Open Letter to the Prime Minister the Hon Malcolm Turnbull Re: Extend the Terms of Reference Royal Commission Into Youth Detention to All Australian Jurisdictions The disturbing issues raised by ABC’s 4Corners Program on the detention of young people are not confined to the Northern Territory. The terms…
Helping Ourselves to Deal With the Pain of Others: Secondary Traumatization Syndrome and Vicarious Traumatization
Originally posted on 18/02/2015 by Border Criminologies — Guest post by Shlomit Weiss-Dagan (MSW), a clinical social worker in a social welfare department, Jerusalem, and PhD candidate (social work) at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Shlomit is currently in Oxford.This post is the third instalment of the Border Criminologies Themed Week on Research Methodologies,…
Suspicious Minds and Unwelcome Researchers: Obstacles Encountered When Researching Forced Return in Sweden
Posted on 17/02/2015 by Border Criminologies — 2 Comments ↓ This post is the second instalment of the Border Criminologies Themed Week on Research Methodologies, organised by Prof Mary Bosworth. Guest post by Daniela DeBono, Sofia Rönnqvist, and Karin Magnusson, research fellows at Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, Sweden. In this…
Thinking and talking about research methodologies: Why should we bother?
Border Criminologies have generously given us the permission to promote their blogs on our site. Here is the first one. If you want to read more, just click on the hyperlink. Posted on 16/02/2015 by Border Criminologies — 3 Comments ↓ Post by Mary Bosworth, Centre for Criminology,…
Int Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy included in Web of Science 2015
NEWS JUST IN The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy will be included in the prestigious Web of Science 2015 edition. This is southern criminology finally breaking through the glass ceiling. Thanks to our international editors and authors for this amazing success. International Editorial Board The…
Domestic violence service provision and rural life: An Australian case study
“One client who is in domestically [sic] violent relationship – not many people know. Her husband is in a high position in town and he beats her, I mean really bad and she’ll try to hide it. She’ll come into town with a black eye and bruises and…
Outdated journal rankings and the ERA exercise
by Professor Rick Sarre, School of Law, University of South Australia, and President, Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC) Professor Kerry Carrington, Head of School of Justice, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology. Professor Reece Walters, Assistant Dean of Research, Faculty of Law, Queensland University…
Professor Sandra Walklate: new Adjunct Professor joins the Crime and Justice Research Centre
Professor Sandra Walklate is a leading scholar in Criminology, Editor in Chief of the British Journal of Criminology, and recipient of the British Society of Criminology 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award. Sandra Walklate is Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology and currently head of department of sociology, social policy and criminology at…
Women’s only police stations to combat violence against women
by Professor Kerry Carrington On International Women’s Day 8 March 2015 it is timely to reflect on Australia’s progress on addressing violence against women. The data shows persistent increases in the incidence of domestic violence – although this could mean an increase in reporting, rather than an increase…
Nightcrawler: a moral dilemma of our own making
Recently published: Nightcrawler: a moral dilemma of our own making School of Justice sessional tutor Dr Dean Biron has published an article on the 2014 film Nightcrawler, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo. The piece appeared in the online version of the Australian literary journal Overland. Dean is…