{"id":3546,"date":"2019-03-05T13:50:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T03:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2019-03-05T13:50:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T03:50:47","slug":"essay-ordinary-people-dr-dean-biron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2019\/03\/05\/essay-ordinary-people-dr-dean-biron\/","title":{"rendered":"Essay-&#8220;Ordinary People&#8221;-Dr Dean Biron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2019\/03\/Dean_Biron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3547\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2019\/03\/Dean_Biron.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2019\/03\/Meajin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3548\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2019\/03\/Meajin-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>School of Justice affiliated academic Dr Dean Biron has published an essay titled \u201cOrdinary People,\u201d which appears in the Autumn 2019 edition of Meanjin Quarterly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrdinary People\u201d is a quasi-memoir piece reflecting upon the author\u2019s experience of dealing with historical sexual abuse investigations while working as a detective in the Queensland Police Service between 1998 and 2004. The essay considers the impediments to justice faced by abuse victims and concludes by suggesting that their extraordinary courage can help provide a paradigm for broader social reform in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Dean\u2019s previous writing has appeared in such publications as Child Abuse &amp; Neglect, The Journal of Family Violence, Overland, Children Australia, Metro Magazine, Thesis Eleven, Rock Music Studies and Portal: the Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies. His contribution to Meanjin\u2019s \u201cWhat I\u2019m Reading\u201d blog series will appear in April.<\/p>\n<p>Dean is currently teaching in QUT Justice undergraduate subjects \u2018Deviance\u2019 and \u2018Policing in Context\u2019.\u00a0 A full copy of the essay can be found here &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/meanjin.com.au\/current-edition\/\">https:\/\/meanjin.com.au\/current-edition\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School of Justice affiliated academic Dr Dean Biron has published an essay titled \u201cOrdinary People,\u201d which appears in the Autumn 2019 edition of Meanjin Quarterly. \u201cOrdinary People\u201d is a quasi-memoir piece reflecting upon the author\u2019s experience of dealing with historical sexual abuse investigations while working as a detective in the Queensland Police Service between 1998<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9754,9703],"tags":[28742],"class_list":{"0":"post-3546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-journal-articles","7":"category-our-research","8":"tag-meanjinquarterly-sexualabuse-impedimentstojustice"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","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\/4341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3549,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}