Call for Papers Special Issue | Green Criminological Dialogues: Voices from Africa Guest editors: David R. Goyes (University of Oslo, Norway) and Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood (University of St Andrews, UK) Up to 2014, most academic publications in the field of green criminology—concerned with all environmental crimes including water and…
Gender, Power, Violence: Creating a better normal
Associate Professor Michael Flood spoke at an event in Parliament House titled “Gender, Power, Violence: Creating a better normal”. In the wake of the scandals regarding alleged incidents of sexual assault and harassment in Parliament House, and wider attention to domestic and sexual violence, the Parliamentary Friends of…
QUT C4J Domestic and Family Violence Briefing Paper Series
QUT Centre for Justice have released it’s second Briefing Paper Series around Domestic and Family Violence, to co-incide with Queensland Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month 2021. These Briefing Papers recognise that justice problems very often have multiple causes that are beyond the reach of the criminal justice…
Event: “Doing Brains Justice”
QUT Centre for Justice, with Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership, recently held an event “Doing Brains Justice”. This was held on Thursday 29 April 2021 at QUT Gardens Point Campus. At this event our incredible panel of speakers discussed the impact of neuroscience and how we understand and respond…
Re-imagining the policing of gender violence in the 21st century
Professor Kerry Carrington will be speaking at The Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies on Re-Imagining the Policing of Gender Violence in 21st Century Thursday, May 13th 2021, 1:30pm-3:30pm Zoom link: https://utas.zoom.us/s/84492668298 Abstract: Police stations designed specifically to respond to victims of gender violence are a unique…
Publication: Law, Technology and Humans Volume 3 Issue 1
A new issue of Law, Technology and Humans has been published. Law, Technology and Humans is an international, open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing original, innovative research concerned with the human and humanity of law and technology. Supported by the School of Law, the Journal was launched in late 2019 and…
Event: Beyond criminalising gender violence – are women-centred police stations a viable alternative?
Professor Kerry Carrington is presenting a seminar for the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research on Thursday 29 April 2021 from 7.00pm – 8.00pm AEST (9.00am-10.00am GMT). The criminalisation of gender violence comes with many costs. In an era of scepticism about the carceral state, and…
Policy Piece: Policing transnational and organised crime
QUT C4J member, Dr Danielle Watson along with Jose Sousa-Santos, and Loene M Howes have recently published a policy forum piece to ANU’s Asia & the Pacific Policy Society. This piece discusses the unique geography of the Pacific Island region and its growing attractiveness as a regional crime…
The Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture and Society
New volume on male sex work the most comprehensive coverage of the subject to date Today marks the worldwide release of the new edited volume by John Scott (QUT), Christian Grov (CUNY) and Victor Minichiello (QUT) which comprises 38 chapters by a diverse range of leading international experts…
Seminar: Beyond Criminalising Gender Violence
Prof Kerry Carrington, Research Professor with QUT Centre for Justice will present a paper at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research 2021 Seminar Series being held on 16 April 2021 (7-8 PM AEST) (9-10 AM Scotland) www.sccjr.ac.uk Registration link is here: SCCJR Seminar: Beyond Criminalising Gender…