The Australian Institute of Criminology National Homicide Monitoring report includes information about the number, types, and distribution of homicide in Australia. Contrary to stereotypes about this most violent…
With the Coronial Inquest into the Sydney Lindt Café deaths beginning this week, public attention has focused on what the State Coroner of NSW may find out, and…
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…
ABC’s Fact Check today featured Professor Kerry Carrington’s analysis of crime statistics. ABC found that Newman’s claims of sharp drops in crime in Queensland are exaggerated. Carrington noted…
Have you seen the special issue of Critical Criminology: An International Journal on Critical Rural Criminology? The special issue was edited by Crime and Justice Research Centre Adjuncts…
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…
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…
QUT Professor John Scott and Adjunct Professor Joe Donnermeyer co-authored Key Concepts in Crime and Society with Ross Coomber and Karen McElrath. The book offers an authoritative introduction to…
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…
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…