DOB 4 June 1959, Penrith NSW

Education

1993 Awarded Doctorate of Philosophy Degree, ‘The Care and Control of the Criminally Insane in NSW 1788-1983’
Faculty of Professional Studies
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

1982 Awarded Bachelor of Social Work (Honours 1st Class)
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

1978 Higher School Certificate, Auburn NSW

Percentile Awarded: 95-100%

Other Qualifications

2007 Mental Health First Aid Instructor’s Course, Orygen, University of Melbourne, Master Accreditation & E-training status

2006 Accredited Mediator, LEADR, Australia

2004 Level 1 Cricket Coaching, Cricket Australia

2002 Level 1 Soccer Coaching, Soccer Australia

AWARDS

2005 Australian & New Zealand Mental Health Service Achievement Award – Gold Award – An Award in recognition of a systematic, rural and remote program that provides psycho-education and group support to families and facilitates practical, emotional and community support

2005 Certificate of Appreciation, Young Neighbourhood Centre, Mental Health Training for Community Agencies and Volunteers

2004 Premier’s Social Justice Finalist Award, NSW Health Greater Southern Area Health Service Mental Health Family and Carer Support Program

2004 Baxter NSW Health Awards Finalist, NSW Health Greater Southern Area Health Service Mental Health Family and Carer Support Program

2003 Certificate of Appreciation, Australian Mental Health Consumer Network

2002 Certificate of Appreciation, ACT Cricket for Outstanding Contribution to Junior Cricket

2002 Certificate of Appreciation, Queensland Ambulance Service for contribution to the development of pre-hospital emergency services in Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait

1999 Certificate of Appreciation, Queensland Ambulance Service for contribution to the development of pre-hospital emergency services in Cape York and the Gulf of Carpentaria

Overview of Career and Positions Held

Nov 2006 – ongoing Research Associate, Faculty of Law, Monash University, Rethinking Mental Health Laws Project

2004 – 2007 Honorary Associate of the University of Central Queensland, School of Social Work and Welfare Studies

2002-2003 Lecturer (part-time), School of Social Work, Australian Catholic University

1991 – Current Director, Craze Lateral Solutions, a company specialising in social policy and mental health policy, service development and training with a particular focus on solutions and strategies for promoting mental health in rural communities

Dec 1996 - Jun 1997 Member, Rural Mental Health Working Group, NSW Department of Health

Sep 1995 – ongoing Part-time Member NSW Mental Health Review Tribunal (Forensic Panel)

Sep 1994 - Jul 1997 Member of the Commonwealth Disability Standards Review Panel

Aug 1994 - Feb 1995 Visiting Fellow, Centre for Health Law, Ethics and Policy, Faculty of Law University of Newcastle

1993 - 1998 Member of the Governing Council of the NSW Association for Mental Health

Apr 1993 - Apr 1994 Criminologist, Australian Institute of Criminology (Academic Level 3/C, Senior Lecturer)

Feb 1992 - Mar 1993 Completion of PhD thesis. Consultant (part-time), Social Development Committee, Parliament of Victoria, Inquiry into Mental Disturbance and Community Safety

Oct 1991 - Mar 1992 Secretary (Senior Officer Grade B/Director), Parliamentary Committee on the National Crime Authority, Parliament House Canberra

1990 - 1991 Senior Researcher (ADM 7), Social Development Committee, Parliament of Victoria. Inquiry into Mental Disturbance and Community Safety

1989 - 1990 Research and Policy Officer (ADM 6), Legal Aid Commission Victoria

1988 - 1990 Member of the Management Committee of the Victorian Mental Health Legal Centre (Chairperson 1990)

1988 - 1990 Community Visitor, Plenty Psychiatric Hospital (under the VIC Mental Health Act 1986), Panel Secretary

1988 - 1989 Research Officer, Victorian Community Managed Mental Health Services (VISCERV). Conducted Project: Information and Evaluation Strategies for the Non Government Mental Health Sector in Victoria (Joint project Victorian Office of Psychiatric Services and VICSERV)

1985 - 1988 Convenor of Justice Administration Research Group (JARG): an independent research and lobby group in relation to mental health provisions, policy and services throughout the criminal justice system. Grant to JARG from NSW Law Foundation for research project: Forensic Patients in NSW. Emphasis was given to the needs of persons of non-English speaking backgrounds.

