{"id":224,"date":"2015-01-14T07:46:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T21:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=224"},"modified":"2015-01-14T07:46:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T21:46:54","slug":"politicisation-of-law-and-order-in-the-queensland-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2015\/01\/14\/politicisation-of-law-and-order-in-the-queensland-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicisation of law and order in the Queensland election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/01\/crime-rates.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-235\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/01\/crime-rates-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"crime rates\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/01\/crime-rates-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/01\/crime-rates-481x300.jpg 481w, https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/01\/crime-rates.jpg 926w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Professor Kerry Carrington from QUT&#8217;s Crime and Justice Research Centre has called for the establishment of an independent Crime Statistics Unit in Queensland to combat the distortion of crime statistics for political purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Carrington said crime statistics were complex and often used as political tools. She noted that highlighting the most favourable crime rates in certain cities does not give a true picture of crime trends.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"ABC News Story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-01-09\/queensland-election-2015-crime-rates-dropped-campbell-newman\/6009282?section=qld\" target=\"_blank\">To read the full article from ABC News click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Kerry Carrington from QUT&#8217;s Crime and Justice Research Centre has called for the establishment of an independent Crime Statistics Unit in Queensland to combat the distortion of crime statistics for political purposes. Professor Carrington said crime statistics were complex and often used as political tools. She noted that highlighting the most favourable crime rates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}