CJRC researcher and lecturer Dr Bridget Harris from the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, will be speaking at an upcoming seminar hosted by Western Sydney University which will focus on “Online Abuse & Harassment: New Technologies, Old Inequalities” . This seminar will bring together three leading Australian…

CJRC researcher and lecturer Dr Toby Miles-Johnson from the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, has recently co-authored an articled published in the British Journal of Sociology titled ‘Hidden Identities: perceptions of sexual-identity in Beijing’. 

QUT Media have recently published a news item about the international conference being co-hosted by the Crime & Justice Research Centre next week in Cairns, Australia. The three-day conference from Monday, July 10, is expected to draw 300 participants and will be officially opened on Tuesday (July 11)…

Dr Michael Flood gave a keynote address at a Melbourne event designed to increase Victorian policy-makers’ knowledge about the primary prevention of violence against women. Dr Flood’s presentation to the Prevention is Possible forum, on July 4, focused on the issue of backlash. Efforts to prevent men’s violence…

Crime Justice Research Centre member Dr Monique Mann is currently conducting fieldwork interviews with senior police representatives from international policing organisations in Europe. These interviews will extend her previous research with senior Australian federal police and will form the basis of her forthcoming manuscript Politicising and Policing Organised Crime (forthcoming 2018, Routledge).

The Griffith Criminology Institute will be hosting an upcoming seminar on women prisoners in Southeast Asia with guest speaker Chontit (Amy) Chuenurah. 

CJRC researcher and senior lecturer Dr Cassandra Cross from the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, has recently been featured in QUT Media discussing her new co-authored book “Cyber Frauds, Scams and their Victims”. 

Tonight the Australian Fabians are hosting an event in Brisbane at QUT Gardens Point Campus on ‘Equality in the Criminal System’. This event will feature presentations by CJRC researcher Professor Kerry Carrington and Luke Thomson from the Inala Youth Service. For more information about this event and to…

Next week, the Crime and Justice Research Centre will host a research seminar on “Prisons and State Building: Exporting ‘the Fiasco of the Prison’ to the Global South” with guest speaker Dr Deborah Drake from The Open University (UK). 

CJRC researcher and privacy expert Dr Monique Mann from the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, recently spoke to New Matilda about the RoboDebt data matching scandal. Dr Mann compares the robo-debt fiasco to the movie I, Daniel Blake. “It’s a Kafka-esque nightmare,” she told New Matilda in an interview. “There are…