1985 - 1987 Member of the Advisory Board of the Mental Health Advocacy Service, NSW Legal Aid Commission

1985 - 1986 Lecturer (Full-time, Level 1, Tenured), School of Community Welfare Studies, Milperra Campus, University of Western Sydney

Subjects: Criminal Justice and Police Studies

Research Methods

Political Economy & the Welfare State (included housing policy and urban and regional policy)

Welfare Policy, Principles and Practice

Group Dynamics and Group Work

Communications

Mental Health Legislation, Services and Policy (special elective)

Youth Health and Development

Courses: Bachelor of Welfare Studies

Associate Diploma of Welfare Studies

Associate Diploma Police and Correctional Studies

Associate Diploma Youth Work

Aboriginal Rural Education Program

1984 - 1987 Official Visitor, Rozelle Hospital (under the NSW Mental Health Act 1958-1983)

1983 - 1986 Member of the Governing Council of the NSW Association for Mental Health, Chairperson Mental Health Services Sub-Committee

1983 - 1984 Tutor, School of Social Work, University of New South Wales (Research Methods, Human Behaviour, Intellectual Handicap)

Consultancies Conducted

Jan 2008 – 2009 National Developing Capacity in Community Mental Health family and Carer Support and Respite, Community Mental Health Australia (Project Consultant ACT, Mental Health Community Coalition of the ACT)

2007- Ongoing Convenor, Mental Health Consumer, Carer and Community Quarterly Forum, ACT (Mental Health Community Coalition of the ACT)

2006- Ongoing Policy Consultant, Review of the ACT Mental Health (Treatment and Care) Act 1994, Mental Health Community Coalition ACT

Jan-May 2007 ‘A framework for the development of the Community Mental Health Sector in the ACT’, Report, Mental Health Community Coalition of the ACT

June-Nov 2006 &

Oct 2007 ‘Telling it like it is – communication and mental illness’, a course developed and conducted throughout the ACT, Mental Health Community Coalition of the ACT with funding from HealthPACT (Health Promotions Grant) and Adult Community Education ACT

April-Oct 2006 ‘Putting the Case – Home in Queanbeyan’, a community’s response to the needs of homeless people with mental illness, Home in Queanbeyan Inc, Report, www.homeinqueanbeyan.com/businessplan.html

Apr-May 2006 Discussion Paper for the Review of the ACT Mental Health (Treatment and Care) Act 1994, ACT Health, Canberra, Publication

April 2005-June 2005 ‘Homelessness and Mental Illness’, A review of research and literature, with Professor Helen Hermann, St Vincents Mental Health Services Melbourne for Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing and Commonwealth Department of Community Services, Publication

Dec 2004-June 2005 Professional advice and assistance to Mallee Root Productions with the production of ‘Pictures tell you nothing’: Mental illness and relationships, a film funded by NSW Health Centre for Mental Health by a grant to SAHS Family and Carers Support Program, Southern Area Health Service, NSW Health

Oct 2004 Consultancy Services to the Commonwealth Department of Employment, Science and Training, Facilitation of the National ELICOS Workshop, Canberra, Report

Oct 2003 – Dec 2003 Consultations in ACT, NSW, SA and WA for the National Evaluation of the SAAP (with Success Works – lead) Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing

Aug 2004 – Nov 2004 Consultancy Services to the National Consumer and Carer Forum. Finalisation of the National Consumer and Carer Participation Policy: A Framework for the Mental Health Sector – Report. Conduct of the Project: Models for Consumer and Carer Participation at the National Level – Report

Aug 2004 – Ongoing Secretariat Services to the ACT Mental Health Consumer and Carer Caucus and to the Mental Health Community Coalition ACT

Feb 2003 – Nov 2003 Consultancy with Australian Mental Health Consumers Network, Community Involvement Project, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry, Discussion Paper, Bibliography and Report

Feb 2003 – Dec 2003 Evaluation of the National Psychogeriatric Unit Program (with Vivienne Tippett and Associates – lead) Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Report

