Briefing papers

Briefing papers

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

Consumer Awareness and Protection – February 2022 – Briefing Paper Series

• • 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

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

Find out more about Kerry Carrington’s research into preventing gender violence.

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

Find out more about Michael Flood’s research into domestic and sexual violence.

• • • • • 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

Find out more about Bridget Harris’ research into technology-facilitated domestic violence.

• • • • • • 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

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

Research reports

• • • 2019 – Kerry Carrington, Maximo Sozzo, Marcela Parada Gamboa, Luciano Ghiberto, Natacha Guala, Maria Victoria Puyol and Diego Zysman
      The role of women’s police stations in responding to and preventing gender violence, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Final report of field research (Research Report Series, Issue 1/ 2019)
    • 2020 – Kerry Carrington, Maximo Sozzo and Vanessa Ryan
      What Australia can learn from women’s police stations to better respond to and prevent gender violence: Report of community and workforce surveys. Vol. 2.
    • 2020 – Helen Berents and Caitlin Mollica
      Youth and Peace in the Indo-Pacific: Policy, Practice, Action: Report on the Academy of Social Science in Australia (ASSA) Workshop
    • 2020 – Kerry Carrington, Christine Morley, Shane Warren, Bridget Harris, Laura Vitis, Matthew Ball, Jo Clarke and Vanessa Ryan
      The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Domestic and Family Violence Services, Australia
    • 2020 – Higginson, A and Morgan, M.
      Australian Youth Safety Survey: 2020 Technical Report.  QUT Centre for Justice, Queensland University of Technology: Brisbane. ISSN 2652-3809
    • 2021 – Savannah Spalding, Casey-Jade Odgers-Jewell, Hayley Payne, Caitlin Mollica, and Helen Berents Making Noise and Getting Things Done: Youth Inclusion and Advocacy for Peace: Lessons from Afghanistan, South Sudan, and Myanmar
    • 2022 – Jess Rodgers, Kerry Carrington, Vanessa Ryan and Regan Carr: Evaluation of an Embedded Specialist Domestic Violence Worker: A partnership between Queensland Police Service and Domestic Violence Action Centre, April 2022

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