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Queensland University of Technology
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Criminology | Social Policy | Policy and Administration | Causes and Prevention of Crime | Crime policy | Critical approaches to crime | Counselling, Welfare and Community Services | Causes and prevention of crime |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Community Service (excl. Work) not elsewhere classified | Children's/Youth Services and Childcare | Crime Prevention |
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Publications
Understanding romance fraud: Insights from domestic violence research
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 14-03-2018
DOI: 10.1093/BJC/AZY005
Restorative Justice and “Empowerment”: Producing and Governing Active Subjects through “Empowering” Practices
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 14-09-2010
Does Gender Matter? An Analysis of the Role and Contribution of Religious Socialisation Practices in the Sexual Abuse of Boys and Girls in the Catholic Church
Publisher: Brill
Date: 14-04-2022
DOI: 10.1163/18785417-01201008
Abstract: Sociological and historical research into sexual violence against children has reported consistently that it is girls who have most often been the subject of sexual, psychological and physical violence in both familial and institutional settings in modernity. However, more recently, public inquiries have provided evidence that during the 20th century, boys were much more likely to be abused in particular kinds of religious settings. This has been substantiated in findings from inquiries in Australia, Ireland, the UK and the USA . This reverses the trend of child sexual abuse ( CSA ) demonstrated in family and community environments, where girls are more likely to be abused, although perpetrators are much more likely to be men across all settings (Dowling, Boxall, et al. 2021). The question of gender in relation to the experience and management of CSA therefore requires further examination. In this article we investigate whether gender is a specific dimension of CSA in religious institutions, and specifically the Roman Catholic Church, by two methods. We begin by firstly examining the literature that addresses gender representation, religion and CSA in relation to three central evidence-based indicators: prevalence, disclosure and trauma impacts. Secondly, we link this discussion to a case study of the Catholic Church in Australia, where we identify specific patterns of gendered child violence and we ask the question: are such gendered forms of violence related to Catholic socialisation processes and if so by which specific mechanisms does Catholic culture produce the conditions that facilitate the sexual abuse of children? This article will explore these questions by looking at the ways CSA in Catholic institutions are gendered and how this produced particular forms of knowledge and truth. We argue that gender is a central organising principle in Catholic bureaucracy, culture and theology. The analysis identifies five central factors underpinning the reproduction of a discourse of power and knowledge normalizing gendered patterns of CSA and addresses a gap in current research by addressing gender representation as the central factor in the prevalence, disclosure and trauma of religiously based CSA .
Framing Perpetrators of Sexual Violence Who Participate in Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA): An Analysis of Global Print Media Reporting
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 19-07-2022
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X221113536
Abstract: Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) are now part of the criminal justice landscape in various parts of the world. While CoSA have received considerable media attention, it is not yet known how they are portrayed in the media. This study addressed this gap by analyzing newspaper coverage of CoSA from across the English-speaking world. Overall, it identified that representations of those convicted of sexual violence in print media accounts of CoSA differ substantially from those identified in previous scholarship. We argue therefore that the nature of CoSA as an intervention may allow for more sympathetic and humanistic representation. The findings provide a platform from which the international CoSA community can develop strategic approaches to interacting with the media.
Online fraud victims’ experiences of participating in qualitative interviews
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-11-2017
Children and Crime: In the Moment
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-06-2020
Abstract: Traditional approaches to understanding and responding to children and crime are fundamentally based on ‘miniaturised’ adult models. The assumption appears to be that children are adults in the making, essentially just smaller, developing versions of grown-ups. This view of children is increasingly being challenged. Children are not simply putative adults, they are different, distinct and developing. This article sets out to explore the notion that children essentially think and behave ‘in the moment’. The implications of this for our understanding of children and crime are also explored.
A ‘central paradox’: Judicial decision-making in cases of sexual offending by young people
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-11-2022
DOI: 10.1177/26338076221135330
Abstract: Very little has previously been documented about judicial decision-making in relation to young people who commit sexual offences. This article begins to address this gap by examining judicial decision-making in cases of young people with sexual offence convictions in one Australian jurisdiction. Employing a qualitative content analysis of sentencing remarks and judgments, it investigates how judicial decision-makers construct this cohort of young people given the ‘central paradox’ that young offenders are typically regarded as reformable while sexual offenders are not. Results of the study make an original contribution toward understanding judicial constructions of both sex offenders and youth offenders, and in particular toward the very under-researched area of judicial constructions of youthful sexual offenders specifically. In doing so, the study offers a much-needed evidence base that can contribute to a better understanding of judicial reasoning.
