Honorary Professor Heather Douglas
Honorary Professor
TC Beirne School of Law
W465 Forgan Smith Building, St Lucia campus. Availability by appointment.
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Using Law and Leaving Domestic Violence: Women’s Voices ARC Future Fellowship |
2014–2018 |
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National Domestic and Family Violence Bench Book Attorney General Department and AIJA |
2015–2018 |
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Domestic violence protection orders - system issues UQ Collaboration and Industry Engagement Fund |
2015–2016 |
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Khat National Drug Law Enforcement Fund |
2013 |
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Australian Feminist Judgments Project ARC Discovery Project |
2012–2014 |
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Risk Factors for Unplanned Pregnancy: Legal, policy, health responses BEL Collaboration Seeding Grants Scheme |
2018 |
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Domestic violence, social security law and the couple rule Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety |
2018 |
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The non-fatal strangulation offence as a response to domestic violence ARC Discovery Project |
2020–2023 |
Publications
Books
Douglas, Heather (2021). Women, intimate partner violence, and the law. New York, NY United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780190071783.001.0001
Douglas, Heather and Chapple, Kate (2017). National domestic and family violence bench book. Brisbane, Australia: Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration.
Douglas, Heather, Higgins, Emma and Barrett, Malcolm (2017). Criminal process in Queensland. 2nd ed. Sydney, NSW Australia: Lawbook Company and Thomson Reuters.
Douglas, Heather Anne and Chapple, Kate (2016). National family violence bench book. Melbourne, Australia: Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration (AIJA).
Douglas, Heather and Finnane, Mark (2012). Indigenous crime and settler law: white sovereignty after empire. Hampshire, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9781137284983
Douglas, Heather, Everton-Moore, Kimberly, Harbidge, Sue and Levy, Laurie (2010). Criminal process in Queensland and Western Australia. Pyrmont, N.S.W., Australia: Thomson Lawbook Co.
Douglas, Heather (2009). Aboriginal Australians and the criminal law: History, policy, culture. Saarbrucken: VDM Verlag.
Douglas, Heather and Harbidge, Sue (2008). Criminal process in Queensland. Pyrmont, NSW, Australia: Lawbook Co..
Banks, Cate and Douglas, Heather (2006). Law on the Internet. 3rd ed. Annandale, N.S.W., Australia: Federation Press.
Book Chapters
Douglas, Heather and Fitzgerald, Robin (2023). The consequences of criminalizing domestic violence: a case study of the non-fatal strangulation offence in Queensland, Australia. The criminalization of violence against women: comparative perspectives. (pp. 1-20) edited by Heather Douglas, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Leigh Goodmark and Sandra Walklate. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Douglas, Heather and Fitzgerald, Robin (2023). The consequences of criminalizing domestic violence: a case study of the nonfatal strangulation offense in Queensland, Australia. The criminalization of violence against women: comparative perspectives. (pp. 209-228) edited by Heather Douglas, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Leigh Goodmark and Sandra Walklate. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197651841.003.0012
Douglas, Heather (2022). Data analysis techniques for qualitative study. Principles of social research methodology. (pp. 427-433) edited by M. Rezaul Islam, Niaz Ahmed Khan and Rajendra Baikady. Singapore, Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-5441-2_30
Douglas, Heather (2022). Sampling techniques for qualitative research. Principles of social research methodology. (pp. 415-426) edited by M. Rezaul Islam, Niaz Ahmed Khan and Rajendra Baikady. Singapore, Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-5441-2_29
Douglas, Heather and Blatcher, Sophie (2021). Specialised domestic violence courts: the Australian perspective. Reflections on prevention policies for gender based violence against women and girls: debates in Brazil and Australia. (pp. 117-122) edited by Thiago Pierobom de Ávila, Aline Yamamoto, Cristina Elsner de Faria, Jude McCulloch and Kerry Carrington. Brazilia, Brazil: UN Women; MPDFT (Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Federal District of Brazil).
Douglas, Heather (2020). Alternative constructions of a family violence offence. Criminalising Coercive Control: Family Violence and the Criminal Law. (pp. 243-260) edited by Marilyn McMahon and Paul McGorrery. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-0653-6_12
Bennett, Belinda and Douglas, Heather (2018). Abortion. Health Law in Australia. (pp. 473-496) edited by Ben White, Lindy Willmott and Fiona McDonald. Sydney, Australia: Thomson Reuters.
Douglas, Heather (2018). Prosecuting domestic violence cases: listening to victims. The evolving role of the public prosecutor: challenges and innovations. (pp. 154-168) edited by Victoria Colvin and Philip Stenning. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429467547
Stenning, Philip, Colvin, Victoria and Douglas, Heather (2018). Introduction. The evolving role of the public prosecutor: challenges and innovations. (pp. 1-12) edited by Victoria Colvin and Philip Stenning. New York, NY United States: Routledge.
Heather Douglas (2018). Domestic violence protection orders and their role in ensuring personal security. Intimate partner violence, risk and security: securing women’s lives in a global world. (pp. 216-232) edited by Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Sandra Walklate, Jude McCulloch and JaneMaree Maher. London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315204765-13
Douglas, Heather and Bartlett, Francesca (2016). Practice and persuasion: women, feminism and judicial diversity. Judicial independence in Australia: contemporary challenges, future directions. (pp. 76-88) edited by Rebecca Ananian-Welsh and Jonathan Crowe. Sydney, Australia: Federation Press.
Douglas, Heather and Walsh, Tamara (2015). Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse and Marginalised Families. Mandatory Reporting Laws and the Identification of Severe Child Abuse and Neglect. (pp. 491-509) edited by Matthews, Ben and Bross, Donald C. New York, United States: Springer Netherlands. doi: 10.1007/978-94-017-9685-9_23
Douglas, Heather (2015). Social framework evidence: its interpretation and application in Victoria and beyond. Homicide law reform in Victoria: retrospect and prospects. (pp. 94-109) edited by Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Arie Freiberg. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Federation Press.
Douglas, Heather and Besley, Jo (2015). An unsettling presence: Indigenous art and settler law. Courting Blakness: Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University. (pp. 124-133) edited by Fiona Foley, Louise Martin-Chew and Fiona Nicoll. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press.
Walsh, Tamara and Douglas, Heather (2015). Mothers in crisis: mothers and the child protection system. Mothers at the Margins: Stories of Challenge, Resistance and Love. (pp. 89-107) edited by Lisa Raith, Jenny Jones and Marie Porter. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Douglas, Heather and Nancarrow, Heather (2015). Perils of Using Law: A Critique of Protection Orders to Respond to Intimate Partner Violence. Critical issues on violence against women : international perspectives and promising strategies. (pp. 77-87) edited by Holly Johnson, Bonnie S. Fisher and Veronique Jaquier. New York, NY United States: Routledge.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2015). Criminal responsibility and family violence: the relationship between (feminist) academic critique and judicial decision-making. Criminalisation and criminal responsibility in Australia. (pp. 176-190) edited by Thomas Crofts and Arlie Loughnan. South Melbourne, VIC Australia: Oxford University Press.