May 2002 – June 2006 Establishment & management of the SAHS Family and Carers Support Program, Southern Area Health Service, NSW Health, Ongoing, Finalist Baxter Health Award 2004, Finalist NSW Premiers Social Justice Awards 2004, Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Services Gold Award

May 2002 – June 2006 Establishment and coordination of the SAHS Family and Carers Support Program Field Education Unit for undergraduate, post graduate and TAFE students

Feb 2002 – Sep 2002 Project to Explore Funding Strategies for Indigenous Service Development, Training and Employment 2002, Department of Emergency Services QLD; Report

Sep 2001 - Feb 2002 Consultancy: National SAAP Client Satisfaction Measures Project, Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services with Australian Federation of Homelessness Organisations and David MacKenzie RMIT, Discussion Paper and Report

Jul 2001 - Feb 2002 Evaluation of the Animation Project, St Vincent de Paul, Report

Jun 2001 – Aug 2001 Consultancy: Literature Review: Anxiety and Depression and its Treatment and Management in Groups Experiencing Disadvantage, Centre for Health Equity, Training, Research and Education, South Western Sydney Area Health Service (with Professor Rhonda Griffiths, South Western Sydney Centre for Applied Nursing Research); Report

May 2001 -Jul 2001 Evaluation Training and Assistance to NSW Southern Area Health Service, Priority Care Programs; Training Manual and Program Evaluation Plans

Apr 2001 – Nov 2004 Provision of National Secretariat Services to the Australian Mental Health Consumers’ Network; organisational development and operation, website, databases, pamphlets, annual reports, newsletters and policy development

Mar 2000 - Jun 2000 Consultancy: Improving Outcomes for Homeless People with Mental Illness (with St Vincent’s Mental Health Service Melbourne), National Project funded jointly by the Commonwealth Housing Branch (SAAP) Department of Family and Community Services and the Mental Health Branch Commonwealth Department of Health & Aged Care; Report, Monograph and Published Literature Review

Dec 2000 – ongoing Consultancy: Provision of Research Services to the Child Policy and Research Centre, University of Western Sydney, Macarthur Campus; Conference Papers, literature reviews, data collation and analysis, data bases, research proposals and policy submissions

Nov 2000 - Jan 2001 Consultancy: Updating understanding of the changing needs of refugee and migrant youth in Canberra and Queanbeyan, Migrant Resource Centre of Canberra and Queanbeyan; Report.

Nov 2000 - Feb 2001 Consultancy: Review of Health Equity Literature, Centre for Health Equity, Training, Research and Education, South Western Sydney Area Health Service (with Professor Rhonda Griffiths, South Western Sydney Centre for Applied Nursing Research), Report.

Nov 2000 - Feb 2001 Consultancy: Diabetes Type 2 Equity Visual Impairment Project, NSW Department of Health; Report

Jan 2000 - May 2000 Consultant, Enhancing the Effectiveness of Consumer Participation in the Improvement of the Quality of Health Care Services, Health Care Consumers ACT; Report

Feb 2000 Strategic Planning, Housing Branch, Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, Report

Oct 1999 – Dec 1999 Facilitation of Consultative Workshops and Preparation of Workshop Reports, National Youth Pathways Taskforce, Department of Employment Training & Youth Affairs (DETYA), Reports

Aug 1999 - Jun 2000 With Tippett (Lead) Redevelopment of the HACC Client Information and Referral Record, Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care (responsible for consultation with Indigenous communities), Report

Aug 1999 - Oct 1999 Consultant to the NSW Health Review of Dementia Care Services in the Southern and South Eastern NSW

Aug 1999 - Nov 1999 Consultancy: Commonwealth Ministerial Advisory Council, Commonwealth Department of Community Services, Early Intervention in Homelessness Workshop design and facilitation, Report and Ministerial Briefing Paper

Jun 1999 - Sep 1999 Strategic Planning, Development of Policies and Procedures and review and redrafting of the Constitution of the Australian Mental Health Consumers Network, Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care

May 1999 - ongoing Working with the Queensland Ambulance Service to develop with Indigenous communities in the Cape York and Torres Strait regions culturally sensitive and locally appropriate pre-hospital care responses and services, 3 Reports:

