Academic papers

Qld Coronial system and autopsy decision making

Barnes, Michael & Carpenter, Belinda J. (2011) Reliance on internal autopsies in coronial investigations : a review of the issues. Journal of Law and Medicine, 19(1), pp. 88-100.

Barnes, Michael, Kirkegaard, Ainslie, Carpenter, Belinda, & , (2014) Intake rigour : ensuring only “reportable deaths” become coroners’ cases. Journal of Law and Medicine, 21, pp. 572-583

Carpenter, Belinda & Tait, Gordon (2014) Investigating death among vulnerable and marginalised populations. European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control Newsletter, Autumn, pp. 12-15.

Carpenter, Belinda, Tait, Gordon, Quadrelli, Carol, & , (2013) Arguing the Autopsy : mutual suspicion, jurisdictional confusion and the socially marginal. In Crime, Justice and Social Democracy: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference, Crime and Justice Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Point, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 10-18.

Carpenter, Belinda & Tait, Gordon (2010) The Autopsy imperative: Medicine, law, and the coronial investigation. Journal of Medical Humanities, 31(3), pp. 205-221.

Carpenter, Belinda, Tait, Gordon, Jonsson, Linda, Peschl, Heiko, Naylor, Charles, & Bermudez-Ortega, Aurora (2010) The role of coronial autopsies in a context of decreasing hospital autopsies: An investigation of the issues. Journal of Law and Medicine, 18(2), pp. 402-412.

Carpenter, Belinda J., Tait, Gordon W., & , (2009) Health, Death, and Indigenous Australians in the Coronial system. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1, pp. 29-41.

Carpenter, Belinda J., Tait, Gordon, Barnes, Michael, Adkins, Barbara A., Naylor, Charles, Begum, Nelufa, et al. (2009) Increasing the Information available to Coroners : the effect on autopsy decision making. Medicine, Science and the Law, 49(2), pp. 101-109.

Carpenter, Belinda J., Barnes, Michael, Adkins, Glenda, Naylor, Charles, Tait, Gordon W., & Begum, Nelufa (2008) The coronial system in Queensland : the effects of new legislation on decision making. Journal of Law and Medicine, 16(3), pp. 458-465

Carpenter, Belinda J., Barnes, Michael A., Naylor, Charles, Adkins, Glenda, & White, Brendan M. (2006) Issues surrounding a reduction in the use of internal autopsy in the coronial system. Journal of Law and Medicine, 14(2), pp. 199-208.

Tait, Gordon & Carpenter, Belinda (2013) Regulating bereavement : inquests, family pressure and the gate keeping of suicide statistics. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 1, pp. 194-201.

Tait, Gordon, Carpenter, Belinda, & , (2014) Suicide, statistics and the coroner : a comparative study of death investigations. Journal of Sociology. (In Press)

Grief and trauma

Drayton, J. 2013 “Bodies in Life/Bodies in Death: Social Work, Coronial Autopsies and the Bonds of Identity”. British Journal of Social Work. 43(2): 264-281.
http://bjsw.oxfordjournals.org/content/43/2/264.abstract

Drayton, D. 2011 “Organ retention and bereavement: family counselling and the ethics of consultation”. Ethics and Social Welfare. 5(3):227-246.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17496535.2010.548338

Harris, D. (2010). ‘Oppression of the Bereaved: A Critical Analysis of Grief in Western Society’, OMEGA, 60 (3): 241-253.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20361724

Maple, M., Edwards, H., Plummer, D. and Minichiello, V. (2010), Silenced voices: hearing the stories of parents bereaved through the suicide death of a young adult child. Health & Social Care in the Community, 18: 241–248.
doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2524.2009.00886.x

Naffine. N., B. Richards, S. De Lacey, A. Braunack-Mayer and Wendy Rogers 2012 ‘Who controls the uses of organs after death? Law in the books, law in practice and the view of the people’, Journal of Law and Medicine,
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23431848

Neria,Y. and Litz, B. (2004) ‘Bereavement by traumatic means: the complex synergy of trauma and grief’. Journal of Loss and Trauma. 9:73-87.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23633929

Raphael, Beverley and Pat Delaney. Loss and grief: “Closing the gap” for aboriginal people [online]. Grief Matters: The Australian Journal of Grief and Bereavement, Vol. 14, No. 3, Summer 2011: 67-69.

