The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy (IJCJSD) has announced the establishment of a prize for best article(s). The Rosa del Olmo Prize is awarded biennially for the IJCJSD article(s) that, in the Editors’ opinion and based on the recommendations of a panel of experts, most contributes to…
“We do not know how many Aboriginal women have gone ‘missing’ in this country. The archives are filled with the ‘missing’: the Aboriginal women who are no longer here to speak; the Aboriginal women who do not have names; the Aboriginal women who do not have graves or…
Ten percent of the world’s population lives on islands, but until now the place and space characteristics of islands in criminological theory have not been deeply considered. A new book by John Scott and Zoe Staines draws on diverse literature, including popular culture, historical and philosophical texts to…
QUT Centre for Justice was saddened to learn of the passing of Retired Inspector Regan Carr. Regan passed away on 25 January 2023 after battling cancer for the last few years. Regan was Queensland’s senior police officer in the area of Domestic and Family Violence. She established the…
QUT Centre for Justice and Carumba Institute Australian Indigenous Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Gina Masterton, has appeared in the media for her research associated with Domestic and Family Violence. Gina was the lead author on a research paper published by the QUT Centre for Justice in May on how…
Image: 📸: L-R Shelley Hopkins , John Scott, Scott Read, Alex Black, Joanne Wood and Sharon Bentley New research from a collaboration between QUT School of Optometry and Vision Science and QUT School of Justice has identified that up to one in three children in a very remote region of…
QUT Centre for Justice member Associate Professor Angela Higginson has been appointed President of Australia New Zealand Society of Criminology for a two-year term. ANZSOC is devoted to promoting criminological study, research and practice in the region and bringing together persons engaged…
World Wide Fund for Nature Australia (WWF) and QUT Centre for Justice recently hosted the Brisbane book launch of Professor Ross Garnaut’s new edited book, “The Superpower Transformation: Making Australia’s Zero’s Carbon Future.” In his bestselling Superpower, renowned economist Ross Garnaut showed that Australia – rich in resources…
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A new issue of International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy has been published. This general issue publishes an eclectic mix of criminology research. Included in the issue, George Dertadian and Stephen Tomsen provide evidence of what constitutes the broader sense of security and safety experienced by (male)…