July 2001: Queensland Ambulance Service, Service Plan: Enhancing the capacity of Islander Communities to Prevent and Respond to Health Care Emergencies and injuries, Report

Sep 2000: Queensland Ambulance Service, Service Plan: Enhancing the capacity of Cape York Communities to Prevent and Respond to Health Care Emergencies and injuries, Report

June 1998: Queensland Ambulance Service, Models of Prehospital Care in Remote Indigenous Communities (Mornington Island and Doomadgee), Report

The recommendations of these reports were implemented by the Beattie Government and resulted in the establishment of ambulance services as well as innovative emergency responses throughout remote north Queensland and the Torres Strait.

Apr 1999 - May 1999 National Dementia Care Training, Victorian Aged Care Assessment Services component (with Vivienne Tippett - lead), Report

Feb 1999 - ongoing Research: Client Participation in Child and Family Care Decision Making for Professor Jan Mason, Child Policy and Research Centre, University of Western Sydney, Macarthur Campus. Ongoing provision of research services

Dec 1998 - Jul 1999 Research Consultant, Mental Health Care Needs of Homeless Young People, National Youth Housing Coalition, Commonwealth Funded Project, Report

Feb 1998 - Apr 1998 Consultancy: Commonwealth Ministerial Advisory Council, Commonwealth Department of Community Services, Consultancy: Preventing Homelessness Among People with Mental Disturbance, Workshop design and facilitation, Report and Ministerial Briefing Paper

Feb 1997 - Dec 1997 Consultancy: Evaluation of the Emergency Support Program of the Shoalhaven Division of General Practice, Interim Report, Final Report

Feb 1996 - Apr 1996 Consultancy: Macquarie Mental Health Service Review of Mental Health Accommodation, Accommodation Support and Rehabilitation Services, Report

Dec 1995 - Sep 1996 Preparation of distance education learning modules for the NSW Institute of Psychiatry: Research and Evaluation.

Autumn Term 1996 Subject design, co-ordination and presentation of lectures: Crime Theories, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Western Sydney, Milperra

Sep 1998 - Dec 1999 Consultancy: Information Sharing in Mental Health Crisis Situations, Commonwealth Mental Health Branch, Advice, research and report writing for the National Expert Advisory Committee on Information Sharing in Mental Health Crises, Report

Sep 1998 - Nov 1998 Consultancy: Future Directions for the Non-Government Mental Health Sector, Australian Psychiatric Disability Sector, Workshop design & facilitation, Report

Jul 1998 - Aug 1999 National Intersectoral Linkages Project, with David Plant (lead), A research grant to the Australian Psychiatric Disability Coalition under the National Mental Health Strategy, Report

Jun 1998 - Dec 1998 With Vivienne Tippett (lead), David Plant & Pat Jones, Consultancy: Evaluation of the National Action Plan for Dementia Care, Office for the Aged, Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, Report

Apr 1998 - Jul 1998 Consultancy: Feasibility Study into the Establishment of Psycho-Social Rehabilitation and Support Programs in the Australian Capital Territory, ACT Department of Health and Community Care (with assistance from David Plant), Report

Oct 1997 - Dec 1997 Consultancy: Consultation about the Media Kit for Responsible Reporting on Suicide, Suicide Prevention Australia

Nov 1997 - Apr 1998 Consultancy: Consultation on the Establishment of the National Prescribing Service, Pharmaceutical Benefits Branch, Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services, Interim Report & Final Report

Apr 1997 - Jan 1998 Consultancy: Evaluation of the Adolescent Pregnancy and Early Parenthood Program of the Nepean Division of General Practice, Interim and Final Reports

Apr 1997 - Jul 1997 Consultancy with H Connor and Assoc: Consultation Phase of the Development of a National Mental Health Peak Body, Mental Health Branch Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services, Report

Sep 1996 - Feb 1997 Consultancy: ACT Division of General Practice, Evaluation of the Division’s HIV/AIDS Project, Interim and Final Reports

Jul 1996 - Feb 1997 Consultancy: Faculty of Law, University of Newcastle

Jun 1996 - Jun 1998 Consultancy: Queensland Ambulance Service, Models of Prehospital Care in Remote Indigenous Communities (Mornington Island and Doomadgee), Report

