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Child Abuse Prevention Research Australia
Building 70
Monash University
Clayton Campus
VIC 3800
Australia

Telephone:	+61 3 9902 4486
Email:	capra@monash.edu

 Research

	Forthcoming book chapter: Goddard, C., Hunt, S., Broadley, K., Dibben, M., Frederick, J., Mudaly, N., & Newton, R. (In press April 2013). Silencing of Children in Australia. In J. R. Conte (Ed.), Child Abuse and Neglect Worldwide (Vol. II: Global responses to child maltreatment): Praeger Publishers.
	Fraser, J., Sidebotham, P., Frederick, J., Covington, T., Mitchell EA.(2013). Understanding children's deaths: learning from child death review in four high income countries. The Lancet.
	Professor Chris Goddard has been invited to speak at the Reconstruct Professional Judgement Conference in London, 26th September 2013
	Professor Chris Goddard has been invited to present at the Youth, Technology and Virtual Communities Conference, April 29-May 1 2013, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia.
	Professor Chris Goddard and Dr Neerosh Mudaly have been invited to present at a symposium on the prevention of incest and pedophilia on 8-9 April 2013 in Mauritius.
	Frederick, J., Goddard, C. & Oxley, J. (2012) What is the ‘dark figure’ of child homicide and how can it be addressed in Australia? International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, epub ahead of print.      Broadley, K. (2012). Sex offender risk assessments in the child protection context. Helpful or not? Children Australia, 37(1), 40-45. Goddard, C. (2012). Book review of Bullock, R. Simmonds, J. (Eds.) 30 years of childcare practice and research: An overview. London: British Assoociation of Adoption and Fostering.   Goddard, C., & Hunt, S. (2011). The complexities of caring for child protection workers: the contexts of practice and supervision. Journal of Social Work Practice, 25(4), 413-32.
Best Practice Issues in Child Death Reviews (pdf 0.97Mb)	A presentation by Dr John Devaney, School of Sociology, Social Policy & Social Work, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Presented July 12 2011.

Submissions

Transcript from the Inquiry into the Handling of Child Abuse by Religious and other Organisations By Professor Chris Goddard

Submission to the Inquiry into the Australian Human Rights Commission Amendment (National Children's Commissioner) Bill 2012 By Dr Rebecca Newton and Professor Chris Goddard

Submission to the Protecting Victoria's Vulnerable Children Inquiry By Professor Chris Goddard, Dr Neerosh Mudaly and Dr John Frederick

An Act for Compliance, or an Act for Children? By Professor Chris Goddard and Dr Rebecca Newton A Submission in relation to the Commonwealth Commissioner for Children and Young People Bill 2010; A Bill for an Act to Establish an Independent Office of the Commonwealth Commissioner for Children and Young People, and for related purposes.

  
Reports

Advocacy

	CAPRA cited in:
	McGlade, H. (2012). Our greatest challenge: Aboriginal children and human rights. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
	Foster, C., Kennedy, P. (2010). Hell on the way to heaven. Sydney: Bantam.