Briefing papers

Briefing papers

The QUT Centre for Justice Briefing Paper Series provides short, accessible accounts of topics and issues related to justice:

New Releases:

• • • ”We’re first responders too!’  Small business owners’ contributions to shared responsibility in disaster responses’ – Gabrielle Jess – Issue 40 – July 2023
      • ‘‘We’re first responders too!’ Small business owners’ contributions to shared responsibility in disaster response’

Queensland Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month Series – 2023

• • • • ‘Community-level prevention: A vital next step in ending domestic, family and sexual violence’ – Michael Flood – Issue 37, May 2023
        • “Community-level prevention: A vital next step in ending domestic, family and sexual violence”
      • ‘Practitioner experiences of working with young people in domestic and family violence legal matters in Queensland’ – Phuntsho Choden, Megan Stewart and Melissa Bull – Issue 38 – May 2023
        • “Practitioner experiences of working with young people in domestic and family violence legal matters in Queensland”
      • ‘Justice Claims of Sri Lankan Spa Workers Seeking a Professional Identity’ – Risini Ilangasingha, Deanna Grant-Smith and Robyn Mayes – Issue 39 – May 2023
        • “Justice Claims of Sri Lankan Spa Workers Seeking a Professional Identity”

Housing and Homelessness Series – 2023

• • • • ‘I’ve never seen it as bad as this’: Community sector family homelessness research priorities in the current housing and homelessness crisis – Shane Warren and Adam Barnes – Issue 35, March 2023
        • ‘I’ve never seen it as bad as this’: Community sector family homelessness research priorities in the current housing and homelessness crisis
      •  Supporting Mature Women Experiencing Housing Stress:  A Novel Strengths-Based Approach – Rebekah Russell-Bennett and Melissa Bull – Issue 36, March 2023
        • Supporting Mature Women Experiencing Housing Stress:  A Novel Strengths-Based Approach 
      • Young homeless people and domestic and family violence:  Experiences, challenges and innovative responses – Danielle Davidson, Bridget Harris and Helena Menih – Issue 28, August 2022 (re-released March 2023)
        • Young homeless people and domestic and family violence:  Experiences, challenges and innovative responses

Modern Slavery and Exploitative Work –

This collective on modern slavery and exploitative work practices has been prepared in collaboration with QUT Centre for Decent Work and Industry

• • • • • Improving mobilization of anti-slavery activism through Facebook communication – Judith Newton and Erin O’Brien – Issue 31, November 2022
          • Improving mobilization of anti-slavery activism through Facebook communication
        • Modern Slavery Disclosure Practices:  Risks induced by COVID-19 in business operations and supply chains – Shakoor Ahmed and Ellie Chapple – Issue 32, December 2022
          • Modern Slavery Disclosure Practices:  Risks induced by COVID-19 in business operations and supply chains
        • Strengthening the resistance of Global South women apparel workers’ through empowering their collective voice – Gayani Samarakoon, Deanna Grant-Smith, Robyn Mayes and Dinuka Wijetunga – Issue 33, November 2022
          • Strengthening the resistance of Global South women apparel workers’ through empowering their collective voice
        • Evading responsibility:  Living Wage Methodologies and Initiatives in the Fashion Industry – Justine Coneybeer and Rowena Maguire – Issue 34, December 2022
          • Evading responsibility:  Living Wage Methodologies and Initiatives in the Fashion Industry

Recent Releases:

• • • • • The body politics of energy, health and well-being – Theresa Harada and Ross Gordon – Issue 30, September 2022
          • The body politics of energy, health and well-being
        • The Effects of COVID-19 on the Textile and Apparel Value Chain – Paige Street, Sarah Bolger, Alice Payne, Martijn Boersma, Justine Coneybeer, Emmanuel Josserand, Sarah Kaine, Erin O’Brien, Rowena Maguire and Timo Rissanen – Issue 29, August 2022
          • The Effects of COVID-19 on the Textile and Apparel Value Chain
          • Young homeless people and domestic and family violence:  Experiences, challenges and innovative responses – Danielle Davidson, Bridget Harris and Helena Menih – Issue 28, August 2022
          • Young homeless people and domestic and family violence:  Experiences, challenges and innovative responses

• • • • • Autism at work campaigns: Are they creating inclusion in the workforce?– Calista Castles and Deanna Grant-Smith – Issue 26, June 2022
          • Autism at work campaigns: Are they creating inclusion in the workforce?

