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“I behave like there are three on my street”: Why public child sex offender registers won’t keep kids safe

By Danielle Harris Opposition Leader Peter Dutton continues to push to introduce a publicly accessible national child sexual offender register in… Read More

Location-sharing apps are enabling domestic violence. But young people aren’t aware of the danger

By Silke Meyer and Maria Atiénzar Prieto This article first appeared on The Conversation. Location-sharing apps… Read More

“It’s so disappointing and puts politics over people”: Why ‘adult crime, adult time’ won’t make us safer and will hurt kids

By Nadine Connell and Caitlin Davey It might make you feel safer, but evidence shows… Read More

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

GCI Webinar: Trust & Safety in Emerging Technologies – Research Highlights

Toby Shulruff (Presenter) and Molly Dragiewicz (Moderator) Download the slides… Read More

Advancing Social Work Research Project

The aim of the Advancing Social Work Research project is to increase the production, utilisation, and impact of social work research in Australia in order… Read More

Development of the Queensland Crime Harm Index: Working Paper

Working paper by Janet Ransley and Kristina Murphy. Based on an unpublished report… Read More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

Does Australia need new laws to combat right-wing extremism?

By Keiran Hardy This article was first published on At the National Press Club this week, Home… Read More

Australia’s fight against corruption risks failure

By Janet Ransley When fighting official corruption, prevention can be the cure. But what does that look like? Corruption is costly, difficult to detect… Read More