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…
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…
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…
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:…
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.…
The QUT Centre for Data Science, QUT Carumba Institute and the Queensland Academy of Arts and Science have teamed up to present the ‘Data Science in the News’ series on “What can we learn from George Floyd’s death, and what role can data and data science play in…
Journal ranked as Q1 in latest rankings The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy has been ranked by Scopus as a Q1 (Quartile 1) for journal quality in the subject category, ‘LAW’ in the latest Scimago* rankings. The Journal is the only Law journal in Australia…
In this seminar, criminologist David R. Goyes and journalist Nina Lakhani meet to discuss Lakhani’s book ‘Who killed Berta Cáceres’, and so shed light on the work of and threats against environmental activists through the life of Berta Cáceres. Berta, in the words of Lakhani, ‘would be mostly…
Professor Kerry Carrington See below details of an upcoming international webinar, “Understanding the COVIC-19 crisis – Critical reflections on the contributions of the Sociology of Law”. Professor Kerry Carrington, Head of School, School of Justice will be speaking as part of a panel on “Domestic Violence, violence against…
QUT Centre for Justice Director Professor Melissa Bull announces support for new PhD students interested in pursuing social justice research. QUT Centre for Justice conducts transdisciplinary research that focuses on finding solutions to social injustice, regardless of social status or geo-political spatial location in a globalised world. A…
