Staff

Dr. Elaine Mossman

Senior Research Fellow

Elaine Mossman joined CJRC in March 2005 shortly after completing her PhD through the Education Department, University of Canterbury. The topic of her thesis was adolescent mental health. She has worked for many years as a contract researcher, although she has also spent time as Education co-ordinator at Christchurch Women’s Prison and a lecturer at Bristol University. She has conducted research across a wide range of disciplines including criminal justice, psychology, health and education. Her particular interest is in mixed methodology research design.

Elaine is currently assisting New Zealand Police in validating their Youth Offending Risk Screening Tool (YORST) and working alongside Victim Support to help them to develop a consumer evaluation system. Other projects Elaine has been involved with include:

• research on effective interventions for adult victims/survivors of sexual violence for the Ministry of Women's Affairs
• research to assist in the review of the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 for the Ministry of Justice.
• an evaluation of a Child, Youth and Family youth justice initiative, the Supported Bail Programme