Jane Goodman‐delahunty
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4157592 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jane Goodman‐delahunty |
| PRENOMES | Jane |
| SOBRENOME | Goodman‐delahunty |
| ASSINATURA | DELAHUNTY J G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Charles Sturt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4409-0063 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Early childhood memories of individuals convicted of sexual offences
This study used innovative transdisciplinary methods to describe the nature and extent of early childhood memories recalled by 84 adults convicted of sexual offences. The timing of the memories, level of detail recalled and way memories were recollected were largely consistent with extant memory research. One important finding, however, was that more than 30% of our participants recalled particularly traumatic and distressing childhood experience…
Juror perceptions in bilingual interpreted trials
The underlying principle of a jury trial is to be judged by one's peers.Defendants who don't share the same cultural and linguistic background as the jurors can hardly be considered peers.Interpreters are needed to bridge the language gap when defendants cannot speak the language of the court; but language is not the sole factor that may impinge on jury perceptions of the defendant.The mode of interpreting, the position of the interpreter in the …
Bridging the justice gap
This article provides a comparative analysis of the dual approach to the intermediary scheme currently in place in New South Wales, Australia. While legislation mandates witness intermediaries for child complainants and witnesses, there is no similar legislation for adults with disabilities. Our analysis underscores significant disparities, pointing to critical issues in access to justice for adult witnesses and defendants with disabilities, as c…
An examination of implementation of special measures in child sexual assault trials and the problems that arise
Giving evidence from the witness stand is often distressing for complainants of child sexual abuse. Technology-based special measures (eg, CCTV/AV link) enable complainants to give evidence from a location outside the courtroom, making the process less intimidating for complainants, which in turn enhances the quality of their evidence. Although the implementation of these measures has increased in prevalence over the preceding decades, little is …
Does interpreter location make a difference
Remote interpreting has traditionally been the less preferred option when compared to face-to-face interpreting. But the recent pandemic has shifted the landscape, making remote interpreting the default in many, if not most, settings. Improved videoconferencing technologies have facilitated this transition. The main question is whether remote interpreting has any impact on interpreter performance, including interpreting accuracy. This article pre…
International consensus on effective and ineffective interviewing strategies
We explored interviewing practitioners’ views about the effectiveness of a range of diverse interview strategies in the field. An online survey examined 73 interviewing practices comprising six broad strategy types and their perceived effectiveness. Interview practices were rated by a multinational sample of 324 criminal investigators and intelligence operators. Experienced interviewers reported preferences for cooperative, non-coercive informati…
Discussions about child witness interviews during Australian trials of child sexual abuse
In many jurisdictions, child witness interviews are pre-recorded and played in court as complainants’ evidence-in-chief in cases of child sexual abuse (CSA). The present study examined whether and how legal professionals discuss child witness interviews in the course of CSA trials. The trial transcripts of a sample of 85 child sexual abuse complainants (aged 6–17 years; 19 males) from three Australian jurisdictions were examined. Thematic analysi…
Legal decision making about (child) sexual assault complaints
For over a century, changes have been implemented in the way the evidence of adult and child sexual assault complainants is received during the common-law adversarial trial process. Could the fact that reforms have rarely affected the way information is gathered at the initial stages of investigation be a reason why legal systems still struggle with prosecuting sexual offences, but particularly those against children? An abundance of research dem…
Are all complainants of sexual assault vulnerable? Views of Australian criminal justice professionals on the evidence-sharing process
Cases of historic child assault typically rely on the complainant's narrative due to lack of corroborating evidence. Although it is important that complainants give their best evidence, concern has been expressed that evidence-sharing procedures are suboptimal. This study explored criminal justice professionals’ perspectives on the utility of introducing reforms to the evidence-sharing process. We interviewed judges, prosecutors, defence counsel …
Effectiveness of a Domestic Abuse Program for Australian Indigenous Offenders
The subject of this study is to assess the effectiveness of a culture-neutral domestic abuse program (DAP) developed for offenders with domestic and family violence histories, when used for Australian Indigenous offenders, serving community-based supervised orders. The study employed a retrospective quasi-experimental research design and intention-to-treat program definition for 953 DAP-treated men and propensity score–matched controls, from dive…
Securing reliable information in investigative interviews
