Tagged with Law and Criminology

The changing role of police in society, crime types of sexual offenders and the effects of parental incarceration on children are just some of the research topics undertaken by students at a Summer Scholars Program this month. Held by the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and […]

Second and third year Griffith students, across all disciplines, now have the opportunity to fast track their career with a new course of applied study being offered in partnership with Deloitte Australia. Innovation Practicum (5920GIH) is a 12 week program, in which multi-disciplinary teams of students develop a business concept as part of Deloitte’s globally […]

Griffith Law School graduate, Lauren Dancer, has been awarded an Australia-at-Large Rhodes Scholarship for 2012, the first Griffith student to receive the prestigious prize. Through her scholarship, Lauren (pictured) will study a Bachelor of Civil Law at the world-renowned University of Oxford, focusing on international human rights. Dean of Griffith Law School, Professor William MacNeil […]

Staff and students of the Griffith University have paid tribute to Griffith Law School founder, Sir Zelman Cowen, who died in Melbourne on Thursday, aged 92. The Griffith Law School began at a time when many saw a need for an overhaul in the way law was being taught. Under the guiding hand of Sir […]

Aspiring criminologists will be able to study at Griffith University’s Gold Coast campus from 2012. The Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice is the only criminology degree in Queensland backed by world-standard research*. School of Criminology and Criminal Justice Head Associate Professor Janet Ransley said the Gold Coast corridor’s rapidly growing population warranted the School’s […]

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 […]

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 […]