{"id":969,"date":"2015-08-03T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T23:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=969"},"modified":"2015-08-03T08:42:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T22:42:37","slug":"professor-belinda-carpenter-invited-to-present-her-10-years-of-research-on-coronial-decision-making-to-queensland-coroners-as-part-of-the-annual-magistrates-conference-brisbane-30-31st-july-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2015\/08\/03\/professor-belinda-carpenter-invited-to-present-her-10-years-of-research-on-coronial-decision-making-to-queensland-coroners-as-part-of-the-annual-magistrates-conference-brisbane-30-31st-july-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Belinda Carpenter presents 10 years of research on coronial decision making to Queensland Coroners"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Brisbane<\/a><\/p>\n

Professor Belinda Carpenter was invited to present her 10 years of research on coronial decision making to Queensland Coroners as part of the Annual Magistrates Conference, Brisbane, 30-31st<\/sup> July 2015.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The intensely emotional nature of a coroner\u2019s role can precipitate coroners erecting barriers to protect themselves from psychological trauma when they don\u2019t feel appropriately equipped to engage effectively with bereaved family members. They seek distance by relying on other professionals to act as buffers. This tendency is reinforced by legal rules designed to ensure trial judges are impartial and untainted by the receipt of extra curial information when deciding cases that prohibit meeting and communication between the decision maker and a party to the proceedings \u2013 even though most coroners\u2019 cases don\u2019t go to court and inquests are very different from trials. A tradition of judicial dispassion that is thought to maximise objectivity and reliability, exacerbates the problem. All of these factors militate against a constructive, emotional alliance between the coroner and the party most in need of compassionate understanding \u2013 the family of the deceased.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since the 1990s, the little research that has been conducted on coronial death investigations has indicated that families bereaved through a coronial death – which is often unexpected and violent \u2013 are not aided in their grief by coronial processes. Our research is suggesting that coroners are increasingly using such knowledge and have made concerted efforts to decrease the added distress caused by elements of their legal processes and thus demonstrate an increasing commitment to therapeutic jurisprudence. In our view, if the impediments described above could be minimized, an ethic of care could be incorporated into the normative theory of the coroner\u2019s court. That would require coroners to be better trained in this aspect of their role and recognition by the higher courts and perhaps in legislation of the importance of this factor.<\/p>\n

To read more of Professor Carpenter\u2019s research, please\u00a0click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Professor Belinda Carpenter was invited to present her 10 years of research on coronial decision making to Queensland Coroners as part of the Annual Magistrates Conference, Brisbane, 30-31st July 2015. The intensely emotional nature of a coroner\u2019s role can precipitate coroners erecting barriers to protect themselves from psychological trauma when they don\u2019t feel appropriately equipped<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,9703,9712],"tags":[11500,9799,11501],"class_list":{"0":"post-969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-news","8":"category-our-research","9":"category-staff","10":"tag-belindacarpenter","11":"tag-coronial","12":"tag-qldcoroners"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}