Janet Ransley

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6 August 2025
Police line do not cross

Governments and police are tackling weapons in public – but they’re ignoring it in our homes

About half of all serious weapons-related violence in Australia happens at home as part of domestic and family violence. The weapons most...

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24 June 2025

Jack’s Law expansion a symbolic step – but not a solution to knife crime

By Professor Janet Ransley, Griffith Criminology Institute Laws just passed in Queensland give police unprecedented, permanent powers to scan people...

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1 May 2024

No magic wand

A key plank of the Queensland Government’s new Community Safety Plan is to expand police use of metal detector wands, even though there is no evidence that they help reduce violent crime say Griffith Criminology Institute researchers.

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