Select Publications
Books
2020, Closing the Justice Gap for Adult and Child Sexual Assault, Palgrave Macmillan UK, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-32051-3
,2015, Female Criminality Infanticide, Moral Panics and The Female Body, Palgrave Macmillan
,2013, The Baby Farmers, ISBN 978 1 74331 401 2, Allen & Unwin, Sydney
,2003, Remedies in Context: Commentary and Materials, Original, LexisNexis Butterworths, Sydney
,2000, Masculinities, sexualities and child sexual abuse, ISBN 90 411 1355 X, Kluwer Law International, The Hague, London, Boston
,1997, Annotated Freedom of Information Act New South Wales: History and Analysis, Original, Law Book Company Information Services, Sydney
,1993, Documents, Dossiers and the Inside Dope: A Practical Guide to Freedom of Information Law, Allen & Unwin, Sydney
,Book Chapters
2020, 'Feminist criminology in a time of ‘digital feminism’: Can the #MeToo Movement create fundamental cultural change?', in Walklate S; Fitzgibbon K; Maher J; McCulloch J (ed.), Emerald Handbook in Criminology, Feminism and Social Change, Emerald Publishing, Bingley UK, pp. 69 - 94, https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/978-1-78769-955-720201007/full/html
,2018, 'Moral regulation and media representations of the female body', in Rafter N; Brown M (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture (Volume 2), Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 558 - 576
,2017, 'The Application of the Uniform Evidence Act in Child Sexual Assault Trials', in Roberts A; Gans J (ed.), Critical Perspectives on Uniform Evidence Law, Federation Press, Sydney, pp. 104 - 124
,2016, 'The Sociology of Sex Offending', in , Wiley, pp. 267 - 288, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118574003.wattso013
,2016, 'The Sociology of Sex Offending: The Offender, Culture and Context', in Boer D (ed.), The Wiley Handbook on the Theories, Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offending, edn. Original, Wiley-Blackwell, New York, pp. 267 - 288, http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Theories_of_sexual_offending.html?id=AGIPyIOhjrYC&redir_esc=y
,2015, 'Introduction: ‘Dumb Brutes’ and Murderous Mothers', in Female Criminality, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 1 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137299420_1
,2015, 'Regulation of the Female Body: Was Infanticide a Moral Panic of the Nineteenth Century?', in Female Criminality, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 57 - 167, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137299420_3
,2015, 'The Implications of the Body for Female Criminality', in Female Criminality, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 257 - 261, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137299420_5
,2015, 'The Moral Panic Concept: Its History, Social Utility and Ability to Interpret Past Events', in Female Criminality, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 16 - 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137299420_2
,2015, 'The Moral Regulation of Infanticidal Mothers', in Female Criminality, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 168 - 256, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137299420_4
,2014, 'Phillips v R [2006] HCA 4', in Douglas H; Bartlett F; Luker T; Hunter R (ed.), Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law, Hart Publishing, Oxford, pp. 295 - 305
,2012, 'Cross-Examining the Child Complainant: Rights, Innovations and Unfounded Fears in the Australian Context', in Spencer J; Lamb M (ed.), Children and Cross-examination: Time to Change the Rules?, edn. Original, Hart Publishing, UK, http://www.wildy.com/isbn/9781849463072/children-and-cross-examination-time-to-change-the-rules-
,2009, 'Restorative Justice and Child Sex Offences: The Theory and the Practice', in Hoyle C (ed.), Restorative Justice: Critical Concepts in Criminology, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 359 - 378
,2007, 'Men, Masculinity & Child Sexual Abuse: A sex and gender question', in Kiter Edwards M; O'Toole L; Schiffman J (ed.), Gender Vioence: Interdiscilinary Perspectives, edn. 2nd, New York University Press, New York, pp. 333 - 341
,2001, 'Introduction', in Australian Journal of Human Rights, edn. 2, pp. 1 - 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1323238X.2001.11911060
,1999, 'Recovered Memories of Child Sexual Abuse: The Science and the Ideology', in Breckenridge J; Laing L (ed.), Perspectives on Violence against Women, Allen & Unwin, Sydney
,1998, 'Tipping the scales in her favour: The need to protect counselling records in sexual assult trials', in Easteal P (ed.), Balancing the Scales: Rape, Law Reform and Australian Culture, edn. Original, Federation Press, Sydney, pp. 94 - 106
,1996, 'Open Government and Freedom of Information', in Douglas R; Jones M (ed.), Administrative Law: Cases and Materials, Federation Press, Sydney, pp. 55 - 85
