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Associate Professor Judith Cashmore AO

Profile

Degrees:

BA Hons Adelaide MEd UoN PhD Macquarie

Areas of Interest

  • Family law
  • Child protection and child welfare
  • Child witness
  • Children's rights
  • 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.

Appointed Member of the Judicial Commission of New South Wales (1 December 2004 and reappointed for three years from 19 August 2009)

Publications

Refereed articles | Books | Chapters | Reports | Published Conference Papers | Conference Papers

Refereed articles

Books

  • Parkinson, P, & Cashmore, J, The Voice of a Child in Family Law Disputes, Oxford University Press: UK (2008)

Chapters

  • Cashmore, J, "Child Protection and Out-of-Home Care" in J Bowes, R Grace & K Hodge (eds) Children, Families and Communities: Contexts and Consequences (4th ed), Oxford University Press: Australia (2012) 217-238
  • Bowes, J, Hayes, A, Cashmore, J & Hodge, K, "Policy Support for Children, Families and Communities" in J Bowes, R Grace & K Hodge (eds) Children, Families and Communities: Contexts and Consequences (4th ed), Oxford University Press: Australia (2012) 289-307
  • Saunders, B & Cashmore, J, "Australia: The Ongoing Debate about Ending Physical Punishment" in J Durrant & A Smith (eds) Global Pathways to Abolishing Physical Punishment: Realizing Children's Rights, Routledge: United Kingdom (2011) 83-97
  • Connolly, M & Cashmore, J, “Child Welfare Practice” in Connolly, M & Harms, L (eds), Social Work: Contexts and Practice (2nd ed), Oxford University Press: South Melbourne (2009) 275-290
  • Cashmore, J, “Child Protection and Out-Of-Home Care: The Responsibility of Families, Community and State” in Bowes, J. & Grace, R (eds), Children and Families & Communities: Contexts and Consequences (3rd ed), Oxford University Press: USA (2008) 165-185
  • Cashmore, J, “Australia” in Stein, M & Munro, E R (eds), Young People’s Transitions from Care to Adulthood: International Research and Practice, Jessica Kingsley Publishers: UK (2008) 23-35
  • Cashmore, J, "Child Witnesses" in G. Monahan and L. Young (eds), Children and the Law in Australia, LexisNexis Butterworths: Sydney (2008) 523-543
  • 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, Parkinson, P Weston, R, Patulny, R, 'Shared Care Parenting Arrangements since the 2006 Family Law Reforms', Report to Federal Attorney-General's Department (2010)
  • Cashmore, J & Parkinson, P, 'Understanding Contact Disputes', Report to Federal Attorney-General's Department (2009)
  • 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.

Published Conference Paper

  • Parkinson, P, and Cashmore, J, ‘A Longitudinal Relocation Study’ in Behrens, J Smyth B and Kaspiew R (eds), Symposium Proceedings: Relocation Disputes in Australia: What do we know, and what are the implications for family law and policy? ANU College of Law (2008) 103-110

Conference Papers

  • Cashmore, J, 'Issues regarding child protection in juvenile justice matters and children’s perceptions' presented at Child Protection in Australia and New Zealand – Issues and Challenges for Judicial Administration Conference, Brisbane, 5-7 May 2011
  • Cashmore, J, 'Children's Best Interests and Children's Voices: In Policy and Practice' presented at Celebrating the Twenty Year Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), "Moving the Children's Rights Agenda Forward: An Interdisciplinary Australian Perspective, Melbourne, 4 December 2009
  • Cashmore, J, 'Children and Researchers as Co-Constructors and "Experts": The case of "Participation"' presented at Second International Conference on Child Indicators, "Counting Children In: Research, Theory, Policy and Practice", Sydney, 4-5 November 2009
  • Cashmore, J, 'Relational Aspects In Regulation Systems for Protecting Children' presented at Responsive Regulation: Regulation in Child Protection Systems, Canberra, November 2009
  • Cashmore, J, 'Children's Voices and Best Interests in Decision-Making, Policy and Practice' presented at NAPCAN Symposium, Melbourne, 11 September 2009
  • Parkinson, P & Cashmore, J, 'The Need for Reality Testing in Relocation Disputes' presented at 24th Calabro SV Consulting Family Law Residential, Queensland, 4-5 September 2009
  • Cashmore, J, 'The Need for Reality Testing in Relocation Disputes: Empirical Evidence from Australia' presented at Judicial Conference for Common Law and Commonwealth Jurisdictions, Windsor, UK, August 2009
  • Cashmore, J, 'Children's Voices: from Research to Policy and Practice' presented at Australian Human Development Conference, Adelaide, July 2009
  • Cashmore, J, 'Children's Views, Experiences and Outcomes: Child Welfare and out-of-Home Care', presented at Symposium: Child Protection to Families SA, Adelaide, July 2009
  • Cashmore, J, 'Pathways between child maltreatment and juvenile offending', presented at NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research 40th Anniversary Symposium, Sydney, 18-19 February 2009
  • Cashmore, J, ‘Out-of-Home Care’, presented at the 2008 Child Safety Research Conference, Brisbane, November 2008
  • Cashmore, J, Parkinson, P & Single, J, ‘Children's Participation in Parenting Disputes’, presented at the 10th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference - Family Through Life, Melbourne, July 2008
  • Newell, S, Graham, A & Cashmore, J, ‘Evaluating Community-Based Programs: Challenges and Lessons from the Front-Line’, presented at the 10th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference - Family Through Life, Melbourne, July 2008
  • 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