Kerry Carrington

Kerry Carrington 's career as a leading expert in criminology extends over three decades. She is now an adjunct professor in the School of Law and Society. Prior to this she was a research professor and Head of School of Justice, QUT from 2009. She is a Senior Counsellor of the Asian Criminological Society, and former Vice Chair of the Division of Critical Criminology, American Society of Criminology. She is the Pacific Rim Editor of Critical Criminology and International editorial board member of the British Society of Criminology’s flagship journal - Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Feminist Criminology, She's also on the editorial boards of Spanish journals in Latin America, including Delio y Sociedad and Novum Jus. In 2014 Kerry Carrington received the American Society of Criminology, Division of Women and Crime 2103 Distinguished Scholar Award. In 2014 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Criminology (Division of Critical Criminology). In 2011 her co-publication, “Resource Boom Underbelly: The criminological impact of mining” won the 2012 Allen Austin Bartholomew Award for the best publication in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. In 2018 she co-edited the Palgrave Handbook in Criminology and the Global South. She is currently leading two ARC DPs, one on how women's police stations in Latin America prevent gendered violence and another to research how to improve the Policing of Gender Violence in the Global South.