Sexual Assault Trials Handbook — Further reading

J Cashmore, “Child witnesses” in L Young, MA Kenny and G Monahan (eds), Children and the law in Australia, 2nd edn, LexisNexis, 2017, pp 575-580.

S Brubacher, M Benson, M Powell, J Goodman-Delahunty, and N Westera, “An overview of best practice investigative interviewing of child witnesses of sexual assault” in I Bryce and W Petherick (eds), Child sexual abuse: forensic issues in evidence, impact, and management, Elsevier Academic Press, 2020, pp 445-466 (Ch 22).

M Lamb, L Malloy and D La Rooy, “Setting realistic expectations: developmental characteristics, capacities and limitations” in M Lamb, L Malloy, D La Rooy and C Katz (eds), Children’s testimony: a handbook of psychological research and forensic practice, John Wiley & Sons, 2011.

N Westera, M Powell, R Milne and J Goodman-Delahunty, “Police interviewing of sexual assault victims: current organizational responses and recommendations for improvement” in R Bull and I Blandon-Gitlin (eds), The Routledge international handbook of legal and investigative psychology, Routledge, 2020, pp 182-196.

J Goodman-Delahunty, N Martschuk, M Powell, N Westera, “Prosecutorial discretion about special measure use in Australian cases of child sexual abuse” in P Stenning and V Colvin (eds), The evolving role of the prosecutor, internationally and domestically, Routledge, 2019, pp 169-187.

A Pichler, J Goodman-Delahunty, S Sharman and N Westera, “A review of the use of special measures for complainants’ evidence at trial” in I Bryce and W Petherick (eds), Child sexual abuse: forensic issues in evidence, impact, and management, Elsevier Academic Press, 2020, pp 467-518 (Ch 23).Challenges facing child witnesses: special measures, witness assistance and intermediaries

M Guggisberg, “Aboriginal women’s experiences with intimate partner sexual violence and the dangerous lives they live as a result of victimization” (2019) 28(2) Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma 186

C Weinsheimer, D Woiwod, P I Coburn, K Chong, and D Connolly, “The unusual suspects: female versus male accused in child sexual abuse cases” (2017) 72 Child Abuse and Neglect 446–455.

G McIvor, “Female sex offenders” in T Sanders (ed), The Oxford handbook of sex offences and sex offenders, Oxford University Press, 2017, p 199.

A J Darling and L S Christensen, “Female child sex offenders” in I Bryce and W Petherick, Child sexual abuse: forensic issues in evidence, impact and management, Academic Press, Elsevier, 2020, p 119.

C Bijleveld, C van den Berg, and J Hendriks, “The juvenile sex offender: criminal careers and recidivism risk” in T Sanders (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Sex Offences and Sex Offenders, Oxford University Press, 2017, p 220.

M Seto, Internet sex offenders, American Psychological Association, 2013, Chapter 6 (“The connection between online and contact offending“).

K Babchishin et al, “Online child pornography offenders are different: a meta-analysis of the characteristics of online and offline sex offenders against children” (2015) 44 Archives of Sexual Behavior 45.

K Shead, “Responding to historical child sexual abuse: a prosecution perspective on current challenges and future directions” (2014) 26(1) Current Issues in Criminal Justice 55

D Connolly, P Coburn and K Chong, “Twenty-six years prosecuting historic child sexual abuse cases: has anything changed?” (2017) 23(2) Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 166–177