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CEPS operates an active and engaging postgraduate research program. The Centre:
- recruits and mentors first-class PhD candidates, post-doctoral fellows and early career researchers;
- provides exciting research opportunities and exceptional research training within a collegial and supportive environment;
- provides first-class premises and access to cutting-edge information technology;
- exposes students to scholarly and practitioner environments; and
- ensures opportunities to engage with national and international policing and security debates.
For more information on postgraduate research at the Centre, please contact:
CEPS Director of Studies - Professor Simon Bronitt, email s.bronitt@griffith.edu.au or phone + 617 3735 5938; or
CEPS Development Coordinator - Dr Louise Porter, email l.porter@griffith.edu.au or phone + 617 3735 1035
CEPS aims to play a key role in developing the next generation of policing and security scholars. The Centre provides exciting research and training opportunities, excellent facilities and ample opportunities to engage with practitioner environments. The Centre also develops tailored short courses for industry clients.
RHD Policy:-
The Round 2 Discretionary Research Scholarship applications are now open. See application form below, applications close 31 October 2012.
- Support provided to Research Higher Degree (RHD) students associated with CEPS
- Application for assessing RHD allowance
- Application for RHD student publication award (closes 31 October 2013)
- Application for Discretionary Research Scholarship (Round 1 closes 30 April 2013)
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There are currently no scholarships available.
More information can be obtained by visiting the Research Higher Degrees websites of CEPS University Nodes.
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Thesis Title
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Supervisors
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PhD
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Peter Anderson
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GU
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Early intervention for police organisational units
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Tim Prenzler, Louise Porter, Hennessey Hayes
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David Aspland
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GU
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The ethical issues that support or hinder co-operation in public/private partnerships in pluralistic policing
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Tim Prenzler
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Simon Bonney
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ANU
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An exploration of covert information gathering practices
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Rod Broadhurst
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Russell Brewer
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ANU
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Regulating third parties: Governing the interface between licit and illicit trading activities at Australian maritime ports
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Peter Grabosky
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Lennon (Yao-Chung) Chang
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ANU
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High-tech crime across the Taiwan-China Strait
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Peter Grabosky
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Melinda Chiment
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UQ
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Migrant youth and community engagement: How unique social context shapes perceptions of belonging in Australia
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Rebecca Wickes and Zlatko Skrbis
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Jodie Curth
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UQ
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Policing for development outcomes: Complexity and monitoring and evaluation in police capacity building operations
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Alex Bellamy, Paul Boreham
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Louise Curtis
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GU
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Red criminals: Censorship, surveillance and suppression of the radical Russian community in Brisbane during World War 1
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Mark Finnane, Belinda McKay
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Natalie Davies
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CSU
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Exploration of the characteristics and behaviours of internet child sexual abusers
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Karl Roberts
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Susan Donkin
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GU
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The evolution of pre-emption anti-terrorism law: A cross-jurisdictional examination
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Janet Ransley, Mark Finnane
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Sheena Fleming
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GU
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Indigenous and minority groups within the criminal justice system
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Janet Ransley, Tim Prenzler
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Angela Higginson
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UQ
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Fraud against the Commonwealth: Statistical methods and decision tools for analysing and monitoring serious and complex economic crime
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Michele Haynes, Mark Western, Rebecca Wickes
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Robyn Holder
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ANU
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Procedural justice in the criminal justice system for victims of violent crime
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Peter Grabosky
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Saskia Hufnagel
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ANU
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Comparison of cross-border enforcement strategies in Australia and the EU, focusing on the area of police cooperation
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Simon Bronitt
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Charles Hunt
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UQ
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Evaluating police in peace and capacity-building operations
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Paul Boreham, Alex Bellamy
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Alice Hutchings
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GU
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Theory and crime: Does it compute?
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Hennessey Hayes, Janet Ransley, Simon Bronitt, Peter Grabosky
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Stephen Illidge
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GU
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Are international students from Northeast Asia at higher risk of becoming victims and/or perpetrators of crime whilst studying in Australia?
