Please join us for the next seminar hosted by the CJRC with speakers Dr Larissa Sandy & Dr Anastasia Powell Topic –  Narrative constructions of women as victims in news and social media: Case studies from trafficking in Cambodia and sexual…

The Routledge International Handbook of Rural Criminology, edited by Adjunct Professor Joseph Donnermeyer, has recently been published and features chapters by CJRC researchers Professor Kerry Carrington, Professor Russell Hogg, Professor John Scott and Associate Professor Molly Dragiewicz. 

The CJRC is hosting an upcoming symposium exploring the realities of romance fraud. The event will feature a number of guest speakers, including romance scam victim Sharon Armstrong who will share her story and experience. 

Dr Cassandra Cross from the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, has recently published an article featured in the Special Issue on Cybercrime in the journal Criminal Justice Studies. 

“Tainted love”: A symposium exploring the reality of romance fraud The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) reported that $8 million was lost to romance fraud by Australians in 2014, making it the highest category of financial loss across all fraud types. Given the known low levels of…

This post authored by Dr Cassandra Cross from QUT originally appeared on The Conversation on Wednesday 13th April 2016.   It’s bad enough when someone loses money to an online scam, but in some cases the victim can also recruit others into the scam causing even further heartache and loss.

                                            The latest edition of the Australian criminology journal, ‘Current Issues in Criminal Justice’, has just been published and features an article co-authored by Ms Ashleigh Larkin,…

                                  CJRC Members Professor Belinda Carpenter and Dr Carol Quadrelli from the Faculty of Law, QUT, have recently co-authored an article with Associate Professor Gordon Tait (Faculty of Education, QUT) and Michael…

The call for abstracts is now open for the 2017 international conference co-hosted by the Crime and Justice Research Centre (QUT) and the Asian Criminological Society. The conference theme is “Crime and Justice in Asia and the Global South” and will feature the following keynote speakers: Professor Rosemary…

                                  Dr Kelly Richards from the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, has recently spoken to ABC Radio about the issues surrounding the current age of criminal responsibility in Queensland. To listen to…