Rate My Professor Emily Hurren Paterson

Key publications include 'Police cautioning in Queensland: the impact on juvenile offending pathways' (2006, with Dennison and Stewart), 'Sex offenders' perceptions of the effectiveness and fairness of humanity, dominance, and displaying an understanding of cognitive distortions in offender treatment' (2008), 'The Use of Administrative Data for Longitudinal Replication: Evaluating a 10-Year Queensland Cohort of Prosecuting Youth' (2017, cited 39 times), 'Who maltreats? Distinct pathways of intergenerational (dis)continuity in child protection contact' (2021, with McKenzie et al., cited 32 times), 'New directions in intergenerational child maltreatment research' (2024), and 'Criminal justice system involvement across adolescence and early adulthood' (2025). She has contributed to funded projects such as the Criminology Research Grant for 'Poly-victimisation and mental health across adolescence and early adulthood' (2024, Australian Institute of Criminology) and the Evaluation of the Child Protection Joint Response Team Trial (2019). In teaching, Paterson convenes courses including Fraud and Cybercrime (3026CCJ), Understanding Domestic and Family Violence (3034CCJ), and Crime Prevention, and coordinates the Bachelor of Psychological Science/Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice program. She was highly commended in the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Award (2024) for Crime Prevention and part of teams awarded for research excellence (2015).