Training Sessional Academic Staff to Provide Quality Feedback on University Students' Assessment: Lessons From a Faculty of Law Learning and Teaching Project
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
The ‘ACA Effect’: Examining How Current Affairs Programs Shape Victim Understandings and Responses to Online Fraud
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2015
Police perceptions of young people: a qualitative analysis
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-01-2018
Public Views About Reintegrating Child Sex Offenders via Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA): A Qualitative Analysis
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-04-2017
Youth Justice, Restorative Justice and Gendered Violence — Oh My! The Rise and Rise of Offender ‘Accountability’ in Contemporary Penality
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2017
Unspeakably present: the (un)acknowledgment of diverse sexuality and gender human rights in Australian youth justice systems
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2014
Does Gender Matter?
Publisher: Brill
Date: 14-04-2022
DOI: 10.30965/18785417-01201008
Abstract: Sociological and historical research into sexual violence against children has reported consistently that it is girls who have most often been the subject of sexual, psychological and physical violence in both familial and institutional settings in modernity. However, more recently, public inquiries have provided evidence that during the 20th century, boys were much more likely to be abused in particular kinds of religious settings. This has been substantiated in findings from inquiries in Australia, Ireland, the UK and the USA . This reverses the trend of child sexual abuse ( CSA ) demonstrated in family and community environments, where girls are more likely to be abused, although perpetrators are much more likely to be men across all settings (Dowling, Boxall, et al. 2021). The question of gender in relation to the experience and management of CSA therefore requires further examination. In this article we investigate whether gender is a specific dimension of CSA in religious institutions, and specifically the Roman Catholic Church, by two methods. We begin by firstly examining the literature that addresses gender representation, religion and CSA in relation to three central evidence-based indicators: prevalence, disclosure and trauma impacts. Secondly, we link this discussion to a case study of the Catholic Church in Australia, where we identify specific patterns of gendered child violence and we ask the question: are such gendered forms of violence related to Catholic socialisation processes and if so by which specific mechanisms does Catholic culture produce the conditions that facilitate the sexual abuse of children? This article will explore these questions by looking at the ways CSA in Catholic institutions are gendered and how this produced particular forms of knowledge and truth. We argue that gender is a central organising principle in Catholic bureaucracy, culture and theology. The analysis identifies five central factors underpinning the reproduction of a discourse of power and knowledge normalizing gendered patterns of CSA and addresses a gap in current research by addressing gender representation as the central factor in the prevalence, disclosure and trauma of religiously based CSA .
Understanding Clergy-Perpetrated Child Sexual Abuse as Organised Offending
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 30-12-2022
Researching Crime and Justice: Tales from the Field. * Conducting Law and Society Research: Reflections on Methods and Practices.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 02-08-2012
DOI: 10.1093/BJC/AZS030
Survivors’ Beliefs About the Causes of Sexual Offending: An Australian Study
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 22-03-2021
Abstract: Policies designed to prevent sexual (re)offending are often proposed on behalf of survivors of sexual violence. However, no research has examined survivors’ beliefs about the causes of sexual offending. This is a critical gap, because how in iduals understand the causes of sexual offending has long been thought to inform their support for particular policy responses. This article presents findings from the first study to specifically examine survivors’ views about the causes of sexual offending, based on interviews with 33 survivors from Australia. It demonstrates that survivors’ beliefs are highly complex and multifaceted, and destabilizes the uniform survivor of governmental imagination.
Police officers’ implicit theories of youth offending
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 30-05-2019
Abstract: How police understand youth offending at least partly informs their responses to it. It is therefore vital to document police implicit theories about youth offending. However, little previous research has examined this topic. This article addresses this gap by examining police implicit theories about youth crime and how it ought to be addressed. Using social control theory as an analytic framework, it critically examines 41 semi-structured qualitative interviews with police undertaken for a larger study in Queensland, Australia. A number of implications stem from the analysis, not the least of which is the disjuncture between police implicit theories of youth offending, and the localised, historicised and contextual realities of young people’s – especially marginalised young people’s – offending behaviour.