Douglas, Heather Anne, Bartlett, Francesca, Luker, Trish and Hunter, Rosemary (2014). Introduction: Righting Australian Law. Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law. (pp. 1-18) edited by Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker and Rosemary Hunter. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.
Douglas, Heather Anne, Bartlett, Francesca, Luker, Trish and Hunter, Rosemary (2014). Reflections on rewriting the law. Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law. (pp. 19-40) edited by Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker and Rosemary Hunter. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.
Douglas, Heather (2014). Reconsidering Precedent. Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law. (pp. 229-233) edited by Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker and Rosemary Hunter. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.
Douglas, Heather (2014). Intersectionality and Indigenous Sentencing Courts. Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law. (pp. 339-344) edited by Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker and Rosemary Hunter. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.
Douglas, Heather and Finnane, Mark (2013). Obstacles to 'a proper exercise of jurisdiction' – sorcery and criminal justice in the settler–indigenous encounter in Australia. Between Indigenous and Settler Governance. (pp. 59-69) edited by Lisa Ford and Tim Rowse. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203085028
Douglas, Heather (2011). Domestic violence research: Valuing stories. Qualitative criminology: Stories from the field. (pp. 129-139) edited by Lorana Bartels and Kelly Richards. Leichardt, NSW, Australia: Hawkins Press.
H Douglas (2008). The Demise of the Provocation Defence and the Failure of Equality Concepts. Rethinking Equality Projects in Law: Feminist Challenges. (pp. 41-58) edited by Rosemary Hunter. Portland: Hart Publishing.
Douglas, H. A. (2007). Stories of mistaken consent: Still in the shadow of Morgan. Choice and Consent: Feminist Engagements with Law and Subjectivity. (pp. 109-124) edited by Hunter, R. and Cowan, S.. Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge Cavendish. doi: 10.4324/9780203937389
Douglas, Heather (2005). How Australian law schools endeavour to support indigenous students. Tertiary teaching and learning : Dealing with diversity. (pp. 177-186) edited by Greg Shaw. Darwin, N.T., Australia: Charles Darwin University Press.
Journal Articles
Sharman, Leah S., Douglas, Heather and Fitzgerald, Robin (2024). A Qualitative Exploration of the Impact of Increasing Criminalization on Domestic Violence Support Workers: Nonfatal Strangulation as a Case Study. Violence Against Women, 10778012241289422. doi: 10.1177/10778012241289422
Sharman, Leah, Fitzgerald, Robin and Douglas, Heather (2024). Prevalence of Sexual Strangulation/Choking Among Australian 18–35
Year‑Olds. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1-16. doi: 10.1007/s10508-024-02937-y
Douglas, Heather and Fitzgerald, Robin (2024). Prosecuting strangulation offences: understanding complainant withdrawal using a social entrapment lens. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 1-18. doi: 10.1080/10345329.2024.2336717
Sharman, Leah S., Fitzgerald, Robin and Douglas, Heather (2024). Strangulation During Sex Among Undergraduate Students in Australia: Toward Understanding Participation, Harms, and Education. Sexuality Research and Social Policy. doi: 10.1007/s13178-024-00941-4
Douglas, Heather, Sharman, Leah and Fitzgerald, Robin (2024). Domestic Violence, Sex, Strangulation and the ‘Blurry’ Question of Consent. The Journal of Criminal Law, 88 (1), 48-66. doi: 10.1177/00220183241233455
Lafay, Anne, Adrien, Emmanuelle, Burr, Sabrina Di Lonardo, Douglas, Heather, Provost-Larocque, Kim, Xu, Chang, LeFevre, Jo-Anne, Maloney, Erin A., Osana, Helena P., Skwarchuk, Sheri-Lynn and Wylie, Judith (2024). Transcoding of French numbers for first- and second-language learners in third grade. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77 (2), 393-407. doi: 10.1177/17470218231174339
Douglas, Heather and Branch, T. Y. (2024). The social contract for science and the value-free ideal. Synthese, 203 (2) ARTN 40. doi: 10.1007/s11229-023-04477-9
Sharman, Leah S., Fitzgerald, Robin and Douglas, Heather (2024). Correction to: Prevalence of Sexual Strangulation/Choking Among Australian 18–35 Year-Olds (Archives of Sexual Behavior, (2024), 10.1007/s10508-024-02937-y). Archives of Sexual Behavior. doi: 10.1007/s10508-024-03014-0
Branch, T. Y. and Douglas, Heather (2023). Rethinking the Conceptual Space for Science in Society after the VFI. Philosophy of Science, 91 (5), 1118-1127. doi: 10.1017/psa.2023.130
Douglas, Heather (2023). Structuring institutions for responsible and accountable science. Philosophy of Science, 91 (5), 1149-1158. doi: 10.1017/psa.2023.128
Douglas, Heather, Tanczer, Leonie, McLachlan, Freya and Harris, Bridget (2023). Policing Technology-Facilitated Domestic Abuse (TFDA): views of service providers in Australia and the United Kingdom. Journal of Family Violence. doi: 10.1007/s10896-023-00619-2
Orr, Kerry, Sheeran, Nicola and Douglas, Heather (2023). The psychological impact on mothers who have experienced domestic violence when navigating the family court system: a scoping review. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 31 (4), 764-791. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2023.2214927
Xu, Chang, Burr, Sabrina Di Lonardo, LeFevre, Jo-Anne, Skwarchuk, Sheri-Lynn, Osana, Helena P., Maloney, Erin A., Wylie, Judith, Simms, Victoria, Susperreguy, Maria Ines, Douglas, Heather and Lafay, Anne (2023). Development of children's number line estimation in primary school: regional and curricular influences. Cognitive Development, 67 101355, 1-19. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2023.101355
Douglas, Heather (2023). The importance of values for science. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 48 (2), 251-263. doi: 10.1080/03080188.2023.2191559
Douglas, Heather (2023). Differentiating scientific inquiry and politics. Philosophy, 98 (2) PII S0031819122000432, 123-146. doi: 10.1017/S0031819122000432
Sharman, Leah S., Fitzgerald, Robin and Douglas, Heather (2023). Medical evidence assisting non-fatal strangulation prosecution: a scoping review. BMJ Open, 13 (3) e072077, 1-11. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-072077
Wangmann, Jane, Bartlett, Francesca, Batagol, Becky, Booth, Tracey, Douglas, Heather, Kaye, Miranda and Seear, Kate (2023). What is ‘good domestic violence lawyering’?: Views from specialist women’s legal services in Australia. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 37 (1) ebac034, 1-23. doi: 10.1093/lawfam/ebac034
