Month: October 2019

Dr Xanthé Mallett1, Dr Justin Ellis1 1University of Newcastle, NSW A case is classed as ‘cold’ when the police have exhausted all investigative avenues currently available; the case remains open and will be periodically reviewed, but without an injection of information,...

Matthew Raj1 1Bond University An estimated one-in-six women in Australia will be stalked at some stage in their lives (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2016). Should a victim respond to stalking? What is the best method of response? Is there any...

Kiera Charles Salmon farming is a controversial industry in Tasmania due to its potential for environmental harm. This presentation reports the findings of a study that analysed the controversy and the implications this has for the industry. Informed by a...

Cliff Sayer Police are provided with increasingly more powers to perform their functions, of protecting society.   There also appear to be increasingly more ‘ethical’ challenges in place to researching police activities.  This is perhaps somewhat ironical. In liberal democracies power...

Ms Sobia Masood1 1The University Of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a multifaceted phenomenon and is perpetuated in all societies across the world.  My research intends to explore how CSA is constructed in Pakistani socio-cultural context and...

Mrs Jane Njaramba1 1James Cook University, Cairns/Smithfield, Australia Entrepreneurship is fundamental to social integration, especially for migrants displaced from their home countries due to political, economic, and environmental disruptions. Women tend to bear much of the burden for re-establishing their...

Miss Andi Brown1 1Monash University, Clayton, Australia The aim of this project is to investigate the current existence and potential for family violence assisted by the use of new and emerging technologies. The focus of the work is upon the...

Mr Alexandre Fleck1 1University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Debates today no longer take place exclusively in public squares, as Habermas writes, but rather increasingly occur on social media (Habermas, 1996; Isin, 2000). Our network society has shifted its...

Miss Rhianna Chisholm2 1University Of Western Australia, School of Law, Crawley, Australia , 2Curtin Law School, Curtin University, Bentley, Australia This project, currently in its infancy, will evaluate the effectiveness of court diversion in the criminal justice system for persons...

Mr Karma Tshering1 1University Of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia The proposed presentation relates to one of the theoretical frameworks of the PhD thesis. As a theoretical framework, it was argued that like it guided the economic and social progress of the...