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
Search Professor Heather Douglas’s works on UQ eSpace
2022
Journal Article
The use of fire and threats to burn in the context of domestic and family violence and coercive control
Douglas, Heather (2022). The use of fire and threats to burn in the context of domestic and family violence and coercive control. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 35 (1), 1-21. doi: 10.1080/10345329.2022.2095794
2022
Journal Article
Addressing the Reproducibility Crisis: A Response to Hudson
Douglas, Heather and Elliott, Kevin C. (2022). Addressing the Reproducibility Crisis: A Response to Hudson. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 53 (2), 201-209. doi: 10.1007/s10838-022-09606-5
2022
Journal Article
Adolescent family and dating violence and the criminal law response
Douglas, Heather and Walsh, Tamara (2022). Adolescent family and dating violence and the criminal law response. Journal of Family Violence, 38 (2), 1-13. doi: 10.1007/s10896-022-00373-x
2022
Book Chapter
Sampling techniques for qualitative research
Douglas, Heather (2022). Sampling techniques for qualitative research. Principles of social research methodology. (pp. 415-426) edited by M. Rezaul Islam, Niaz Ahmed Khan and Rajendra Baikady. Singapore, Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-5441-2_29
2022
Book Chapter
Data analysis techniques for qualitative study
Douglas, Heather (2022). Data analysis techniques for qualitative study. Principles of social research methodology. (pp. 427-433) edited by M. Rezaul Islam, Niaz Ahmed Khan and Rajendra Baikady. Singapore, Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-5441-2_30
2021
Other Outputs
Review of domestic violence deaths involving fatal or non-fatal strangulation in Queensland
Sharman, Leah, Douglas, Heather and Fitzgerald, Robin (2021). Review of domestic violence deaths involving fatal or non-fatal strangulation in Queensland. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Melbourne/The University of Queensland.
2021
Journal Article
Proving non-fatal strangulation in family violence cases: a case study on the criminalisation family violence
Douglas, Heather and Fitzgerald, Robin (2021). Proving non-fatal strangulation in family violence cases: a case study on the criminalisation family violence. The International Journal of Evidence and Proof, 25 (4), 350-370. doi: 10.1177/13657127211036175
2021
Journal Article
Reassessing responsibility in criminal law
Douglas, Heather (2021). Reassessing responsibility in criminal law. Journal of Legal Philosophy, 46 (1), 62-66. doi: 10.4337/jlp.2021.01.05
2021
Journal Article
Reproductive coercion and abuse against women from minority ethnic backgrounds: views of service providers in Australia
Tarzia, Laura, Douglas, Heather and Sheeran, Nicola (2021). Reproductive coercion and abuse against women from minority ethnic backgrounds: views of service providers in Australia. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 24 (4), 1-28. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2020.1859617
2021
Book Chapter
Specialised domestic violence courts: the Australian perspective
Douglas, Heather and Blatcher, Sophie (2021). Specialised domestic violence courts: the Australian perspective. Reflections on prevention policies for gender based violence against women and girls: debates in Brazil and Australia. (pp. 117-122) edited by Thiago Pierobom de Ávila, Aline Yamamoto, Cristina Elsner de Faria, Jude McCulloch and Kerry Carrington. Brazilia, Brazil: UN Women; MPDFT (Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Federal District of Brazil).
2021
Book
Women, intimate partner violence, and the law
Douglas, Heather (2021). Women, intimate partner violence, and the law. New York, NY United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780190071783.001.0001
2020
Journal Article
Family violence, lawyers and debt
Douglas, Heather (2020). Family violence, lawyers and debt. Australian Journal of Family Law, 33 (3), 264-281.
2020
Journal Article
Reproductive coercion and legal recognition: views of domestic violence support workers and lawyers
Douglas, Heather, Sheeran, Nicola and Tarzia, Laura (2020). Reproductive coercion and legal recognition: views of domestic violence support workers and lawyers. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 9 (3), 117-130. doi: 10.5204/ijcjsd.1704
2020
Journal Article
Facts seen and unseen: improving justice responses by using a social entrapment lens for cases involving abused women (as offenders or victims)
Douglas, Heather, McGlade, Hannah, Tarrant, Stella and Tolmie, Julia (2020). Facts seen and unseen: improving justice responses by using a social entrapment lens for cases involving abused women (as offenders or victims). Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 32 (4), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/10345329.2020.1829779
2020
Journal Article
Introduction to the special issue: evidence in the intimate sphere
Chin, Jason M., Douglas, Heather and Goss, Caitlin (2020). Introduction to the special issue: evidence in the intimate sphere. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 32 (4), 379-381. doi: 10.1080/10345329.2020.1837714
2020
Journal Article
Women's stories of non-fatal strangulation: informing the criminal justice response
Douglas, Heather and Fitzgerald, Robin (2020). Women's stories of non-fatal strangulation: informing the criminal justice response. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 22 (2), 174889582094960-286. doi: 10.1177/1748895820949607
2020
Journal Article
Indigenous Australians, specialist courts, and the intergenerational impacts of child removal in the criminal justice system
Radke, Amelia and Douglas, Heather (2020). Indigenous Australians, specialist courts, and the intergenerational impacts of child removal in the criminal justice system. International Journal of Children's Rights, 28 (2), 378-400. doi: 10.1163/15718182-02802005
2020
Other Outputs
Identifying and responding to reproductive coercion in a legal context: issues paper
Douglas, Heather, Sheeran, Nicola and Tarzia, Laura (2020). Identifying and responding to reproductive coercion in a legal context: issues paper. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
2020
Journal Article
Malicious reports of child maltreatment as coercive control: mothers and domestic and family violence
Douglas, Heather and Fell, Emma (2020). Malicious reports of child maltreatment as coercive control: mothers and domestic and family violence. Journal of Family Violence, 35 (8), 827-837. doi: 10.1007/s10896-019-00128-1
2020
Book Chapter
Alternative constructions of a family violence offence
Douglas, Heather (2020). Alternative constructions of a family violence offence. Criminalising Coercive Control: Family Violence and the Criminal Law. (pp. 243-260) edited by Marilyn McMahon and Paul McGorrery. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-0653-6_12
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
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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