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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2016
Conference Publication
Using Law in Response to Domestic Abuse: Women's Experiences
Douglas, Heather Anne (2016). Using Law in Response to Domestic Abuse: Women's Experiences. Domestic Abuse and the Search for Justice: Principles, Practices, Policies, Durham, 16 March 2016.
2016
Journal Article
Sentencing parents: the consideration of dependent children
Walsh, Tamara and Douglas, Heather (2016). Sentencing parents: the consideration of dependent children. Adelaide Law Review, 37 (1), 135-161.
2016
Conference Publication
Policing domestic violence panel
Douglas, Heather Anne (2016). Policing domestic violence panel. Policing Domestic Violence Forum, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 4 November 2016.
2015
Other Outputs
Domestic violence order applications in Queensland, 2008-09 – 2013-14 Preliminary results from the Queensland Wide Interlinked Courts system (QWIC)
Douglas, Heather Anne, Fitzgerald, Robin, Feodoroff, Janine, Norrie, Grace and Barclay, Felix (2015). Domestic violence order applications in Queensland, 2008-09 – 2013-14 Preliminary results from the Queensland Wide Interlinked Courts system (QWIC).
2015
Journal Article
Abortion law reform needed
Douglas, Heather and de Costa, Caroline (2015). Abortion law reform needed. Alternative Law Journal, 40 (4), 280-281. doi: 10.1177/1037969X1504000414
2015
Other Outputs
Using Law and Leaving Domestic Violence: Women’s Voices (Year 1 report)
Douglas, Heather Anne (2015). Using Law and Leaving Domestic Violence: Women’s Voices (Year 1 report). St. Lucia QLD Australia: TC Beirne School of Law.
2015
Journal Article
Abortion law in Australia: it's time for national consistency and decriminalisation
de Costa, Caroline M. and Douglas, Heather (2015). Abortion law in Australia: it's time for national consistency and decriminalisation. Medical Journal of Australia, 203 (9), 349-350. doi: 10.5694/mja15.00543
2015
Journal Article
Patriarchal terrorism and burning women at the stake: The petty treason of Elizabeth Herring 1773
Douglas, Heather and Bronitt, Simon (2015). Patriarchal terrorism and burning women at the stake: The petty treason of Elizabeth Herring 1773. Criminal Law Journal, 39 (5), 272-275.
2015
Journal Article
E-cigarettes and the law in Australia
Douglas, Heather, Hall, Wayne and Gartner, Coral (2015). E-cigarettes and the law in Australia. Australian Family Physician, 44 (6), 415-418.
2015
Journal Article
Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment
Douglas, Heather (2015). Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment. Social and Legal Studies, 24 (2), 321-324. doi: 10.1177/0964663915575630c
2015
Journal Article
Abortion law across Australia - A review of nine jurisdictions
de Costa, Caroline, Douglas, Heather, Hamblin, Julie, Ramsay, Philippa and Shircore, Mandy (2015). Abortion law across Australia - A review of nine jurisdictions. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 55 (2), 105-111. doi: 10.1111/ajo.12298
2015
Journal Article
Women's access to abortion after 20 weeks' gestation for fetal chromosomal abnormalities: Views and experiences of doctors in New South Wales and Queensland
Black, Kirsten I., Douglas, Heather and de Costa, Caroline (2015). Women's access to abortion after 20 weeks' gestation for fetal chromosomal abnormalities: Views and experiences of doctors in New South Wales and Queensland. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 55 (2), 144-148. doi: 10.1111/ajo.12305
2015
Book Chapter
Mothers in crisis: mothers and the child protection system
Walsh, Tamara and Douglas, Heather (2015). Mothers in crisis: mothers and the child protection system. Mothers at the Margins: Stories of Challenge, Resistance and Love. (pp. 89-107) edited by Lisa Raith, Jenny Jones and Marie Porter. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2015
Book Chapter
Social framework evidence: its interpretation and application in Victoria and beyond
Douglas, Heather (2015). Social framework evidence: its interpretation and application in Victoria and beyond. Homicide law reform in Victoria: retrospect and prospects. (pp. 94-109) edited by Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Arie Freiberg. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Federation Press.
2015
Conference Publication
Evidence and Victim Experience in Sexual and Domestic Violence Cases: The Approach of the Feminist Judge.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2015). Evidence and Victim Experience in Sexual and Domestic Violence Cases: The Approach of the Feminist Judge.. Inside Out: Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 1 December 2015.
2015
Conference Publication
Cross Applications in the Magistrates Court.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2015). Cross Applications in the Magistrates Court.. Annual Queensland Magistrates Conference, Brisbane, 31 July 2015.
2015
Conference Publication
Abortion Law in Australia
Douglas, Heather Anne (2015). Abortion Law in Australia. Abortion in Australia Conference, Brisbane, 20 February 2015.
2015
Conference Publication
International Women's Day and the One Woman Project: Making It Happen
Douglas, Heather Anne (2015). International Women's Day and the One Woman Project: Making It Happen. International Women's Day High Tea, One Women Project, Brisbane, 8 March 2015.
2015
Book Chapter
Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse and Marginalised Families
Douglas, Heather and Walsh, Tamara (2015). Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse and Marginalised Families. Mandatory Reporting Laws and the Identification of Severe Child Abuse and Neglect. (pp. 491-509) edited by Matthews, Ben and Bross, Donald C. New York, United States: Springer Netherlands. doi: 10.1007/978-94-017-9685-9_23
2015
Journal Article
Foetal alcohol spectrum disorders: a consideration of sentencing and unreliable confessions
Douglas, Heather Anne (2015). Foetal alcohol spectrum disorders: a consideration of sentencing and unreliable confessions. Journal of Law and Medicine, 23 (2), 427-442.
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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