Sep 1995 - Feb 1997 Consultancy with David Plant (Lead): Enhancing Mental Health Care Through General Practice, ACT Division of General Practice, Report. Program Planner - National Conference on Mental Health Services, Policy and Law Reform into the Twenty First Century - Mental Health for All: What’s the Vision

Mar 1995 - Sep 1995 Consultancy with Lang and Lang: ACT Housing - Evaluation of SAAP (Supported Accommodation and Assistance Program) in the ACT, Report

Jan 1995 - Dec 1995 Consultancy: NSW Institute of Psychiatry - The Development of Implementation Strategies to meet the Training and Education Needs of Rural/Remote Mental Health Workers, Report

Apr 1994 - Dec 1994 Consultancy with Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health: National Model Mental Health Legislation (with Professor Neil Rees, Dean Faculty of Law, University of Newcastle and Kim Ross, NSW Guardianship Board), Report

Mar 1991 - Feb 1992 Secretary (Consultant), National Inquiry Concerning the Human Rights of People with Mental Illness, Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Sydney

1991 – Present Establishment and ongoing development of Craze Lateral Solutions

Management Experience

2006-2008 Engaged for specified periods to provide management services to the Mental Health Community Coalition ACT

2002-2006 Manager & Consultant, Greater Southern Area Health Services Family and Carer Support Program

1993 - 1998 Member of the Governing Council, NSW Association for Mental Health

1993 – 1994 Manager Crime and Violence Prevention Unit, Australian Institute of Criminology

1991 – Present Management of own consulting business and extensive project management

1991 – 1992 Secretary, National Inquiry Concerning the Human Rights of People with Mental Illness, HREOC

1990 – 1991 Secretary, Parliamentary Committee on National Crime Authority

1989 – 1990 Coordination and management of research for Social Development Committee, Parliament of Victoria

1988 – 1990 Member and Chairperson of the Management Committee of the Victorian Mental Health Legal Centre

1986 – 1987 Co-ordination and supervision of the NSW Law Foundation funded Project: Forensic Patients in NSW

1985 – 1987 Member of the Advisory Board of the Mental Health Advocacy Centre, NSW Legal Aid Commission

1983 – 1986 Member of the Governing Council, NSW Association for Mental Health

Research Projects Conducted

April-June 2006 Chatter, Cheese and Chums, A research project concerning the housing and support needs of people experiencing mental illness and their families in the ACT,

April-Dec 2006 ‘Needs of homeless people with long term mental illness in the Queanbeyan area’, a research project, Home-In-Queanbeyan Inc

Mar 2000 - Jun 2000 National Research Project: Improving Outcomes for Homeless People with Mental Illness (with St Vincent’s Mental Health Service Melbourne), funded jointly by the Commonwealth Housing Branch (SAAP) Department of Family and Community Services and the Mental Health Branch Commonwealth Department of Health & Aged Care

Dec 1998 - Jul 1999 National Research Project: Mental Health Care Needs of Homeless Young People, National Youth Housing Coalition, Commonwealth Funded Project, Report

Jul 1998 - Aug 1999 National Intersectoral Linkages Project, with David Plant (lead), A research grant to the Australian Psychiatric Disability Coalition under the National Mental Health Strategy, Report

1993-1987 Research for PhD thesis: The Care and Control of the Criminally Insane in New South Wales, 1788-1987 (Quantitative descriptive socio-historical study)

1993 The Examination of the Appropriateness and Efficacy of Liquor Licensing Laws Across Australia, Joint Project between National Centre for Research into the Prevention of Drug Abuse and the Australian Institute of Criminology, funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health, Housing, Local Government and Community Services for the National Symposium on Alcohol Misuse and Violence

1989-1992 Research for Parliament of Victoria, Inquiry into Mental Disturbance and Community Safety

Preparation of Interim Report: Strategies to Deal with Persons with Severe Personality Disorder Who Pose a Threat to Community Safety

Preparation of draft of First Report: Young People at Risk

Compilation of Second Report: Responses to the Draft Victorian Community Protection (Violent Offenders) Bill 1991