Robb, B. and J Sullivan (2004) ‘The past and the present: Listening to parental experiences of autopsy practice’ Grief Matters. Winter: 39-43.

Skehan, Jaelea, Myfanwy Maple, Jill Fisher, and Genelle Sharrock. Suicide bereavement and the media: A qualitative study. Advances in Mental Health 11, no. 3 (2013): 223-237. http://www.mindframe-media.info/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/11712/AMH-suicide-bereavement-and-the-media.pdf

Ray Watterson, Penny Brown and John McKenzie (2008) “Coronial Recommendations and the Prevention of Indigenous Death” Australian Indigenous Law Review 12 (2): 4-26

Suicide

Diego De Leo , Jerneja Sveticic , Allison Milner (2011) “Suicide in Indigenous people in Queensland, Australia: trends and methods, 1994 – 2007” Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 2011; 45:532–538 DOI: 10.3109/00048674.2011.570310

Farrow, R., E. Arensman, P. Corcoran, E., Williamson, and I. J. Perry 2009 “Irish coroners’ attitudes towards suicide and its prevention”. Irish Journal of Medical Science, 178(1), 61-67.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19052840 

Harwood, D., K Hawton, T. Hope and R. Jacoby 2002 ‘The Grief Experiences and Needs of Bereaved Relatives and Friends of Older People Dying through Suicide. : A descriptive and Case Controlled Study’. Journal of Affective Disorders. 72(2): 185-194.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12200209

Hunter Ernest and Helen Milroy (2006) “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide in Context”, Archives of Suicide Research, 10:2, 141-157
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13811110600556889

Hunter, Ernest, Joseph Reser, Mercy Baird, and Paul Reser (2001) An Analysis of suicide in Indigenous Communities of North Queensland: the historical, cultural and symbolic landscape. Accessed 6th November 2014
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joseph_Reser/publication/37629247_An_Analysis_of_Suicide_in_Indigenous_Communities_of_North_Queensland_The_Historical_Cultural_and_Symbolic_Landscape/links/5507d6c70cf26ff55f7f4514/An-Analysis-of-Suicide-in-Indigenous-Communities-of-North-Queensland-The-Historical-Cultural-and-Symbolic-Landscape.pdf?origin=publication_detail

Rugkhla, P. 2011. Women and Suicide. Gender Impact Assessment, (15),
http://whv.org.au/publications-resources/publications-resources-by-topic/post/women-and-suicide-gender-impact-assessment

Schotanus-Dijkstra, M., P. Havinga, W. van Ballegooijen, L. Delfosse, J. Mokkenstorm and B. Boon 2013. What Do the Bereaved by Suicide Communicate in Online Support Groups?: A Content Analysis.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24067249

Sveticic, Jerneja, Allison Milner and Diego De Leo 2012 “Contacts with mental health services before suicide: a comparison of Indigenous with non-Indigenous Australians”
http://research-hub.griffith.edu.au/display/n51862ce8013c3d8d606bf85e55d60008

Sveticic, Jerneja, Allison Milner and Diego De Leo 2012 Suicide in Indigenous Populations of Queensland
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joseph_Reser/publication/37629247_An_Analysis_of_Suicide_in_Indigenous_Communities_of_North_Queensland_The_Historical_Cultural_and_Symbolic_Landscape/links/5507d6c70cf26ff55f7f4514/An-Analysis-of-Suicide-in-Indigenous-Communities-of-North-Queensland-The-Historical-Cultural-and-Symbolic-Landscape.pdf?origin=publication_detail

Tatz, Colin (2005) Aboriginal Suicide is Different. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. The Report upon which the book is based can be found at the following address: http://www.criminologyresearchcouncil.gov.au/reports/tatz/

Therapeutic Jurisprudence in the coronial jurisdiction

Carpenter, Belinda & Tait, Gordon (2010) The Autopsy imperative: Medicine, law, and the coronial investigation. Journal of Medical Humanities, 31(3), pp. 205-221.