Investigative interviewers apply a range of physical, cognitive, social or legalistic strategies to secure information from suspects. The perceived effectiveness of coercive and noncoercive strategies on turning points was examined by interviewing 34 practitioners and 30 high value detainees in East Asian and Western jurisdictions. Each recounted an interview with an initially uncooperative detainee who became cooperative, or an initially coopera…
Special measures in child sexual abuse cases
We explored Australian criminal justice professionals’ views on how well special measures for child complainants of sexual abuse are working in practice. We interviewed judges, prosecutors, defence counsel and witness assistance officers (n = 43) from four Australian jurisdictions, using a qualitative, non-directive approach. Overall, professionals perceived that special measures had improved evidence-giving processes for child complainants, but …
Interpreting profanity in police interviews
Professional interpreters are obliged by their codes of ethics to interpret the speakers’ speech faithfully, including offensive, profane or vulgar language. In order to achieve this goal, interpreters need to be pragmatically competent, so as to understand the intention and effect of the offensive remark in the source language and be able to appropriately render it into the target language to achieve the same effect in the hearer. Research has s…
Expert Evidence to Counteract Jury Misconceptions about Consent in Sexual Assault Cases
This century has seen dramatic changes in the way in which sexual offences, particularly against children, are prosecuted in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. These jurisdictions have acknowledged the potential of myths and misconceptions about how a victim will behave, both during and after a sexual assault, to exert an undue influence on jurors. Expert evidence to educate jurors about common ra…
Association between Interview Quality and Child Sexual Abuse Trial Outcome
Special Measures for Children in Court
Approximately 25 years ago, special measures were adopted in many jurisdictions to support child sexual assault complainants in legal proceedings. This study tracked activities of a multi-agency committee of criminal justice professionals, including social workers, in enacting those provisions. We manually reviewed 99 sets of minutes of meetings of the New South Wales Sexual Assault Review Committee, spanning over two decades. Findings identified…
Children’s Competence to Testify in Australian Courts
In 2017, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse recommended reforms to the law of competence of child witnesses. We examined Australian judges’ practices in assessing children’s competence to give sworn evidence. Trial transcripts from 56 victims revealed that 64% were posed competence questions, with fewer to older children. The most frequent manner of posing such questions was to ask children to evaluate the mor…
Prosecutorial Discretion about Special Measure Use in Australian Cases of Child Sexual Abuse
A Prosecutorial Reform Index developed for the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative included discretionary functions among 28 factors that provide "an empirical basis for examining the status and role of prosecutors and the environment in which they work in transitioning states throughout the globe". The chapter examines contemporary practices in Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) cases to present the complainant's evidence by reviewing prosecut…
Development of an information sheet providing rapport advice for interpreters in police interviews
The present paper reports the development of an information sheet designed to aid interpreters in police interviews in recognizing, conveying and inadvertently obstructing rapport-building efforts by police interviewers. The contents of this sheet were informed by past research defining rapport, and rapport uses in police interviews. We used a mixed experimental design to test the information sheet. One group (Intervention, n = 35) was randomly a…
High-stakes interviews and rapport development
In high-stakes interviews on matters of national and international security, interpreters are essential when interviewers and interviewees lack a common language. Although rapport-based interviews are effective in eliciting more complete and accurate information from witnesses and suspects in monolingual interviews, little is known about an interpreter’s influence on rapport in interpreter-assisted interviews. Experienced interviewers (N = 121) d…
Career decisions by Australian police officers
Australian police officers (N = 182) who were staying in policing (n = 96), orundecided about staying (n = 57), and former police officers who had changedcareers (n = 29) completed free-response questionnaires about their decisions tochoose and stay in (or leave) policing careers. Thematic analysis of responsesrevealed different considerations by group. Categories of the kaleidoscope careermodel were used to evaluate the relative importance of th…
Enhancing Police Responses to Domestic Violence Incidents
In an online survey about experiences with the police complaint system, 239 client advocates described a recent incident in which a client with grounds to lodge a complaint declined to do so. Almost one third of those incidents involved domestic violence. Thematic analysis of case descriptions revealed that many police did not take domestic violence reports seriously. A typology of problematic police conduct was developed. Many officers failed to…
Complaints against the New South Wales Police Force
Citizens subjected to wrongful arrest, incivility or other police misbehaviour need access to a sound and objective system for making complaints about police conduct that infringes their fundamental human rights. This qualitative empirical study examined human rights violations in a sample of customer complaints against police. Descriptions by 91 legal practitioners and client advocates of events culminating in a formal complaint against the New …
