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Here’s some advice for concerned working parents with kids at home during school holidays, based on our research on home security, burglaries and young offenders.
Introducing companion animals to South African prisoners and encouraging them to write could aid their rehabilitation.
Authorities need a better way to identify so-called super recognisers who match suspects to CCTV footage.
Research shows the deterrent effect of capital punishment is a myth.
The ‘illumination hypothesis’ – suggests that criminals like enough light to ply their trade, but not so much as to increase their chance of apprehension.
Politicians’ knee jerk dismissal of an idea that could help rehabilitate ex-offenders is
unhelpful.
Dangerous, vulnerable or just plain stupid – these are some of the stereotypes which young people face when they come in contact with the law.
Move over Netflix, here’s whodunnit by headphones.
What kind of ‘swiper’ are you? A typology of people who steal from supermarkets at self-service checkouts.
The demise of the first academic department dedicated to policing at the University of California has left unanswered questions about the best way to educate cops.
In the wake of the MeToo and Time’s Up movements, a new model of sexual consent is required – one that needs a clear and unequivocal yes from all parties.
An expert in criminology explains why you shouldn’t believe everything you see on TV – organised crime is still a very British problem.
While research indicates there are likely to be fewer female psychopaths than male, this may be because their traits are less visible than their male counterparts.
Energy and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg said he thought that Victorians have never felt more unsafe, and that burglaries, assaults and murders are rising year-on-year. Is he right?
What one isolated case tells us about crime and community on this special island.
Academic analysis is often ignored – and this is an indictment not of readers, but of academics.
Using terrestrial forensic science to point the finger of blame to criminals in space will be much harder than it looks.
Do ISIS fighters feel guilty about the violence they perpetrate? Not likely, according to criminological research, which suggests terrorists “neutralise” their guilt, just as many other criminals do.
Two criminologists wanted to learn the tricks of the trade so they went to the source, interviewing over 70 pimps.
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Forensic Criminologist, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Research fellow, North-West University
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Associate professor, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer and Researcher in Criminology, Edith Cowan University
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Emeritus Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia
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Honorary research affiliate, Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town
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Professor, Family & Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Director and Senior Researcher, Melbourne Criminological Research and Evaluation, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Director, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University
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Professor and Program Head, Justice Health Research Program, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Monash University
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Matthew Flinders Distinguished Emeritus Professor, Flinders University
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Forensic psychologist & Adjunct Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology, University of Canberra
