The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy (supported by the School of Justice) has just attained the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Seal. The DOAJ Seal is a mark of certification for open access journals, awarded by DOAJ to journals that achieve a high level of openness…
New toolkit identifies how to reduce backlash and build support in engaging men in violence prevention and gender equality work Efforts to prevent domestic violence and build gender equality in Australia often meet resistance. Some people push back, responding with criticism and hostility to education or training or…
Online Side Event QUT Centre for Justice member, Professor Kerry Carrington, will speak on Re-Imagining the Policing of Gender Violence in 21st Century as part of the 30th session of the Commission on Crime…
In Australia today, domestic violence is a “national emergency”, an on-going crisis with no remedy in sight. Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics confirms a steep increase in female victims of domestic violence over the last 5 years. Domestic…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
