CJRC researcher and senior lecturer Dr Cassandra Cross from the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, has recently been featured in QUT Media discussing her new co-authored book “Cyber Frauds, Scams and their Victims”. Read more
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EVENT TONIGHT – “Equality in the Criminal System” Featuring CJRC Researcher Professor Kerry Carrington
Tonight the Australian Fabians are hosting an event in Brisbane at QUT Gardens Point Campus on ‘Equality in the Criminal System’.
This event will feature presentations by CJRC researcher Professor Kerry Carrington and Luke Thomson from the Inala Youth Service.
For more information about this event and to register, click here.
Upcoming Seminar – “Prisons and State Building: Exporting ‘the Fiasco of the Prison’ to the Global South”
Next week, the Crime and Justice Research Centre will host a research seminar on “Prisons and State Building: Exporting ‘the Fiasco of the Prison’ to the Global South” with guest speaker Dr Deborah Drake from The Open University (UK). Read more
CJRC Privacy Expert Discusses the ‘RoboDebt Data Matching Scandal’
CJRC researcher and privacy expert Dr Monique Mann from the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, recently spoke to New Matilda about the RoboDebt data matching scandal.
Dr Mann compares the robo-debt fiasco to the movie I, Daniel Blake. “It’s a Kafka-esque nightmare,” she told New Matilda in an interview. “There are real questions about the reliability of the data and the program used to match data between Centrelink and the Australian Taxation Office.” Read more
2017 AIPIO Conference – Early Bird Registration Closing Soon
The Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers will be hosting the 26th AIPIO intelligence conference and exhibition, Intelligence 2017, at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart on 22-24 August 2017. The conference and exhibition will bring together intelligence professionals from around Australia, the region and further afield and affords the opportunity to establish new contacts, network with peers and share insights into today’s topics, trends and innovations in the National Intelligence Community market.
“The RoboCop Continuum: Confronting Automated & Robotic Policing”
CJRC researcher and lecturer Dr Monique Mann from the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, has recently published an article in the Australian Security Magazine on robotic policing titled “The RoboCop Continuum: Confronting automated & robotic policing”. Read more
Men Make a Difference: Engaging Men on Gender Equality
CJRC researcher Associate Professor Michael Flood from the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, will be speaking today at the launch of the research report he co-authored titled “Men Make a Difference: Engaging Men on Gender Equality”. The report examines the evidence for what works and what doesn’t, and recommends more effective ways to engage men to achieve gender equality at work. Read more
Professor Kerry Carrington presents research at El Colegio de la Fontera Norte, Juarez, Mexico
At a workshop today at El Colegio de la Fontera Norte, Juarexz, Mexico, on violence, gender and borders, CJRC researcher Professor Kerry Carrington from the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, will present her research on frontier violence, masculinity and femicide. Read more
CJRC to host Fulbright Specialist Mark Wynn
Crime and Justice Research Centre Associate Professor Molly Dragiewicz won a Fulbright Specialist grant to bring expert domestic and sexual violence violence intervention trainer Mark Wynn to Australia.
Associate Professor Molly Dragiewicz Keynote at Priority One Counsellors Conference
Crime and Justice Research Centre Associate Professor Molly Dragiewicz will deliver the keynote address Dynamics of Domestic Violence: Helping the Helpers at the Priority One Counsellors Conference in Brisbane on 8 June 2017. Dragiewicz is course coordinator for QUT’s Graduate Certificate in Domestic Violence and teaches the interdisciplinary undergraduate elective. She recently published Abusive Endings: Separation and Divorce Violence against Women with Walter S. DeKeseredy and Martin D. Schwartz.
Priority One is Queensland Ambulance Services‘ Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for first responders. It is a comprehensive EAP approach that incorporates peer support officers, professional counsellors, a 24 hour telephone service, chaplaincy, LGBT staff support group, Indigenous staff support group. It offers ongoing training opportunities for professional development.
QUT Associate Professor Jane Shakespeare-Finch from the School of Psychology and Counselling will deliver the other keynote on 9 June.