Unlikely Friends? Oprah Winfrey and Restorative Justice
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2005
Abstract: In recent years, restorative justice has surfaced as a new criminal justice practice in erse parts of the world. Often, it appears that these practices have emerged in complete isolation from one another. This prompts us to question what it is that has allowed restorative justice to become an acceptable way of dealing with criminal justice issues, or in Foucault's terms, the ‘conditions of emergence’ of restorative justice. This article explores one of numerous potential ‘conditions of emergence’ of restorative justice — the discourses of the ‘therapeutic’, ‘recovery’, ‘self-help’ and ‘New Age’ movements. It aims to investigate the ways in which the taken-for-granted nature of these discourses have, in part, permitted restorative practices to become an approved way of ‘doing justice’.
Danielle Arlanda Harris, Desistance from sexual offending: Narratives of retirement, regulation and recovery
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-11-2018
Circles of Support and Accountability: The Role of Social Relations in Core Member Desistance
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-10-2020
Abstract: Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) appear to reduce the sexual reci ism of core members (i.e., in iduals convicted of sexual offending). It remains unclear, however, how they do so. While much previous scholarship has hypothesized that the relations between core members and CoSA volunteers promote desistance from sexual offending, there has been no theoretically-informed research that specifically interrogates these relations. This article begins to address this gap by examining the relations formed in and by CoSA through the lens of Donati’s theory of relational reflexivity. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 62 CoSA participants across six CoSA programs located in the USA and Canada, it proffers a new theorization of the role of social relations in core members’ desistance. Findings from the study will enable CoSA practitioners around the globe to explicate and deepen their practice around more rigorous theoretical precepts.
Toward Redemption: Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Men’s Narratives of Desistance from Sexual Offending
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-05-2020
Degrees of difference? A preliminary study of criminology degrees at Australian universities
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-04-2015
Abstract: While the discipline of ‘criminology’ has existed within Australian universities for more than half a century, the introduction of discrete ‘criminology’ and justice programmes is much more recent. Little is known, however, about the current state of play when it comes to what a degree in ‘criminology’ actually entails. With growing student enrolments in such programmes, reflecting on the status of these programmes is important in the context of student and employer requirements and expectations. Drawing on the findings of a preliminary study, this paper will explore what it means to study for an undergraduate degree in ‘criminology’ in Australia. Specifically, we will focus on the content, availability and range of ‘criminology’ and justice degrees available in Australia, in order to gain a better understanding of the convergences and ergences across degree programmes, and make some recommendations for future research.
Pedophile Hunters and Performing Masculinities Online
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-09-2022
The Routledge International Handbook on Fear of Crime
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 12-2017
A promise and a possibility: the limitations of the traditional criminal justice system as an explanation for the emergence of restorative justice
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-08-2014
Responsibilising the parents of young offenders through restorative justice: a genealogical account
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
Police Contact with Young People with Cognitive Disabilities: Perceptions of Procedural (In)justice
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 14-08-2018
Abstract: The interactions of police with young people with cognitive disabilities (YPWCD) have seldom been considered in research, even though this group is over-represented in the criminal justice system. This article presents the results of a qualitative study into YPWCD’s experiences with police in Queensland, Australia. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with service providers who work with YPWCD and YPWCD themselves. The procedural justice perspective was used as an analytic framework to provide an insight into YPWCD’s relationships with the police. Findings point to ways in which police can better respond to YPWCD in procedurally just ways, as well as to the role that family and service providers might play in supporting this outcome.
