A Matter of Crime

A Matter of Crime - Innovations for Responding to Sexual Violence panel

stories@nancehaxton.com.au — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 02:45:00 -0400

From the Griffith Criminology Institute - this is A Matter of Crime podcast.

This special edition features an expert panel discussing the topic `Innovations for Responding to Sexual Violence'.

The event was hosted by the GCI and True Relationships and Reproductive Health - also known as TRUE.

The seminar followed a review of the TRUE Support Services Hub (TSSH), by GCI Research Fellow, Dr Heather Nancarrow, who was also the featured speaker at this event.

This discussion was recorded on April 10 2025, including researchers, practictioners, policy-makers and advocates, and was hosted by Griffith University.

The panellists were the Victims' Commission for Queensland Beck O'Connor, the Executive Officer of the Queensland Sexual Assault Network Angela Lynch, TRUE Nurse Practitioner clinical sexologist Linda Kirby and Griffith University Professor of Social Work Silke Meyer. the discussion was hosted by dual Walkley Award winning journalist and Wandering Journo Nance Haxton.

A Matter of Crime - Professor Ross Homel on youth crime

Nance Haxton The Wandering Journo — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 11:01:00 -0400

In this episode of A Matter of Crime podcast, we look at youth crime, and how best to respond to this hot topic of talkback radio...

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A Matter of Crime - Dr Rachel Dioso-Villa on wrongful convictions

Nance Haxton The Wandering Journo — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 11:15:00 -0400

From the Griffith Criminology Institute, this is A Matter of Crime podcast.
A Matter of Crime takes you behind the headlines and gets you a seat beside Australia's leading criminologists and legal scholars. In this episode, wrongful convictions. It's the theme of many thriller movies and television shows, but is it a problem in Australia? Dr Rachel Dioso-Villa is one of Australia's leading researchers in this field, and a Senior Lecturer at the Griffith University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. In this episode of A Matter of Crime, Rachel dispels some of the myths, and tells us what is being done about this international problem and why less is known about its prevalence in Australia.

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A Matter of Crime - Raise Your Kids to Raise Their Voice panel

Nance Haxton The Wandering Journo — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 05:59:00 -0400

The Raise Your Kids to Raise Their Voice panel was hosted by the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abuse (ANZATSA)on Wednesday 24th July 2019. This panel featured the following experts, Detective Inspector Jon Rouse, Professor Martine Powell and Director of Research at Bravehearts Carol Ronken. Dr Danielle Harris introduced the panel, which was hosted by Nance Haxton. They discussed how best to promote child safety, and prevent child sexual abuse and exploitation in a range of environments.
Some minor edits have been made to this recording due to sound quality issues.

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A Matter of Crime - Jack the Ripper with Dr Juliet Davis and Sam Nichol

Nance Haxton The Wandering Journo — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 12:12:00 -0400

Jack the Ripper is synonymous with London's East End - but why have these murders held the public imagination for more than 130 years?...

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A Matter of Crime - Should Australia have a sex offenders registry - with Dr Danielle Harris

Nance Haxton The Wandering Journo — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 02:16:00 -0400

From the Griffith Criminology Institute, this is A Matter of Crime podcast.
A Matter of Crime takes you behind the headlines and gets you a seat beside Australia's leading criminologists and legal scholars.
In this episode, we speak to Griffith University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice senior lecturer Dr Danielle Harris, about whether public registers should be implemented for child sex offenders. She unpacks whether a sex offenders registry would have prevented some of the horrendous sexual crimes that we hear about on the news, and how we all can take part in preventing these crimes. Dr Harris is one of the foremost Australian researchers in this field, recently releasing a book based on her research interviewing more than 100 men in three countries who were in jail for serious sexual violence.

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A Matter of Crime - Counter-terrorism with Dr Keiran Hardy

Nance Haxton The Wandering Journo — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 05:11:00 -0400

From the Griffith Criminology Institute, this is A Matter of Crime podcast.
A Matter of Crime takes you behind the headlines and gets you a seat beside Australia's leading criminologists and legal scholars. Together, we'll unravel why laws are made, why they're broken, and how we navigate the aftermath. In this episode, we examine one of society's great conundrums - how best to counter the violent extremism that has become a part of modern life. What programs are needed, what intelligence gathering powers are necessary to prevent attacks from happening, and when do those powers go too far, to become an invasion of our civil rights? Nance Haxton interviews Dr Keiran Hardy from the Griffith Criminology Institute - one of Australia's leading researchers on how we reduce the risk of terrorism. And later in the show we join Juliet and Dee for a glass of Crim and Tonic as they answer your questions, unravel your theories, dispel your myths, and quote showtunes.

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