Preparation of draft of Third Report: Response of the Social Development Committee to the Draft Community Protection (Violent Offenders) Bill 1991

Preparation of the draft of Fourth and Final Report of the Social Development Committee on the Inquiry into Mental Disturbance and Community Safety

1989 Review of the National Legal Aid Means Test, Legal Aid Commission Victoria (60 pp)

1989 Client Survey 1989, Legal Aid Commission Victoria (30 pp)

1988 Project: Information and Evaluation Strategies for Non Government Mental Health Services in Victoria (Report 80 pp)

1986-1987 Forensic Patients in NSW, a research project funded by the NSW Law Foundation

1982 Discussion of the Proposed National Monitoring System for Welfare Staff, Social Welfare Research Division, Department of Social Security, Canberra (Report 66 pp)

1982 Evaluation of the Magistrates Hearings at Rozelle and Gladesville Psychiatric Hospitals, Rozelle Hospital, NSW Department of Health (Report 94 pp)

Conference Papers, Reports and Publications

Jan-May 2007 ‘A framework for the development of the Community Mental Health Sector in the ACT’, Report, Mental Health Community Coalition of the ACT Report, insert ISBN

Dec 2006 Home-In-Queanbeyan: Putting the Case, a local community’s response to homelessness among people with mental illness, Home-In-Queanbeyan Inc, Queanbeyan, insert ISBN number,

www.homeinqueanbeyan.com/businessplan.html

Jun 2006 ‘Empowerment to inclusion: consumer and carers in partnership with ACT Healthpact, c community funding program’, New Paradigm: The Australian Journal on Psychosocial rehabilitation, June 2006 pp. 32-39

May 2006 Discussion Paper for the Review of the ACT Mental Health (Treatment and Care) Act 1994, ACT Health, Canberra

Nov 2005 ‘Measuring client satisfaction in SAAP’, Parity, Looking for Answers: Homelessness and SAAP Research, Nov 2005, pp.53-55

May 2005 Homelessness and Mental Health Linkages: review of National and international Literature, St Vincent Mental Health Service Melbourne & Leanne Craze, Australian Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra

Oct 1998 Key Note Address: The Rights to Treatment and Care in Rural and Remote Australia, National Conference organised by Australian National Association for Mental Health

Apr 1998 Fundamental Requirements of Sound Mental Health Legislation, Paper presented at ACT Government Senior Officers Inter-Departmental Meeting

Mar 1998 Different Approaches to Defining Mental Illness in Mental Health Legislation & the ACT Mental Health (Treatment and Care) Act, Workshop auspiced ACTCOSS and the ACT Mental Health Council

1996-2005 Refer list of consultancies and reports produced

1996 Report of the Review of Mental Health Accommodation, Support and Rehabilitation Services in the Macquarie, Castlereagh and Lachlan Health Districts in NSW

National Model Mental Health Legislation & Factors Influencing and Assisting the Safe Release of Mentally Ill Offenders papers presented at the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 16th Annual Congress August 1996

1995 Lang, H, Lang, R, & L. Craze, Report of the Evaluation of the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program in the ACT, ACT Housing and Commonwealth Department of Housing and Regional Development, Canberra

With Plant, D, Report of the Consultancy: Enhancing Mental Health Care through General Practice, ACT Division of General Practice, Canberra (1996)

1994 Craze, L & Moiynahan, P, 'Violence, Meaning and the Law: Responses to Garry David', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp 30-45

Rees, N, Craze, L & K Ross, National Model Mental Health Law: A Report to Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council, Volumes 1 & 2, Centre for Health Law, Ethics and Policy, University of Newcastle: December 1994

1993 Craze, L, 'An Analysis of Enforcement and Operational Information' & Craze, L and Norberry, J, 'The Objectives of Liquor Licensing Laws in Australia' in National Symposium on Alcohol Misuse and Violence: Examination of the Appropriateness and efficacy of Liquor Licensing Laws Across Australia, Department of Health, Housing, Local Government and Community Services, Canberra (Published 1994: National Drug Offensive, Alcohol Misuse and Violence, Department of Health, Housing and Local Government, AGPS, Canberra)

