With Avi Brisman – Adjunct Professor Nigel South, recently published Green Cultural Criminology: Constructions of environmental harm, consumerism, and resistance to ecocide (Routledge). The paperback edition of their International Handbook of Green Criminology is now available. The publisher Routledge are keen to find reviewers for both!  Please contact Nigel or Avi if you wish to review. Next week…

The Crime and Justice Centre, Faculty of Law, QUT have announced the winners of the scholarships to support Latin American scholars to attend the 2015 Crime, Justice and Social Democracy Conference.  Four were awarded to: Professor Andreas Antillano, Faculty of Juridical and Political Sciences, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela…

Critical Criminology Edited by Walter DeKeseredy and Molly Dragiewicz In four volumes, the collection assembles the best and most influential empirical, theoretical, and political contributions made by critical criminologists from around the world, with special attention to new directions in the field—such as cultural criminology, masculinities studies, and…

Sex, Love and Abuse intervenes in a timely way on some important issues that have become ‘elephants in the room’ for academic and policy considerations around sexual violence and abuse. In so doing, this book draws upon a range of literatures and novel empirical sources to encourage critical…

Twenty-five internationally distinguished Adjunct Professors from United States, Spain, Argentina, Europe, New New Zealand and the United Kingdom have now joined the Crime and Justice Research Centre since its inception. Click the links below for more detail on those speaking  at the forthcoming 2015 Crime, Justice and Social Democracy Conference. Professor Elliot Currie University…

Professor Kerry Carrington Head of School of Justice, Faculty of Law, QUT, and author of Feminism and Global Justice, will chair a Round Table on the future of Feminist Criminology. Read more…. Dozens of feminist scholars and activists have participated in the development of feminist criminology. At times there have been…

Using Foucault, Angela Dwyer analyses how historical narratives of policing LGBTIQ people, emerge, re-emerge such that they are never erased. The paper takes as its example the policing of Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in Sydney, Australia, in 2013. Read more …. This paper considers the impossibility of…

Abstracts now open for the third Crime, Justice and Social Democracy International Conference, 8-10 July, QUT, Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane. This conference is convened by the Crime and Justice Research Centre, Faculty of Law, QUT. The Keynote speakers are: Professor Sandra Walklate  University of Liverpool Professor Máximo Sozzo Universidad…

Professor Barry Goldson – world leading scholar in Youth Justice has recently joined the  Adjunct Professors Program hosted by the Crime and Justice Research Centre, Faculty of Law, QUT. Professor Barry Goldson currently holds the Charles Booth Chair of Social Science at the University of Liverpool, UK. He is the…

Dr Jodi Death will be presenting her original research on child sexual abuse (CSA) by personnel in Christian institutions (PICIs). Read more … Child sexual abuse (CSA) by personnel in Christian nstitutions (PICIs) has now been widely studied, critiqued and subjected to government inquiry internationally. In Australia there…