 Consumer Awareness and Protection – 

• • • • • Developing a  profile of multi-level marketing consultants in Australia to support informed decisions to join– Deanna Grant-Smith, Alicia Feldman, Bernd Irmer and Laura de Zwaan – Issue 20, February 2022
          • Developing a profile of multi-level marketing consultants in Australia to support informed decisions to join

• • • • • Key trends in employment scams in Australia:  what are the gaps in knowledge about recruitment fraud– Deanna Grant-Smith, Alicia Feldman and Cassandra Cross – Issue 21, February 2022
          • Key trends in employment scams in Australia: what are the gaps in knowledge about recruitment fraud?
        • A guide to understanding romance fraud– Cassandra Cross – Issue 22, February 2022
          • A guide to understanding romance fraud

50th Anniversary of Aboriginal Tent Embassy – 26 January 2022 – Indigenous Briefing Paper Series

• • • • • Justice Reinvestment in the Northern Peninsula Area: The NPA Licence and the ID Muster Initiatives– Annabelle Craft, Sjaana Steffens and John Scott – Issue 17, January 2022
          • Justice Reinvestment in the Northern Peninsula Area: The NPA Licence and the ID Muster Initiatives
        • Indigenous suicide rates and the colonial logic of legal decision making– Belinda Carpenter, Steph Jowett and Gordon Tait – Issue 18, January 2022
          • Indigenous suicide rates and the colonial logic of legal decision making
        • Widening the participation of indigenous students in Australian Higher Education– Deanna Grant-Smith and Bernd Irmer – Issue 19, January 2022
          • Widening the participation of indigenous students in Australian Higher Education

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Queensland Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month – May 2022 – Briefing Paper Series

• • • • • Evaluation of a specialist domestic violence worked embedded in a police station – Jess Rodgers, Kerry Carrington, Vanessa Ryan and Regan Carr – Issue 23, May 2022
          •  Evaluation of a specialist domestic violence worked embedded in a police station

• • • • • Working with ongoing Domestic and Family Violence in Family Dispute Resolution (FDR):  Problems and Possibilities – Joanne Clarke – Issue 24, May 2022
          •  Working with ongoing Domestic and Family Violence in Family Dispute Resolution (FDR):  Problems and Possibilities

• • • • • Being ‘Hagued’:  How weaponising the Hague Convention harms women, family and domestic violence survivors – Gina  Masterton,  Zoe  Rathus,  John  Flood  and  Kieran  Tranter  Issue  25,  May  2022
          •  Being ‘Hagued’:  How weaponising the Hague Convention harms women, family and domestic violence survivors

Queensland Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month 2021 – Briefing Paper Series

• • • • • The Impact of COVID-19 on Domestic and Family Violence Services and Clients, Australia – Kerry Carrington, Christine Morley, Shane Warren, Bridget Harris, Laura Vitis, Matthew Ball, Jo Clarke and Vanessa Ryan – Issue 13, May 2021
          • The Impact of COVID-19 on Domestic and Family Violence Services and Clients, Australia

• • • • • Putting perpetrators in the picture – Michael Flood, Lula Dembele – Issue 14, May 2021
          • Putting perpetrators in the picture

• • • • • Body-worn cameras and domestic and family violence: Critical Reflections, Bridget Harris, Mary Iliadis – Issue 15, May 2021
          • Body-worn cameras and domestic and family violence: Critical Reflections

• • • • • • A great awakening with many dangers: What has the #MeToo movement achieved? – Paula McDonald – Issue 8, August 2020
            A great awakening with many dangers: What has the #MeToo movement achieved?

