Jeffries, Samantha

Griffith University

Samantha’s research focuses on marginalised social statuses, criminalisation, victimisation and (in)justice. She has conducted research on LGBTIQA+ domestic violence, the sex industry, problem-solving courts, sentencing, gender and Indigeneity. In focus more recently has been the needs and experiences of domestic violence victims in the family law system and restorative justice processes. Since 2015, she has been undertaking studies in Southeast Asia and Kenya on gendered criminalisation, women’s imprisonment, as well as re-integration and human rights. She has co-authored a book on domestic violence (Romantic Terrorism: An Autoethnography of Domestic Violence, Victimization and Survival) and co-edited the book Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia.

Contributions

• “A Kiss Delivered as a Punch”: Coercively Controlling Tactics in Australian Women’s Same-Gender Intimate Relationships

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