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Senior Lecturer
LLB (JCU), BA(Hons)(QUT), PhD(QUT)
Contact:
Room: C725 (Gardens Point campus)
Tel: (07) 3138 2983
Fax: (07) 3138 2121
Email: b.mathews@qut.edu.au
Ben Mathews' doctoral thesis critically examined Australian laws ascribing
criminal responsibility to children using evidence from disciplines including
psychology, sociology and behavioural science, and using the contemporary philosophical
idea of deconstruction.
Ben has supervised one PhD student to copmpletion, has another student under examination, and supervises three other PhD and SJD students. He is available for consultation with prospective PhD candidates.
Ben leads the Faculty's Health Law Research program.
Units currently taught:
Research Interests:
- Law concerning mandatory reporting of child abuse
- Law and the protection of children from abuse and neglect
- Legal remedies for survivors of child sexual abuse
- Legal remedies for survivors of institutional abuse and neglect
- Children's criminal responsibility
- Sentencing child offenders
- Juvenile justice
- The criminal justice system and children
- Law in school contexts
- Children's rights
Research funding:
External
- Teachers Reporting Child Sexual Abuse: Towards Evidence-based Reform of Law, Policy and Practice (Professor Des Butler, Associate Professor Ann Farrell, Dr Ben Mathews and Dr Kerryann Walsh), 2005, commencing in 2006 - Australian Research Council Discovery Projects Grant ($250 000)
Internal
- Nurses and mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect (Fraser, Mathews, Walsh, Dunne), 2005: IHBI Seeding Grant ($48 147.62)
Postgraduate student completions:
- Principal Supervisor of one completed PhD student (2005: Tamara Walsh)
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