Dean is a Criminologist with extensive experience working within the criminal justice system helping to facilitate the rehabilitation of men back into society after time in prison.
Dean has worked with institutionalised men, sex offenders, domestic violence perpetrators, organised crime members and everything in between. His specialty areas relate to violent offenders, specifically men convicted of Domestic and Family Violence offences.
Dean facilitates a men’s domestic and family violence behavioural change program and shares insights into how men find themselves falling into the mindset that allows them to perpetrate abusive behaviours and progress along the continuum of violence. Dean is also a Gender Equality Practitioner with Griffith University’s MATE Program which empowers bystanders to intervene when they see or hear problematic behaviours.
Dean is also a recent father and shares some of his new experiences of being a first time father.
During the episode we talk about becoming a father, the consequences of the traditional ideas of what it is to be a man, how men can be better in the home and how men can have conversations to be better.
Join us for a very entertaining podcast!
- Be There App- A domestic violence bystander supported app- https://bethereapp.com.au/
- 1800Respect (1800 737 732)- Australia’s National Domestic Family and Sexual Violence Counselling Service- https://www.1800respect.org.au/
- Mensline Australia- Men’s individual and family support service- 1300 78 99 78- https://mensline.org.au/
- Youth and Family Services- SE QLD Service for families and men’s behavioural change programs- https://www.yfs.org.au/
- Men and Family Centre- Southern GC/Northern NSW Service and men’s behavioural change program- https://menandfamily.org.au/
