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The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy is supported by the QUT School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. The Journal is published by QUT using Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open source software application for managing and publishing scholarly journals.

For all queries please contact crimjournal@qut.edu.au