Adjunct Professor Victor Minichiello, Professor John Scott and Denton Callander’s research was featured on the Biomed Central Series blog about the article A new public health context to understand male sex work “The male sex industry has become an increasingly visible part of society, assisted by factors such as…
Supporting Survivors of Domestic and Family Violence: Challenges and Recommendations for Justice Responses
Please join QUT’s Crime and Justice Research Centre and CQU’s Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research for a discussion about research and practice to improve justice responses to domestic and family violence in Queensland. We welcome practitioners, survivors, scholars, students and community members to attend this…
Dr Kelly Richards’ research on reducing sexual offending in the news
Dr Kelly Richards was recently featured in an ABC news story about a South Australian trial of the Circles of Support and Accountability model to reduce sexual offending. Richards’ 2011 article The potential of Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA) to reduce child sexual abuse in Australia reviewed…
Outdated journal rankings and the ERA exercise
by Professor Rick Sarre, School of Law, University of South Australia, and President, Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC) Professor Kerry Carrington, Head of School of Justice, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology. Professor Reece Walters, Assistant Dean of Research, Faculty of Law, Queensland University…
How to tackle cyber crime before people even know they’re a victim
By Dr Cassandra Cross An estimated A$75,000 is lost by Australians everyday to online fraud, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). Given that this is based on reported crime, the real figure is likely to be much higher. It is well known that fraud, particularly…
Recently published – No laughing matter: Blaming the victim of online fraud
By Dr Cassandra Cross Nearly everyone has received spam emails. The annoying emails that seem completely ridiculous and ask for money or ask for your bank details to an account you have never had. We delete them, we dismiss them and a lot of the time we…
Police not prepared for death investigations
New research from Professor Belinda Carpenter Police are ill-equipped to investigate non-criminal deaths and face a challenge to avoid re-traumatising bereaved families as well as emotionally protecting themselves, according to QUT research. Investigating death: the emotional and cultural challenges for police found it was usually junior officers sent…
Crime on a desert island (part four): Prison films
by Professor John Scott While few prison films have enjoyed widespread appeal, save, perhaps The Shawshank Redemption (1994), they have enjoyed an enduring place in cinema and television. The golden age of prison cinema was perhaps the 1930s, which spawned classics such as I am a Fugitive…
Survey on women’s experiences of ‘everyday’ sexual assault
“I need a bodyguard just to go to the cinema”: Women’s experiences of ‘everyday’ sexual assault Have you been groped at the cinema or on the bus, or experienced unwanted attention in the workplace? Researchers at QUT’s School of Justice are encouraging young people to share their experiences…
Sunday Mail names Professor Kerry Carrington a ‘Top Thinker’
by Professor John Scott The Sunday Mail has named QUT criminologist Kerry Carrington one of the ‘Queensland’s Top Fifty Thinkers’. The feature, in the Sunday Mail, invites readers to meet the people whose ideas, innovations and inventions help make Queensland ‘the smart state’. Professor Carrington is one of two criminologists listed in…