Rate My Professor Jaimie Zander

Zander's research interests include child abuse, child neglect, child homicide, restorative justice, victim forgiveness, attitudes toward Indigenous Australians, ethnicity and attributions for offending, and criminogenic needs. Her expertise spans social theory, qualitative social research, and quantitative social research. Selected key publications are 'Restoration or Renovation? Evaluating Restorative Justice Outcomes' (2005, Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, with Guy Hall), ''Forgiveness is a present to yourself as well': An intrapersonal model of forgiveness in victims of violent crime' (2013, International Review of Victimology, with Courtney Field and Guy Hall), 'Dionysius's brutal sense of entitlement: Plato's contribution to criminogenic needs' (2008), 'Ethnicity, Attributions for Offending Behaviour, and Judgements of Responsibility and Severity of Sentence' (2008, with Iain Walker and Anne Pedersen), 'Attitudes toward Indigenous Australians: The role of empathy and guilt' (2004), and 'Child Maltreatment' (2008). She has supervised numerous honours and PhD theses, including works on forgiveness and revenge in crime victims, social media's impact on Australian courts, theoretical understandings of contract cheating, disproportionate restraint use in prisons, and gendered perspectives of aggression.