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Overview

Kerry Carrington is affiliated with the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with significant contributions in health, sociology and political science, gender studies, and political science and international relations subfields.

Their work covers various topics, including:

  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Policing Practices and Perceptions
  • Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
  • Gender, Security, and Conflict
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering

Kerry Carrington has authored papers published in several journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on Australian domestic and family violence services and their clients, 2021, Australian Journal of Social Issues
  • How Women's Police Stations Empower Women, Widen Access to Justice and Prevent Gender Violence, 2020, International Journal for Crime Justice and Social Democracy
  • Women-led police stations: reimagining the policing of gender violence in the twenty-first century, 2021, Policing & Society

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Vanessa Ryan
  • Máximo Sozzo
  • María Victoria Puyol
  • Christine Morley
  • Shane Warren

The venues where Kerry Carrington regularly publishes are:

  • International Journal for Crime Justice and Social Democracy
  • Police Practice and Research
  • Australian Journal of Social Issues
  • Policing & Society
  • The British Journal of Social Work

In addition to journal articles, Carrington has contributed to book publications under the "Crime and justice briefing papers" series. Titles within this include:

  • The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Domestic and Family Violence Services and Clients, Australia (2021)
  • Evaluation of a specialist domestic violence worker embedded in a police station (2022)
  • How Women's Police Stations Prevent Gender Violence (2020)
  • What Australia can learn from women's police stations to prevent gender violence (2020)
  • Como las Comisarias de la Mujer previenen la violencia de género (2020)
  • Qué puede aprender Australia de las Comisarías de la Mujer para Prevenir la Violencia de Género (2020)
  • What Australia can learn from women's police stations to prevent gender violence (2020)

The thematic concentration of Kerry Carrington's work is on violence prevention, policing reforms with a gender perspective, and the social impacts of public health crises such as COVID-19 on vulnerable populations. Their research intersects policy, policing practices, and victim support systems.

Best Publications

  • Southern Criminology

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  • Offending Girls: Sex, Youth and Justice

    Kerry Carrington

  • Globalization, Frontier Masculinities and Violence Booze, Blokes and Brawls

    Kerry Carrington;Alison McIntosh;John Scott

  • The resource boom's underbelly: Criminological impacts of mining development

    Kerry Carrington;Russell Hogg;Alison McIntosh

  • Masculinity, Rurality And Violence

    Kerry Carrington;John Scott

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South

    Kerry Carrington;Russell Hogg;John Scott;Máximo Sozzo

  • How far have we come? Gender disparities in the Australian higher education system

    Kerry Carrington;Angela Pratt;Parliamentary Library

  • Preventing sexual violence

    Moira Carmody;Kerry Carrington

  • Feminism and Global Justice

    Kerry Carrington

  • Policing the rural crisis

    Russell Hogg;Kerry Carrington

  • Critical criminology : issues, debates, challenges

    Kerry Carrington;Russell Hogg

  • Established‐Outsider Relations and Fear of Crime in Mining Towns

    John Scott;Kerry Carrington;Alison McIntosh

  • Criminologies of the Global South: Critical Reflections

    Kerry Carrington;Bill Dixon;David Santos Fonseca;David Rodriguez Goyes

  • Offending Youth: Sex, Crime and Justice

    Kerry Carrington;Margaret Pereira

  • Crime, Rurality and Community:

    Russell Hoggt;Kerry Carrington

  • Intersectionality, Rural Criminology, and Re-imaging the Boundaries of Critical Criminology

    Kerry Carrington;Joseph F. Donnermeyer;Joseph F. Donnermeyer;Walter S. DeKeseredy;Walter S. DeKeseredy

  • The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on Australian domestic and family violence services and their clients

    Kerry Carrington;Christine Morley;Shane Warren;Vanessa Ryan

  • Trafficking and the sex industry: from impunity to protection

    Kerry Carrington;Parliamentary Library

  • Criminology, Southern Theory and Cognitive Justice

    Kerry Carrington;Russell Hogg;John Scott;Máximo Sozzo

  • Does Feminism Spoil Girls? Explanations for Official Rises in Female Delinquency

    Kerry Carrington

  • Southern theory : the global dynamics of knowledge in the social sciences

    Kerry Carrington

  • Deconstructing Criminology’s Origin Stories

    Kerry Carrington;Russell Hogg

  • Borders, mobility and technologies of control

    Kerry Carrington

  • Feminist Research in Crimino-Legal Studies: Reflections on 'Absolute Rubbish'

    Kerry Carrington

  • Introduction to 'The Social Costs and Benefits of Migration into Australia'

    Kerry Carrington;Alison Frances McIntosh;Jim Dennis Walmsley

Frequent Co-Authors

John Scott
John Scott Queensland University of Technology
Walter S. DeKeseredy
Walter S. DeKeseredy West Virginia University
Kelly Hannah-Moffat
Kelly Hannah-Moffat University of Toronto

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