Early intervention key to beating poverty trap

Arts Education Law
Published
Supporting families, early childhood education and school retention are the key factors in helping people beat the poverty cycle. Griffith University criminologist Professor Ross Homel AO will outline practical methods and tools to help schools and community agencies lift children and families out of intergenerational cycles of poverty and welfare dependence when he delivers the […]

Grant success for youth sexual violence prevention project

Professor Stephen Smallbone
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Published
The project ‘Evidence-Informed Youth Sexual Violence Prevention’ has received funding of $2,278,182 over 3 years from a 2013-14 Indigenous Justice Program grant. The project is led by Professor Stephen Smallbone and Ms Susan Rayment-McHugh and includes Griffith researchers Dr Troy Allard, Professor Ross Homel, Ms Dimity Smith and Professor Anna Stewart, as well as Lucy […]

Tackling juvenile offender issues

Professor Ross Homel AO
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Published
Professor Ross Homel recently spoke to Brisbane Times about youth justice. He told Brisbane Times the state should stop tackling juvenile offender issues based on “hysteria and emotion” and instead “concentrate on the facts.” Read more at Newman’s youth justice stance ‘hysterical’: Expert.