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PhD (Griffith University), BHMS(Hons) (University of Queensland)
Background Belinda Carpenter is currently a Professor in the School of Justice at QUT. Between 2015 and 2020 she was Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Law and prior to this, Belinda served two terms as Head of School of Justice (2003-2005 and 2008-2009). In 2012, Belinda became the inaugural Director of the Crime and Justice Research Centre, and Assistant Editor of the Journal Crime, Justice and Social Democracy Belinda has two areas of Research strength: sex crimes and death investigation. Belinda published her first book on prostitution, Rethinking prostitution: feminism, sex and the self, in 2000. While maintaining an interest in this area through publications and higher degree research supervision, she has also used this theoretical work to investigate the issue of violent offending women, sex crimes and trafficking. Following this theme, in 2011 she published Sex Crime and Morality (Routledge), in 2012 she published Justice in Society (Federation) , and in 2013 she published Sex Trafficking: a moral geography (Palgrave). Belinda's other area of research expertise is death investigation. In 2005 she gained an ARC Linkage grant with the Departments of Health and Justice and Attorney General to investigate the decision-making of coroners under the new Coroners Act (2003). Belinda gained a further ARC Linkage in 2010, with the Depts of Health, Police and Attorney General, to explore the ways in which coronial staff engaged with religious and cultural difference. In 2015 she gained an ARC Discovery Grant to explore the coronial determination of suicide. Findings from this body of work include: high quality international publications, an e-resource for families, and training seminars to coronial professionals. Research interests
- Coroners Systems
- Death Investigations
- Suicide
- Autopsy
- Prostitution and Sex Trafficking
- Violent Offending Women
Additional information
- Ball, M. & Carpenter, B. (2019). Justice in society (2nd edition). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/127613
- Jowett, S., Carpenter, B. & Tait, G. (2019). Determining a suicide under Australian law: A comparative study of coronial practice. The University of New South Wales law journal, 42(2), 534–556. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/130606
- Scott Bray, R., Carpenter, B. & Barnes, M. (2018). Southern death investigation: Theorizing coronial work from the global south. In R. Hogg, J. Scott, M. Sozzo & K. Carrington (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of criminology and the global south (pp. 139–161). Palgrave Macmillan. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/116274
- Tait, G., Carpenter, B. & Jowett, S. (2018). Coronial practice, indigeneity and suicide. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(4), 1–14. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/118003
- Jowett, S., Carpenter, B. & Tait, G. (2018). Determining a suicide under Australian law. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 41(2), 355–379. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/117181
- Tait, G., Carpenter, B., Quadrelli, C. & Barnes, M. (2016). Decision-making in a death investigation: Emotion, families and the coroner. Journal of Law and Medicine, 23(3), 571–581. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/94526
- Carpenter, B., Tait, G., Quadrelli, C. & Thompson, I. (2016). Investigating death: the emotional and cultural challenges for police. Policing and Society, 26(6), 698–712. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/82481
- Tait, G. & Carpenter, B. (2016). The continuing implications of the 'crime' of suicide: a brief history of the present. International Journal of Law in Context, 12(2), 210–224. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/96826
- Carpenter, B., Bond, C., Tait, G., Wilson, M. & White, K. (2016). Who leaves suicide notes? An exploration of victim characteristics and suicide method of completed suicides in Queensland. Archives of Suicide Research, 20(2), 176–190. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/92705
- Tait, G., Carpenter, B., DeLeo, D. & Tatz, C. (2015). Problems with the coronial determination of 'suicide'. Mortality, 20(3), 233–247. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/84549
- Title
- Investigating the Coronial Determination of Suicide as a Category of Death
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP150101402
- Start year
- 2015
- Keywords
- suicide; coroner; criminological theory
- Title
- Managing Family Objection to Autopsy: A Case Study of the Queensland Coronial System
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP100200393
- Start year
- 2011
- Keywords
- Coroner; Religion; Autopsy; Indigenous; Police
- Secondary victimisation in cases of clergy perpetrated child sexual abuse in Australia
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Jodi Death
- Life-Saving and Life-Changing: The Decision-Making Processes of People Seeking Asylum (2018)
- The Role of Open Educational Resources (OERs) in Primary Education in Developing Nations: A Case Study of India (2018)
- Imagined Ruralities and the Spatial Regulation of Sex Work in Queensland (2017)
- Understanding the Lived Experience of Sex Workers in a Bangladeshi Brothel (2017)
- The Interactions between Police and People with Intellectual Disabilities from the Perspective of Non - Government Organisations in QLD (2016)
- Women as Victims and Offenders: Incarcerated for Murder in the Australian Criminal Justice System (2012)
- Worthless and Undeserving? Problematising the subjectivities of single parenthood (2012)
- The Tales We Tell: Exploring the Legal Stories of Queensland Women Who Kill (2011)
- A 'Deleterious' Effect? Australian Legal Education and the Production of the Legal Identity (2009)
- Men's Intimate Partner Abuse and Control: Reconciling Paradoxical Masculinities and Social Contradictions (2009)