Home-grown terrorism, border control, cybercrime and miscarriages of justice are being addressed as Flinders hosts the 28th Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference.
Breaking the cycle of repeat offending and imprisonment lies in the fundamentals of education, jobs, stable relationships and recovery from unresolved trauma, a new book says.
Art by Prisoners – an annual exhibition of works by serving prisoners in SA gaols organised by Flinders PhD student Jeremy Ryder – has its own dedicated space for the first time.
Undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses at Flinders University have experienced strong demand in 2015. The University has responded by making a total of 7,016 offers to date.
Soaring use of the methamphetamine ‘ice’ could be because of an increasing normalisation of the drug among groups of high achieving young people beyond the normal user profile.
Professor Andrew Goldsmith is about to conduct an Australian-first study exploring how and why guns are used in criminal life to build a better picture of trends in Australia’s criminal gun use.
“People ask me if I’m scared to get involved in this kind of work but my sense of outrage is far stronger than any sense of fear.”
A Flinders University centre to be officially launched today (June 10) is dedicated to increasing knowledge and debate about crime.
They’re all over the news – and following an announcement by SA Police earlier this week, there could soon be one over your head.