Rate My Professor Jasmine McGowan

Dr. Jasmine McGowan serves as a Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts at Monash University. She is a lead researcher at the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre. McGowan has extensive research experience in gender, feminist theory, critical sexuality studies, representation, and screen and media cultures. Her current research focuses on gendered violence broadly, with emphasis on intimate and family violence in LGBTQA+ communities, disability and violence, and perpetrator interventions. She has conducted research and evaluation projects for the Department of Social Services, Family Safety Victoria, ANROWS, the Magistrates' Court of Victoria, the Victorian Women's Trust, and TaskForce. Recent projects include the National Plan Stakeholder and Victim-Survivor Advocates Consultations, the Centre's rapid response research on gender-based violence and help-seeking behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Review of the Victorian Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme, the ARC-funded Securing Women's Lives: Preventing Intimate Partner Homicide project, and the ANROWS-funded Women, Disability and Violence: Barriers to Accessing Justice.

In 2018, McGowan received funding from the Victorian Women's Trust to develop a toolkit to assist women with disability in identifying economic abuse. She is the recipient of the Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice Best Journal Article of the Year 2020 award and serves as a member of the Victorian Government LGBTIQA+ Justice Working Group from December 2023 to 2025. McGowan holds a Doctor of Philosophy. Her research findings have been published in international and national journals, including Critical Criminology, Women's Studies International Forum, International Review of Victimology, Journal of Gender-Based Violence, and Trauma, Violence & Abuse. Key publications include 'Lone wolf terrorism through a gendered lens: Men turning violent or violent men behaving violently?' (2019), 'Targeted violence perpetrated against women with disability by neighbours and community members' (2019), 'Justice perspectives of women with disability: An Australian story' (2021), 'Locked out or let in? Learning from victim-survivors’ remote help-seeking experiences during COVID-19' (2026), and 'Understanding participant (dis)engagement from domestic violence perpetrator group programs: a review and qualitative synthesis' (2025). She has presented at national and international conferences on family violence, social science, and comparative literature and contributed to media on related topics.