Oct 1993 With Kelly, C, Management Strategies for Sex Offenders with Intellectual Disability, Paper presented at the Australian Institute of Criminology Conference: An International Symposium on Offender Management: Policy and Practice in Correctional and Forensic Services, Perth

Aug 1993 With Main, N, Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Education, Employment and Trade, Inquiry into Violence in Schools

Aug 1993 ACT Mental Health Action Group, Plant, D, Craze, L & Ballendon, N, Discussion Paper on the Proposed Mental Health Welfare Reforms, Canberra

Jul 1993 Toward the Safe Release of Mentally Ill Offenders, Paper Presented at the Australian Institute of Criminology Conference: Law, Medicine and Psychiatry, Surfers Paradise

Oct 1992 The Forensic Psychiatry Slow Train: Experiences of Mentally Ill Female Offenders in NSW, Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology

Oct 1991 With Ray, M, Provisions for Violent Offenders who are Considered to have Severe Personality Disorder: Perpetuating Myths or Confronting Real Challenges, Paper presented at the Australian Institute of Criminology Conference: Serious Violent Offenders: Sentencing, Psychiatry and Law

Paper published: Gerull, S & W. Lucas (editors) 1993, Serious Violent Offenders: Sentencing, Psychiatry and Law Reform, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra, pp. 23-38

Jan 1991 'Adult Suicide in Custody', Campaign for Criminal Justice, No. 6, pp 13-15

Nov 1990 Preventive Detention: No, Not In Victoria, Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Forensic Section of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Melbourne

Paper published: Proceedings of Conference

1989 The Care of Mentally Ill Offenders in NSW: 1840-1986, Paper presented at the Conference: The Mental Health Status of the Nation, Australian Association for Mental Health

Paper Published: Australian National Association for Mental Health, Status of the Nation, ANAHM, Sydney, pp 45-52.

Nov 1989 Suicide in NSW Prisons: 1880-1986, Paper presented at the 10th Annual Conference of the Congress of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, Melbourne

Paper published: Proceedings of Conference

Jul 1989 Legal Aid Commission Victoria, Report: Client Survey 1989, LACV, Melbourne

Jun 1989 Legal Aid Commission Victoria, Report: Review of the National Legal Aid Means Test, LACV, Melbourne

Jan 1989 Victorian Community Managed Mental Health Services, Toward Information and Evaluation Strategies for a Developing Community Managed Mental Health Sector, VICSERV, Melbourne

Jan 1988 Sentencing Options and the Mentally Ill Offender, Submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission, Reference on Commonwealth Sentencing Options

Jun 1987 Official Visiting in NSW Psychiatric Facilities, Submission to the Ministerial Committee of Inquiry into NSW 5th Schedule Psychiatric Facilities, 28 pp

1987 Justice Administration Research Group 1987, Caught in the System: Forensic Patients in NSW, Justice Administration Research Group with Assistance from the NSW Law Foundation, Greenwich Sydney

Papers: Forensic Patients in NSW: Legislation in Need of Services

Governor's Pleasure Detainees of Non-English Speaking Background

Feb 1986 Community Treatment of Psychoses, Paper Presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian College of Clinical Psychologists, Lidcombe Hospital, Sydney

Aug 1985 Developments in Mental Health Legislation, Policy and Services in NSW: Implications for Women, Paper Presented at the Second National Women's Health Conference, Adelaide

Paper published: E. Kerby-Eaton & J. Davies, Women’s Health in a Changing Society, Vol. 2, Office of the Women’s Adviser South Australia, Adelaide, pp. 108-114

Nov 1984 The Impact of Patterns of Employment, Unemployment and Technological Change on Specific Groups in the Community, Paper presented at the Conference: Rehabilitation - A Decade of Change, Department of Behavioural and General Studies, Cumberland College, Sydney

Paper published: Proceedings of Conference

Sep 1984 Excluded From Work, Income and Leisure on Grounds of Mental Illness and Intellectual Handicap, Paper presented at the National Conference: Work, Income and Leisure and the Years Ahead, Department of Economics and the Centre for Technology and Social Change, University of Wollongong

