CJRC Adjunct Professor Judith Bessant from the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT has recently co-authored an article published in Volume 37, Issue 2 of the Policy Studies journal.

Professor John Scott and CJRC Adjunct Professor Victor Minichiello have recently been featured in an article on The Age website discussing male sex workers. The article “Male sex workers call for respect, understanding” details the extensive discrimination and stigma that male sex workers are continuously subject to as a result…

Professors Kerry Carrington, John Scott and Reece Walters from the Crime and Justice Research Centre, School of Justice, Faculty of Law, are currently in Beijing attending the 2016 Asian Criminological Society Annual Meeting.

Justice undergraduate student, Lauren Wilkins, has recently been successful in securing an internship at the Australian Human Rights Commission. 

School of Justice PhD candidate Habiba Sultana has had her paper ‘Sex worker activism, feminist discourse and HIV in Bangladesh’ re-published in the journal Culture, Health and Sexuality, as part of a special issue on ‘Sex, Sexuality and Sex Work’, edited by Dan Allman and Melissa Hope Ditmore.

     The Crime and Justice Research Centre will be hosting an upcoming seminar on ‘Southern Criminology’, with speakers Professor Kerry Carrington, Professor Russell Hogg, Dr Helen Berents and Professor John Scott.

The latest issue of the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy is now available. Volume 5, Number 2 is a Special Issue titled “Fighting Feminism: Organised Opposition to Women’s Rights” and features papers by international feminist scholars, including guest editior and CJRC member, Associate Professor Molly Dragiewicz. To…

Dr Margaret Pereira and Professor John Scott from the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, have co-authored an article recently published in the journal Health Sociology Review titled “Harm reduction and the ethics of drug use: contemporary techniques of self-governance.”

Earlier today, the School of Justice hosted the Annual Honours Colloquium event where the 2016 Honours cohort presented their research projects to peers and staff members. The research projects discussed covered fascinating topics and were all presented at an exceptionally high standard.

At the beginning of 2016, the Crime and Justice Research Centre welcomed three new staff members to the team, Dr David Fonseca, Dr Angela Higgenson and Dr Monique Mann. Appointed through the 2016 round of QUT’s ECARD program, all three staff members have successfully secured academic positions in the School…