About me
Dr Jane Astill-Owen (she/they) is a Lecturer in the School of Law and Criminology, where they teach Criminal Law and Procedure and Policing and Crime Prevention. Jane's current research is concerned with vulnerability in the criminal justice system, with particular attention to how different stakeholders are impacted by legal and investigative processes.
A former prosecutor, Jane holds a PhD examining investigative interviewing practices with police recruits (2016) and is co-editor of Interviewing Vulnerable Suspects: Safeguarding the Process (2023). They are currently co-writing a handbook on communicating with children in legal contexts.
Jane's academic background spans criminology, social work, and law, and this cross-disciplinary grounding informs a broad approach to their teaching and research across the criminal justice field.
Selected Publications
- Astill-Owen, J. (in press). At what cost: Advocating for trauma informed jury practices. Journal of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law.
- Goodman-Delahunty, J., & Astill-Owen, J. (in press). Interpreted Interviews with Complainants of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment. In W. O’Donohue and R. Bull (Eds.), Forensic Interviewing of Adult Sexual Assault Complainants. Abingdon, UK: Springer.
- Tudor-Owen, J., van Golde, C., Bull, R., & Gee, D. (Eds.). (2023). Interviewing Vulnerable Suspects: Safeguarding the Process (1st ed.). Routledge.
- Tudor-Owen, J. (2022). Understanding: “Them.” Brief, 49(1), 50–51.
- Tudor-Owen, J. (2021). The importance of 'blue shirts' in traffic policing. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 15(1), 480-491.
- Tudor-Owen, J., Scott, A., Henry, P., Stratton, G., (2019). Perceptions of exonerees in Australia. Psychiatry Psychology and Law, 26(2), 206-218.