Sheeran, Nicola, Tarzia, Laura and Douglas, Heather (2023). Communicating reproductive coercion in the context of domestic and family violence: perspectives of service providers supporting migrant and refugee women. Journal of Family Violence, 38 (1), 51-61. doi: 10.1007/s10896-022-00357-x
Sheeran, Nicola, Vallury, Kari, Sharman, Leah S., Corbin, Bonney, Douglas, Heather, Bernardino, Brenna, Hach, Maria, Coombe, Leanne, Keramidopoulos, Sophie, Torres-Quiazon, Regina and Tarzia, Laura (2022). Reproductive coercion and abuse among pregnancy counselling clients in Australia: trends and directions. Reproductive Health, 19 (1) 170, 1-10. doi: 10.1186/s12978-022-01479-7
Douglas, Heather (2022). The use of fire and threats to burn in the context of domestic and family violence and coercive control. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 35 (1), 1-21. doi: 10.1080/10345329.2022.2095794
Douglas, Heather and Elliott, Kevin C. (2022). Addressing the Reproducibility Crisis: A Response to Hudson. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 53 (2), 201-209. doi: 10.1007/s10838-022-09606-5
Douglas, Heather and Walsh, Tamara (2022). Adolescent family and dating violence and the criminal law response. Journal of Family Violence, 38 (2), 1-13. doi: 10.1007/s10896-022-00373-x
Liu, Ewen, Moumen, Mohammed, Goforth, Jon, Keating, Michelle, Hsu, Fang-Chi, Douglas, Heather, Oliver, Jennifer and Strowd, Roy E. (2022). Characterizing the Impact of Clinical Exposure to Patients with Opioid Use Disorder on Medical Students' Perceptions of Stigma and Patient Care. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 35 (2), 128-142. doi: 10.1080/10401334.2022.2038175
Douglas, Heather and Fitzgerald, Robin (2021). Proving non-fatal strangulation in family violence cases: a case study on the criminalisation family violence. The International Journal of Evidence and Proof, 25 (4), 350-370. doi: 10.1177/13657127211036175
Douglas, Heather (2021). Reassessing responsibility in criminal law. Journal of Legal Philosophy, 46 (1), 62-66. doi: 10.4337/jlp.2021.01.05
Tarzia, Laura, Douglas, Heather and Sheeran, Nicola (2021). Reproductive coercion and abuse against women from minority ethnic backgrounds: views of service providers in Australia. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 24 (4), 1-28. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2020.1859617
Douglas, Heather (2020). Family violence, lawyers and debt. Australian Journal of Family Law, 33 (3), 264-281.
Douglas, Heather, Sheeran, Nicola and Tarzia, Laura (2020). Reproductive coercion and legal recognition: views of domestic violence support workers and lawyers. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 9 (3), 117-130. doi: 10.5204/ijcjsd.1704
Douglas, Heather, McGlade, Hannah, Tarrant, Stella and Tolmie, Julia (2020). Facts seen and unseen: improving justice responses by using a social entrapment lens for cases involving abused women (as offenders or victims). Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 32 (4), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/10345329.2020.1829779
Chin, Jason M., Douglas, Heather and Goss, Caitlin (2020). Introduction to the special issue: evidence in the intimate sphere. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 32 (4), 379-381. doi: 10.1080/10345329.2020.1837714
Douglas, Heather and Fitzgerald, Robin (2020). Women's stories of non-fatal strangulation: informing the criminal justice response. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 22 (2), 174889582094960-286. doi: 10.1177/1748895820949607
Radke, Amelia and Douglas, Heather (2020). Indigenous Australians, specialist courts, and the intergenerational impacts of child removal in the criminal justice system. International Journal of Children's Rights, 28 (2), 378-400. doi: 10.1163/15718182-02802005
Douglas, Heather and Fell, Emma (2020). Malicious reports of child maltreatment as coercive control: mothers and domestic and family violence. Journal of Family Violence, 35 (8), 827-837. doi: 10.1007/s10896-019-00128-1
Fitzgerald, Robin, Douglas, Heather and Heybroek, Lachlan (2019). Sentencing, Domestic Violence, and the Overrepresentation of Indigenous Australians: Does Court Location Matter?. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36 (21-22), 886260519885916-10613. doi: 10.1177/0886260519885916
Douglas, Heather and Chapple, Kate (2019). The national domestic and family violence bench book 2019. Alternative Law Journal, 44 (4), 1037969X1988169-316. doi: 10.1177/1037969x19881699
McNamara, Luke, Quilter, Julia, Hogg, Russell, Loughnan, Arlie, Douglas, Heather, Brown, David and Farmer, Lindsay (2019). Understanding processes of criminalisation: Insights from an Australian study of criminal law-making.. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 21 (3), 174889581986851-407. doi: 10.1177/1748895819868519
Douglas, Heather and Nagesh, Rachna (2019). Domestic and family violence, child support and ‘the exemption’. Journal of Family Studies, 27 (4), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/13229400.2019.1653952
Fitzgerald, Robin and Douglas, Heather (2019). The Whole Story: The Dilemma of the Domestic Violence Protection Order Narrative. The British Journal of Criminology, 60 (1), 180-197. doi: 10.1093/bjc/azz043
Douglas, Heather (2019). Policing domestic and family violence. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 8 (2), 31-49. doi: 10.5204/ijcjsd.v8i2.1122
Price, Elizabeth, Sharman, Leah, Douglas, Heather, Sheeran, Nicola and Dingle, Genevieve (2019). Experiences of reproductive coercion in Queensland women. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37 (5-6) online first, 886260519846851-NP2843. doi: 10.1177/0886260519846851
Douglas, Heather, Harris, Bridget and Dragiewicz, Molly (2019). Technology-facilitated domestic and family violence: Women’s experiences. The British Journal of Criminology, 59 (3), 551-570. doi: 10.1093/bjc/azy068
Sharman, Leah S., Douglas, Heather, Price, Elizabeth, Sheeran, Nicola and Dingle, Genevieve A. (2019). Associations between unintended pregnancy, domestic violence, and sexual assault in a population of Queensland women. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 26 (4), 541-552. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2018.1510347
Douglas, Heather and Walsh, Tamara (2018). Adolescent family violence: what is the role for legal responses?. Sydney Law Review, 40 (4), 499-526.
Douglas, Heather and Katherine Kerr (2018). Domestic and family violence, reproductive coercion and the role for law. Journal of Law and Medicine, 26 (2), 341-355.
Nishat, Khandakar Josia, Walsh, Deborah B. and Douglas, Heather (2018). 'Eve teasing'- a scenario from Bangladesh. South Asia Journal, Special Issue Special Issue, 90-99.
