Overview
Availability
- Honorary Professor Heather Douglas is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts, Monash University
- Bachelor of Law, Monash University
- Masters (Coursework) of Law, Queensland University of Technology
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne
Works
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2009
Other Outputs
Justice Martin Kriewaldt. Frontier justice: Aboriginal people, assimilation and the law in the 1950s
Douglas, Heather (2009). Justice Martin Kriewaldt. Frontier justice: Aboriginal people, assimilation and the law in the 1950s. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: T.C. Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland..
2009
Journal Article
Searching for a safe place: Immigrant women and child protection
Douglas, Heather and Walsh, Tamara K.E. (2009). Searching for a safe place: Immigrant women and child protection. Pandora's Box, 2009, 14-19.
2009
Conference Publication
Breaches of Domestic Violence: The Criminal Justice Process
Douglas, Heather Anne (2009). Breaches of Domestic Violence: The Criminal Justice Process. Distinguished Visitor Program, Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research, Mackay, 4 June 2009.
2009
Conference Publication
From Family Centred to Child-centred: Effects of Policy Change in Child Protection on Mothers
Douglas, Heather Anne and Walsh, Tamara K.E. (2009). From Family Centred to Child-centred: Effects of Policy Change in Child Protection on Mothers. FIN 2009 National Gathering, Canberra, 27th November.
2009
Journal Article
Abortion Reform: A State Crime or a Woman's Right to Choose?
Douglas, Heather A. (2009). Abortion Reform: A State Crime or a Woman's Right to Choose?. Criminal Law Journal, 33 (2), 74-86.
2009
Book
Aboriginal Australians and the criminal law: History, policy, culture
Douglas, Heather (2009). Aboriginal Australians and the criminal law: History, policy, culture. Saarbrucken: VDM Verlag.
2009
Conference Publication
Criminalised Mothers and the Child Protection System
Douglas, Heather Anne (2009). Criminalised Mothers and the Child Protection System. Is Prison Obselete Conference, Brisbane, 4 September, 2009.
2009
Journal Article
Law on Australia's northern frontier: The fall and rise of race
Chesterman, John and Douglas, Heather (2009). Law on Australia's northern frontier: The fall and rise of race. Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 24 (1), 69-83. doi: 10.1017/S0829320100009777
2009
Conference Publication
Elements of a Criminal and Civil Response and Why a Criminal Response Matters in Domestic Violence Cases.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2009). Elements of a Criminal and Civil Response and Why a Criminal Response Matters in Domestic Violence Cases.. Family Violence ...Is It a Crime?, Melbourne, 22 July 2009.
2008
Journal Article
Another Aboriginal death in custody: Uneasy alliances and tensions in the Mulrunji case
Corrin, Jennifer and Douglas, Heather (2008). Another Aboriginal death in custody: Uneasy alliances and tensions in the Mulrunji case. Legal Studies, 28 (4), 531-558. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-121X.2008.00097.x
2008
Journal Article
Post-Sentence Preventive Detention: Dangerous and Risky
Douglas, Heather (2008). Post-Sentence Preventive Detention: Dangerous and Risky. The Criminal Law Review, 2008 (11), 854-873.
2008
Journal Article
The Criminal Law's Response to Domestic Violence: What's Going On?
Douglas, Heather (2008). The Criminal Law's Response to Domestic Violence: What's Going On?. Sydney Law Review*, 30 (3), 439-469.
2008
Conference Publication
Abortion Law
Douglas, Heather Anne (2008). Abortion Law. Abortion in Queensland, Brisbane, 17 October 2008.
2008
Conference Publication
Preventive Detention in Criminal Matters and the Judicial Assessment of Risk
Douglas, Heather Anne (2008). Preventive Detention in Criminal Matters and the Judicial Assessment of Risk. Law and Justice in the Risk Society, Research Committee on the Sociology of Law, University of Milano 'Statale', Canberra, 8-10 February 2008.
2008
Conference Publication
Domestic Killings and the Reframing of the Provocation Defence
Douglas, Heather Anne (2008). Domestic Killings and the Reframing of the Provocation Defence. International Conference of Homicide: Domestic-related Homicide, Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, 3-5 December 2008.
2008
Journal Article
'Crime, aboriginality and the decolonisation of justice', by Harry Blagg
Douglas, Heather (2008). 'Crime, aboriginality and the decolonisation of justice', by Harry Blagg. Adelaide Law Review, 29 (2), 385-388.
