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A Comparison Of Police Processing Reports For Juvenile Graffiti Offenders: Societal Implications, Myra Taylor, Umneea Khan
A Comparison Of Police Processing Reports For Juvenile Graffiti Offenders: Societal Implications, Myra Taylor, Umneea Khan
Myra F Taylor
This paper reports on a Western Australian Police database investigation into gender, age and offence type differences in the processing reports recorded for 1060 juvenile graffiti offenders. The findings reveal no significant differences exist in the processing reports recorded for male and female juvenile offenders. However, the recorded offences committed by 10–12 year old preteen offenders differ significantly from those of 13–14 year old early adolescent and 15–17 year old late adolescent offenders. In light of these differences, the possibility of affording greater processing discretionary powers to Police when dealing with preteen graffiti offenders is discussed.
Lifespan Resilience Research Group (Lrrg), Julie Ann Pooley, Myra Taylor, Bronwyn Harman, Craig Harms
Lifespan Resilience Research Group (Lrrg), Julie Ann Pooley, Myra Taylor, Bronwyn Harman, Craig Harms
Myra F Taylor
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When Empathy Fails To Eventuate In The Counselling Therapeutic Session: Implications For The Training And Practice Of Students, Myra Taylor, Sarron Goldman
When Empathy Fails To Eventuate In The Counselling Therapeutic Session: Implications For The Training And Practice Of Students, Myra Taylor, Sarron Goldman
Myra F Taylor
This paper highlights the importance of forming an empathic relational process by presenting an account of a situation where an empathetic connection failed to eventuate between a student counsellor and a student client in a role play practice session. Three hypothetical reasons for the failure are explored. First, that the client was not communicating an authentic affect (i.e., the narrative lacked authenticity or the client was overly-invested in the role-play narrative performance); second, that there was an empathic failure in the counsellor (i.e., the counsellor had an innate incapacity to empathise or was responding to bio-physiological dictates); and third, that …
Hanging With The Hoodies: Towards An Understanding Of The Territorial Tagging Practices Of Prolific Graffiti Writers Seeking An Adolescent Non-Conforming Social Identity, Myra Taylor
Myra F Taylor
Tagging, the unsolicited rendition of a graffiti writer’s street name on someone else’s property, is typically committed by adolescents aged 12-17 years seeking a deviant non-conforming social identity. While graffiti involvement places prolific writers on a trajectory towards more serious criminal offending, little is known about their tagging practices. To address this knowledge shortfall, an examination was conducted of 1,462 graffiti report forms completed by removalists prior to removing graffiti written in an inner city area of Perth, Western Australia over a three month period. Frequency distribution analysis revealed that while 759 individuals collectively wrote 2,729 tags, just 16 prolific …
Lifting The Domestic Cloak Of Silence: Resilient Australian Women's Reflected Memories Of Their Childhood Experiences Of Witnessing Domestic Violence, Kristy O'Brien, Lynne Cohen, Julie Ann Pooley, Myra Taylor
Lifting The Domestic Cloak Of Silence: Resilient Australian Women's Reflected Memories Of Their Childhood Experiences Of Witnessing Domestic Violence, Kristy O'Brien, Lynne Cohen, Julie Ann Pooley, Myra Taylor
Myra F Taylor
Recognition is growing that childhood witnessing of domestic violence is tantamount to child abuse due to the damage the experience may have on the witnessing child’s long-term emotional and social wellbeing. This paper helps to lift the cloak of silence that surrounds the child witnessing phenomenon by presenting the recollected adult memories of six female former child witnesses. Utilizing a mixed case-study and consensual qualitative research design, the study’s findings reveal that the potential threat to a child witness’s immediate and long-term wellbeing can be mediated through the progressive development of a range of adaptive coping strategies. Of these, the …
Patterns Of Graffiti Offending Towards Recognition That Graffiti Offending Is More Than Kids Messing Around, Myra Taylor, Ida Marais, Robyn Cottman
Patterns Of Graffiti Offending Towards Recognition That Graffiti Offending Is More Than Kids Messing Around, Myra Taylor, Ida Marais, Robyn Cottman
Myra F Taylor
Graffiti is often viewed as a nuisance ‘kids’ crime, an act of youthful resistance and, as such, it is sometimes given a lower policing prioritisation level than more ‘serious’ crimes. In this study, the three-year offending histories of 798 graffitists were extracted from the Western Australian Police Information Management System database. To address the study’s aim of determining whether agedifferentiated patterns of offending exist among three age-cohorts of offenders (i.e. preteens, adolescents and adults), the number of offences, the number of contacts with police, the type of offences and the rank category of each offence for each of the three …