GCI Insights

Category: events

Child protection systems as blaming systems: The case for a criminological approach to child protection

Presenter: Dr Brian Jenkins The vast majority of child protection activity relates to social welfare concerns about children and families. Cases reported to child protection… Read More

Launch of SAL’s QCS Data Holdings

On the 12 May Griffith Vice Chancellor Carolyn Evans and Queensland Corrective Services Commissioner Peter Martin jointly launched the receipt into SAL of QCS administrative data. Read More

The ‘normality’ of offending in emerging adulthood: Implications for criminal justice policy and practice

Many offenders have their first contact with the criminal justice system in emerging adulthood. Despite this, the implications of emerging adult-onset offending for criminal justice… Read More

Frontiers in Developmental and Life-Course Criminology: Methodological Innovation and Social Impact

ANZSOC’s Thematic Group on Developmental and Life-Course Criminology hosted a half day online research symposium, sponsored by ANZSOC and Griffith Criminology Institute, where they shared… Read More

Policing Pandemics and Protest

The ANZSOC Policing Thematic Group aims to bring together policing scholars, practitioners and postgraduate students from Australia and New Zealand to advance the science of… Read More

Leading family-school-community engagement in professional learning to support children’s wellbeing

CREATE-ing Pathways to Child Wellbeing 2020 Seminar Series _____________ This CREATE webinar looks at a new professional learning program for school leaders interested in forming… Read More

Demonstrating the power and use of the new Economic Support and Reporting Tool (ESRT)

CREATE-ing Pathways to Child Wellbeing 2020 Seminar Series ___________ GCI held the eighth CREATE online seminar on 11 November 2020. Presenters included Professor Matthew Manning… Read More

Future directions for community-based prevention using CREATE Project tools, resources and methodologies

CREATE-ing Pathways to Child Wellbeing 2020 Seminar Series ______________ GCI held the seventh CREATE online seminar on 15 October 2020. A copy of the presentation… Read More

Major outcomes from the CREATE-ing Pathways to Child Wellbeing Project

GCI held the sixth CREATE online seminar on 7 October 2020. A copy of the presentation slides and a recording of the presentation is available… Read More

Policing the COVID-19 Pandemic: Understanding Compliance and Control

GCI held the ‘Policing the COVID-19 Pandemic’ online event on 9 September 2020 as part of Social Sciences Week Australia 2020. A recording of… Read More