Douglas, Heather

The University of Queensland

Professor Heather Douglas is based at the TC Beirne School of Law at the Univiversity of Queensland. She researches in the areas of criminal justice and domestic violence. Heather has published widely on criminal justice issues and around legal responses to domestic violence and child protection. In 2014- 2019 she was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship to research the way in which women who have experienced domestic violence use the legal system to help them leave violence. She was the lead researcher and project co-ordinator with the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration on the development of the National Domestic and Family Violence Bench Book, a project funded by the Commonwealth Government.  Heather was appointed a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law in 2013 and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2017.

Contributions

• The Domestic Violence Protection Order System as Entry to the Criminal Justice System for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

  Articles

  Vol. 7 No. 3 (2018)

• Policing Domestic and Family Violence

  Articles

  Vol. 8 No. 2 (2019): The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy

• Reproductive Coercion and Legal Recognition: Views of Domestic Violence Support Workers and Lawyers

  Special Issue: Policing and Preventing Gender Violence in the Global South

  Vol. 10 No. 4 (2021)

• Theorising Criminalisation: The Value of a Modalities Approach

  Articles

  Vol. 7 No. 3 (2018)