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…
Crime on a desert island (part four): Prison films
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…
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…
Professor Sandra Walklate: new Adjunct Professor joins the Crime and Justice Research Centre
Professor Sandra Walklate is a leading scholar in Criminology, Editor in Chief of the British Journal of Criminology, and recipient of the British Society of Criminology 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award. Sandra Walklate is Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology and currently head of department of sociology, social policy and criminology at…
Women’s only police stations to combat violence against women
by Professor Kerry Carrington On International Women’s Day 8 March 2015 it is timely to reflect on Australia’s progress on addressing violence against women. The data shows persistent increases in the incidence of domestic violence – although this could mean an increase in reporting, rather than an increase…
Law and order, evidence and values
by Professor Russell Hogg A change of government normally signals (or we would like to think so) changes in policy direction in key areas. Criminologists, like other academics, are usually quick to offer advice to new incumbents, perhaps more so because of the overheated climate that has come…
Degrees of difference? Or different degrees? A study of undergraduate ‘criminology’ degrees at Australian universities
by Dr Kelly Richards ‘Criminology’ degree programs are increasingly popular at Australian universities, with new degrees being introduced regularly, and student enrolments in this discipline increasing substantially in recent years. But what is a ‘criminology’ degree, and what do students learn in them? Across Australia, there is very…