“One client who is in domestically [sic] violent relationship – not many people know. Her husband is in a high position in town and he beats her, I mean really bad and she’ll try to hide it. She’ll come into town with a black eye and bruises and…
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…
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…
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…
Survey on women’s experiences of ‘everyday’ sexual assault
“I need a bodyguard just to go to the cinema”: Women’s experiences of ‘everyday’ sexual assault Have you been groped at the cinema or on the bus, or experienced unwanted attention in the workplace? Researchers at QUT’s School of Justice are encouraging young people to share their experiences…
Sunday Mail names Professor Kerry Carrington a ‘Top Thinker’
by Professor John Scott The Sunday Mail has named QUT criminologist Kerry Carrington one of the ‘Queensland’s Top Fifty Thinkers’. The feature, in the Sunday Mail, invites readers to meet the people whose ideas, innovations and inventions help make Queensland ‘the smart state’. Professor Carrington is one of two criminologists listed in…