Young Australians and Online Dating: Exploring Risk Awareness and Self-Protection Strategies
Young Australians and Online Dating: Exploring Risk Awareness and Self-Protection Strategies
Chih-Wei Chen Nadine M. Connell Zoe Staines a Griffith University, Southport, Australiab The University of Queensland, St Lucia, AustraliaChih-Wei Chen is a PhD student in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University. His research interests include youth deviance and delinquency in both physical and digital spaces, particularly juvenile reintegration, online dating risks, and cross-cultural adolescent cyber-deviance.Nadine M. Connell is an Associate Professor in Griffith University’s School of Criminology & Criminal Justice and a Fellow of the Griffith Criminology Institute. Her research focuses on juvenile delinquency, particularly in the domain of school safety. She studies the causes of school-based violent victimisation and perpetration, as well as more extreme forms of youth violence, including weapon carrying, school shootings, and targeted violence. She works with schools and communities to implement and evaluate prevention and intervention strategies, with a particular interest in evidence-based approaches to school safety.Zoe Staines (she/her) is Senior Lecturer and Director of Research in the School of Social Science at The University of Queensland. Her deeply interdisciplinary research spans social policy, sociology, and criminology, examining gender and work, care, welfare conditionality, and (de)coloniality with particular attention to structural injustice.