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 the article and one of five staff at QUT cited in the article).

The paper notes national and international recognition of Professor Carrington’s work, including a recent award from the respected American Society of Criminology Division on Critical Criminology. The award was further recognition that her research has made a major contribution to the understanding of a range of crimes, including offending by and against women and youth justice. It goes on to cite her recent work exploring the criminological implications of the Australian mining boom and her latest book Feminism and Global Justice, which is an examination of atrocities against girls and women, often justified on the grounds of religion, custom and culture.

Professor Carrington, who learnt of the recognition from a colleague late on Sunday night while transiting at an airport, was surprised by all the fuss, stating she had no prior knowledge of the feature story. While honoured to be recognised as a pioneer of criminology in Australia and Queensland, she considered the award further recognition of the important work being done by the QUT Crime and Justice Research Centre. The Centre had shown that ideas and research from Australian criminology had come of age and were making a unique global research impact.