Sociologist and criminologist to produce police-style ‘social network analysis’ of clerical crime across the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic diocese

NEWCASTLE (AUSTRALIA)
Newcastle Herald

January 9, 2021

By Ian Kirkwood

https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/7079148/new-study-to-produce-abuse-map-by-tracking-moves-of-catholic-figures-across-hunter-region/?cs=7573&utm_source=website&utm_medium=index&utm_campaign=sidebar

A Newcastle University academic and a colleague from Queensland are embarking on a Hunter version of a research project that analysed the movements of Catholic figures around Victoria to uncover an alleged 16 child abuse networks within the Melbourne and Ballarat dioceses.

Newcastle sociologist Dr Kathleen McPhillips and criminologist Dr Jodi Death of the Queensland University of Technology’s law faculty will lead the project, which recently received ethics approval from both institutions. Both Dr McPhillips and Dr Death (pronounced “Deeth”), have published widely on clerical child abuse.

The Melbourne mapping was carried out by one of Dr Death’s PhD students and drew on her work, including a 2017 book on the Royal Commission and other Australian inquiries.

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