Remote Access Technologies, Clinical Evaluations of People-in-Prison and Digital Vulnerability
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McKay, CarolynAbstract
Psychiatric and psychological clinical assessment reports are presented in Australian courts for a range of significant legal proceedings including sentencing; when the state seeks to extend detention or supervision orders of high-risk offenders; and in mental health proceedings. ...
See morePsychiatric and psychological clinical assessment reports are presented in Australian courts for a range of significant legal proceedings including sentencing; when the state seeks to extend detention or supervision orders of high-risk offenders; and in mental health proceedings. In these contexts, clinical assessments play an epistemic role in constructing people-in-prison and, increasingly, medical professionals are conducting these assessments using remote access technologies such as audiovisual links. This article examines how digitalizsation processes in the criminal justice system are altering modes of conducting assessments of a vulnerable population: people-in-prison. Despite the growing ubiquity of remote clinical assessments of people-in-prison, this article finds, through content analysis of court decisions and a theoretical framework of digital criminology and digital vulnerability, some reservations regarding the remote mode.
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See morePsychiatric and psychological clinical assessment reports are presented in Australian courts for a range of significant legal proceedings including sentencing; when the state seeks to extend detention or supervision orders of high-risk offenders; and in mental health proceedings. In these contexts, clinical assessments play an epistemic role in constructing people-in-prison and, increasingly, medical professionals are conducting these assessments using remote access technologies such as audiovisual links. This article examines how digitalizsation processes in the criminal justice system are altering modes of conducting assessments of a vulnerable population: people-in-prison. Despite the growing ubiquity of remote clinical assessments of people-in-prison, this article finds, through content analysis of court decisions and a theoretical framework of digital criminology and digital vulnerability, some reservations regarding the remote mode.
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Date
2022Source title
Recht der Werkelijkheid (Journal of Empirical Research on Law in Action)Volume
43Issue
2Publisher
Boomjuridisch, Eleven International PublishingFunding information
ARC DE210100586Faculty/School
The University of Sydney Law SchoolShare