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Sue Trevaskes, Hennessey Hayes, Mark Finnane
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Jacqueline Joudo
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ANU
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Crime and ethnic diversity
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Peter Grabosky
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Chenda Keo
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ANU
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Human commodity: A study of Cambodian human traffickers’ activities and perspectives
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Rod Broadhurst
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Gavin Knight
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GU
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Comparison of measures arising from processes within different police organisations
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Lorraine Mazerolle, Anna Stewart
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Amanda Lambrose
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GU
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Cyber-predation: A triangulated approach to understanding offending, offenders and criminal justice and regulatory responses
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Hennessey Hayes, Janet Ransley, Richard Wortley
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Patrick Law
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UQ
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Develop a comprehensive framework for assessing the performance and effectiveness of international police capacity building and peace operations
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Lorraine Mazerolle, Paul Boreham
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Nina Leijon
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ANU
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Symbolic regulation and the sex offender
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Peter Grabosky
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Stanislaw Leszczynski
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ANU
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Facilitation of money laundering by the “Gatekeepers” using complex trusts and derivatives
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Peter Grabosky
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Yongtao (William) Li
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CSU
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Trends in the evolution of social control in Chinese and western societies
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Anna Corbo Crehan, Jane Delahunty
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Thaddeus Lin
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UQ
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Performance measurements framework for policing in peace and stability operations
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Paul Boreham, Alex Bellamy
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Jade Lindley
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ANU
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Vulnerabilities to trafficking in persons in post-conflict society
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Peter Grabosky
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Beverley Loke
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ANU
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Ordering the world: Sino-American deliberations on the responsibility of great power
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William Tow
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Peng Lu
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ANU
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Constructing a Chinese school of international relations
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William Tow
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Kirsty Martin
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GU
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Analyst decision-making
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Mark Kebbell, Michael Townsley
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Ingrid McGuffog
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GU
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The impact of drug law enforcement partnerships on drug treatment outcome trends
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Lorraine Mazerolle, Janet Ransley, Melissa Bull
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Kristy Meszaros
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GU
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An investigation into the protective factors that prevent home-grown terrorism among Muslim Australians
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Louise Porter, Mark Kebbell
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Toby Miles-Johnson
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UQ
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Social control of the transgendered body: A study of formal and informal policing of gender diverse identity
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Lorraine Mazerolle
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Christine Nam
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ANU
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Human security studies
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William Tow
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Vanessa Newby
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GU
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Public diplomacy amongst Islamic states
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Jason Sharman, Halim Rane
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Jason Payne
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ANU
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Drugs, crime and criminal careers
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Peter Grabosky
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Alex Pound
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UQ
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Conflict environments: Dangers and opportunities for policing operations
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Alex Bellamy
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Fang Qu
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CSU
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Police interrogation practice in China
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John Kleinig, Anna Corbo Crehan
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Elise Sargeant
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UQ
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Policing and citizen-initiated regulation: Examining an integrated model of effectiveness, legitimacy and policing-strategies.
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Lorraine Mazerolle, Rebecca Wickes, Adrian Cherney
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Tomohiko Satake
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ANU
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From ‘collective defence’ to ‘international security’: Security burden-sharing in the US-Japan and the US-Australia Alliance in the post-Cold War era
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William Tow
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Steven Sellers
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GU
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The role of evidence in suspect interferring: A mixed approach
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Mark Kebbell
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Apichat Suriboonya
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CSU
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An exploration of cases of terrorism and political violence in southern Thailand
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Karl Roberts, Nicholas O’Brien, Simon Bronitt
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Ioeru Tokantetaake
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CSU
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The reponses of police in small Pacific Island countries to contemporary policing issues
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Melissa Bull
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Lauren Vogel
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GU
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The role of women in violent extremism
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Mark Kebbell
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Rebecca Wallis
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GU
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The Northern Territory Intervention - a study of legislation
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Mark Finnane
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Nina Westera
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GU
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Investigative interviewing of suspects and witnesses
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Mark Kebbell
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Justin Whitney
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ANU
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The impact of disasters on civil society - a case study of the Japanese nonprofit sector
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William Tow
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Ken Wooden
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CSU
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Police perspectives on accountability
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Tim Prenzler, Janet Ransley
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Liyun (Julia) Zhang
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CSU
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A comparative study of criminal investigation procedures in China and Australia
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Anna Corbo Crehan, Jane Delahunty
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MASTERS (PHILOSOPHY)
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Michelle Hayes
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UQ
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Can strengthening peer processes reduce delinquency? An examination of a school-based intervention program on peer processes and self-reported delinquency in early adolescence
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TBC
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Dae Woon Kim
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GU
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Public private security cooperation
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Tim Prenzler
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Barry Krosch
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GU
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The Queensland Police Special Branch: History, function, impacts
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Mark Finnane, Stephen Stockwell
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HONOURS
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Elizabeth Eggins
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UQ
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The efficacy of facial stimuli within a P300 guilty knowledge test paradigm: Autobiographical versus incidentally acquired knowledge
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Timothy Cutmore
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Esther Harlow
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GU
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Public perceptions of police crime
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Louise Porter
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Joyce Shek
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UQ
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Fear of crime: Investigating the individual and community determinants
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Rebecca Wickes
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Renee Zahnow
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UQ
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Diversity and disorder: Pathways to perceptions
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Lorraine Mazerolle, Rebecca Wickes
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