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Co-Responder Models, DomesticViolence, DVAC, Gender Responsive Policing, Police Culture

Embedding #domesticviolence specialists in police stations: Will they enhance DV survivor satisfaction & improve police responses?

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A number of inquiries into policing responses to domestic violence have highlighted the need to strengthen inter-agency collaboration to improve system responses and outcomes for survivors of #DFV. With this in mind, a research team led by Dr Jess Rodgers undertook an evaluation of the co-location of a domestic violence specialist embedded in a regional police station.  The abstract and link to the publication can be found in this blog.

Co-Responder Models, DomesticViolence, Gender Responsive Policing, Integrated Service Delivery, Peggy's Place, Police Culture, QPS Reforms, Specialist DFV Police Stations, Survivors Voices

Workshop Recordings: Enhancing the Policing and Integrated Responses to Domestic and Sexual Violence

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Workshop Recordings from the Enhancing the Policing and Integrated Responses to #DV & SV are now available: Welcome by Shannon Fentiman MP. Listen to the voices survivors, experts, domestic and sexual violence leaders and #QPS here.

DomesticViolence, Integrated Service Delivery, Peggy's Place

Fiona Worrall, NGO & Philanthropic Innovations in supporting survivors of Gender Violence

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Peggy’s Place aspires to offer survivors much more than a trauma responsive place of safety, but also a space to transform and rebuild the lives of those impacted by DFV. Peggy’s Place will wrap a range of supports around survivors and their children through an integrated service response employing counsellors and case workers for both children and women.

DomesticViolence, Law Enforcement, Police Culture

Submissions to Inquiry into Culture of Qld Police Service responses to Domestic and Family Violence Open till 24 June 2022

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The independent commission of inquiry into Queensland Police Service (QPS) responses to domestic and family violence is open for public submissions only till 24 June 2022. I understand they will consider the submissions previously made to the Women’s Safety and Justice Task force. Don’t let fear of reprisal or persecution stop you from making a …

Gender Inequity in Universities, Women in Higher Education

Gender Inequality in the Higher Education Workforce

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Gender Inequality in the Higher Education Workforce Significant gender inequities persist in Australian Universities despite extensive efforts by universities to establish policy and practice frameworks to address gender inequity. The Facts Women comprise 60% employees at Australian Universities. Nevertheless, there are two distinct patterns of gender division in employment across Australian Universities, one horizontal and …

DomesticViolence, Gender Responsive Policing, Pacific Islands

Enhancing the Policing of Gender Based Violence in Pacific Island Communities

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Kerry Carrington, Melissa Jardine, Helen Singh and Carla Chan Unger School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast Gender-based violence (GBV) is a significant issue in Pacific Island communities, where women report lifetime prevalence rates of violence ranging from 60 to 80 per cent (UNICEF, 2017). The Pacific Island of Fiji, which is …

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Dr Maria Puyol wins Outstanding Thesis Award

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I’m thrilled to share the news that Dr Maria Puyol, has won the Executive Dean’s Commendation for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis for 2023 for the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, QUT. Maria Puyol worked tirelessly with my ARC research team through the COVID pandemic to produce her award winning Phd thesis. Congratulations on …

Global South, Southern Criminology

Open Call for Abstracts

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 2nd Edition Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South Kerry Carrington, Roxana Cavalcanti, David Fonseca, Russell Hogg, John Scott & Valeria Vegh Weis (editors) Criminology – as a theoretical and empirical project – has historically overlooked the distinctive contributions from and about the global South. This second edition of the Palgrave Handbook of Criminology …

DomesticViolence, Police Culture, QPS Reforms

Rotten to the Core: Should Qld’s First Female Commissioner take the wrap for the culture of sexism, racism and misogyny in Qld Police?

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Opinion Piece In November last year, the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Qld Police Service (QPS) found ‘ample evidence’ that cultural issues of racism, sexism and misogyny adversely impacted on how the QPS respond to DFV. The report made 78 Recommendations to address these systemic problems including: strengthening integrated responses to domestic family …