Bartlett, Francesca and Douglas, Heather (2018). 'Benchmarking' a Supreme Court and Federal Court Judge in Australia. Onati Socio-Legal Series, 8 (9), 1355-1385. doi: 10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-0992
McNamara, Luke, Quilter, Julia, Hogg, Russell, Douglas, Heather, Loughnan, Arlie and Brown, David (2018). Theorising criminalisation: the value of a modalities approach. International Journal For Crime, Justice And Social Democracy, 7 (3), 91-121. doi: 10.5204/ijcjsd.v7i3.511
Douglas, Heather and Fitzgerald, Robin (2018). The domestic violence protection order system as entry to the criminal justice system for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. International Journal For Crime, Justice And Social Democracy, 7 (3), 41-57. doi: 10.5204/ijcjsd.v7i3.499
Douglas, Heather Anne and Burdon, Mark (2018). Legal responses to non-consensual smartphone recordings in the context of domestic and family violence. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 41 (1), 1-29.
Douglas, Heather and Burdon, Mark (2018). Legal responses to non-consensual smartphone recordings in the context of domestic and family violence. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 41 (1), 157-184.
Douglas, Heather (2018). Legal systems abuse and coercive control. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 18 (1), 84-99. doi: 10.1177/1748895817728380
Douglas, Heather Anne (2018). Domestic and family violence, mental health and well-being, and legal engagement. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 25 (3), 341-356. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2017.1396865
Shircore, Mandy, Douglas, Heather Anne and Morwood, Victoria (2017). Domestic and family violence and police negligence. Sydney Law Review, 39 (4), 539-567.
Douglas, Heather Anne and de Costa, Caroline (2017). Australia’s archaic abortion laws harming women. Crikey
Douglas, Heather Anne (2016). Sexual violence, domestic abuse and the feminist judge. Journal of International and Comparative Law, 3 (2), 317-343.
Douglas, Heather Anne and de Costa, Caroline M. (2016). Time to repeal outdated abortion laws in New South Wales and Queensland. Medical Journal of Australia, 205 (8), 353-354. doi: 10.5694/mja16.00807
Douglas, Heather Anne (2016). Judges to Draw on New Guide for Family and Domestic Violence by Melissa Coade. Lawyers Weekly
Douglas, Heather and Kerr, Katherine (2016). Abortion, law reform and the context of decision-making. Griffith Law Review, 25 (1), 129-145. doi: 10.1080/10383441.2016.1201882
Douglas, Heather Anne (2016). What would a feminist judge do? Considerations in sexual offence cases. CDFVReader, 14 (2), 3-4.
Douglas, Heather and Harpur, Paul (2016). Intellectual disabilities, domestic violence and legal engagement. Disability and Society, 31 (3), 305-321. doi: 10.1080/09687599.2016.1167673
Walsh, Tamara and Douglas, Heather (2016). Sentencing parents: the consideration of dependent children. Adelaide Law Review, 37 (1), 135-161.
Ng, Emily and Douglas, Heather Anne (2016). Domestic and family violence and the approach to bail. Law in Context: a socio-legal journal, 34 (2), 36-57.
Douglas, Heather and de Costa, Caroline (2015). Abortion law reform needed. Alternative Law Journal, 40 (4), 280-281. doi: 10.1177/1037969X1504000414
de Costa, Caroline M. and Douglas, Heather (2015). Abortion law in Australia: it's time for national consistency and decriminalisation. Medical Journal of Australia, 203 (9), 349-350. doi: 10.5694/mja15.00543
Douglas, Heather and Bronitt, Simon (2015). Patriarchal terrorism and burning women at the stake: The petty treason of Elizabeth Herring 1773. Criminal Law Journal, 39 (5), 272-275.
Douglas, Heather (2015). Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment. Social and Legal Studies, 24 (2), 321-324. doi: 10.1177/0964663915575630c
Douglas, Heather, Hall, Wayne and Gartner, Coral (2015). E-cigarettes and the law in Australia. Australian Family Physician, 44 (6), 415-418.
de Costa, Caroline, Douglas, Heather, Hamblin, Julie, Ramsay, Philippa and Shircore, Mandy (2015). Abortion law across Australia - A review of nine jurisdictions. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 55 (2), 105-111. doi: 10.1111/ajo.12298
Douglas, Heather (2015). Do we need a specific domestic violence offence?. Melbourne University Law Review, 39 (2), 434-471.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2015). Foetal alcohol spectrum disorders: a consideration of sentencing and unreliable confessions. Journal of Law and Medicine, 23 (2), 427-442.
Black, Kirsten I., Douglas, Heather and de Costa, Caroline (2015). Women's access to abortion after 20 weeks' gestation for fetal chromosomal abnormalities: Views and experiences of doctors in New South Wales and Queensland. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 55 (2), 144-148. doi: 10.1111/ajo.12305
Douglas, Heather and Fitzgerald, Robin (2014). Strangulation, domestic violence and the legal response. Sydney Law Review, 36 (2), 231-254.
Douglas, Heather and Taylor, Monica (2014). Understanding the power of law: engaging students in criminal law casework. Legal Education Review, 24 (1), 28-43.
Davis, Colleen and Douglas, Heather (2014). Selective Reduction of Fetuses in Multiple Pregnancies and the Law in Australia. Journal of Law and Medicine, 22 (1), 155-173.
Harpur, Paul and Douglas, Heather (2014). Disability and domestic violence: protecting survivors' human rights. Griffith Law Review, 23 (3), 405-433. doi: 10.1080/10383441.2014.1000241
de Costa, Caroline, Douglas, Heather and Black, Kirsten (2013). Making it legal: abortion providers' knowledge and use of abortion law in New South Wales and Queensland. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 53 (2), 184-189. doi: 10.1111/ajo.12035
Douglas, Heather and April Chrzanowski (2013). A Consideration of the legitimacy and equity of Queensland's offender levy. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 24 (3), 317-339. doi: 10.1080/10345329.2013.12035964
Douglas, Heather and Fitzgerald, Robin (2013). Legal processes and gendered violence: cross-applications for domestic violence protection orders. UNSW Law Journal, 36 (1), 56-87.
Douglas, Heather, Black, Kirsten and de Costa, Caroline (2013). Manufacturing mental illness (and lawful abortion): doctors' attitudes to abortion law and practice in New South Wales and Queensland. Journal of Law and Medicine, 20 (3), 560-576.
