Talking Innovative Justice

Speech and official launch of new resource developed by Victoria Police and the Australian Institute for Family Studies - Challenging misconceptions about sexual offending: creating an evidence-based resource for police and legal practitioners, followed by panel discussion.

MC:  Rob Hulls, Director, Centre for Innovative Justice
Keynote: Justice Jennifer Coate, Commissioner, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. 
Panel members:
Dean McWhirter, Assistant Commissioner, Family Violence Command, Victoria Police
Louise Serrao, Sexual Offences & Child Abuse Team – was a (SOCIT) Investigator, now works for Taskforce SALUS
Di Elderton, a victim of sexual offences
John Champion, Director, Office of Public Prosecutions
Her Honour Judge Meryl Sexton, County Court Judge in charge of sex offences list

Centre for Innovative Justice 

Sex offending- myths and misconceptions

Speakers from justice agencies; specialist family violence agencies;  academia and wider community-based programs share their first hand experiences of working with young people who use violence again family members; the intersection with youth offending; and the need for innovative, holistic and community based responses.

Family Violence – Responding to the next generation, Perth forum

Elena Campbell, report author, speaks to Ken Wolfe, a former gambling addict who generously shares his lived experience of how his addiction lead to his offending.

A copy of the full report can found here: http://ow.ly/UMfx30h2GIe

Gambling Addiction - Compulsion, convergence or crime?

Putting women’s prisons out of business: gender responsive justice and solutions in an increasingly punitive world.

The relationship between gendered violence and women’s criminalisation is well recognised, with male violence not only a direct funnel into Victoria’s male prisons, but its female prisons as well. In a criminal justice system designed to react to the extremities of this violence, however, women experience gendered justice as well. With diminishing sentencing options and a blunter justice response putting more women behind bars, the question then becomes would we need a women’s prison at all if we responded more appropriately to male violence? 

This podcast is of a panel discussion celebrating International Woman’s Day the CIJ co-hosted with the Law and Advocacy Centre for Women.  Panel included:

Elena Campbell, Facilitator

Ann Collins, Magistrate

Jill Prior, Principal Legal Officer, LACW

Dorothy, Advocate with lived experience

Cheryl, Advocate with lived experience

**Please accept our apologies, the audio quality of this recording is distorted in parts, but we felt the content of the panel made it worth making public.

Gender responsive justice and solutions - International Women's Day Panel

For more than two decades, New York’s Center for Court Innovation has been a world leader in innovative justice solutions, providing a road map for a more humane and effective justice system. Here, the CIJ’s Director Rob Hulls speaks to the CCI’s deputy director of Treatment Court Program Annie Schachar, and the senior advisor for problem-solving justice Brett Taylor, about their work and the center’s approach to changing the justice system for the better. You might also hear some interesting parallels with the work of the CIJ!

Center for Court Innovation - Talking Innovative Justice 2018 Ep 34

An important panel discussion to explore the challenges of responding to the use of family violence by adolescents, opened and moderated by Heather Nancarrow,

CEO of ANROWS and Rob Hulls, former Victorian Attorney General and Director of the Centre for Innovative Justice, RMIT University.

Panel members:

Michael Hill, former Chief Magistrate of Tasmania,

Selina Spowart, disability advocate with lived experience of child to parent violence

Kiki Mussared, Family Advocacy and Support Service, Legal Aid Commission

Craig Mackie, legal practitioner and child advocate, Dobson Mitchell & Allport

Leah Adams, Tasmania Police

Centre for Innovative Justice

Family Violence: Responding to the next generation - Hobart Forum

Rob Hulls speaks to Judge Lisa Tremewan, one of the founders of New Zealand's Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court about her career and how she came to be a strong advocate of therapeutic justice. 

VIDEO there is a video included in this podcast which listeners can access using this link and password: https://vimeo.com/245280353 PASSWORD: AODTC

Talking Innovative Justice - Judge Lisa Tremewan

Victims in the criminal justice system are often re-traumatised by the prosecution process. How can we go about reducing the adverse impact of this process on victims in the systems? 

Podcast featuring

Rob Hulls - Director, CIJ
John Cain - Solicitor for Public Prosecutions, OPP
Stan Winford - Associate Director of Research, Innovation & Reform, CIJ
Nareeda Lewers - Senior Advisor, Research and Advocacy, CIJ

Meeting the justice needs of victims

Our Talking Innovative Justice podcast goes to New York, where CIJ Director Rob Hulls interviews social justice advocate and former Rikers Island Prison inmate Kathy Morse, and Vincent Schiraldi from Colombia University, about the American justice system. This podcast took place on the RMIT Juris Doctor 2019 Innovative Justice New York Study Tour. The CIJ would like to thank New York's Center for Court Innovation for hosting us.
 
