Month: October 2018

Amanda Porter1 1Jumbunna Institute of Indigenous Education and Research, the University of Technology Sydney   Many policing histories take as their point of departure the development of the Anglo-American ‘state’ or ‘public’ police—the establishment of the Metropolitan Police Force in...

Panellists Professor Joseph Pugliese Dr Mary Graham Emeritus Professor Richard Harding Deborah Glass OBE   Criminologist have historically worked in close proximity to institutions that are subject to criticisms of oppression and injustice. Prisons, courtrooms, mental health institutions, corrections and...

Anne Marie Ionescu1 1Monash University, Clayton, VIC This inquiry seeks to understand the types of domestic violence members of the LGBT+ community experience and how they differ for heterosexual persons. Additionally, it hopes to understand how the current support systems...

Jessica Burley1 1Monash University, VIC There is currently a national focus on the impact of family violence for Australian communities. Significant funding has been committed to improve responses to and the prevention of family violence. However evaluating programs designed to...

Haylie Parker1 1Flinders University It is well evidenced that fictional crime drama has a discursive impact on audiences at both socio-political and individual levels, however most studies focus on the impact of television shows which represent the cultural environment within...

Ella Broadbent1 1University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC Image-based sexual abuse (or IBSA) is a form of technology-facilitated sexual violence which involves the release and distribution of non-consensual sexual imagery to a wider social media audience. The ways in which individuals...

Shih Joo Tan1 1Monash University, School of Social Sciences, Melbourne, VIC This thesis contributes to the growing body of critical criminological research on exploitation of migrant women in care work by examining migrant domestic workers’ experiences of exploitation, the ways...

Cristina Tambasco1 1University of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC Family violence discourse primarily focuses on intimate partner violence, child abuse, and occasionally elder abuse. What fails to be considered is the existence or extent of child-to-parent abuse (CPA). Both males and females...

Bree Anderson Violence against artificial bodies is increasingly normalised in film texts and the sexual economy. It is tempting to dismiss representations of sex with robots as the product of fantasy, relegated to the realm of science fiction. However, the...

Ellen Reeves1 1Monash University, Clayton, VIC In 2016, the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence recognised the misidentification of women as primary aggressors in family violence incidents as a growing issue. The report highlighted that police sometimes apply for a...