Robin Fitzgerald – The Conversation

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July 1, 2024

More than half of Australian young people are using strangulation during sex: new research

Heather Douglas, The University of Melbourne; Leah Sharman, The University of Queensland, and Robin Fitzgerald, The University of Queensland

A survey of thousands of young people has revealed choking during intercourse is more common than not. A third of people said they were first made aware of the practice as teenagers.

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September 16, 2021

QLD police will use AI to ‘predict’ domestic violence before it happens. Beware the unintended consequences

Heather Douglas, The University of Melbourne and Robin Fitzgerald, The University of Queensland

Plans have been made for the AI-based program to begin trials before the year ends. But it raises serious questions about the role of police in preventing domestic violence.

Indigenous people make up just 4.2% of the Queensland population, but are the subjects of 21% of domestic violence protection order applications. Shutterstock

September 14, 2018

How Indigenous women have become targets in a domestic violence system intended to protect them

Heather Douglas, The University of Queensland and Robin Fitzgerald, The University of Queensland

A new study in Queensland shows that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are far more likely to be targeted by domestic violence protection orders than the general population.

Australian governments have too often succumbed to perceived community pressure to limit parole authorities’ independence and powers. AAP/Samantha Manchee

April 10, 2018

Political interventions have undermined the parole system’s effectiveness and independence

Arie Freiberg, Monash University; Lorana Bartels, University of Canberra; Robin Fitzgerald, The University of Queensland, and Shannon Dodd, The University of Queensland

Government and judicial interventions into the decisions of parole boards display a progressive loss of faith in these independent bodies.

Queensland’s reliance on high-security facilities to house a growing prison population may be linked to the nation’s highest rates of return for prisoners on parole. AAP/Dave Hunt

April 15, 2015

State of imprisonment: out one day, back the next in Queensland

Robin Fitzgerald, The University of Queensland and Adrian Cherney, The University of Queensland

Queensland’s rates of imprisonment had been falling, but have undergone a sharp reversal - much of it driven by the nation’s highest rates of return by prisoners released into the community.

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