CJRC Members Professor Belinda Carpenter and Dr Carol Quadrelli from the Faculty of Law, QUT, have recently co-authored an article with Associate Professor Gordon Tait (Faculty of Education, QUT) and Michael…
Recently Published — “Suicide, statistics and the coroner: A comparative study of death investigations”
QUT’s Associate Professor Gordon Tait and Professor Belinda Carpenter have recently had their article “Suicide, statistics and the coroner: A comparative study of death investigations” published in the latest edition of the Journal of Sociology.
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…