Conferences

Restoration for victims of crime : contemporary challenges

Carlton Crest Hotel, Melbourne
9-10 September 1999

This conference was organised by the Australian Institute of Criminology in association with the Victims Referral and Assistance Service.

Contents

• Introduction
• Conference papers

Introduction

This conference examines the challenges currently facing services for victims of crime and the criminal justice system, placing particular emphasis on meeting the needs of a diverse community.examines services for victims of crime. The papers cover: victim support; child victims; diversity in the community; therapy; restorative justice; community approaches; and diversionary conferencing.

Conference papers

Setting the scene

• Welcome address - Setting the scene
  Dr Adam Graycar, Director, Australian Institute of Criminology
• Keynote address - The search for parallel justice
  Susan Herman, Executive Director, National Centre for Victims of Crime, Washington DC, United States of America

Victim support : an Australian overview

• Developing cultural responsiveness in the delivery of service to refugees and survivors of torture and trauma
  Paris Aristotle, Foundation for the Survivors of Torture, Victoria
• For the benefit of all - relationships between feminist and generic services for victims/survivors in Australia
  Robyn Holder, Coordinator, Australian Capital Territory Victims of Crime; Chair, Victim Support Australasia; and Di Lucas, Co-ordinator, Canberra Rape Crisis Centre; Chair, National Association of Services Against Sexual Violence

Court processes for child victims

• The child victim : what should be done, and who should do it?
  Dr Richard Roylance and Cheryl Scanlon, Protect All Children Today, Queensland
• Child witness service - what's so special about it?
  Shannon Bellett, Child Witness Service, Western Australia

Legislation/research

• Improving the accuracy and availability of information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
  Gabrielle Friebe, National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Statistics, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Northern Territory
• They do things differently there: Issues arising from the Queensland experience of Victim Impact Statements
  Mark Thomas, Queensland University of Technology
• Assessment of the impact of stalking legislation
  Dr Inez Dussuyer, Yvette Nash, Shaynie Paton, Chris Wight and Rachel Nicolson, Portfolio Planning Branch, Department of Justice, Victoria

Diversity

• Personal safety success training program for persons with an intellectual disability
  Jill Gleeson and Beverley Preston, Mallee Sexual Assault Unit, Victoria
• Guilty until proven innocent
  Joseph Wakim, Australian Arabic Council, Victoria
• Clinical effects of sexual abuse of children - a Melbourne study
  Dr Merrilyn Murnane, Consultant Paediatrician, Victoria; and Margaret Peachey, Child Protection Unit Social Worker, Victoria

Therapy (I)

• A new technique for depression, pain control and stress reduction after image visual perception thought stopping
  Dr Brian Costello, Cassel Research Centre, Victoria
• Using predictive risk science for the avoidance of victims
  Dr Larry Cromwell, Pentagon Centre for Predictive Risk Sciences, Victoria

Restorative justice international innovations

• Restoring victims : an international view
  Heather Strang, Research Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National Universtiy
• The Role of Apology in the Japanese Criminal Justice System
  Yoko Hosoi, Professor of Sociology, Tokyo University, Japan; and Haruo Nishimura, Professor, Kokushikan University, Japan

New research on victims in Australia

• New research on victims of crime in Australia - victims needs, victims rights - an Australian Institute of Criminology report
  Dr Adam Graycar, Director, Australian Institute of Criminology

Victim support

• Victim support : the UK experience
  Anne Viney, Deputy Director, Victim Support, United Kingdom
• Victim support in New Zealand : the significance of the relationship with police
  Laureen J Outtrim, New Zealand Council of Victim Support Groups

Victimisation of children

• Victims of bullying and post traumatic stress disorder
  Evelyn Field, Victoria
• Working with children/adolescents who are secondary victims of crime : domestic violence
  Sandra Lawler and Jan Vann, Mallee Domestic Violence Services, Victoria
• Recovery or retribution?
  Marie Kennedy, NAPCAN, Tasmania

Community approaches

• The challenge of delivering services which provide for restoration to rurally isolated communities : the Victorian example
  Jenny Donnelly, Victims Assistance Program Coordinator, Hume Region, Victoria; Kathy Sanderson, South West Crime Victim Services, Victoria; and Michelle Elding, Victims Assistance Program Coordinator, Loddon-Mallee Region, Victoria

Victim/offender mediation

• Why is victim/offender mediation called restorative justice?
  Carmel Benjamin AM, Victoria
• A confrontative interview for victims of intrafamilial sexual abuse : an alternative to an apology that reverses power differentials in a therapeutic way
  Anne Welfare and Robyn Miller, The Bouverie Centre, Victoria

Therapy (II)

• The effects of childhood sexual abuse on female sexuality: A model of intervention
  Lee-anne Marendaz and Kaye Wood, Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault, Victoria
• The silent witness project
  Frances Guerin, EASE, Victoria

Victims of fraud

• The victimology of fraud
  Richard Titus, Program Manager, National Institute of Justice, Washington DC, United States of America
• Organisations as victims of fraud and deception : encouraging the use of legal redress
  Dr Russell Smith, Research Analyst, Australian Institute of Criminology

Government programs

• Collaborative approaches to restoring victims of crime in New South Wales
  Marianne Curtis, Victims Services, Attorney General's Department, New South Wales; and Cheryl McCoy, Operational Programs Branch, New South Wales Police Service
• The concerned persons register : two years in review
  Helen Taylor, Advisor, Concerned Persons Register, Department of Corrective Services, Queensland
• Towards restoration (victim awareness programmes for adult offenders in South Australia)
  David Thompson, Department of Corrective Services, South Australia

Sexual assault

• Why wreck a man's life? The paradox of male sexual assault
  Ann Fitts, Latrobe Community Health Service, Victoria; and Helen McAdam, The Creative Skill Consultants, Victoria
• Sex workers and sexual assault : the hidden crime
  Julie Robinson, Eastern and Central Sexual Assault Service, New South Wales; and Madeleine Bridgett, Sex Workers Outreach Project, New South Wales

Diversionary conferencing

• Sexual offending and restorative justice : the challenge for family conferencing practice in South Australia
  Marnie Doig and Benjamin Wallace, Family Conference Team, Courts Administration Authority, South Australia
• The implementation of group conferencing in juvenile justice in Victoria
  Mark Griffith, Anglicare South Bridge Youth Services, Victoria
• Having their say - the role of victims in diversionary conferencing
  Sen Const Jeffrey Knight, Diversionary Conferencing Team, Australian Federal Police

Therapy (III)

• Putting the pieces back together again : narrative therapy and ideas of restoration in working together with victims of crimes of violence
  Jo Howard, Inner South Community Health Service, Victoria; and Helen Wirtz, MonashLink Community Health Service, Victoria
• Creative and practical counselling and psychotherapy for child and adult trauma victims
  Joan Ennis, Child and Adult Psychotherapist and accredited NALAG Counsellor, Victoria
• Detoxifying anger : a narrative therapy approach
  Dr Robert Rich, Victoria