Paper published: Proceedings of Conference

Aug 1984 Social Work Practice: A Tyranny, A Hegemony, or a Utility of Frameworks, Paper presented at the Third Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Social Work Education, Sydney University

Details of PhD

Title of Thesis: The Care and Control of the Criminally Insane in NSW: 1788-1987, School of Social Work, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Supervisor: Professor Tony Vinson, Dean Faculty of Professional Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Markers: Professor Duncan Chappell, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra, Australia; Dr F Beyaert

Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands

Dr W Barclay, Department of Psychiatry, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia

Awarded: October 1993

Excerpts from Examiners' Reports

Dr F Beyaert, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands

‘In answer of your question to judge the quality of the thesis by Leanne Winifred Craze about 'The care of Mentally Ill Offenders In New South Wales: 1788 to 1987', I can report to you the following.

I haven't seen before such an elaborate and conscientious study on the ups and downs of forensic psychiatry and the criminal insane perpetrators during two centuries!

The method is new and very well thought out. I think this thesis will become a handbook of criminologiste forensic psychiatrists and other scientists for the coming twenty five years. The document is enormously profound and fundamental. The blurred boundaries between crime and insanity during two centuries is well demonstrated and the evidence is convincing. I was happily surprised by the knowledge of the author of European scientific literature and not only English literature. So my judgment is as I said: Number 1.’

Dr W Barclay, Psychiatry, Sydney

‘The topic has been thoroughly researched. The candidate has captured the essence of the services provided for the mentally ill, particularly, mentally ill offenders as I know such services to have been. She has identified the interplay of social, political, bureaucratic and medical factors, bringing a scholarly perspective to a most complex topic. The comprehensiveness of the research makes the thesis a valuable source document for practitioners and scholars.

The candidate has acquired a comprehensive knowledge of the field which few would possess. Most practitioners in the disciplines involved would have a view of these matters from their own perspectives. This thesis brings together the respective viewpoints and provides an illuminating synthesis in an objective way.

The final summation merits the attention of law reform committees and commissions and politicians. The thesis is timely and apposite. There is currently a moderate climate of hysteria about violent crime and the mentally disordered are again at risk of being stigmatised and unjustly treated as a result. There is material here that, properly directed, can help to redress that imbalance and provide research basis on which administrators and practitioners can base their plans for forensic psychiatric services - a much neglected field in Australia. The attention of the Professor of Forensic Psychiatry or your university should be drawn to this thesis as should the Minister for Health and the Director General of Health so knowledge of the work can be widely disseminated to health workers.’

Professor Duncan Chappell, Director, Australian Institute of Criminology

‘In what can be described as a monumental piece of work the candidate has amply and eloquently affirmed her thesis. At first blush it might be thought that it is an overly ambitious task to examine such a broad field of concern, over such a period of years, with the requisite depth of scholarly detail and analysis expected in a thesis of this type. A more traditional approach to a doctoral thesis on this topic might well have been to have selected a much shorter time frame and to have opted for a more limited empirical component. In the case of this study, its ambitious scope has been fully justified by the rigour of the scholarship displayed and the thoroughness with which the empirical data has been gathered and analysed.

There is no doubt that this study is a major contribution to both Australian and international literature concerning the treatment of those deemed to be criminally insane. It is a contribution which not only spans 'modern Australian history since 1788, but also one which establishes links with the equivalent developments occurring in Europe and North America during the same time span. This study provides a quite invaluable overview of the way in which Australians have coped since the time of European settlement with one of the most difficult dilemmas confronting any society. This study will assist in putting current discussions about how to best deal with 'dangerous offenders' into a social and historical perspective. It will also provide modern policy makers with advice and assistance about ways in which the plight of those deemed criminally insane may be improved. Such advice and assistance is much required as we seem to be entering yet another era of moral panic and stigmatisation of the mentally ill offender. It is a study which should also assist with the dispelling of the myth that such offenders are responsible for a disproportionate amount of criminal violence.

It is the examiner's view that much of this thesis deserves to be published as a book. The candidate writes in a lucid style which keeps the attention of the writer.

It is an original study which makes a significant contribution to knowledge. It is also a study which demonstrates on the part of the candidate a deep awareness and understanding of relevant literature.’