Rate My Professor Jane Tudor-Owen

Dr. Jane Tudor-Owen is a Lecturer in the School of Law and Criminology at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia. She earned a Bachelor of Social Work (Honours), a Bachelor of Laws, and a PhD, with her doctoral thesis titled 'Written plans and self-evaluations in investigative interviews with witnesses,' completed in 2016. Prior to joining Murdoch University, she held positions at Edith Cowan University, including researcher and project manager at the Sellenger Centre for Research in Law, Justice and Social Change, where she led the Criminal Justice Review Project. She also served as an Honorary Lecturer in the Discipline of Psychology and Criminology at Edith Cowan University. Her academic career reflects a strong commitment to advancing knowledge in criminal justice, particularly through empirical studies on policing practices.

Tudor-Owen's research focuses on investigative interviewing, the PEACE model of interviewing, police recruits' natural skills and training, traffic policing, and strategies for interviewing vulnerable suspects such as intoxicated individuals, children, those with intellectual impairments, mental illness, hearing impairments, or from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. She edited the volume 'Interviewing Vulnerable Suspects: Safeguarding the Process' (Routledge, Routledge Series on Practical and Evidence-Based Policing, 2022), co-edited with Celine van Golde, Ray Bull, and David Gee, contributing chapters including 'Interviewing intoxicated suspects,' 'Children as suspects,' 'Interviewing suspects with intellectual and learning impairments,' and 'Interviewing suspects with mental illness.' Key peer-reviewed articles include 'The Importance of "Blue Shirts" in Traffic Policing' (Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 2021), 'Perceptions of exonerees in Australia' (2019), 'How Intuitive is PEACE? Newly Recruited Police Officers' Plans, Interviews and Self-Evaluations' (2015), 'Are newly recruited police officers blank slates? An examination of the "natural" interviewing skills of untrained recruits in Western Australia' (2015), and 'An exploratory study of the planning and interviewing practices of police recruits in Western Australia' (2016). Her scholarship has accumulated 79 citations. Currently, she coordinates and lectures in units such as Policing and Crime Prevention (CRM201/LLB201).