What do victim/survivors of sexual violence think about Circles of Support and Accountability?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-11-2021
Born This Way? A Qualitative Examination of Public Perceptions of the Causes of Pedophilia and Sexual Offending against Children
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-07-2017
Desistance from Sexual Offending
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 16-11-2021
The Integration of People Convicted of a Sexual Offence Into the Community and Their (Risk) Management
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-2021
DOI: 10.1007/S11920-021-01258-4
Abstract: We are reviewing recent research into the community integration of men convicted of a sexual offence and their (risk) management. This is a high-profile political issue that binds together research in psychology, criminology, politics, health, public health, and policy studies. The review will demonstrate that a multi-disciplinary, life course, EpiCrim-oriented approach is the most effective way of reducing re-offending and promoting desistance in this population. Research demonstrates that life course development, especially from psychology and criminology, has an impact on whether people sexually offend or not. Therefore, to understand sexual offending behaviour, we need to look at the aetiology of said behaviour from a nature and a nurture perspective. Therefore, we need to use an Epidemiological Criminology (a marriage of Public Health and criminology) approach that works at all four stages of the Socio-Ecological Model (SEM) (in idual, interrelationship, community, and societal). The research encourages a person first approach, that we look at Adverse Childhood Experiences and past trauma in the lives of men who sexually offend and use this, in conjunction with strength-based approaches, to inclusively integrate them into society. The prevention of sexual offending, both first time offending, and relapse prevention require a multi-level, multi-disciplinary approach. Successful desistance from sexual offending is as much about the community and society as it is about the in idual.
The resettlement of sex offenders after custody: Circles of Support and Accountability
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-05-2018
Why do fraud victims get blamed? Lerner’s Belief in a Just World and its application to victims of online fraud
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 25-03-2022
Abstract: Victims of online fraud face a high level of blame from their families, friends, professionals, the broader community and often from themselves. Victims are commonly perceived as stupid, gullible and undeserving of justice. The reasons for this are under-researched, and there are currently no satisfactory explanations of why victim-blaming occurs so frequently in cases of online fraud. This paper aims to propose a potential theoretical explanation for the high level of blame experienced by online fraud victims. Lerner’s Belief in a Just World (BJW) theory is posited as a helpful theoretical explanation for the high level of blame directed towards victims of online fraud. This paper argues that Lerner’s BJW theory is a helpful framework for understanding the blame faced by victims of online fraud because it posits that behavioural responsibility (a trait commonly ascribed to online fraud victims) is central to perceived blameworthiness and that compensation for a crime determines the level of blame directed towards victims. As victims of online fraud are exceptionally unlikely to receive any type of compensation (whether monetary or otherwise), BJW may help explain the blame directed towards victims. Prior scholarship predominantly understands the blame faced by online fraud victims through the lens of Nils Christie’s (1986) “ideal victim” thesis. This paper presents an advance over this existing understanding by illustrating how BJW provides a more detailed explanation for victim blame in online fraud.
“Pussy Power”? Reflecting on Research Practice with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Men Who Have Offended Sexually
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2022
The views of victim/survivors of sexual violence about perpetrator post-release measures
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-05-2023
Blurred Lines: Reconsidering the Concept of ‘Diversion’ in Youth Justice Systems in Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-07-2014
Abstract: This article revisits ‘ ersion’ in the context of youth justice in Australia. Although ‘ ersion’ is omnipresent in youth justice, it is rarely subject to critical examination. This article raises four interrelated questions: what young people are to be ‘ erted’ from and to whether young people are to be ‘ erted’ from the criminal justice system or from offending whether young people are to be ‘ erted’ from criminal justice processes or outcomes and whether ‘ ersion’ should be considered distinct from crime prevention and early intervention. The article concludes that the confusion about youth ‘ ersion’ may foster in idualized interventions in young people’s lives.
Young people with cognitive disabilities and overrepresentation in the criminal justice system: service provider perspectives on policing
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-05-2018
Children’s Court Magistrates’ Views of Restorative Justice and Therapeutic Jurisprudence Measures for Young Offenders
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-08-2017
Abstract: Restorative justice and therapeutic jurisprudence measures have recently been introduced into youth justice systems. As gatekeepers to these measures, Children’s Court magistrates play a crucial role in their success. However, little research has been undertaken on magistrates’ views of these measures. This article addresses this gap by presenting results of interviews undertaken with Children’s Court magistrates in New South Wales, Australia. Our research suggests that magistrates are enthusiastic about the philosophy of both restorative and therapeutic measures, but are reluctant to embrace them if they consider them under-resourced, poorly understood and/or poorly implemented. The implications of these findings are discussed.
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