Liqun Cao recently joined Crime and Justice Research Centre as an Adjunct Professor in 2014. Professor Cao was recently profiled by the Canadian Policing Research Network. The profile reviews his biography View the profile here.
In the news: John Scott on prison flicks
The Afternoons with Kelly Higgins-Devine show on ABC News Brisbane ran a story Prison Flicks – The Anti Rom-Com featuring Professor John Scott. Listen to the interview here.
Five postgraduate scholarships available for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy International Conference
Calling all Australian and New Zealand Postgraduate Students! The Crime and Justice Research Centre (CJRC) at Queensland University of Technology is seeking to sponsor five postgraduate students to attend the Crime, Justice and Social Democracy International Conference and Postgraduate Event, to be held from 8th – 10th July…
Crime on a desert island (part five): Music about crime
Image cca Alan Levine This Old Guitar by Dean Biron Music and crime are most commonly associated through notions of illegal downloading, the lyrics and lifestyles of “gangsta” rappers, or heavy metal musicians supposedly exhorting young people to deviance. In the 1980s, links between certain types of rock…
In the news: Understanding the male sex industry
Adjunct Professor Victor Minichiello, Professor John Scott and Denton Callander’s research was featured on the Biomed Central Series blog about the article A new public health context to understand male sex work “The male sex industry has become an increasingly visible part of society, assisted by factors such as…
Supporting Survivors of Domestic and Family Violence: Challenges and Recommendations for Justice Responses
Please join QUT’s Crime and Justice Research Centre and CQU’s Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research for a discussion about research and practice to improve justice responses to domestic and family violence in Queensland. We welcome practitioners, survivors, scholars, students and community members to attend this…
Dr Kelly Richards’ research on reducing sexual offending in the news
Dr Kelly Richards was recently featured in an ABC news story about a South Australian trial of the Circles of Support and Accountability model to reduce sexual offending. Richards’ 2011 article The potential of Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA) to reduce child sexual abuse in Australia reviewed…
How to tackle cyber crime before people even know they’re a victim
By Dr Cassandra Cross An estimated A$75,000 is lost by Australians everyday to online fraud, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). Given that this is based on reported crime, the real figure is likely to be much higher. It is well known that fraud, particularly…
Recently published – No laughing matter: Blaming the victim of online fraud
By Dr Cassandra Cross Nearly everyone has received spam emails. The annoying emails that seem completely ridiculous and ask for money or ask for your bank details to an account you have never had. We delete them, we dismiss them and a lot of the time we…
Police not prepared for death investigations
New research from Professor Belinda Carpenter Police are ill-equipped to investigate non-criminal deaths and face a challenge to avoid re-traumatising bereaved families as well as emotionally protecting themselves, according to QUT research. Investigating death: the emotional and cultural challenges for police found it was usually junior officers sent…