Professor Belinda Carpenter

Biography

Background Belinda Carpenter is currently a Professor in the School of Justice at QUT.  Between 2015 and 2020 she was Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Law  and prior to this, Belinda served two terms as Head of School of Justice (2003-2005 and 2008-2009).  In 2012, Belinda became the inaugural Director of the Crime and Justice Research Centre, and Assistant Editor of the Journal Crime, Justice and Social Democracy Belinda has two areas of Research strength: sex crimes and death investigation.  Belinda published her first book on prostitution, Rethinking prostitution: feminism, sex and the self,  in 2000.  While maintaining an interest in this area through publications and higher degree research supervision, she has also used this theoretical work to investigate the issue of violent offending women, sex crimes and trafficking. Following this theme, in 2011 she published Sex Crime and Morality (Routledge), in 2012 she published Justice in Society (Federation)  , and in 2013 she published Sex Trafficking: a moral geography (Palgrave). Belinda's other area of research expertise is death investigation. In 2005 she gained an ARC Linkage grant with the Departments of Health and Justice and Attorney General to investigate the decision-making of coroners under the new Coroners Act (2003).  Belinda gained a further ARC Linkage in 2010, with the Depts of Health, Police and Attorney General, to explore the ways in which coronial staff engaged with religious and cultural difference.  In 2015 she gained an ARC Discovery Grant to explore the coronial determination of suicide.  Findings from this body of work include: high quality international publications, an e-resource for families, and training seminars to coronial professionals. Research interests

• Coroners Systems
• Death Investigations
• Suicide
• Autopsy
• Prostitution and Sex Trafficking
• Violent Offending Women