Gender Violence

• • • • • The case for decriminalisation: Sex work and the law in Queensland – Elena Jeffreys, Erin O’Brien and Janelle Fawkes – Issue 1, June 2019
          •  The case for decriminalisation: Sex work and the law in Queensland 

• • • • • How Women’s Police Stations Prevent Gender Violence – Kerry Carrington, Maximo Sozzo, Natacha Guala and Maria Victoria Puyol – Issue 2, April 2020
          • How Women’s Police Stations Prevent Gender Violence
        • Como las Comisarias de la Mujer previenen la violencia de género (Spanish version) – Kerry Carrington, Maximo Sozzo, Natacha Guala and Maria Victoria Puyol, Issue 2, April 2020
          • Como las Comisarias de la Mujer previenen la violencia de género
        • Predicting and assessing lethal risk in domestic and family violence situations in Australia – Claire Ferguson and Freya McLachlan – Issue 3, April 2020
          • Predicting and assessing lethal risk in domestic and family violence situations in Australia
        • Technology, domestic and family violence: perpetration, experiences and responses – Bridget Harris – Issue 4, April 2020
          • Technology, domestic and family violence: perpetration, experiences and responses
        • What Australia can learn from women’s police stations to prevent gender violence – Kerry Carrington, Maximo Sozzo, Vanessa Ryan and Maria Victoria Puyol -Issue 6, July 2020
          •  What Australia can learn from women’s police stations to prevent gender violence
        • Qué puede aprender Australia de las Comisarías de la Mujer para Prevenir la Violencia de Género (Spanish version) – Kerry Carrington, Maximo Sozzo, Vanessa Ryan and Maria Victoria Puyol – Issue 6, July 2020
          •  Qué puede aprender Australia de las Comisarías de la Mujer para Prevenir la Violencia de Género
        • Victims/Survivors of Family and Domestic Violence in Diverse, Multispecies Households – Heather Fraser, Nik Taylor and Damien W. Riggs Issue 7 – August 2020 – Heather Fraser, Nik Taylor and Damien W. Riggs
          •  Victims/Survivors of Family and Domestic Violence in Diverse, Multispecies Households
        • A great awakening with many dangers: What has the #MeToo movement achieved? – Paula McDonald – Issue 8, August 2020
          • A great awakening with many dangers: What has the #MeToo movement achieved?
        • Au pairs in Australia: Contexts, vulnerabilities to abuse, and policy implications – Robyn Mayes – Issue 9, October 2020
          • Au pairs in Australia: Contexts, vulnerabilities to abuse, and policy implications

Disability

• • • • • Planning Inclusively: Disrupting ‘ableism’ to make communities just for all – Lisa Stafford – Issue 10, December 2020
          •  Planning Inclusively: Disrupting ‘ableism’ to make communities just for all

• • • • • Disability access to Australian Higher Education – Deanna Grant- Smith and Bernd Irmer – Issue 11, December 2020
          •  Disability access to Australian Higher Education

• • • • • Right to participate:  co-designing disability policies in Australia – Janice Rieger – Issue 12, December 2020
          •  Right to participate: co-designing disability policies in Australia

First Nations People

• • • • • Crime rates and justice innovations in the Torres Strait Islands – John Scott, Zoe Staines and James Morton – Issue 5, June 2020
          •  Crime rates and justice innovations in the Torres Strait Islands

• • • • • Reimagining (in)Security in Pacific Island States and Territories – Danielle Watson, Jeremy Brice and Safua Akeli Amaama – Issue 27, July 2022
          • Reimagining (in)Security in Pacific Island States and Territories

Occupational Violence

• • • • • Occupational Violence Against Healthcare Professionals: Applying a Criminological Lens – Michael Chataway – Issue 16, June 2021
          • Occupational Violence Against Healthcare Professionals:  Applying a Criminological Lens

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