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Dr Judith Cashmore

Profile

Degrees:

BA Hons Adel; Master of Education Newcastle; PhD Macq

Areas of Interest:

  • Family law
  • Child protection and child welfare
  • Children's evidence
  • Children's participation in legal proceedings

Brief Biographical Detail:

Judy has a PhD in developmental psychology and considerable research experience in relation to children's involvement in legal proceedings and other processes in which decisions are made about children's care and protection, and guardianship. The special focus of this research has been on children's perceptions of the process and the implications for social policy. She has worked as a consultant to the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, the Australian Law Reform Commission, the NSW Department of Community Services, the NSW Community Services Commission and the NSW Child Protection Council. She has chaired or served as a member of a number of government committees concerning child protection, child death reviews and the review of child protection legislation and policy in NSW. She is currently a member of the Specialist Accreditation Committee for Children's Lawyers in NSW.

Judy joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney in 2003 working with Professor Patrick Parkinson on an ARC project concerned with children's participation in decision-making about where they live and when they see both their parents.

Publications

Refereed articles | Chapters | Reports | Conference Papers

Refereed articles

  • Cashmore, J & Parkinson, P, ‘What Responsibility Do Courts Have to Hear Children’s Voices?’ (2007) 15 International Journal of Children’s Rights 43-60
  • Cashmore, J, ' Child Witnesses: The Judicial Role' (2007) 8(2) The Judicial Review 281-294.
  • Cashmore, J, Parkinson, P, & Single, J, 'Parent's and Children's Views on Talking to Judges in Parenting Disputes in Australia' (2007) 21(1) International Journal of Law, Policy and The Family 84-107.
  • Cashmore, J, & Parkinson, P, ‘Judicial Conversations with Children in Parenting Disputes: The Views of Australian Judges.' (2007) 21(1) International Journal of Law, Policy and The Family 160-189.
  • Cashmore, J, & Parkinson, P, ‘Judicial Conversations with Children in Parenting Disputes: The Views of Australian Judges.' (2007) 21(1) International Journal of Law, Policy and The Family 160-189.
  • Cashmore, J, & Paxman, M, ‘Wards Leaving Care' (2006) 31(3) Children Australia 18-25.
  • Cashmore, J & Paxman, M, ‘Predicting After-Care Outcomes: The Importance of 'Felt' Security' (2006) 11(3) Child and Family Social Work 232-241.
  • Cashmore, J, ‘Ethical issues concerning consent in obtaining children's reports on their experience of violence' (2006) 30(9) Child Abuse & Neglect 969-977.
  • Parkinson, P, Cashmore, J & Single, J, 'Adolescents' views on the fairness of parenting and financial arrangements after separation' (2005) 43(3) Family Court Review 429-444.
  • Cashmore, J, 'Facilitating the participation of children and young people in care' (2002) 26(8) Child Abuse and Neglect 837-847.
  • Cashmore, J, 'What can we learn from the US experience on permanency planning?' (2001) 15 Australian Journal of Family Law 215-229.
  • Cashmore, J & O'Brien, A, 'Facilitating the participation of children and young people in care' (2001) 26 Children Australia 10 -15
  • Cashmore, J, 'Early experience and brain development' (2001) 9 National Child Protection Clearinghouse Newsletter 6-9.
  • Cashmore, J, 'What the research tells us: Permanency planning, adoption and foster care' (2000) 25 Children Australia 17-22.
  • Cashmore, J & Bussey, K, 'Judicial views of child witness competence' (1996) 20 Law and Human Behavior: Special Issue on Childrens Capacities in Legal Contexts 313-334.
  • Cashmore, J, 'The prosecution of child sexual assault: A survey of DPP solicitors' (1995) 28 Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 32-54.
  • Cashmore, J & Bussey, K, 'Perceptions of children and lawyers in care and protection proceedings' (1994) 8 International Journal of Law and the Family 319-336.
  • Cashmore, J, Chisholm, R & Waters, B, 'Sexual abuse allegations and child placement: A reply to Byrne' (1992) Australian Family Lawyer 32-36.
  • Cashmore, J & Parkinson, P, 'The competency of children to give evidence' (1991) 3 Judicial Officers Bulletin 1-4.
  • Cashmore, J, 'Problems and solutions in lawyer-child communication' (1991) 15 Journal of Criminal Law 193-202.
  • Cashmore, J, 'The use of video-technology for child witnesses' (1990) 16 Monash University Law Review 228-250.
  • Cashmore, J & Cahill, R, 'Video-technology: Achieving its objective?' (1990) 15 Legal Services Bulletin 155-157.
  • Cashmore, J & Bussey, K, 'Child witnesses in court' (1989) 14 Judicial Officers Bulletin 3-5.
  • Cashmore, J A & Horsky, M, 'The prosecution of child sexual assault' (1988) 21 Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 241-252.
  • Cashmore, J A & Bussey, K, 'Disclosure of child sexual abuse: Issues from a child-oriented perspective' (1987) 22 Australian Journal of Social Issues 13-26.
  • Cashmore, J A & Vignes, G, 'Attitudes to random breath testing in New South Wales' (1985) 20 Australian Journal of Social Issues 163-173.
  • Cashmore, J A & Goodnow, J J, 'Agreement between generations: A two-process approach' (1985) 56 Child Development 493-501.

