GCI Insights

Category: briefs

Redress and civil litigation: myths and realities

By Juliet Davis There is a myth that civil litigation is superior to redress schemes for institutional wrongs… Read More

Understanding sex and race inequalities in the criminal careers of cross-over children in Queensland

By Ben Matthews, Susan McVie, Carleen Thompson & Anna… Read More

Prevalence of psychiatric disorders for Indigenous Australians: a population-based birth cohort study

By James Ogilvie, Stacy Tzoumakis, Troy Allard, Carleen Thompson,… Read More

How Loss Prevention can Future Proof the Retail Sector

By Michael Townsley and Benjamin Hutchins This brief is based on the following paper: Townsley, M., & Hutchins, B. (2020). How Loss Prevention… Read More

Big Data: Criminology at the Edge

By Benoit Leclerc and Jesse Cale This brief is based on the second instalment to Criminology at the Edge book series, published… Read More

Show me a man or a woman alone and I’ll show you a saint: Changes in the frequency of criminal incidents during the COVID-19 pandemic

By Tarah Hodgkinson and Martin Andresen This brief is based on the following paper: Hodgkinson, T., & Andresen, M.A. (2020). Read More

Morals, duty or risk?: Examining predictors of compliance with COVID-19 social distancing restrictions

By Kristina Murphy, Harley Williamson, Elise Sargeant and Molly McCarthy This brief is based on the following article: Murphy, K., Wiliamson,… Read More

Trends in Youth Offending in Queensland, 2008 to 2017

By Molly McCarthy This brief is based on the following report: McCarthy, M. (2019). Trends In Youth Offending In Queensland, 2008 to 2017. Griffith… Read More

Specialization among Female Partner Violence Offenders and the Role of Self-Defense

By Heather Wolbers This brief is based on the following paper: Wolbers, H., & Ackerman, J. (2020). Read More

Family Law Court orders for supervised contact in custodial disputes ā€“ unanswered questions

By Emily Schindeler This brief is based on the following paper: Schindeler EĀ (2019). Read More