Image: Paralympian Karni Liddell (L) and Dr Janice Rieger Queensland Disability Action Week runs from 13-19 September and this year’s theme is “Access-ability – making things better for everyone” As part of the week Dr Janice Rieger, member of QUT C4J and Senior Lecturer, Creative Industries discusses Universal…
EVENT: Free Webinar: Digital Justice – Emerging Technologies, Methods and Research
Friday 11 September 2020 9.30am – 2.30pm This online event aims to bring together HDR students and early, mid, senior career researchers, and industry professionals from around Australia to talk about the latest cutting-edge research and policy developments in the space of Digital Justice: Technologies, Methods, and Research.…
Crime rates and justice innovations in the Torres Strait Islands
QUT Centre for Justice has recently published Issue 5 in the QUT Centre for Justice Briefing Paper Series. QUT Centre for Justice Briefing Papers provide short, accessible accounts of topics and issues related to justice. The paper titled, “Crime rates and justice innovations in the Torres Strait Islands”…
IJCJSD Volume 9 issue 3 2020 Double Issue
A new issue of International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy is now available. This third issue for 2020 is a double issue and includes diverse articles from scholars in the UK, China, Colombia, Australia, France and Spain. In two parts, the first part is a special issue:…
QUT C4J Briefing Paper: What Australia can learn from women’s police stations to prevent gender violence
An Australian Research Council (ARC) funded research team from QUT Centre for Justice, led by Professor Kerry Carrington conducted three months of field research in Argentina, interviewing 100 employees from 10 women’s police stations. Women’s police stations are a unique invention that emerged in Latin America in the…
Welcome New Members: International Editorial Board IJCJSD
Welcoming new members to the International Editorial Board of the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy The Journal Editorial team are very pleased to welcome four new members to the International Editorial Board this month: Christopher Emzin, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia Cleotilde…
QUT 2020 Annual Scholarship Round: Dr Ashleigh Larkin
My name is Dr Ashleigh Larkin and I graduated with a PhD from QUT in 2018. My PhD thesis is titled An empirical investigation into how young women engage in and upload female-to-female fights on social media. I started my PhD in 2014, after being awarded an Australian…
Had both your heart and wallet broken online? Take a survey to help others
With the cost of romance fraud to Australians jumping to $83 million last year, up from $60.5 million in 2018, a global QUT survey seeks to better understand the techniques offenders use and protect future victims. Online fraud expert Dr Cassandra Cross, a QUT-based Cybersecurity Cooperative Research Centre Senior Research…
Annual HDR Scholarship Round 2020 – QUT C4J Expressions of Interest
HDR Scholarships are available to competitive applications with an excellent academic track record through QUT’s Annual Scholarship Round, which closes in October 2020 for higher degree research starting in 2021. We are inviting Expressions of Interest (EOI) for projects that align to any of our three research programs:…
International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy ranked second internationally in Criminology Open ranking
The Journal has been ranked by Criminology Open as the second most cited “diamond journal” in criminology internationally. Criminology Open https://www.criminologyopen.com/ compiles all the open access publications in this space and has started a ranking for different open access models using citation data from Scimago and Google Scholar.…