Chapters

  • Cashmore, J, "Yasser" in N Bolzan, M Darcy & J Mason (eds), Fenced In Fenced Out: Border Protection, Asylum and Detention in Australia, Common Ground Publishing: Melbourne (2006). 9-12
  • Cashmore, J, "Children's participation in family law matters" in C Hallett & A Prout (eds), Hearing the voices of children: Social policy for a new century, Falmer Press (2003).
  • Cashmore, J, "Innovative procedures for child witnesses" in H Westcott, G M Davies & R Bull (eds), Children's testimony: A handbook of psychological research and forensic practice, John Wiley & Sons: Chincester (2002), 203-218.
  • Cashmore, J, "Family, early development and the life course: Common risk and protective factors in pathways to prevention" in R Eckersley, J Dixon & B Douglas (eds), The Social Origins of Health and Well-Being: From the Planetary to the Molecular, Cambridge University Press: Melbourne (2001).
  • Cashmore, J & Kiely, P, "Implementing and evaluating Family Group Conferences: The New South Wales Experience" in G Burford & J Hudson (eds), Family Group Conferences: New directions in community-centered child and family practice, Aldine De Gruyter: New York (2000), 242-252.
  • Cashmore, J, "Child protection and substitute care: State intervention into family life" in J Bowes & A Hayes (eds), Children, Families and Communities, Oxford University Press: Oxford (1999), 136-155.
  • Cashmore, J, "Systems abuse" in M John (ed), A Charge against Society: The Child's Right to Protection, Jessica Kingsley Publishers: London (1997), 33-47.
  • Cashmore, J, "Children: Non-contractual persons?" in G Davis, B Sullivan & A Yeatman (eds), The New Contractualism?, MacMillan: Melbourne (1997) 57-70.
  • Cashmore, J & Castell-McGregor, S, "The child protection and welfare system" in K Funder (ed), Citizen Child: Australia Laws and Children's Rights, Australian Institute of Family Studies: Melbourne (1996), 113-147.
  • Goodnow, J J, Knight, R & Cashmore, J A, "Adult social cognition: Implications of parents' ideas for approaches to social development" in M Perlmutter (ed), Minnesota Symposium on Child Development, Lawrence Erlbaum: Hillsdale N J (1985), vol,18, 287-324.
  • Goodnow, J J & Cashmore, J A, "Culture and competent performance" in E Neimark (ed), Competence and Performance, Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale: N J (1985), 77-98.

Reports

  • Cashmore, J, Pathways to Prevention. Proceedings of National Forum: The Way Forward: Children, young people and domestic violence, Commonwealth of Australia, Melbourne (2000).
  • Cashmore, J, A Framework for Building a Child-Friendly Society, NSW Child Protection Council (1997-98).
  • Cashmore, J & Paxman, M, Wards Leaving Care: A Longitudinal Study, NSW Department of Community Services, Sydney (1996).
  • Cashmore, J & Paxman, M, Family Preservation Services: What is the Appeal?: A Review of Selected Literature, South Australian Children's Interest Bureau, Adelaide (1996).
  • Cashmore, J, Child Witnesses and the Prosecution of Child Sexual Assault, Monograph of NSW Judicial Commission (1996).
  • Cashmore, J & De Haas, N, The Legal and Social Aspects of the Physical Punishment of Children, National Child Protection Council, Canberra (1995).
  • West, R, Rogers, G & Cashmore, J, Who Cares? Protecting People in Residential Care, Community Services Commission, Sydney (1996).
  • Cashmore, J, An Evaluation of the Use of Closed-circuit Television for Child Witnesses in Australia, paper for Child Forensic Studies, University of Leeds (1995).
  • Cashmore, J, Dolby, R & Brennan, D, Systems Abuse of Children: Problems and Solutions, (1994).
  • Cashmore, J, The Use of Closed-Circuit Television for Child Witnesses in the ACT, Australian Law Reform Commission Research Paper (July 1992)
  • Cashmore, J A, The Impact of Random Breath Testing in New South Wales, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Sydney (1985), 164 pp.

Conference Papers

  • Cashmore, J, Parkinson, P & Single, J, ‘Parent's and Children's Views on Talking to Judges in Parenting Disputes in Australia’, presented at the International Conference on Children and Divorce - Norwich, UK (July 2006)