Understanding intimate partner violence and homicide

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Leading crime experts will gather at a one-day Griffith University symposium on intimate partner violence and homicide in Brisbane on Thursday, May 3. The symposium aims to promote awareness among researchers, policy-makers, practitioners and community representatives in working towards tangible solutions to prevent intimate partner violence. Griffith University Violence Research and Prevention Program Director Professor […]

International study to catch burglars before they strike

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A major international study into understanding where and when burglars decide to offend aims to reduce crime. The four-year project will analyse offending profiles in Australia, Canada, UK and the Netherlands. It will build a comprehensive model of offender spatial preferences to determine how neighbourhood planning can be used in crime prevention. Griffith University researcher […]

Conference explores international policing and security issues

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Counter-terrorism, international policing and peace building and keeping are just some of the topics to be explored at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security conference in Canberra on October 7 and 8. CEPS Director Professor Simon Bronitt said the conference offered the 150 national and international criminologists and scholars an opportunity to […]

Researchers awarded prestigious Future Fellowships

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Professor Stephen Smallbone and Dr Susan Dennison have been awarded inaugural Australian Research Council Fellowships, the only two awarded in the area of criminology in Australia. Professor Smallbone’s Fellowship is for Testing theoretical propositions concerning the onset and progression of child-sex offending, and field testing a new sexual abuse prevention model. Dr Susan Dennison’s Fellowship […]

Study examines effects of internet child exploitation

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The effects of internet child exploitation on investigators, is the focus of a new Griffith University Australian Research Council Linkage grant. The world-first study will examine the psychological, behavioural, social and health-related impacts on internet child exploitation investigators in all nine Australian policing jurisdictions (AFP, QLD, ACT, NSW, NT, SA, TAS, Vic & WA). Each […]

Symposium explores domestic violence research and prevention

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International and national experts will discuss leading domestic violence research at a Griffith University symposium on Friday, September 12. Convenor and Head of Griffith University’s Violence Research and Prevention Program Professor Paul Mazerolle said the symposium would shed light on domestic violence in Queensland and in other parts of Australia and the world. “We are […]

Law students top international field

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Griffith Law students have just topped the world’s best students in the field of international commercial arbitration – an area of law vital to the increasingly global business sector. Final year students Eammon Atkinson and Mathew Shelley recently won the Vis East International Commercial Arbitration Moot Competition held in Hong Kong, beating more than 50 […]