Refereed journal articles
Lansdell, G., Saunders, B., Eriksson, A. & Bunn, R. (2022) ‘Strengthening the Connection Between Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) and Family Violence: The Importance of Ongoing Monitoring, Research, and Inclusive Terminology’, Journal of Family Violence, 37, 367-380 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-021-00278-1
Mendes, P., Standfield, R., Saunders, B., McCurdy, S., Walsh, J., & Turnbull, L. (2021) “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) young people leaving out-of-home care in Australia: A national scoping study”, Children and Youth Services Review, 121, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105848
Saunders, B.J., Lansdell, G., Frederick, J. (2019) "Understanding Children's Court Processes and Decisions: Perceptions of Children and their Families”, Youth Justice, 20 (3),pp272-292. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473225419890691
Saunders, B.J. (2019) “‘Lawful Correction’: Children’s Human Rights and Social Work Advocacy”, Special Issue: Australian Social Work – Vulnerable Children and the Law, 72(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2019.1590611
Saunders B.J., Lansdell, G., Eriksson, A., and Bunn, R. (2018) “Friend or foe: The media’s power to inform and shape societal attitudes towards people with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)”, Disability & Society, 33, 6, pp. 932-953. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09687599.2018.1466692
Books
Lansdell, G. Saunders, B.J and Eriksson, A. (Eds) (2021) Neurodisability and the Criminal Justice System: Comparative and Therapeutic Responses, Edward Elgar Publishing.
Saunders, B.J., Leviner, P., and Naylor, B. (Eds.) (2018) Corporal Punishment of Children; Comparative Legal and Social Developments, Brill|Nijoff, The Netherlands.
Saunders, B.J. and Goddard.C. (2010) Physical Punishment in Childhood: The Rights of the Child, Chichester, Wiley/Blackwell.
Refereed book chapters
Saunders, B.J. (2020) “Corporal Punishment: The Child’s Experience” in Michaelson, V. & Durrant, J. Putting children in their Place: Theology, Corporal Punishment and Reconciliation, University of Manitoba Press, Canada.
Saunders, B.J. and Lansdell, G. (2020) "The status and vulnerability of children, and the co-occurrence of childhood sexual abuse with other forms of abuse", in Bryce, I. and Petherick, W., Childhood Sexual Abuse: Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact and Management. Elsevier.
Saunders, B.J. (2019) “Physical discipline, child abuse and children’s rights” in Robinson, Y., Petherick, W., and Bryce, I. Child Abuse and Neglect: Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact and Management. Elsevier, pp225-241.
Mendes, P., Saunders, B.J., Baidawi, S. (2019) “The Experiences of Indigenous Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care in Victoria Australia” in Mann-Feder, V. & Goyette, M eds Leaving Care and the Transition to Adulthood: International Contributions to Theory, Research & Practice”, Oxford University Press, pp149-171.
Saunders, B. J. (2017) “Progress toward worldwide recognition of the child's human right to dignity, physical integrity and protection from harm” in Ruck, M., Peterson-Badali, M. & Freeman, M. (eds.) Handbook of Children's Rights: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Abdingdon Oxon UK: Routledge,pp. 239-258.
Conference presentations
Hlavac, J., Harrison, C., & Saunders, B. (2021) “Interprofessional education for interpreting students: joint training with medical and social work students”, AUSIT Annual Conference, Perth, online.
Saunders, B.J., Lansdell, G. & Eriksson, A. (2019) “A Victorian Case Study of People with an ABI in the Criminal Justice System: Legal and Personal Perspectives’’ XXXVI International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Rome, Italy, July.
Saunders, B.J. (2017) “Problematising “childism” and related language in the English-speaking world: The power of words to either thwart or progress the attainment of children’s human rights to freedom from corporal punishment and other degrading treatment”, paper presented at Corporal Punishment of Children: Comparative Legal and Social Developments Workshop in Stockholm, Sweden, June 28- 30.
Saunders, B.J, Lansdell, G & Frederick, J (2017) ‘Understanding Children’s Court Processes and Decisions: Perceptions of Children and their Families’, invited paper presented in session: The Children’s Court: Balancing Welfare Priority with Legal Decision-Making at the XXXV th International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Prague, Czech Republic July 9-14.
Saunders, B.J. (2015) ‘Parental Corporal Punishment of Children: Still a Defence to Assault despite Twenty-Five Years of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)’ – Invited paper in session Children’s Welfare and the Law: Legal Challenges at 34th International Congress of Law & Mental Health, Vienna, Austria, July 12- 17.
Lansdell, G, Saunders, B & Eriksson, A. (2015) ‘An Examination of the Interaction of People with an Acquired Brain Injury within the Victorian Criminal Justice System -Enhancing the Rights and Wellbeing of People with an Acquired Brain Injury’, invited paper at 8th ACSO International Criminal Justice Conference - Do prisons change lives? Melbourne, Australia 21-23 October.
Saunders, B.J. (2013) ‘Progress towards abolishing physical punishment in childhood: Advancing children’s rights to dignity and respectful treatment’, Faculty of Laws Current Issues Colloquium, Law & Michael Freeman’, University College London, United Kingdom, July 1-2.
Saunders, B.J. (2013) ‘The Physical Punishment or ‘Lawful Correction’ of Children – An Issue of Rights and Effects’ Invited paper in session on Child Abuse – 33rd International Congress of Law & Mental Health, Amsterdam, The Netherlands July 14- 19.
Saunders, B.J. (2011) ‘The importance of listening to children: Insights from qualitative research about physical punishment in childhood’, Invited keynote presented at the Global Summit on Ending Corporal Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline, Fairmont Hotel, Dallas, Texas, United States June 2-4.