Featuring:
Vinny Schiraldi, Senior Research Scientist, Columbia School of Social Work
 
Kathy Morse - social justice advocate, co-founder of the Close Rosie's campaign and former inmate Rikers Island Prison, New York
 
Rob Hulls, Director, Centre for Innovative Justice

Reflections on the American justice system

RMIT Law Twilight Seminar Series - Criminal Records, Employment Discrimination & Aboriginal Communities
Oxford Scholar, 22 August 2019
 
Members of Woor-Dungin’s Criminal Record Discrimination team discuss the impact of criminal record discrimination on Aboriginal people, as well as the achievements of the campaign for a legislated spent convictions scheme in Victoria.
 
Featuring:
 
Professor Brownyn Naylor, RMIT, Woor-Dungin
Naomi Murphy, Woor-Dungin
Stan Winford, Centre for Innovative Justice, RMIT Woor-Dungin

RMIT Law Twilight Seminar Series

In this episode of Talking Innovative Justice, our Director Rob Hulls is joined by the CIJ's Stan Winford and Nareeda Lewers, to discuss an exciting new phase in the CIJ's restorative justice work.

CIJ Launches New Restorative Justice Service After Successful Pilot

This episode of our Talking Innovative Justice podcasts visits Wulgunggo Ngalu Learning Place, a culturally appropriate residential learning place located in Gippsland for Indigenous men undertaking community correction orders.

Shaun Braybrook, General Manager of Wulgunggo Ngalu Learning Place

Listen to the launch of the report CIJ’s ANROWS funded research, The PIPA Project: Positive Interventions for Perpetrators of Adolescent violence in the home. 

Launched by The Hon. Gabrielle Williams, Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence, Minister for Women and Minister for Youth Affairs and hosted by CIJ Director Rob Hulls, with a panel of experts: 

• Judge Amanda Chambers, President of the Children’s Court of Victoria 
• Heather Nancarrow, CEO of ANROWS 
• Jo Howard, Family Violence Consultant and 
• PIPA Project lead author, Elena Campbell

Launch of the PIPA Report

In this podcast episode, Open Circle’s Anna Howard speaks with representative of the UK’s Restorative Justice Council, Jim Simon (CEO), Becky Beard (Trustee) and Rebecca Rushton. Their conversation explores the evolution of restorative justice in the UK, from criminal justice settings to forensic mental health settings, prisons and schools, the RJC’s role in setting RJ practice standards and how RJ might help communities rebuild and recover from Covid-19 related harms.

A conversation with the Restorative Justice Council

People with acquired brain injury are overrepresented in our criminal justice systems. Our Voices introduces 5 members of the Voices for Change self-advocacy group. In Our Voices, group members share insights about their experience of the criminal justice system and what they think could be changed to address the overrepresentation of people with disability in the criminal justice system.

In this episode we learn about the over-representation of people with acquired brain injury in the criminal justice system and some of the priorities that the Voices for Change hope the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability will consider.

Our Voices Podcast Series – Episode 1 – Voices for change

People with acquired brain injury are overrepresented in our criminal justice systems. Our Voices introduces 5 members of the Voices for Change self-advocacy group. In Our Voices, group members share insights about their experience of the criminal justice system and what they think could be changed to address the overrepresentation of people with disability in the criminal justice system.

In this episode, John shares his experiences of police, justice and prison and his personal journey to come to terms with his acquired brain injury.

Our Voices Podcast Series – Episode 2 – John

People with acquired brain injury are overrepresented in our criminal justice systems. Our Voices introduces 5 members of the Voices for Change self-advocacy group. In Our Voices, group members share insights about their experience of the criminal justice system and what they think could be changed to address the overrepresentation of people with disability in the criminal justice system.

In this episode Michael explains how his efforts to transition to life in the community was frustrated by the lack of housing and effective support.

Our Voices Podcast Series – Episode 3 – Michael

People with acquired brain injury are overrepresented in our criminal justice systems. Our Voices introduces 5 members of the Voices for Change self-advocacy group. In Our Voices, group members share insights about their experience of the criminal justice system and what they think could be changed to address the overrepresentation of people with disability in the criminal justice system.

Graham was hesitant about becoming a self-advocate, he has a long history of seeing things talked about and nothing changing. He shares his experiences of loneliness and finding a home outside of prison.

Our Voices Podcast Series – Episode 4 – Graham

People with acquired brain injury are overrepresented in our criminal justice systems. Our Voices introduces 5 members of the Voices for Change self-advocacy group. In Our Voices, group members share insights about their experience of the criminal justice system and what they think could be changed to address the overrepresentation of people with disability in the criminal justice system.

Dorothy discusses her gendered experience of the criminal justice system and her struggles to find support. She talks about her self-advocacy journey and using her experiences to influence change.

Our Voices Podcast Series – Episode 5 – Dorothy

People with acquired brain injury are overrepresented in our criminal justice systems. Our Voices introduces 5 members of the Voices for Change self-advocacy group. In Our Voices, group members share insights about their experience of the criminal justice system and what they think could be changed to address the overrepresentation of people with disability in the criminal justice system.

Kevin talks about his experience having both an Acquired Brain Injury and Schizophrenia and finding support through the NDIS to stay out of justice system.

Our Voices Podcast Series – Episode 6 – Kevin

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