Dr Lisa Durnian
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Personal details
Keywords
historical criminology, digital histories, guilty plea, criminal prosecution, policing, sentencing, patricide, QUT Centre for Justice
Research field
Criminology, Historical Studies, Law
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Griffith University)
- Grad.Dip.Ed (Secondary) (University of Queensland)
- BA (Hons Class I) (University of Queensland)
Professional memberships and associations
- Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology
(Member) - Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society (Member)
Teaching
Lisa designed and created this unit based on her doctoral research on the history of criminal prosecution and the origins of the contemporary guilty plea system. This unit provides students with an original cumulative assessment structure focused on one of two topics: the historical experiences of child victims or Indigenous defendants during the criminal prosecution process.
The assignments in this unit inform each other, and both are combined within the final assessment piece where students create a submission to a mock Royal Commission of Inquiry on their selected topic. This unit engages students in using both qualitative and quantitative data. Students are instructed how to employ digital research tools for historical research and are provided with workshops using Excel to analyse historical prosecution datasets collected from the Prosecution Project database of Australian criminal prosecutions.
Semester 2, 2019; Semester 2, 2020: JSB207 Punishment and Penal Policy.
Publications
- Durnian, L., (2019). 'Your troubles are over, Mummy': Prosecuting children who kill violent men. In A. Piper & A. Stevenson (Eds.), Gender violence in Australia: Historical perspectives (Australian History) (pp. 49–62). Monash University Publishing. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/130596
- Durnian, L., (2018). Police practices and the judges' rules, 1926-1961. Law&history: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society, 5(2), 55–85. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/131110
- Piper, A. & Durnian, L. (2017). Theft on trial: Prosecution, conviction and sentencing patterns in colonial Victoria and Western Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 50(1), 5–22. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/130746
QUT ePrints
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Awards
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- Awarded the Chancellor's Medals for Excellence in the PhD Thesis, 2018
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2018
- Details
- Awarded the Allen Austin Bartholomew Award with co-author Alana Piper (UTS) for best article published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. Piper, A. & Durnian, L. (2017). Theft on trial: Prosecution, conviction and sentencing patterns in colonial Victoria and Western Australia. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 50(1), 5-22. doi:10.1177/0004865815620684.