Freckleton, I. (2007) ‘Death Investigation, the Coroner and Therapeutic Jurisprudence’. Journal of Law and Medicine. 15: 242-253.

King, M. (2008). Non-adversarial justice and the coroner’s court: a proposed therapeutic, restorative, problem-solving model. Journal of Law and Medicine, 16(3): 442-457.

Tait, Gordon & Carpenter, Belinda (2013) Regulating bereavement : inquests, family pressure and the gate keeping of suicide statisticsProceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 1, pp. 194-201.

Tait, G. and B. Carpenter (2013) ‘Suicide and the Therapeutic Coroner: Inquests, Governance and the Grieving Family’, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. 3(2): 92–104.
https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view/123

Tait, Gordon, Carpenter, Belinda, & , (2014) Suicide, statistics and the coroner : a comparative study of death investigationsJournal of Sociology. (In Press)

Pathology and Medicine

Carpenter, Belinda, Gordon Tait, Linda Jonsson, Heiko Peschl, Charles Naylor, and Aurora Bermudez-Ortega 2010 The role of coronial autopsies in a context of decreasing hospital autopsies: An investigation of the issues. Journal of Law and Medicine, 18(2), pp. 402-412.

Constitutional Affairs Committee 2006 Reform of the Coroners System and Death Certification
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmconst/902/902i.pdf

Harper, Sheila 2010 “The Social Agency of Dead Bodies”. Mortality: promoting the interdisciplinary study of death and dying15:4, 308-322
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13576275.2010.513163

Horsley, Philomena 2008 Death dwells in spaces: Bodies in the hospital mortuaryAnthropology & Medicine, 15:2, 133-146, DOI: 10.1080/13648470802122040

Luce, Tom 2003 Death Certification and Investigation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: The report of a fundamental review
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20131205100653/http:/www.archive2.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm58/5831/5831.pdf

Prior, Lindsay 1987 “Policing the Dead: A sociology of the Mortuary”. Sociology, 21:3, 355-376
http://soc.sagepub.com/content/21/3/355.short

Smith, Janet 2003 The Shipman Inquiry 3rd Report: Death Certification and the Investigation of Deaths by Coroners.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/273227/5854.pdf

Szkil, Andrea 2012 “Here everything is possible”: forensic specialists’ work with human remains in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina. Submitted for degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Social Anthropology, University of Sussex.
http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.574945

Walker, Brett 2001 Inquiry into Matters arising from the Post-mortem and Anatomical Examination of the Institute of Forensic Medicine Report.
http://netk.net.au/Cala/pmreport.pdf

Policing

Carpenter, Belinda, Gordon Tait, Carol Quadrelli and Ian Thompson 2015 “Investigating death: the emotional and cultural challenges for police”. Policing and Society. Published online 9th march.
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/showAxaArticles?journalCode=gpas20

Frewin, Karen, Christine Stephens and Keith Tuffin 2006 “Re-arranging Fear: police officers discursive constructions of emotions”. Policing and Society. 16(3), 243-260.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10439460600811901#abstract

Howard, Christina, Keith Tuffin and Christine Stephens 2000 “Unspeakable emotion: a discursive analysis of police talk about reactions to trauma”. Journal of Language and Social Psychology. 19:3, 295-314.
http://jls.sagepub.com/content/19/3/295.full.pdf

Loftus, Bethan 2010 “Police Occupational Culture: classic themes, altered times”. Policing and Society. 20:1, 1-20.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10439460903281547#abstract

Pogrebin, Mark and Eric Poole 1991 “Police and tragic Events: the management of emotions”. Journal of Criminal Justice. 19, 395-403.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/004723529190036U

Young, Malcolm 1995 “Black Humour – making light of death”. Policing and Society. 5:2, 151-167.
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gpas20/5/2