Protecting human rights in Australian investigative interviews
In the past decade, police interviewing has been influenced by a movement away from a ‘criminal justice’ paradigm that values individualism, rights and process principles, towards a ‘control source’ paradigm that values minimising risk and ensuring the security of the group, and emphasises efficiency and flexibility of process (Dixon 2008; 2009). This shift has raised questions about potential infringements of individual human rights of police de…
Social persuasion to develop rapport in high-stakes interviews
Motivating cooperation in official police interviews is a central professional challenge across jurisdictions and cultures. Rapport-building is regarded as a critical antecedent of interviewee cooperation, but relatively little is known about how rapport is developed in practice. A total of 123 experienced intelligence and investigative interviewers from five Asian-Pacific jurisdictions (Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea and Sri Lank…
Enhancing Police Responses to Domestic Violence Incidents
In an online survey about experiences with the police complaint system, 239 client advocates described a recent incident in which a client with grounds to lodge a complaint declined to do so. Almost one third of those incidents involved domestic violence. Thematic analysis of case descriptions revealed that many police did not take domestic violence reports seriously. A typology of problematic police conduct was developed. Many officers failed to…
Does interpreter location make a difference
Remote interpreting has traditionally been the less preferred option when compared to face-to-face interpreting. But the recent pandemic has shifted the landscape, making remote interpreting the default in many, if not most, settings. Improved videoconferencing technologies have facilitated this transition. The main question is whether remote interpreting has any impact on interpreter performance, including interpreting accuracy. This article pre…
Insightful or wishful
Lawyers’ litigation forecasts play an integral role in the justice system. In the course of litigation, lawyers constantly make strategic decisions and/or advise their clients on the basis of their perceptions and predictions of case outcomes. The study investigated the realism in predictions by a sample of attorneys (n=481) across the United States who specified a minimum goal to achieve in a case set for trial. They estimated their chances of m…
Expert Evidence to Counteract Jury Misconceptions about Consent in Sexual Assault Cases
This century has seen dramatic changes in the way in which sexual offences, particularly against children, are prosecuted in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. These jurisdictions have acknowledged the potential of myths and misconceptions about how a victim will behave, both during and after a sexual assault, to exert an undue influence on jurors. Expert evidence to educate jurors about common ra…
Social persuasion to develop rapport in high-stakes interviews
Motivating cooperation in official police interviews is a central professional challenge across jurisdictions and cultures. Rapport-building is regarded as a critical antecedent of interviewee cooperation, but relatively little is known about how rapport is developed in practice. A total of 123 experienced intelligence and investigative interviewers from five Asian-Pacific jurisdictions (Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea and Sri Lank…
Impediments to Information and Knowledge Sharing Within Policing
Information sharing is the lifeblood of policing, yet information/knowledge sharing within and across organizations remains problematic. This article elaborated on previous research on organizational information culture and its impact on information use outcomes in policing by examining perceived impediments to information sharing of 134 officers in three Canadian police organizations. Inductive qualitative analysis of an open-ended question reve…
Interpreting profanity in police interviews
Professional interpreters are obliged by their codes of ethics to interpret the speakers’ speech faithfully, including offensive, profane or vulgar language. In order to achieve this goal, interpreters need to be pragmatically competent, so as to understand the intention and effect of the offensive remark in the source language and be able to appropriately render it into the target language to achieve the same effect in the hearer. Research has s…
Juror perceptions in bilingual interpreted trials
The underlying principle of a jury trial is to be judged by one's peers.Defendants who don't share the same cultural and linguistic background as the jurors can hardly be considered peers.Interpreters are needed to bridge the language gap when defendants cannot speak the language of the court; but language is not the sole factor that may impinge on jury perceptions of the defendant.The mode of interpreting, the position of the interpreter in the …
Special Measures for Children in Court
Approximately 25 years ago, special measures were adopted in many jurisdictions to support child sexual assault complainants in legal proceedings. This study tracked activities of a multi-agency committee of criminal justice professionals, including social workers, in enacting those provisions. We manually reviewed 99 sets of minutes of meetings of the New South Wales Sexual Assault Review Committee, spanning over two decades. Findings identified…
High-stakes interviews and rapport development
In high-stakes interviews on matters of national and international security, interpreters are essential when interviewers and interviewees lack a common language. Although rapport-based interviews are effective in eliciting more complete and accurate information from witnesses and suspects in monolingual interviews, little is known about an interpreter’s influence on rapport in interpreter-assisted interviews. Experienced interviewers (N = 121) d…
