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Event promotion: “Let’s Talk Scams” – National Scams Awareness Week

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Live and Online Panel Discussion: "Let's Talk Scams" - National Scams Awareness Week

QUT Centre for Justice welcomes you to a live and on-line panel discussion during National Scams Awareness Week

Date: 2021.11.08 (Mon)
Time: 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. (AEST)
Venue: Online (webinar details will be given after registration).
Language: English

About this event

Each year, millions of Australians lose money to fraud. According to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Australians reported over $851 million lost to fraud in 2020, up from $634 million in 2019. While these monetary losses are significant, there are also many wide ranging non-financial harms that result from fraud. The impact can be both devastating and life changing for victims, yet there is a shame and stigma that prevents many from talking about it.

Monday 8th November marks the beginning of National Scams Awareness Week. The theme for this year's campaign is “Let’s talk scams”, and we intend to do this. Please join us for a panel discussion on the topic of fraud and scams, facilitated by Associate Professor Cassandra Cross, with the following leading industry experts from across Australia. The panel will cover all aspects of fraud from policing, to prevention, to support.

The panel will include:

  • Delia Rickard, Deputy Commissioner, - Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
  • Sarah Dreaver, Manager, Financial Crime Investigations, Customer Protect – Suncorp
  • Detective Sergeant Karen McAteer – Fraud and Cyber Crime Group, Queensland Police Service
  • Victoria Schiffer, Delivery Manager APAC Security and Tom Rhind, Trust and Safety Manager – Seek

This event will be run in person at QUT Gardens Point Campus and via webinar for those who can't attend in person. A webinar link will follow.

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/lets-talk-scams-national-scams-awareness-week-tickets-191472197497

The East Asia Policing Studies Forum Seminar Series: Predicting confidence in the police: Evidence from Shanghai

Using a household random sample from Shanghai (N=2,430), this study explores the nuanced meaning of “police” to Shanghai residents and brings trust into the study of confidence in the police. Results reveal that China as a society with “differential mode of association” indeed makes a distinction between different hierarchical levels of the police agencies based on their power-distance with residents. In addition, the multi-variate regression analyses of confidence in the local and upper-level police indicate that institutional trust is the most influential factor. Media trust, feeling safe, satisfaction in life and collectivism are significant in both models. Obeying the law, gender and class influence confidence in the local police but do not have any influence on the upper-level police while intermediate trust and education have a significant effect on confidence in the upper-level police.

Liqun Cao is Professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada. He is also an adjunct professor at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. His research interests include China study, criminological theory, gun ownership, police integrity, policy on ascetic deviance, race and ethnicity in criminal justice, sociology of policing, etc. His research essays have appeared in many top national and international journals, including Criminology, Journal of Criminal Justice, Justice Quarterly, Policing, Social Forces, and Social Problems. He is the author of Major Criminological Theories: Concepts and Measurement (2004) and co-author of Policing in Taiwan: From Authoritarianism to Democracy with LanYing Huang and Ivan Sun (2014). He is also co-editor of Lessons of International/Comparative Criminology/Criminal Justice with John Winterdyk (2004) and The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Criminology (2014) with Ivan Y. Sun and Bill Hebenton. His co-authored paper “Crime volume and law and order culture” (2007) won the 2008 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences’ Donal MacNamara Award – the best article of the year. Professor Cao is also the founding president of Association of Chinese Criminology and Criminal Justice in the U.S. (2010 to 2012).

 

The East Asia Policing Studies Forum Seminar Series: Internal Procedural Justice, Moral Alignment, & External Procedural Justice in Democratic Policing

Notwithstanding the popularity of the process-based model of policing among social scientists, research on factors that encourage police officers to engage in procedurally fair behavior is relatively scarce. Based on the “fair policing from the inside out” framework and survey data collected from Taiwan police officers, this study explored the connection between internal procedural justice and external procedural justice through the mechanisms of moral alignment with both supervisors and citizens and perceived citizen trustworthiness. This study was the first to test the mediating role of these three factors simultaneously. Fair supervision was found to build up moral alignment between officers and supervisors and between officers and citizens, which in turn led to stronger commitment to responsiveness and fair treatment of the public. Internal procedural justice and moral alignment also cultivated officers’ perceptions of public trustworthiness, which similarly strengthened officers’ response and fair treatment
toward the public.