a way of addressing youth offending. The idea was particularly favoured in the far northern regions of the state. In line with the new government's policy, the Youth Justice (Boot Camp Orders) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2012 (Ql…
Talking the Talk
In Australian criminal justice systems, a wide range of pathways to sentencing and punishment exist alongside traditional court processes. In particular, therapeutic jurisprudence ('TJ') processes have emerged during the last quarter of a century and now occupy a key position in the criminal justice landscape. This article provides an introduction to TJ, highlighting in particular the emphasis it places on the active participation of offenders, b…
Help-seeking strategies of victim/survivors of human trafficking involving partner migration
Victim/survivors of human trafficking involving partner migration employ diverse help-seeking strategies, both formal and informal, to exit their exploitative situations. Drawing on primary research conducted by Lyneham and Richards (forthcoming), the authors highlight the importance of educating the community and professionals from a wide range of sectors—including health, mental health, child protection, social welfare, social work, domestic vi…
The ‘ACA Effect’
In recent years, numerous current affairs stories on online fraud victimisation have been broadcast on Australian television. These stories typically feature highly organised, international ‘sting’ operations, in which alleged offenders are arrested and investigated by law enforcement. These portrayals of police responses influence the expectations that some online fraud victims have about how their individual cases will be handled by law enforce…
Youth Justice, Restorative Justice and Gendered Violence — Oh My! The Rise and Rise of Offender ‘Accountability’ in Contemporary Penality
The notion of offender ‘accountability’ has emerged as a key concept in contemporary penality in recent years, perhaps especially in the areas of youth justice, restorative justice, and gendered violence. However, the criminological literature offers few definitions of and little critical scholarly engagement with the meanings, aims and parameters of offender ‘accountability’. This comment begins to address this gap by drawing attention to this w…
The resettlement of sex offenders after custody
While there has been considerable research interest in Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) since they emerged in the mid-1990s, much remains to be done, and there are profound gaps in our
Understanding Romance Fraud
Romance fraud affects thousands of victims globally, yet few scholars have studied it. The dynamics of relationships between victims and offenders are not well understood, and the effects are rarely discussed. This article adapts the concept of psychological abuse from studies of domestic violence to better understand romance fraud. Using interviews with 21 Australian romance fraud victims, we show how offenders use non-violent tactics to ensure …
Born This Way? A Qualitative Examination of Public Perceptions of the Causes of Pedophilia and Sexual Offending against Children
Understanding public opinion about the causes of pedophilia and/or child sex offending is vital, as the views of the public influence how governments respond to sexual offenders. However, little research has been undertaken on this topic. This study addresses this gap by examining the causes that members of the public ascribe to pedophilia and/or child sexual abuse using qualitative data from online forums. The etiological accounts that the publi…
Public Views About Reintegrating Child Sex Offenders via Circles of Support and Accountability (Cosa)
Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA) have recently become part of the criminal justice landscape. However, little has been documented on public views about COSA. The existing research on this topic is entirely quantitative, providing no insight into the reasons behind public support for COSA. This study addresses this gap by analyzing comments made on four online forums following the announcement of Australia's first COSA program. Finding…
Police perceptions of young people
Police views of young people inform the way they exercise discretion over this group. However, few studies have sought to formally document and examine police views of young people. The limited existing research is also mostly dated. This article begins to address this gap in the literature by presenting the results of semi-structured qualitative interviews with 41 police officers from Queensland, Australia. Stemming from a larger study of Police…
Young people with cognitive disabilities and overrepresentation in the criminal justice system
Young people with cognitive disabilities (YPWCD) are overrepresented as offenders in the criminal justice system. However, most existing research on this topic examines overrepresentation in courts and corrections rather than at the police gatekeeping stage of the criminal justice process. Furthermore, while the views of other groups have been documented, the perspectives of service providers – who often bear witness to YPWCD’s interactions with …
Desistance from Sexual Offending
This book explores how Circles of Support and Accountability can reduce sexual reoffending. The release of a notorious sex offender from prison strikes fear into members of the public. Media coverage often provokes further panic, casting such offenders as irredeemable monsters and ticking time bombs, destined to continue preying on innocent children and women. In the West, governments have responded by enacting heavily punitive and exclusionary p…
Survivors’ Beliefs About the Causes of Sexual Offending
Policies designed to prevent sexual (re)offending are often proposed on behalf of survivors of sexual violence. However, no research has examined survivors' beliefs about the causes of sexual offending. This is a critical gap, because how individuals understand the causes of sexual offending has long been thought to inform their support for particular policy responses. This article presents findings from the first study to specifically examine su…
Does Gender Matter?
Sociological and historical research into sexual violence against children has reported consistently that it is girls who have most often been the subject of sexual, psychological and physical violence in both familial and institutional settings in modernity. However, more recently, public inquiries have provided evidence that during the 20th century, boys were much more likely to be abused in particular kinds of religious settings. This has been…
Circles of Support and Accountability
Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) appear to reduce the sexual recidivism of core members (i.e., individuals convicted of sexual offending). It remains unclear, however, how they do so. While much previous scholarship has hypothesized that the relations between core members and CoSA volunteers promote desistance from sexual offending, there has been no theoretically-informed research that specifically interrogates these relations. This …
Does Gender Matter
Sociological and historical research into sexual violence against children has reported consistently that it is girls who have most often been the subject of sexual, psychological and physical violence in both familial and institutional settings in modernity. However, more recently, public inquiries have provided evidence that during the 20th century, boys were much more likely to be abused in particular kinds of religious settings. This has been…
Pedophile Hunters and Performing Masculinities Online
Pedophile hunting – abetted by digital technologies – has spread rapidly, resulting in detrimental outcomes, including suicides of hunters' targets. The scant research on these groups adopts a functionalist argument that they have emerged to fill a security deficit – to undertake work that police are incapable of due to resource and skill deficits in policing the cybersphere. This paper adopts a critical approach to argue that the expressive natu…
Framing Perpetrators of Sexual Violence Who Participate in Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA)
Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) are now part of the criminal justice landscape in various parts of the world. While CoSA have received considerable media attention, it is not yet known how they are portrayed in the media. This study addressed this gap by analyzing newspaper coverage of CoSA from across the English-speaking world. Overall, it identified that representations of those convicted of sexual violence in print media accounts…
Political science (23 obras) · Criminology (22 obras) · Law (21 obras) · Psychology (20 obras) · Sociology (20 obras) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (16 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (12 obras) · Accountability (11 obras) · Child Abuse and Trauma (9 obras)