Training in law and psychology
Although the domain of law and psychology is a burgeoning and popular field of study, there has never been a concerted effort to evaluate current training models or to develop newer, more effective ones. Forty-eight invited participants attended a national conference held at Villanova Law School to remedy this deficiency. Working groups addressed issues of education and training for the undergraduate level; for doctoral-level programs in law and …
Training in law and psychology
Although the domain of law and psychology is a burgeoning and popular field of study, there has never been a concerted effort to evaluate current training models or to develop newer, more effective ones.Forty-eight invited participants attended a national conference held at Villanova Law School to remedy this deficiency.Working groups addressed issues of education and training for the undergraduate level; for doctoral-level programs in law and so…
Pragmatic support for the reasonable victim standard in hostile workplace sexual harassment cases
Pragmatic support for the reasonable victim standard in hostile workplace sexual harassment cases
Insightful or wishful
Lawyers’ litigation forecasts play an integral role in the justice system. In the course of litigation, lawyers constantly make strategic decisions and/or advise their clients on the basis of their perceptions and predictions of case outcomes. The study investigated the realism in predictions by a sample of attorneys (n=481) across the United States who specified a minimum goal to achieve in a case set for trial. They estimated their chances of m…
Adversarial Forensic Science Experts
Surprisingly little is known about ways that juries resolve differences of opinion between competing scientific forensic experts. Concerns have been raised that juries defer unduly to scientific experts and are susceptible to the ‘white coat effect’. The study reported in this article examined jury decision-making in the context of a live, simulated homicide trial that incorporated traditional legal procedural safeguards against jury error: cross…
A Forensic Examination of Court Reports
Advice to professionals who conduct forensic evaluations for courts on how to write an effective report has been driven by legal evidentiary principles and best practices in assessment. Surprisingly, little attention has been paid to how salient information is integrated within a report, and how non‐informational aspects of reports (e.g., order and format of information) may impact the fact‐finding process. Experts are required to integrate both …
Complaints against the New South Wales Police Force
Citizens subjected to wrongful arrest, incivility or other police misbehaviour need access to a sound and objective system for making complaints about police conduct that infringes their fundamental human rights. This qualitative empirical study examined human rights violations in a sample of customer complaints against police. Descriptions by 91 legal practitioners and client advocates of events culminating in a formal complaint against the New …
Protecting human rights in Australian investigative interviews
In the past decade, police interviewing has been influenced by a movement away from a ‘criminal justice’ paradigm that values individualism, rights and process principles, towards a ‘control source’ paradigm that values minimising risk and ensuring the security of the group, and emphasises efficiency and flexibility of process (Dixon 2008; 2009). This shift has raised questions about potential infringements of individual human rights of police de…
Social persuasion to develop rapport in high-stakes interviews
Motivating cooperation in official police interviews is a central professional challenge across jurisdictions and cultures. Rapport-building is regarded as a critical antecedent of interviewee cooperation, but relatively little is known about how rapport is developed in practice. A total of 123 experienced intelligence and investigative interviewers from five Asian-Pacific jurisdictions (Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea and Sri Lank…
Impediments to Information and Knowledge Sharing Within Policing
Information sharing is the lifeblood of policing, yet information/knowledge sharing within and across organizations remains problematic. This article elaborated on previous research on organizational information culture and its impact on information use outcomes in policing by examining perceived impediments to information sharing of 134 officers in three Canadian police organizations. Inductive qualitative analysis of an open-ended question reve…
Career decisions by Australian police officers
Australian police officers (N = 182) who were staying in policing (n = 96), orundecided about staying (n = 57), and former police officers who had changedcareers (n = 29) completed free-response questionnaires about their decisions tochoose and stay in (or leave) policing careers. Thematic analysis of responsesrevealed different considerations by group. Categories of the kaleidoscope careermodel were used to evaluate the relative importance of th…
Enhancing Police Responses to Domestic Violence Incidents
In an online survey about experiences with the police complaint system, 239 client advocates described a recent incident in which a client with grounds to lodge a complaint declined to do so. Almost one third of those incidents involved domestic violence. Thematic analysis of case descriptions revealed that many police did not take domestic violence reports seriously. A typology of problematic police conduct was developed. Many officers failed to…
Development of an information sheet providing rapport advice for interpreters in police interviews