Douglas, Heather Anne and Walsh, Tamara K.E. (2013). Continuing the Stolen Generations: child protection interventions and indigenous people. International Journal of Children's Rights, 21 (1), 59-87. doi: 10.1163/157181812X639288
Douglas, Heather (2012). A consideration of the merits of specialised homicide offences and defences for battered women. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 45 (3), 367-382. doi: 10.1177/0004865812456851
Douglas, Heather (2012). Battered women's experiences of the criminal justice system: Decentring the law. Feminist Legal Studies, 20 (2), 121-134. doi: 10.1007/s10691-012-9201-1
Walsh, Tamara and Douglas, Heather (2012). Lawyers' views of decision-making in child protection matters: the tension between adversarialism and collaborative approaches. Monash University Law Review, 38 (2), 181-211.
Douglas, Heather, Hammill, Janet, Russell, Elizabeth Anne and Hall, Wayne (2012). The importance of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder for criminal law in practice: Views of Queensland lawyers. Queensland Lawyer, 32 (3), 153-164.
Douglas, Heather, Hammill, Janet, Russell, Elizabeth Anne and Hall, Wayne (2012). Judicial views of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Queensland's criminal justice system. Journal of Judicial Administration, 21 (3), 178-188.
Douglas, Heather, Boyle, Merali and Lintzeris, Nicholas (2011). The health impacts of Khat: a qualitative study among Somali-Australians. The Medical Journal of Australia, 195 (11/12), 666-669. doi: 10.5694/mja11.10166
Douglas, Heather (2011). The shifting moral compass: Post-sentence detention of sex offenders in Australia. Australian Journal of Human Rights, 17 (1), 91-116.
Walsh, Tamara and Douglas, Heather (2011). Lawyers, advocacy and child protection. Melbourne University Law Review, 35 (2), 620-650.
Douglas, Heather and Corrin, Jennifer (2010). 'A Tragedy of Monumental Proportions': Indigenous Australians and the sentencing process. Social & Legal Studies, 19 (2), 197-215. doi: 10.1177/0964663909353141
Douglas, Heather and Pedder, Merali (2010). Legal regulation of the drug khat in Australia. Journal of Law and Medicine, 18 (2), 284-301.
Douglas, Heather A. and Walsh, Tamara K. E. (2010). Mothers, domestic violence, and child protection. Violence Against Women, 16 (5), 489-508. doi: 10.1177/1077801210365887
Douglas, Heather and Walsh, Tamara (2010). Mothers, domestic violence, and child protection: Toward collaboration and engagement. Violence Against Women, 16 (5), 537-542. doi: 10.1177/1077801210366291
Douglas, Heather and Hersi, Abdi (2010). Khat and Islamic legal perspectives: Issues for consideration. Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 62, 95-114.
Douglas, Heather (2010). The sentencing response to defendants with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Criminal Law Journal, 34 (4), 221-239.
Walsh, Tamara K.E. and Douglas, Heather A. (2009). Legal responses to child protection, poverty and homelessness. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 31 (2), 133-146. doi: 10.1080/09649060903043513
Chesterman, John and Douglas, Heather (2009). Law on Australia's northern frontier: The fall and rise of race. Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 24 (1), 69-83. doi: 10.1017/S0829320100009777
Douglas, Heather and Walsh, Tamara (2009). Mothers and the child protection system. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 23 (2), 211-229. doi: 10.1093/lawfam/ebp004
Douglas, Heather A. (2009). Abortion Reform: A State Crime or a Woman's Right to Choose?. Criminal Law Journal, 33 (2), 74-86.
Douglas, Heather and Walsh, Tamara K.E. (2009). Searching for a safe place: Immigrant women and child protection. Pandora's Box, 2009, 14-19.
Corrin, Jennifer and Douglas, Heather (2008). Another Aboriginal death in custody: Uneasy alliances and tensions in the Mulrunji case. Legal Studies, 28 (4), 531-558. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-121X.2008.00097.x
Douglas, Heather (2008). Post-Sentence Preventive Detention: Dangerous and Risky. The Criminal Law Review, 2008 (11), 854-873.
Douglas, Heather (2008). 'Crime, aboriginality and the decolonisation of justice', by Harry Blagg. Adelaide Law Review, 29 (2), 385-388.
H Douglas and J Chesterman (2008). Creating a Legal Identity: Aboriginal People and the Assimilation Census. Journal of Australian Studies, 32 (3), 375-391. doi: 10.1080/14443050802294125
Douglas, Heather (2008). The Criminal Law's Response to Domestic Violence: What's Going On?. Sydney Law Review*, 30 (3), 439-469.
Walsh, T. and Douglas, H. (2008). Homelessness and legal needs: A South Australia and Western Australia case study. Adelaide Law Review, 29 (2), 359-380.
Douglas, Heather (2007). 'Criminal law: problems in context' by Mark Findlay. University of Queensland Law Journal, 26 (1), 213-214.
Douglas, H. A. (2007). The curse of 'white man's water': Aboriginal people and the control of alcohol. The University of New England Law Journal, 4 (1), 3-33.
Douglas, H. A. (2007). Not a crime like any other: Sentencing breaches of domestic violence protection orders. Criminal Law Journal, 31 (4), 200-233.
Douglas, H. A. (2007). Assimilation and authenticity: The 'ordinary Aboriginal person' and the provocation defence. Adelaide Law Review, 27 (2), 199-226.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2007). The First Women Lawyers: A Comparative Study of Gender and the Legal Professions by Mary Jane Mossman. Griffith Law Review, 281-283.
Douglas, Heather and Touchie, John (2006). Maximum security: 'Being in the belly of the beast'. Criminal Law Journal, 30 (2), 73-83.
Stevens, Elizabeth, Douglas, Heather, Cullen-Mandikos, Bridget and Hunter, Rosemary (2006). Equity, diversity and student engagement in a law school - A case study approach. Legal Education Review, 16 (1/2), 1-33.
Douglas, Heather (2005). Customary law, sentencing and the limits of the state. Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 20 (1), 141-156.
Douglas, Heather (2005). She knew what was expected of her: The white legal system's encounter with traditional marriage. Feminist Legal Studies, 13 (2), 181-203. doi: 10.1007/s10691-005-7541-9
Douglas, H. A. (2005). Indigenous legal education: Towards Indigenisation. Indigenous Law Bulletin, 6 (8), 12-15.
Douglas, Heather (2005). Towards Indigenisation. Indigenous Law Bulletin, 6
Douglas, Heather (2004). Assimilation, Lutheranism and the 1950s Justice of Kriewaldt. Australian Journal of Legal History, 8 (2), 285-312.
Douglas, Heather (2004). Crime in the Intimate Sphere : Prosecutions of Intimate Partner Violence. Newcastle Law Review, 7 (2), 79-100.
Chesterman, John and Douglas, Heather (2004). 'Their Ultimate Absorption': Assimilation in 1930s Australia. Journal of Australian Studies, 81, 47-58.
Douglas, Heather and Godden, Lee (2003). Intimate partner violence: Transforming harm into a crime. E Law - Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, 10 (2), 1-17.
