The Faculty of Law has four ECARD vacancies for 2016 in the discipline areas of: Criminology and policing Intellectual property and innovation law Indigenous legal issues Ethics, professional responsibility, civil procedure and/or evidence. For information regarding the available positions and how to apply, please refer to the position…

The Crime, Justice and Social Democracy International Conference is a biennial conference hosted by QUT’s Crime and Justice Research Centre.  The conference brings distinguished international speakers together from UK, US, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Europe, New Zealand and Australia. Click here to access the final program for the upcoming…

The Early Career Academic Recruitment & Development (ECARD) Program is a QUT initiative designed to accelerate the professional development and cultural integration of recently recruited early career academics. The ECARD Program aims to enhance understanding of academic life at QUT in order to accelerate the contribution of early…

    QUT’s Associate Professor Gordon Tait and Professor Belinda Carpenter’s recent publication in the international journal Mortality has highlighted the issue of suicide determination within the coronial system.

Adjunct Professor Walter DeKeseredy from West Virginia University has recently contributed to a number of regional forums held around the country regarding the prevention of men’s violence against women.

QUT’s Early Career Academic Recruitment and Development (ECARD) Program has been designed to provide newly appointed staff with an excellent platform from which to build their academic careers. The ECARD program is developed and facilitated by experts from across the University and offers a comprehensive suite of activities…

Professor Kerry Carrington from QUT’s School of Justice was recently featured in an ABC news story about the extensive overcrowding evident in Queensland prisons. Recent figures from the State’s Corrective Services department demonstrate there has been a 20 percent rise in inmates over the past two years, with the current…

      QUT’s Crime and Justice Research Centre criminologists Dr Kelly Richards and Dr Ange Dwyer recently published their work in a special issue of the Australian Journal of Human Rights on ‘Policing and Human Rights’. Drawing on their combined expertise in the areas of youth justice,…

Adjunct Professor Liqun Cao’s recently published article in Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management offers a useful conceptual clarification of key terms commonly used to describe public attitudes towards police, namely – confidence in police, trust in the police, and satisfaction with the police.

By Dr. Kelly Richards The custodial remand of young people has recently emerged as a key issue for youth justice in Australia, due primarily to concerns about perceived increases in young people on custodial remand. Richards and Renshaw’s (2013) national study of remand for young people found that…