The present paper reports the development of an information sheet designed to aid interpreters in police interviews in recognizing, conveying and inadvertently obstructing rapport-building efforts by police interviewers. The contents of this sheet were informed by past research defining rapport, and rapport uses in police interviews. We used a mixed experimental design to test the information sheet. One group (Intervention, n = 35) was randomly a…
High-stakes interviews and rapport development
In high-stakes interviews on matters of national and international security, interpreters are essential when interviewers and interviewees lack a common language. Although rapport-based interviews are effective in eliciting more complete and accurate information from witnesses and suspects in monolingual interviews, little is known about an interpreter’s influence on rapport in interpreter-assisted interviews. Experienced interviewers (N = 121) d…
Prosecutorial Discretion about Special Measure Use in Australian Cases of Child Sexual Abuse
A Prosecutorial Reform Index developed for the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative included discretionary functions among 28 factors that provide "an empirical basis for examining the status and role of prosecutors and the environment in which they work in transitioning states throughout the globe". The chapter examines contemporary practices in Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) cases to present the complainant's evidence by reviewing prosecut…
Association between Interview Quality and Child Sexual Abuse Trial Outcome
Special Measures for Children in Court
Approximately 25 years ago, special measures were adopted in many jurisdictions to support child sexual assault complainants in legal proceedings. This study tracked activities of a multi-agency committee of criminal justice professionals, including social workers, in enacting those provisions. We manually reviewed 99 sets of minutes of meetings of the New South Wales Sexual Assault Review Committee, spanning over two decades. Findings identified…
Children’s Competence to Testify in Australian Courts
In 2017, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse recommended reforms to the law of competence of child witnesses. We examined Australian judges’ practices in assessing children’s competence to give sworn evidence. Trial transcripts from 56 victims revealed that 64% were posed competence questions, with fewer to older children. The most frequent manner of posing such questions was to ask children to evaluate the mor…
Effectiveness of a Domestic Abuse Program for Australian Indigenous Offenders
The subject of this study is to assess the effectiveness of a culture-neutral domestic abuse program (DAP) developed for offenders with domestic and family violence histories, when used for Australian Indigenous offenders, serving community-based supervised orders. The study employed a retrospective quasi-experimental research design and intention-to-treat program definition for 953 DAP-treated men and propensity score–matched controls, from dive…
Securing reliable information in investigative interviews
Investigative interviewers apply a range of physical, cognitive, social or legalistic strategies to secure information from suspects. The perceived effectiveness of coercive and noncoercive strategies on turning points was examined by interviewing 34 practitioners and 30 high value detainees in East Asian and Western jurisdictions. Each recounted an interview with an initially uncooperative detainee who became cooperative, or an initially coopera…
Special measures in child sexual abuse cases
We explored Australian criminal justice professionals’ views on how well special measures for child complainants of sexual abuse are working in practice. We interviewed judges, prosecutors, defence counsel and witness assistance officers (n = 43) from four Australian jurisdictions, using a qualitative, non-directive approach. Overall, professionals perceived that special measures had improved evidence-giving processes for child complainants, but …
Interpreting profanity in police interviews
Professional interpreters are obliged by their codes of ethics to interpret the speakers’ speech faithfully, including offensive, profane or vulgar language. In order to achieve this goal, interpreters need to be pragmatically competent, so as to understand the intention and effect of the offensive remark in the source language and be able to appropriately render it into the target language to achieve the same effect in the hearer. Research has s…
Expert Evidence to Counteract Jury Misconceptions about Consent in Sexual Assault Cases
This century has seen dramatic changes in the way in which sexual offences, particularly against children, are prosecuted in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. These jurisdictions have acknowledged the potential of myths and misconceptions about how a victim will behave, both during and after a sexual assault, to exert an undue influence on jurors. Expert evidence to educate jurors about common ra…
International consensus on effective and ineffective interviewing strategies
We explored interviewing practitioners’ views about the effectiveness of a range of diverse interview strategies in the field. An online survey examined 73 interviewing practices comprising six broad strategy types and their perceived effectiveness. Interview practices were rated by a multinational sample of 324 criminal investigators and intelligence operators. Experienced interviewers reported preferences for cooperative, non-coercive informati…
Psychology (31 obras) · Political science (26 obras) · Law (22 obras) · Criminology (19 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Medicine (15 obras) · Poison control (13 obras) · Social Psychology (12 obras) · Computer Science (11 obras) · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies (11 obras)