Douglas, H. and Godden, L. (2003). The Decriminalisation of Domestic Violence: Examining the Interaction Between the Criminal Law and Domestic Violence. Criminal Law Journal, 27 (Part 1), 32-1-32-12.
Douglas, H. (2002). Justice Kriewaldt, Aboriginal Identity and Criminal Law. Criminal Law Journal, 26 (Part 4), 204-1-204-19.
Douglas, Heather (2001). The participation of Indigenous students in legal education: 1990-2000. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 24 (2), 485-514.
Douglas, Heather Anne and Banks, Cate (2000). "From a different place altogether": Indigenous students and cultural exclusion at law school. Australian Journal of Law and Society, 15, 42-66.
Heather Douglas (1999). Gender in Cyberspace: Women Lawyers and the Internet. Griffith Law Review, 8
Douglas, Heather Anne (1998). Review of The Incredible Woman: Power and Sexual Politics vol II, by Jocelynne A. Scutt. Griffith Law Review, 7 (2), 317-320.
Douglas, Heather (1998). "This is not just about me": Indigenous students insights into law school study. Adelaide Law Review, 20, 349-370.
Heather Douglas (1998). Anunga Guidelines. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 21
Douglas, Heather (1998). The cultural specificity of evidence: the current scope and relevance of the Anunga guidelines. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 21, 27-54.
Douglas, Heather Anne (1997). Review of Majah: Indigenous Peoples and the Law by Bird, Martin and Nielson. International Journal of Cultural Property, 6 (1), 171-173. doi: 10.1017/S0940739197000246
Douglas, Heather Anne (1997). Review of The Incredible Woman: Power and Sexual Politics vol I by Jocelynne A. Scutt. Griffith Law Review, 6, 228-230.
Douglas, Heather (1996). Indigenous legal education: looking towards the future. Legal Education Review, 7 (2), 225-246.
Douglas, Heather (1996). Indigenous Legal Education: Looking Towards the Future. Legal Education Review, 7, 225-246.
Conference Papers
Walsh, Tamara and Douglas, Heather (2018). Adolescent Family Violence. Community Legal Centres Queensland Conference 2018, Brisbane, Qld Australia, 8-9 March 2018. Brisbane: University of Queensland.
Douglas, Heather (2018). Domestic violence and the law: achievements and future directions. Sir Harry Gibbs Law Dinner, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 30 August 2018. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Emmanuel College.
Douglas, Heather Anne and Fitzgerald, Robin (2017). Contraventions of Domestic Violence Protection Orders. Criminal Law Researchers Workshop 2017, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 15 February 2017.
Douglas, Heather Anne and Fitzgerald, Robin (2017). Contraventions of DVOs: the Queensland context. Not Now, Not Ever Research Symposium, Mackay, QLD, Australia, 23-24 February 2017.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2017). Legal responses to domestic and family violence. Brisbane HR Representatives Networking Event, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 2 March 2017.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2017). Race and incarceration: perspectives from Australia and the United States. Life Course Centre, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 14 March 2017.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2017). Panel Discussion, Public Forum. The Royal Commission into Family Violence: Today and into the Future, Melboure, VIC, Australia, 7 April 2017.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2017). It’s not 1899, abortion is not a crime. Unplanned Pregnancy and Abortion in Australia Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 3 August 2017.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2017). Domestic violence and mental illness: Implications for legal engagement. XXXVth International Congress on Law and Mental health, Charles University, Prague, 12 July 2017.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2017). Strangulation in the context of domestic and family Violence. Queensland Domestic Violence Death Review Board, Queensland, 25 August 2017.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2017). Domestic violence protection orders and their role in ensuring personal security. Monash Prato Roundtable: Intimate partner violence, risk and security: Securing women’s lives in a global world, Prato, Italy, 19 September 2017.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2017). Prosecution of rape and sexual assault in Queensland’, Sexual Violence, Consent and the Law Symposium: What is required to create innovative criminal justice to survivors in Queensland? . Queensland Parliament House (opening of Sexual Violence Awareness month 2017), Queensland, 5 October 2017.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2017). Legal responses to domestic violence in the context of Human Services. Department of Human Services (Cth) In-service, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 11 October 2017.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2017). Fitness to plead and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. Joint symposium of the Australian Psychological Society College of Forensic Psychologists and the Australian and New Zealand Association for Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, Brisbane, 13 October 2017.
Douglas, Heather Anne and Burdon, Mark (2017). The Use of Smartphone Recordings as Evidence in DV proceedings. Queensland Magistrates Continuing Professional Development Series, Magistrates Court, Brisbane, 5 December 2017.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2016). Coordinating Responses: Plugging the Gaps in the System. AFCC Australian Chapter: Third Annual Conference of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Brisbane, Australia, 19 August 2016.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2016). Prosecuting Domestic Violence Cases: Balancing Victim Autonomy and Perpetrator Accountability. The Evolving Role of the Prosecutor, Domestically and Internationally, Onati, Spain, 28 July 2016.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2016). Legal systems abuse and coercive control. Two Steps Forward and Two Steps Back? Contemporary Issues in Access to Justice for Victims of Family and Domestic Violence, Wollongong, Australia, 15 April 2016.
Douglas, Heather Anne, Chapple, Kate and Morris, Elizabeth (2016). Report on the work of the development of the national family violence bench book. 2016 AIJA Conference: Improving Court Practice in Family Violence Cases, Melbourne, Australia, 15-17 June, 2016.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2016). Evidence and the Feminist Judge. Northumbria Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies, Northumbria University, UK, 17 February.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2016). Prosecuting Domestic Violence Cases: Is a New Offence the Answer?. IAS Fellows Seminar, Durham University, UK, 25 January.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2016). Evidence and the Feminist Judge. Northumbria Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies, Northumbria University, UK, 17 February.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2016). Evidence and Victim Experience in Sexual and Domestic Violence Cases: The Approach of the Feminist Judge. Public Lecture, Durham University, Durham, 14 March 2016.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2016). Prosecuting Domestic Violence Cases: Is a New Offence the Answer?. IAS Fellows Seminar, Durham University, UK, 25 January.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2016). Using Law in Response to Domestic Abuse: Women's Experiences. Domestic Abuse and the Search for Justice: Principles, Practices, Policies, Durham, 16 March 2016.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2016). Working with the National Domestic and Family Violence Bench Book. Domestic and Family Violence: Legal Aid and Prosecutions One Day Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, 5 October 2016.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2016). Policing domestic violence panel. Policing Domestic Violence Forum, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 4 November 2016.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2015). Evidence and Victim Experience in Sexual and Domestic Violence Cases: The Approach of the Feminist Judge.. Inside Out: Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 1 December 2015.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2015). Do We Need a Specific Domestic Violence Offence?. Criminal Law Researchers' Workshop, Melbourne Law School and LaTrobe University, 19 February 2015.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2015). Abortion Law in Australia. Abortion in Australia Conference, Brisbane, 20 February 2015.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2015). Cross Applications in the Magistrates Court.. Annual Queensland Magistrates Conference, Brisbane, 31 July 2015.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2015). International Women's Day and the One Woman Project: Making It Happen. International Women's Day High Tea, One Women Project, Brisbane, 8 March 2015.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2015). Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: A Consideration Sentencing and Unreliable Confessions.. Queensland District Court Judges' Conference, Sunshine Coast, 10 August 2015.
