At the 2015 annual general meeting for the Queensland Police Citizens Youth Welfare Association (QPCYWA), QUT Crime and Justice Research Centre’s Dr Cassandra Cross was elected to the Board of Directors. Her appointment to the Board of Directors comes following an evaluation that her and fellow QUT colleagues…

The Crime and Justice Research Centre (CJRC) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) invites applications from prospective PhD students as part of the University’s annual Scholarship Round, closing 30 September 2015 for entry in early 2016.

The School of Justice in the Faculty of Law at QUT has launched Australia’s first Graduate Certificate in Domestic Violence. Students can choose to study two units a semester or take one unit at a time. Full details about the course are available here. Read the news release…

Professor Kerry Carrington from QUT’s School of Justice was recently featured in an ABC news story about the extensive overcrowding evident in Queensland prisons. Recent figures from the State’s Corrective Services department demonstrate there has been a 20 percent rise in inmates over the past two years, with the current…

By Dr. Kelly Richards The custodial remand of young people has recently emerged as a key issue for youth justice in Australia, due primarily to concerns about perceived increases in young people on custodial remand. Richards and Renshaw’s (2013) national study of remand for young people found that…

By Kerry Carrington and Kelly Richards, School of Justice, Faculty of Law, QUT In 2012 the Newman Government introduced changes to the youth justice system on the grounds that Queensland has been caught in the grip of a youth crime wave, and that young offenders were getting away…