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GCI Professor Kathleen Daly explores meaning of justice as she receives top criminology honour

When Professor Kathleen Daly was awarded the American Society of Criminology’s 2024 Edwin H. Sutherland Award, it marked a defining moment in an already exceptional… Read More

Event highlights new tools and insights for using digital methods to understand crime

From analysing online drug markets to mapping surveillance – Griffith Criminology Institute’s (GCI) ‘Digital Methods for Researching Crime and Harm’ event, held earlier this month,… Read More

AI and Crime Symposium 2025: AI tool impacts on new crime and harms and their prevention

By Chloe Blain The recent AI and Crime Symposium, hosted by Griffith Criminology Institute, brought together leading voices from academia, government and industry to explore… Read More

Governments and police are tackling weapons in public – but they’re ignoring it in our homes

By Professor Janet Ransley About half of all serious weapons-related violence in Australia happens at home as part of domestic and family violence. The weapons… Read More

$1.2m grant for Griffith Criminology Institute’s Ass/Prof Lyndel Bates for safer roads project

Associate Professor Lyndel Bates from GCI has been awarded an ARC Future Fellowship. Associate Professor Lyndel Bates, from Griffith Criminology Institute, was awarded $1,286,884 for… Read More

Some young people sexually abuse. Here’s how to reduce reoffending by up to 90%

By Jesse Cale Benoit Leclerc Francisco Perales and Tyson Whitten via The Conversation. When we think about who’s responsible… Read More

Archetyp was one of the dark web’s biggest drug markets. A global sting has shut it down

By PhD candidate Elena Morgenthaler and Dr Andrew Childs Last week, one of the dark web’s most prominent drug marketplaces – Archetyp –… Read More

When the State harms: How Governments commit violence under the cover of legality

By Professor Susanne Karstedt, Griffith Criminology Institute Footage has been released by media of an 18-year-old woman being violently thrown to… Read More

Jack’s Law expansion a symbolic step – but not a solution to knife crime

By Professor Janet Ransley, Griffith Criminology Institute via The Conversation Laws just passed in Queensland give police unprecedented, permanent powers to… Read More

Australians in the bush want tougher penalties on crime. Here’s why – and what’s needed now

By Lecturer Caitlin Davey, Griffith Criminology Institute  New research has found that while Australians generally support strong punishments, people living in the bush are significantly… Read More