Blog by Professor John Scott (j31.scott@qut.edu.au) Law has always been about story-telling. Legal spaces, such as the courtroom, are stages where people wear costumes and act out parts for varied audiences. The sociologist Harold Garfinkel (1917-2011) used the term ‘degradation ceremony’ to describe a process in which ones…
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy: Call for submissions
Professors Kerry Carrington and Reece Walters, Editors’ Report – February 2015 The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy is an open access, blind peer reviewed high quality journal with a distinguished International Editorial Board of 46 leading scholars from law and criminology from 15 countries and…
Crime on a desert island (part two): The serial killer
Blog post by Professor John Scott The serial killer is a modern invention and an integral part of crime and popular culture. The rise of the serial killer shadows that of the detective and the serial killer shares many traits with the classic detectives, such as mystical or…
Crime and Popular Culture – Part One
Professor John Scott will be posting regular blogs about Crime and Popular Culture. Here is the first. Crime on a Desert Island (Part One) In recent years cultural criminology has provided a new challenge to the ‘abstracted empiricism’ which strides across much of the criminological cannon. While cultural…
Youth crime wave? Not so.
Authors: Dr Kelly Richards and Professor Kerry Carrington Since coming to power in 2012, the Newman Government has introduced changes to the youth justice system on the grounds that Queensland has been caught in the grip of a youth crime wave, and that young offenders were getting away…
Crime and Justice Research Centre Highlights 2014
Belinda Carpenter received an Australian Research Council Discovery grant in an extremely competitive field with colleagues Gordon Tait, Diego De Leo, and Colin Tatz. The study will investigate how statistical calculations of suicide are dependent upon coronial determination. Kerry Carrington received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Criminology Division on Critical Criminology due to…
CJRC Events 2015
Submit an abstract for the Crime, Justice and Social Democracy Conference, The conference will take place 8-10 July, 2015 at QUT Gardens Point in Brisbane, Australia. Details of dstinguished Keynote and Panel Speakers from UK, Argentina, Spain, US and Australia. Submit an article or download for free an article from…
Politicisation of law and order in the Queensland election
Professor Kerry Carrington from QUT’s Crime and Justice Research Centre has called for the establishment of an independent Crime Statistics Unit in Queensland to combat the distortion of crime statistics for political purposes. Professor Carrington said crime statistics were complex and often used as political tools. She noted…
Forensic Criminologist joins the CJRC and School of Justice, Faculty of Law, QUT
Dr Claire Ferguson has joined the School of Justice and the Crime and Justice Research Centre in the Faculty of Law, QUT. She is a lecturer, researcher and consultant in forensic criminology. Her areas of interest generally surround offender behaviour during the commission of violent crimes. Her doctoral research examined offender…
Recently published – Global Human Trafficking
A new book Global Human Trafficking, edited by Molly Dragiewicz, has just been published by Routledge. Click here for more details.