Douglas, Heather Anne and Bartlett, Francesca (2015). Women, Feminism and Judicial Diversity. Judicial Independence in Australia: Contemporary Challenges, Future Directions, Brisbane, 11 July 2015.
Fraser, D., Douglas, H., Hall, W. and Gartner, C. (2015). Wheels within Wheels: Nicotine Regulation Reform in Australia. Global Forum on Nicotine, Warsaw, Poland, 5-6 June 2015.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2014). Battered Woman Syndrome: The Relationship Between Feminist Academic Critique and Judicial Decision-making.. Criminal Law Workshop, Sydney, 14 February 2014.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2014). Social Framework Evidence: Its Interpretation and Application in Victoria and Beyond. Homicide Law Reform in Victoria and Beyond: Prospects and Retrospect, Melbourne, 16 August 2014.
Douglas, Heather Anne and Joanna Besley (2014). An Unsettling Presence: Indigenous Art in Courts of Law. Courting Blakness:Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University, Brisbane, 6 September 2014.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2014). Domestic Violence, Cross-Orders and Alcohol Use.. Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Brisbane, 3-5 December 2014.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2014). Reconceptualising Battered Woman Syndrome. Homicide: Precursors and Prevention, Brisbane, 25 March 2014.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2014). The Australian Feminist Judgments Project in Law School. Australian Law Teachers Association, Bond Law School, Gold Coast, 12 July 2014.
Douglas, Heather Anne and Prabha Prayaga (2013). Exploring the Effects of Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy and Its Effects on Child Development.. Australian Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Conference, Brisbane, 19 November 2013.
Douglas, Heather Anne and Fitzgerald, Robin (2013). Domestic violence protection orders and attempted strangulation. Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, Brisbane, 3 October 2013.
Douglas, Heather Anne and Heather Nancarrow (2013). Civil Domestic Violence Order: Reflections on a Quasi-criminal Justice Response to Intimate Partner Violence. Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, Brisbane, 1 October 2013.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2013). Panel: FASD and the Law- A Conversation About Current Research. The 5th International Conference on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Vancouver, 27 February 2-13.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2013). Manufacturing Mental Illness (and Lawful Abortion): Doctors' Attitudes to Abortion Law and Practice in Two Australian States.. Staff Seminar, Victoria University Law School, Victoria, Canada, 4 March 2013.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2013). FASD in Australia: Judges Survey. FASD and the Law: A Conversation About Current Research and Practices, Vancouver, 26 February 2013.
Douglas, Heather and Prayaga, Prabha (2013). Economic research into Indigenous inequality and development. Diversity Week, University of Queensland, 21 May 2013.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2012). Objective Legal Criteria on Foetal Alcohol Syndrome?. Psychiatry, the Law and Addiction: Institute of Australasian Psychiatrists, Alice Springs, 25 March 2012.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2012). Court's Processes and Gendered Violence: Domestic Violence Protection Orders in the Magistrates Courts. International Conference on Feminism and the Law, Pune, India, 10 February 2012.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2012). Preventive Detention Regimes. Preventive Detention: Asking the Fundamental Questions, Gold Coast, 27 July 2012.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2012). Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and Sentencing. Queensland Magistrate's Conference, Brisbane, 1 August 2012.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2012). FASD and Criminal Justice Interventions. Queensland Court Services Training Program Seminar, Brisbane, 20 November 2012.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2012). FASD and Criminal Justice: Explaining the Spectrum, Policing, Sentencing and Innovation. Queensland Government: Crime Research and Statistics Network, Brisbane, 18 April 2012.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2012). The Interaction Between Domestic Violence Law and Criminal Law: What Hope for Improved Application of Both?. Domestic Violence Related Laws: Then and Now, Brisbane, 3 August 2012.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2012). Domestic Violence Protection Orders: Cross Orders in Queensland's Courts. Intimate Partner Violence and Homicide Symposium, Brisbane, 3 May 2012.
Heather Douglas and Mark Finnane (2012). Sorcery and Criminal Justice in the Settler-Indigenous Encounter in Australia. School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 1 June 2012.
Douglas, Heather (2012). Gendered violence and cross orders in Queensland's magistrates courts. Responding to Family Violence, Ipswich, 22 May 2012.
Walsh, Tamara K.E. and Douglas, Heather Anne (2011). Child Protection, Family Group Meetings and Procedural Fairness. Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration: Child Protection in Australia and New Zealand, Brisbane, Australia, 5 May, 2011.
Walsh, Tamara K. E. and Douglas, Heather Anne (2011). Marginalised Mothers and Child Protection Interventions. Mothers at the Margins: Sixth International Conference on Motherhood, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 28 April 2011.
Walsh, Tamara K.E. and Douglas, Heather Anne (2011). Marginalised Mothers and Child Protection Interventions. Mothers at the Margins: Sixth International Conference on Motherhood, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 28 April.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2011). Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and Criminal Justice. Inaugural Symposium of the Queensland Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Research Network, QIMR, Brisbane, 9 September 2011.
Douglas, Heather Anne and Caroline deCosta (2011). 'When is Abortion a Criminal Offence in Queensland: Healthcare Providers' Views'. Crime and Punishment: Medicine and The Law, Conference of the Medico-legal Society of Queensland, Sanctuary Cove, 9-10 September 2011.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2011). Constructing Lawful Abortion in Queensland. Ceremonies of Law, Doctrine, Ritual, Ceremonial (Law and Society / Law, Literature and Humanities), Wollongong, 8 December 2011.
Douglas, Heather Anne, Nicholas Lintzeris and Merali Boyle (2011). Khat: analysis of current issues. Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and Other Drugs Conference (APSAD), Hobart, 16 November 2011.
Douglas, Heather Anne and Mark Finnane (2011). Obstacles to 'a Proper Exercise of Jurisdiction' - Administering Criminal Justice in the Settler-Indigenous Encounter in Australia. Between Indigenous and Settler Governance, Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy, UWS, Bankstown, 18-20 August 2011.
Douglas, Heather (2011). FASD and Criminal Justice Issues in Australia. 4th International Conference on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Vancouver, Canada, 2-5 March 2011.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2010). Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice Interventions. Global Domestic Violence Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1 November 2010.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2010). The Shifting Moral Compass: Post-sentence Incarceration. Australasian Law Reform Agencies Conference, Brisbane, 10 September 2010.
