Natalie Walker, a student in JS12, QUT’s Graduate Certificate in Domestic Violence, founded PartnerSPEAK, an online peer support forum for people concerned about child exploitation material viewed by their partners or other family members. PartnerSPEAK is hosting its first symposium. Details are below.
CJRC Researchers on ABC The World Today
Experts say family court keeping child abuse victims with perpetrators Featured: Dr Claire Ferguson, QUT lecturer Associate Professor Molly Dragiewicz, QUT Angela Lynch, Women’s legal service Hetty Johnston, Bravehearts Bill Potts, Qld Law Society Listen to the podcast here Criminologists in Australia have warned that the family court…
In the News: Dr Kelly Richards Discussing Alternatives to Youth Detention
Dr Kelly Richards from the Crime and Justice Research Centre has recently been featured in an ABC News report discussing Youth Detention in Tasmania. Dr Richards explains that youth detention is incredibly ineffective in rehabilitating young offenders and reducing their rates of recidivism. Instead, she argues that community-based rehabilitative…
Young people working for peace
Dr. Helen Berents, lecturer in the School of Justice, recently published Not just victims or threats: Young people win recognition as workers for peace in The Conversation with her colleague Lesley Pruitt from RMIT. The article discusses the UN Security Council’s adoption of Resolution 2250 on “youth, peace…
Dr Cassandra Cross elected to the Board of Directors for Police Citizens Youth Clubs (PCYCs) Queensland
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…
New Book — “Juvenile Justice: Youth and Crime in Australia (5th Ed)”
QUT Crime and Justice Research Centre criminologist Dr Kelly Richards has released a new book with Oxford University Press, with co-authors Professors Chris Cunneen (UNSW) and Rob White (UTas). The book, Juvenile Justice: Youth and Crime in Australia, Fifth edition explores young people…
New Publication: “Juvenile Justice: Youth and Crime in Australia”
Senior lecturer Dr Kelly Richards from QUT’s School of Justice has recently co-authored a book title Juvenile Justice: Youth and Crime in Australia.
Recently Published: Children, violence, and social exclusion: negotiation of everyday insecurity in a Colombian barrio
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…