2008
Journal Article
Homelessness and legal needs: A South Australia and Western Australia case study
Walsh, T. and Douglas, H. (2008). Homelessness and legal needs: A South Australia and Western Australia case study. Adelaide Law Review, 29 (2), 359-380.
2008
Conference Publication
Breaches of Domestic Violence Orders: Criminal Process Problems
Douglas, Heather Anne (2008). Breaches of Domestic Violence Orders: Criminal Process Problems. Understanding and Preventing Domestic Violence, Rydges, South Bank, Brisbane, 18 August 2008.
2008
Book Chapter
The Demise of the Provocation Defence and the Failure of Equality Concepts
H Douglas (2008). The Demise of the Provocation Defence and the Failure of Equality Concepts. Rethinking Equality Projects in Law: Feminist Challenges. (pp. 41-58) edited by Rosemary Hunter. Portland: Hart Publishing.
2008
Conference Publication
Hyper Vigilance and Risk Avoidance in the Child Protection Context: What is the Role of Lawyers in the Child Protection Process
Douglas, Heather Anne and Walsh, Tamara K.E. (2008). Hyper Vigilance and Risk Avoidance in the Child Protection Context: What is the Role of Lawyers in the Child Protection Process. Law and Justice in the Risk Society, Research Committee on the Sociology of Law, University of Milano 'Statale', Milan, 10 July 2008.
Funding
Supervision
Availability
- Honorary Professor Heather Douglas is:
- Available for supervision
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Available projects
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Criminal law and procedure
- disclosure and fair trial;
- unrepresented defendants in criminal matters and the role of judges;
- post-sentence detention (eg: dangerous offenders, indefinites sentences etc.
For further information contact Professor Heather Douglas, e: h.douglas@law.uq.edu.au
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Topics that explore legal issues related to domestic and family violence
- use of exclusion or ouster orders in legislation and by the courts;
- development of specific offences (stalking, torture etc) and their implementation;
- development of defences (eg provocation, battered persons defence) and use in courts;
- role of the victim in charge and prosecution of criminal offences;
- special courts and alternative justice mechanisms in domestic and family violence matters.
For further information contact Professor Heather Douglas, e: h.douglas@law.uq.edu.au
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Master Philosophy
The Criminal Justice Journeys of Incarcerated Women who have Experienced Non-Fatal Strangulation: Conceptualising a Trauma- and Gender-informed Approach to Correctional Care.
Associate Advisor
Completed supervision
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Unrepresented Defendants in Criminal Trials in Bhutan: A Comparative Study between Australia and Bhutan
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Francesca Bartlett
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Migration and domestic violence: Women's experiences of proving domestic violence as a requirement for permanent residency in Australia
Principal Advisor
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
The Charging Decision: Accountability, Transparency, and Control of the Decision to Prosecute
Principal Advisor
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
Child Death, Neglect & Criminal Responsibility: The (In)adequacy of the Law of Homicide in Australia in Cases of Child Fatality Resulting from Parental Neglect
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Andreas Schloenhardt
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
Does Australia's law governing fitness for trial for summary offences protect the human rights of persons with intellectual disabilities?
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor John Devereux
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
The role of the victim in criminal proceedings in Australia and Germany - a comparison
Principal Advisor
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2013
Doctor Philosophy
The criminal law implications for doctors who perform sacrificial separation surgery on conjoined twins
Principal Advisor
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
A Trauma-Informed Non-Fatal Strangulation Trial: Victim-Witnesses, Brain Injury and PTSD
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Caitlin Goss
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2018
Doctor Philosophy
Murri Courts: An ethnography of Indigenous sentencing courts in Southeast Queensland, Australia
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sally Babidge, Associate Professor Gerhard Hoffstaedter
Media
Enquiries
Contact Honorary Professor Heather Douglas directly for media enquiries about:
- Aboriginal peoples and criminal law
- Aboriginal peoples and domestic violence
- Abortion and the law
- Australian judicial decision-making
- Criminal law and Indigenous people
- Criminal law and procedure
- Domestic violence
- Domestic violence in Indigenous communities
- Family violence
- FASD
- Feminism
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and the Law
- Human rights
- Indigenous people and criminal law
- law reform
- sentencing
- Social justice law
- Stalking and technology facilitated abuse
- Violence - domestic
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