Dr Rebecca Wallis

Lecturer

TC Beirne School of Law

r.wallis1@uq.edu.au

Room W467, Level 4, Forgan Smith Building (#1)
Availability by appointment

Researcher biography

Rebecca Wallis is a Lecturer at the TC Beirne School of Law. Rebecca's teaching and research interests fall broadly within the areas of criminal law and procedure, the law of evidence, and criminal justice system structure and operation. She is concerned with how criminal law theories and principles play out in policy and practice, and how these shape the operation of the criminal justice system in intended and unintended ways. In addition, she is currently working on a set of projects concerning the criminalisation of threats, particularly in the context of domestic and family violence.

Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Queensland, a Master of Arts in Criminology and Criminal Justice (Hons) and PhD from Griffith University. She is admitted to the Supreme Court of Queensland and the High Court of Australia (non-practising).

Featured projects	Duration
What works to address Child Exploitation Material offending? Australian Institute of Criminology	2019
Evaluation of the VREC Pilot	2022–2023

Publications

Book Chapters (2)

Journal Articles (5)

Conference Papers (3)

Generic Documents (2)

Research Reports (6)

Seminar Papers (3)

Book Chapters

Wallis, Rebecca and Bronitt, Simon (2025). Redeeming corporations: designing legal interventions for complex adaptive systems. Evil corporations: law, culpability and regulation. (pp. 240-257) edited by Penny Crofts. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003402534-20

Chrzanowski, April and Wallis, Rebecca (2011). Understanding the youth justice system. Evidence based policy and practice in youth justice. (pp. 7-27) edited by Anna Stewart, Troy Allard and Susan Dennison. Sydney, New South Wales: Federation Press.

Journal Articles

Joseph Lelliott and Rebecca Wallis (2023). Threats of fire in the context of domestic and family violence: views on prevalence, forms and contexts from service providers in Queensland. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 35 (2), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/10345329.2022.2161844

Eggins, Elizabeth, Mazerolle, Lorraine, Higginson, Angela, Hine, Lorelei, Walsh, Kerryann, Sydes, Michelle, McEwan, James, Hassall, Georgia, Roetman, Scott, Wallis, Rebecca and Williams, John (2021). Criminal justice responses to child sexual abuse material offending: a systematic review and evidence and gap map. Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice (623) 623, 1-17. doi: 10.52922/ti78023

Jeffries, Samantha, Chuenurah, Chontit and Wallis, Rebecca (2018). Gendered pathways to prison in Thailand for drug offending? Exploring women’s and men’s narratives of offending and criminalization. Contemporary Drug Problems, 46 (1), 009145091881817-104. doi: 10.1177/0091450918818174

Wallis, Rebecca and Dennison, Susan (2015). Out of the shadows: republican criminology and the children of prisoners. Law in Context, 32, 86-107.

Wallis, Rebecca (2011). Legislation comment: the role of the Australian Crime Commission in policing indigenous violence and child abuse. Criminal Law Journal, 35 (6), 398-402.

Conference Papers

Wallis, Rebecca (2023). Special witness protections and other initiatives: accumulative implications for criminal procedure. Emerging Challenges in Managing Sexual Assault Trials, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 9 June 2023.

Lelliott, Joseph, Wallis, Rebecca and Rimer, Jonah (2023). The criminalisation of threats. Annual Criminal Law Research Workshop, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 9-10 February 2023.

Eggins, Elizabeth, Mazerolle, Lorraine, Higginson, Angela, Hine, Lorelei, Walsh, Kerryann, Sydes, Michelle, McEwan, James, Hassall, Georgia, Roetman, Scott, Wallis, Rebecca and Williams, John (2019). Criminal justice responses to child exploitation material offending: a systematic review and evidence and gap map. American Society of Criminology Conference, San Francisco, CA United States, November 2019.

Generic Documents

Wallis, Rebecca, Lelliott, Joseph, El-Higzi, Faiza and McKimmie, Blake (2023). Submission to Queensland Legal Affairs and Safety Committee Inquiry - Criminal Law (Coercive Control and Affirmative Consent) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2023.

Lelliott, Joseph and Wallis, Rebecca (2021). Submission to Women's Safety and Justice Taskforce, Options for Legislating Against Coercive Control and the Creation of a Standalone Domestic Violence Offence. Queensland Government.

Research Reports

Salom, Caroline, Thomas, Natalie, Wallis, Rebecca, Campbell, Alice, Barber, Tayla and Rivera, Lawrence (2023). Interim report: Evaluation of the Video-Recorded Evidence-in-Chief Pilot. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.

Salom, Caroline, Thomas, Natalie, Wallis, Rebecca, Campbell, Alice, Barber, Tayla and Rivera, Lawrence (2023). Final report: evaluation of the video recorded evidence in chief pilot. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Institute for Social Science Research.

Lelliott, Joseph, Wallis, Rebecca and Noble-Dickinson, Lucy (2022). Dousing threats and DFV: media reporting. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.

Lelliott, Joseph and Wallis, Rebecca (2022). Dousing threats and DFV: prevalence, forms, and context. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.

Eggins, Elizabeth, Mazerolle, Lorraine, Higginson, Angela, Hine, Lorelei, Walsh, Kerryann, Sydes, Michelle, McEwan, James, Hassall, Georgia, Roetman, Scott, Wallis, Rebecca and Williams, John (2021). Criminal justice responses to child exploitation material offending: a systematic review and evidence and gap map. Canberra, ACT Australia: Australian Institute of Criminology.

Bronitt, Simon , Wallis, Rebecca and O'Donnell, Kate (2018). Report of the Independent Review of the Operation and Effectiveness of Chapter 19A of the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000 (Qld). Brisbane, Australia: TC Beirne School of Law.

Seminar Papers

Wallis, Rebecca and Bronitt, Simon (2022). Dissecting the ‘evil corporation’: from the amoral to immoral body corporate. The Evil Corporation Symposium. University of Technology Sydney.

Lelliott, Joseph and Wallis, Rebecca (2022). Dousing threats and DFV. UQ Gendered Violence Group. The University of Queensland.

Lelliott, Joseph, Wallis, Rebecca, Moriarty, Gerard and Noble-Dickinson, Lucy (2022). Dousing threats in the context of domestic and family violence. TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland.