Please join us at the next Crime and Justice Research Centre Seminar Series for Romantic Terrorism – How He Gets into Her Head with Associate Professor Sharon Hayes. Thursday 7 May 2015 3.00pm – 4.30pm, afternoon tea provided Room C412, Level 4, C Block, QUT Gardens Point Campus,…

Supporting Survivors of Domestic and Family Violence: Challenges and Recommendations for Justice Responses 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…

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.

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…

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…

by Professor John Scott While few prison films have enjoyed widespread appeal, save, perhaps The Shawshank Redemption (1994), they have enjoyed an enduring place in cinema and television. The golden age of prison cinema was perhaps the 1930s, which spawned classics such as I am a Fugitive…

Blog post by Professor John Scott The serial killer is a modern invention and an integral part of crime and popular culture. The rise of the serial killer shadows that of the detective and the serial killer shares many traits with the classic detectives, such as mystical or…