Mrs Jenny Fleming

Research Assistant

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Email: j.fleming@ecu.edu.au   
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Availability:

By appointment.

Current teaching:

  • CRI3106 Media & Justice;
  • CRI5601 Essential Communication Skills for Justice Practitioners.

Background

Jenny has a wealth of knowledge and experience in the judicial system, specialising in criminal psychology. Prior to entering academia, she was employed in rural industries. Jenny is WA Site Coordinator for the Drug Use Monitoring Australia (DUMA) project and her research interests include prisoners, their families, offending behaviour, and substance use.

Staff qualifications:

  • MA Applied Psychology (Clinical) current;
  • BA Psychology, Criminology & Justice (hons).

Research

Research interest:

  • Prisoners;
  • Substance use;
  • Mental health;
  • Prisoners’ families.

Current research area:

  • Prisoners’ families;
  • Prisoner health;
  • Amphetamines & crime;
  • Risk factors of juvenile offending.

Recent research grants:

  • 2009-10 - Criminology Research Council
    “Amphetamine use among detainees at the East Perth Watch House: What is the impact on crime?” (CRC50/09-10).
  • Criminology Research Council
    Amphetamine use among detainees at the East Perth watchhouse: what is the impact on crime?
  • Faculty Strategic Funding
    Uncouth Youth? Building a profile of children who come into contact with the WA Children’s Court.

Recent publications

Refereed journal articles:

  • Gately, N., Fleming, J., Morris, R., & McGregor, C. (2011). Amphetamine users and crime in Western Australia, 1999-2009. Trends and Issues in Crime & Criminal Justice (forthcoming). Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.
  • Fleming, J., Gately, N., & Kraemer, S. (2011). Creating HoPE: Mental health in Western Australian maximum security prisons. Psychiatry Psychology and Law. DOI:10.1080/13218719.2010.543405.
  • Kraemer, S., Gately, N., & Kessell, J. (2009). HoPE (Health of Prisoner Evaluation): Pilot study of prisoner physical health and psychological wellbeing. Joondalup, WA: Edith Cowan University.
  • McGregor, C., Gately, N., & Fleming, J. (2011) Prescription drug use among detainees: prevalence, sources and links to crime. Trends and Issues in Crime & Criminal Justice (forthcoming). Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.

Conference presentations:

  • Fleming, J. (2011, March). Uncouth Youth? Building a profile of young offenders in Perth Children’s Court 1994-2009. Young People, Risk and Resilience: The Challenges of Alcohol, Drugs and Violence, Melbourne, VIC.
  • Fleming, J. (2010, April). Indigenous mental health discrepancies in Western Australian maximum security prisons: Creating HoPE. Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology: Annual Conference, Alice Springs, NT.
  • Fleming, J. (2010, April). Ten years of monitoring police detainees: Indigenous patterns of substance use and crime 1999-2009. Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology: Annual Conference, Alice Springs, NT.
  • Fleming, J. (2009, Sep). Mental health in a sample of maximum security prisoners in Western Australia: Is DUMA a similar population? Drugs, Crime and their Impact on the Community: DUMA Annual Conference, Adelaide, SA, September.
  • Fleming, J. (2009, April). DUMA: An aspect of the most recent findings of the drug use of detainees. WA Justice Policy and Practice Conference, Perth, WA.
  • Gately, N., & Fleming, J. (2009, March). DUMA’s 10th Birthday. WA Justice Health Research for Past, Present & Future, Perth, WA.
  • Gately, N., & Fleming, J. (2008, Sep). The abuse and misuse of prescription drugs in detained populations” and “A comparison of HoPE and DUMA: Drug use in detained and incarcerated populations. DUMA Annual Conference, Darwin, NT.