,1994, 'Using the Freedom of Information Act (Cth)', in Lawyers’ Practice Manual (NSW), Law Book Company Ltd, Sydney, pp. 1302/1 - 1302/43
,1993, 'The Public Interest in Freedom of Information', in Douglas R; Jones M (ed.), Administrative Law: Cases and Materials, Federation Press, Sydney, pp. 151 - 161
,Journal articles
2019, 'Why her behaviour is still on trial: The absence of context in the modernisation of the substantive law on consent', The University of New South Wales law journal, 42, pp. 462 - 499, http://www.unswlawjournal.unsw.edu.au/article/why-her-behaviour-is-still-on-trial-the-absence-of-context-in-the-modernisation-of-the-substantive-law-on-consent/
,2018, 'The future of joint trials of sex offences after Hughes: resolving judicial fears and jurisdictional tensions with evidence-based decision-making', Melbourne University Law Review, 41, pp. 1121 - 1159, http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2018/5.html
,2018, 'Masculinity and Sexual Abuse', Men and Masculinities, 21, pp. 163 - 188, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x16652655
,2018, 'The Cycle of Abuse: When Victims Become Offenders.', Trauma Violence Abuse, 19, pp. 286 - 304, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1524838016659487
,2017, 'Validation of the Child Sexual Abuse Knowledge Questionnaire', Psychology, Crime and Law, 23, pp. 391 - 412, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2016.1258469
,2017, 'What Australian Jurors Know and Do Not Know about Evidence of Child Sexual Abuse', CRIMINAL LAW JOURNAL, 41, pp. 86 - 103, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000399695500003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2016, 'Programmatic Pretest-posttest Research to Reduce Jury Bias in Child Sexual Abuse Cases', Onati Socio-Legal Series, 6, pp. 283 - 314, http://ssrn.com/abstract=2786072
,2016, 'The Role of Photographic and Video Documentation in the Investigation and Prosecution of Child Sexual Assault', Journal of Law and Medicine, 23, pp. 925 - 937
,2014, 'The Legacy of the Makin case 120 Years on: Legal Fictions, Circular Reasoning and Some Solutions', The Sydney Law Review, pp. 731 - 760
,2013, 'Expert Witness Evidence in Sexual Assault Trials - Questions, Answers and Law Reform in Australia and England', International Journal of Evidence and Proof, 17, pp. 74 - 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1350/ijep.2013.17.1.419
,2013, 'Misconceptions or expert evidence in child sexual assault trials: Enhancing justice and jurors’ “common sense”', Journal of Judicial Administration, 22, pp. 171 - 190, http://www.thomsonreuters.com.au/journal-of-judicial-administration-online/productdetail/97179
,2011, 'A Comparison of Expert Evidence and Judicial Directions to Counter Misconceptions in Child Sexual Abuse Trials', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 44, pp. 196 - 217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004865811405140
,2011, 'The Behaviour of Persistent Sex Offenders: Implications for the Prosecution of Child Sex Offences in Joint Trials', Melbourne University Law Review, 35, pp. 821 - 864
,2010, 'Enhancing the Credibility of Complainants in Child Sexual Assault Trials: The Effect of Expert Evidence and Judicial Directions', Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 28, pp. 769 - 783, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bsl.936/abstract
,2010, 'Time Out for Longman: Myths, Science and the Common Law', Melbourne University Law Review, 34, pp. 69 - 105, http://mulr.law.unimelb.edu.au/go/34_1_3_Cossins
,2009, 'Cross-examination in child sexual assault trials: evidentiary sfaeguard or an opportunity to confuse?', Melbourne University Law Review, 33, pp. 68 - 104
,2009, 'Uncertainty and misconceptions about child sexual abuse: implications for the criminal justice system', Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 16, pp. 435 - 452
,2008, 'Children, sexual abuse and suggestibility: What laypeople think they know and what the literature tells us', Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 15, pp. 153 - 170
,2008, 'Restorative justice and child sex offences: the theory & the practice', British Journal of Criminology, 48, pp. 359 - 378, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azn013
,2006, 'Prosecuting Child Sexual Assault Cases: Are Vulnerable Witness Protections Enough', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 18, pp. 299 - 317
,2006, 'Prosecuting Child Sexual Assault Cases: To Specialise or Not, That is the Question', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 18, pp. 318 - 342
,2004, 'Is There a Case for the Legal Representation of Children in Sexual Assault Trials?', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 16, pp. 160 - 182
,2003, 'Saints, Sluts and Sexual Assault: Rethinking the Relationship Between Sex, Race and Gender', Social and Legal Studies, 12, pp. 77 - 103
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