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Dr

Diana Johns

Senior Lecturer In Criminology
Social and Political Sciences
Working with vulnerable and 'difficult to engage' groups; diversion and prevention of young people's criminality and criminalisation
Diversion & prevention of young people involved in offending; restorative and therapeutic approaches to justice
Post-release support
barriers to (re)integration
imprisoned men.
social sciences
criminology & penology
risk
youth justice
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Dr

Diana Johns

 
Division
Arts
 
Primary Interest
Evaluation of justice and socio-legal processes and programs
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Projects

Displaying the 5 most recent projects by Diana Johns.

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Ubuntu Empowering Mothers Project

2020 - 2020
Completed
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Black Rhinos Evaluation

2020 - 2021
Active
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APR Internship Agreement: Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare

2020 - 2020
Completed
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Assessment of the trial of the eRecovery (A-CHESS) application at the Neighbourhood Justice Centre

2019 - 2021
Active
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Restorative responses to adolescent family violence.

2018 - 2019
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

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Research Contracts

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Diana Johns.

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African Australians with Disability and the NDIS: Exploring support and service needs

Claire Spivakovsky, Gerald Onsando, Diana Johns, Cathy Vaughan

Report  |  2020

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Designing a Rehabilitative Prison Environment

Andrew Day, Jennifer Galouzis, Stuart ross, diana Johns

Book Chapter  |  2020

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Children and Crime: In the Moment

Kevin Haines, Stephen Case, Roger Smith, Karen Joe Laidler, Nathan Hughes, Colin Webster, Tim Goddard, Jo Deakin, Diana Johns, Kelly Richards, Patricia Gray

Journal article  |  2020  |  Youth Justice: an international journal

Traditional approaches to understanding and responding to children and crime are fundamentally based on ‘miniaturised’ adult model..

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The Intensity and Timing of Sex Offender Treatment

Andrew Day, Stuart Ross, Sharon Casey, James Vess, Diana Johns, Gaynor Hobbs

Journal article  |  2019  |  Sexual Abuse

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Being and Becoming an Ex-Prisoner

D JOHNS

Book  |  2018

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Confronting the Disabling Effects of Imprisonment: Toward Prehabilitation

D Johns

Journal article  |  2018  |  Social Justice: a journal of crime, conflict and world order

Your average offender, your stereotypical crim, is a person who is dysfunctional, who is disadvantaged? He's young, he lives in a ..

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A Social Ecological Approach to ‘Child Friendly’ Youth Justice

D Johns

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  Child-friendly youth justice? A compendium of papers given at a conference at the University of Cambridge in September 2017

This paper draws on research on young people’s prolific offending in Wales, and youth justice responses to it, between 2009 and 20..

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Ecological Youth Justice: Understanding the Social Ecology of Young People's Prolific Offending

Diana F Johns, Kate Williams, Kevin Haines

Journal article  |  2017  |  YOUTH JUSTICE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

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Imprisonment and Detention

MM BROWN, D JOHNS

Book Chapter  |  2017

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Defining Post-release 'Success': Using Assemblage and Phenomenography to Reveal Difference and Complexity in Post-prison Conceptions

Diana F Johns

Journal article  |  2015  |  CRITICAL CRIMINOLOGY

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Keyword Analysis

Criminology
Justice and the Law
Expanding Knowledge
Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)
Public Health and Health Services
Specific Population Health (excl. Indigenous Health)

News

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Why police in schools won't reduce youth crime in Victoria

Diana Johns

February 19, 2018

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2008

PhD scholarship as part of an ARC Discovery grant for the Australian Prisons Project (based at UniMelb and UNSW)

University of Melbourne
2005

$2000 prize for Excellence in Research granted by the College of Design and Social Context

RMIT University
2000

Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) for Masters research

RMIT University

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Senior Lecturer In Criminology

Social and Political Sciences

Regular Membership

Internatinal Society for Therapeutic Jurisprudence

Member

Welsh Centre for Crime and Social Justice, UK

Member

Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC)

Education

PhD Criminology

University of Melbourne

MA Applied Criminology

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

BA Criminal Justice Administration

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

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