Douglas, Heather Anne and Walsh, Tamara K.E. (2009). From Family Centred to Child-centred: Effects of Policy Change in Child Protection on Mothers. FIN 2009 National Gathering, Canberra, 27th November.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2009). Criminalised Mothers and the Child Protection System. Is Prison Obselete Conference, Brisbane, 4 September, 2009.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2009). Elements of a Criminal and Civil Response and Why a Criminal Response Matters in Domestic Violence Cases.. Family Violence ...Is It a Crime?, Melbourne, 22 July 2009.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2009). Breaches of Domestic Violence: The Criminal Justice Process. Distinguished Visitor Program, Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research, Mackay, 4 June 2009.
Douglas, Heather Anne and Walsh, Tamara K.E. (2009). Mother, Domestic Violence and Child Protection. Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance Seminars, Griffith University, 22 April 2009.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2008). Abortion Law. Abortion in Queensland, Brisbane, 17 October 2008.
Douglas, Heather Anne and Walsh, Tamara K.E. (2008). Hyper Vigilance and Risk Avoidance in the Child Protection Context: What is the Role of Lawyers in the Child Protection Process. Law and Justice in the Risk Society, Research Committee on the Sociology of Law, University of Milano 'Statale', Milan, 10 July 2008.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2008). Post Sentence Preventive Detention: Dangerous and Risky. Annual Supreme Court Judges' Seminar, Customs House, Brisbane, July 2008.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2008). Domestic Killings and the Reframing of the Provocation Defence. International Conference of Homicide: Domestic-related Homicide, Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, 3-5 December 2008.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2008). Preventive Detention in Criminal Matters and the Judicial Assessment of Risk. Law and Justice in the Risk Society, Research Committee on the Sociology of Law, University of Milano 'Statale', Canberra, 8-10 February 2008.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2008). Preventive Post-sentence Detention Versus Indefinite Detention: A Consideration of Principles.. 26-28 November 2008, Canberra, 111.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2008). Breaches of Domestic Violence Orders: Criminal Process Problems. Understanding and Preventing Domestic Violence, Rydges, South Bank, Brisbane, 18 August 2008.
Douglas, H. A. (2007). Responses to breaches of domestic violence orders. Joint Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law: Law and Society in the 21st Century: Transformations, Resistances, Futures, Humboldt University, Berlin, 25-28 July, 2007. not found: not found.
Corrin, J. and Douglas, H. A. (2007). Uneasy alliances and tensions in the Mulrunji case. 2007 International Conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand: Markings: Sites of Analysis, Discipline, Interrogation, Melbourne, Australia, 28-30 November 2007. not found: not found.
Creative Work
Douglas, Heather (2009). Justice Martin Kriewaldt. Frontier justice: Aboriginal people, assimilation and the law in the 1950s. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: T.C. Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland..
Research Reports
Sharman, Leah, Douglas, Heather and Fitzgerald, Robin (2021). Review of domestic violence deaths involving fatal or non-fatal strangulation in Queensland. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Melbourne/The University of Queensland.
Douglas, Heather, Sheeran, Nicola and Tarzia, Laura (2020). Identifying and responding to reproductive coercion in a legal context: issues paper. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Utting, Selina, Douglas, Heather, Sheeran, Nicola, Dingle, Genevieve A., Bell, Jennifer and Sharman, Leah S. (2018). The cost of abortion access in Queensland: data from the Children by Choice financial assistance program for disadvantaged women 2015-2017. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Children by Choice.
Sharman, Leah S. , Douglas, Heather , Price, Liz , Sheeran, Nicola and Dingle, Genevieve A. (2018). Experiences of QLD women seeking support for unplanned pregnancy. Brisbane, Australia: Children by Choice.
Scott,Rebecca, Douglas, Heather Anne and Goss, Caitlin (2017). Prosecution of rape and sexual assault in Queensland: report on a pilot study. St Lucia QLD Australia: T.C.Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2016). Using Law and Leaving Domestic Violence: Women’s Voices (Year 2 report). St. Lucia QLD Australia: TC Beirne School of Law.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2016). Submission: Abortion Law Reform (Women's Right to Choose) Amendment Bill 2016 and inquiry into laws governing termination of pregnancy in Queensland. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: T. C. Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2015). Using Law and Leaving Domestic Violence: Women’s Voices (Year 1 report). St. Lucia QLD Australia: TC Beirne School of Law.
Douglas, Heather, Hammill, Janet, Hall, Wayne and Russell, Elizabeth (2013). Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) within the criminal justice sector in Queensland. Deakin, ACT, Australia: Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education.
Douglas, Heather, Pedder, Merali and Lintzeris, Nicholas (2012). Law enforcement and khat: an analysis of current issues. Monograph series;40 Canberra, Australia: National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund.
Douglas, Heather and Stark, Tanja (2010). Stories from survivors: domestic violence and criminal justice interventions. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland.
Douglas, H., Walsh, T. and Blore, K. (2009). Mothers and the Child Protection System: A Report, (Brisbane, 2009). Brisbane, Qld Australia: The University of Queensland.
Newspaper Articles
deCosta, Caroline and Douglas, Heather (2017, 06 24). A health issue not a crime: it’s time to scrap outdated abortion laws The Guardian
deCosta, Caroline and Douglas, Heather (2017, 02 21). Opinion: Drag Abortion laws out of the 19th century The Courier Mail
Seminar Papers
Douglas, Heather Anne (2017). Criminal Justice issues and the National Domestic and Family Violence Bench Book’ Seminar. Robertson O’Gorman Solicitors.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2017). 'How magistrates can utilise the National Domestic and Family Violence Bench Book’ Seminar. Magistrates Domestic Violence Training program. Brisbane Magistrates Court.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2016). Dealing with Vulnerable People: Domestic Violence. Bar Practice Course 67. Brisbane.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2016). Legal Systems (Abuse) and Domestic Violence. RMIT Staff Seminar Program. Melbourne, Australia.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2015). After Tiller: Screening and Panel Discussion. Panel Discussion Organised by University of Queensland Union. Brisbane.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2015). Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) and the Criminal Law. Bar Association Queensland Seminar. Brisbane.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2014). Lessons from the Australian Feminist Judgments Project. Wild Law Judgments Project Workshop. Sydney.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2014). FASD is a Brain Injury Too: Developments and Implications for Australia (Panel). National Acquired Brain Injury Conference. Sydney.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2014). Current Law Reform Activity and Debates Across Australian Jurisdictions: Queensland. Homicide Law Reform in Victoria: Prospects and Retrospect. Melbourne.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2014). FASD and Criminal Justice Processes. QAILS Webinar - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Brisbane.