Dr Toby Miles-Johnson QUT C4J member and Senior Lecturer in School of Justice, Dr Toby Miles-Johnson is Guest Editor of a special edition issue of Social Sciences Journal titled, “Policing Vulnerable People: Police, Practice, Policy and Engagement.” This special issue includes papers from three members of QUT C4J.…
The research is funded under the Australian Research Council’s Linkage Projects scheme. It asks how young women experience systems that were designed for males, with the aim of improving service delivery to young women and thereby reducing their contact with these systems. The project will provide an excellent…
About the scholarship This PhD Scholarship is part of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) project investigating the role of non-government organisations (NGOs) in combating modern slavery with ethical consumerism. Through a world-first study of Australia’s anti-slavery advocacy network, this project aims to develop…
Professor Kerry Carrington from QUT Centre for Justice is presenting a seminar at the ‘Decolonising Criminology Network Group’ at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge on Friday 12 February at 9.00am (Friday 12 February at 7pm BRISBANE TIME). The group was formed in January, 2020 with the…
QUT Centre for Justice member, Dr Toby Miles-Johnson and Dr Thomas Courtenay of University of Southampton have just published a Q1 article titled, “Recognition and response: policing ‘Forced marriage’ in England” Abstract: Forced marriage occurs when an individual is pressured psychologically or physically into marriage. Methods to detect forced…
In 2020 the world changed. Not only has the pandemic increased the incidence of domestic and family violence (DFV) in our community, but it is becoming increasingly clear that we cannot simply return to working and supporting clients, patients and communities as we did in the past. So…
QUT Centre for Justice member, Dr Toby Miles-Johnson has just published a Q1 article titled, “Comparative perceptions: how female officers in two Australian police organizations view policing of diverse people” in Police Practice and Research: An International Journal. This is the first Australian study comparatively examining the perceptions…
The Australian Youth Safety Survey is an online survey of young Australians aged 14 to 25, focusing on their experiences of identity, diversity, and safety. Participants shared information about their sense of identity and their attitudes to ethnicity, immigration, and police, their feelings about their families, peers, schools,…
December 9, 2020 is the fifth anniversary of the groundbreaking United Nations Security Council Resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace & Security. On the 25 November, QUT’s Centre for Justice hosted a webinar to mark this anniversary and to consider opportunities and challenges for youth-led peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific region. The roundtable…
As part of the Education for Justice initiative, UNODC is partnering with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) to host a two day academic conference on Access to Justice to End Violence. The conference will be held online on 8-9 December 2020. The programme will feature presentations from an international delegation of…
