The first-ever American Society of Criminology Lifetime Achievement award (Division of Critical Criminology) to be made to an Australian criminologist has been conferred on Professor Kerry Carrington, Head of QUT’s School of Justice, Faculty of Law.
The Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Criminology (Division of Critical Criminology) recognises Professor Carrington’s contribution of ground-breaking research on the criminological impact of mining, youth justice, gender and violence, and feminism and global justice over 26 years.
Professor Carrington’s outstanding research career sprang from her award-winning PhD on young women, crime and juvenile which helped stimulate the development of feminist criminology in Australia and internationally.
Last year Professor Kerry Carrington was the first from an Australian university to receive a Distinguished Scholar Award, from the American Society of Criminology, Division of Women and Crime http://ascdwc.com/awards/ . This year she has another first ever achievement for an Australian Scholar in criminology
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