photo: Helen Berents Dr Helen Berents recently published the article Children, violence, and social exclusion: negotiation of everyday insecurity in a Colombian barrio in Critical Studies on Security. Discourses on in/security are often concerned with structures and meta-narratives of the state and other institutions; however, such attention misses…

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.

“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…

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…

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…

Adjunct Professor Victor Minichiello, Professor John Scott and Denton Callander’s research was featured on the Biomed Central Series blog about the article A new public health context to understand male sex work “The male sex industry has become an increasingly visible part of society, assisted by factors such as…

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 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…

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…