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Public Attitudes Toward Compassionate Release of Older People From Prison: Findings From a National Survey in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid increase in older people in prison populations worldwide is generating significant health, cost, and human rights pressures on custodial systems. Compassionate release for older, frail inmates is a potentially effective response, yet little is known about public support for this approach.
Ye In (Jane) Hwang, Natasha Ginnivan, Amanuel Kidane Hagos, Tony Butler   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifying the Sites of Government, Commercial, and Personal Systems‐Perpetrated Financial Abuse

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the institutional systems through which post‐separation financial abuse is perpetrated. While existing measures seek to quantify the harms experienced by women post‐separation, this study draws on financial, welfare and legal service casefiles to identify where such harms occur. Drawing on 76 de‐identified Victorian service
Kay Cook, Adrienne Byrt, Rachael Burgin, Georgina Dimopoulos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Routine Activities Preceding Adolescent Sexual Abuse of Younger Children

, 2016
Adolescent abuse of younger children has long been recognized, but empirical research on the circumstances of this phenomenon is rare. This article examines how adolescent offenders find and gain access to victims, work out time alone with them, and set ...
Leclerc, Benoit, Felson, Marcus
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Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl, Miri Yemini, Claire Maxwell, Yating Hu, Benjamin Adams, Sarah Bergen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spiritual Dimensions of Trauma and Posttraumatic Growth: An Ethnographic Exploration

Religions
Cradled in the Arms of Compassion is an autoethnography chronicling the spiritual dimensions of recovering from childhood sexual abuse. This article summarizes the results of that autobiographical research with particular attention to the spiritual ...
Frank Rogers
doaj   +1 more source

Shifting Child Protection Assessments From a Deficit Focus to Assessments Informed by Strengths and Protective Factors: Translating Research Knowledge to Practice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child protection systems play a critical role in preventing and responding to child maltreatment, yet practices are often predominantly deficit focused. This paper presents a rapid literature review on the strengths, protective factors, and cultural considerations to inform child protection assessment.
Gabrielle R. Hunt, Carmela Bastian, Luke Cantley, Ulrike Marwitz, Daryl J. Higgins   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Child Sexual Abuse in the Eastern Caribbean: The report of a study carried out across the Eastern Caribbean during the period October 2008 to June 2009 [PDF]

, 2009
This report from the Centre for Applied Childhood Studies at the University of Huddersfield in the United Kingdom (UK) and the UK-based Action for Children describes an action research project study that investigated child sexual abuse across several ...
Trotman Jemmott, Ena, Jones, Adele
core   +1 more source

Rethinking Support Allocation: Mental Health and Patterns of Homelessness Support Utilisation

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Homelessness support agencies face substantial puzzles in allocating scarce resources: who gets access and who stays on the waitlist? This paper examines the influence of mental illness on the patterns of consuming non‐clinical homelessness support by persons experiencing homelessness and at risk.
Godwin Kavaarpuo, Kathryn Daley
wiley   +1 more source

Shadow Infrastructures of Labour: A Case Study of Generative AI Use in Victorian Child Protection Practice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT are rapidly entering workplaces, yet their use in frontline human services remains largely undocumented and weakly regulated. Drawing on an investigation into a child protection worker's informal use of ChatGPT, this article provides insight into how GenAI is already shaping ...
Joel Robert McGregor, Linus Tan, Caleb Lloyd, Abigail Sheed   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Can Community Music Enhance Place‐Based Efforts to Create Greater Social Equity? Insights From an Australian Cultural Mapping Exercise

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social inequity is increasing in Australia, often manifesting in entrenched locational disadvantage that requires place‐based responses grounded in local strengths, knowledge and participation. While community music programmes have demonstrated a range of positive social outcomes, their potential contribution to place‐based efforts addressing ...
Brydie‐Leigh Bartleet, Emma Heard, Matt Hsu, Mathew Klotz, Chi Lui Flora Wong, Joel Alexander Spence, Pearly Black   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source