Southern Criminology By Kerry Carrington, Russell Hogg, John Scott, Máximo Sozzo and Reece Walters, just published! (Routledge, London and New York) Criminology has focused mainly on problems of crime and violence in the large population centres of the Global North to the exclusion of the global countryside, peripheries…
Professor Reece Walters – ESC Conference, Sarajevo
Professor Reece Walters (Director, Crime, Justice and Social Democracy Research Centre) is pictured above with Professor Gorazd Mesko (President of the European Society of Criminology) at this week’s ESC conference in Sarajevo. Reece has been an International Partner Investigator with Professor Mesko on a Euro$770,000 project examining Water…
Policing in the South Pacific: University of the South Pacific
Image 1 Image 2 Image 1: John Scott with members of the USP Policing Program, Danielle Watson and Casandra Harry Image 2: Vice Chancellor of the University of the South Pacific, Professor Rajesh Chandra CJRC member and Acting Head of School of Justice at QUT, Professor John Scott, recently…
Recently published: Technology facilitated coercive control: Domestic violence and the competing roles of digital media platforms
Molly Dragiewicz, Jean Burgess, Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Michael Salter, Nicolas P. Suzor, Delanie Woodlock & Bridget Harris recently published Technology facilitated coercive control: Domestic violence and the competing roles of digital media platforms. Feminist Media Studies, 18(4), 609–625. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2018.1447341 This article is part of a special issue of Feminist…
Recently published: Resistance and backlash to gender equality: An evidence review
Crime and Justice Research Centre members Associate Professor Michael Flood and Associate Professor Molly Dragiewicz and Deakin University Honorary Professor Bob Pease recently published Resistance and backlash to gender equality: An evidence review
Professor John Scott keynote at Indian National Justice Conference
Professor Scott is presented with gifts by Professor Sibnath Deb, Dean of Law, Pondicherry University. Professor John Scott has recently returned from Puducherry (a part of French India until 1954), India where he presented a keynote conference paper on the theme of ‘Southern criminology and cognitive justice’. The…
New Book Series: Perspectives on Law, Crime and Justice from the Global South
Academic perspectives on crime, law and justice have generally been sourced from a select number of countries from the Global North, whose journals, conferences, publishers and universities dominate the intellectual landscape. As a consequence research about these matters in contexts of the Global South have tended to uncritically…
INTRODUCING NEW BOOK SERIES: Routledge Studies in Crime and Justice in Asia and the Global South Call for Proposals
Crime and justice studies, as with much social science, has concentrated mainly on problems in the metropolitan centres of the Global North, while Asia and the Global South have remained largely invisible in criminological thinking. Routledge is now accepting proposals for a brand new research series which aims…
Call for papers – Southern Criminology Workshop, Argentina 7-9 Nov 2018
CRIME, LAW AND JUSTICE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH Southern Criminology Workshop 7-9 N0VEMBER 2018 SANTA FE, ARGENTINA Co-Hosted by the Faculty of Social and Juridical Sciences, National University of Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina and the Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Academic knowledge about crime, law…
Winners Announced for CJRC Postgraduate Scholarships in Southern Criminology
The Crime and Justice Research Centre, Faculty of Law, QUT, have announced the winners of the Postgraduate Scholarships in Southern Criminology. This was an extremely competitive round with many high-quality applications received from Australia and around the world. In this round, separate scholarships were available for QUT and non-QUT…