Crime is an issue which all citizens and governments confront on a daily basis. Many thousands of people in the public and private sectors are employed in dealing with the prevention and consequences of crime. They make important decisions about the daily lives and freedoms of thousands of citizens. The causes of crime and how it should be dealt with are the subject of intense debate.
The Criminology program provides students with the skills to understand the complexities of crime, to learn about the various stages of the criminal justice system, to critically analyse its workings and tensions and to explore alternative strategies.
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Rethinking needed on unthinkable crime – Monash Prato Italy Conference “Addressing Filicide” 30-31 May 201322 May 2013 The unfathomable crime of filicide, the killing of a child by their parent or guardian, will be addressed at an upcoming international conference. Conference co-chair Professor Thea Brown, of Monash University’s Department of Social Work, said the conference would initiate the first international charge on the problem of filicide that occurs in most countries, ...
Criminology hosted a Joint Seminar on Masculinities, Power and Violence on Thursday 18th AprilAs part of the 2013 Criminology Seminar Series, the Department of Criminology were very proud to host two speakers who presented papers on their respective research on Masculinities, Power and Violence. Susanna Eriksson is currently visting Monash University from the Graduate School of Gender Studies at Umeå University, Sweden. Susanna presented a paper entitled “The Provoked ...
Launch of Racialized Correctional Governance: The Mutual Constructions of Race and Criminal Justice by Dr Claire Spivakovsky on Monday 8th AprilDr Claire Spivakovsky’s first book, Racialized Correctional Governance: The Mutual Constructions of Race and Criminal Justice was officialy launched on Monday 8 April 2013. The book was launched by Professor Mary Bosworth, Oxford University, and attended by academics, service providers and public servants from state and local government. Racialized Correctional Governance examines problems in the relationship between ...
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Professor Katja Franko Aas from the University of Oslo delivered this year’s Criminological Horizons lecture on Monday April 8thProfessor Katja Franko Aas from the University of Oslo delivered this year’s Criminological Horizons lecture on Monday April 8th to an inter-disciplinary audience of academics, students and criminal justice practitioners. The annual lecture hosted by Monash Criminology showcases leading international thinkers whose work points the way to a more just and inclusive future. This year’s ...
Monash research finds higher prison rates in English-speaking nationsThe contrast in the way modern societies punish offenders and the factors driving their approaches to crime has been investigated by researchers in their new book. In their book, Contrasts in Punishment: An Explanation of Anglophone Excess and Nordic Exceptionalism, authors Dr Anna Eriksson, Monash University, and Professor John Pratt, Victoria Universitiy, draw on their decade-long ...
Monash research in the news: ‘A Second Chance for Justice’The opinion piece written by Drs Asher Flynn and Kate Fitz-Gibbon provides an insight into the heavy costs of justice in the modern era. Drawing on concerns surrounding the precarious Victoria Legal Aid funding, which has led to the staying of two Supreme Court trials; the decision to review the increased fees associated with the ...
Launch of Contrasts in Punishment: An Explanation of Anglophone Excess and Nordic Exceptionalism by Professor John Pratt and Dr Anna ErikssonWhen: Thurdsay 14th March 2013 5 pm to 7 pm Where: Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Bldng H, Luca Restaurant RSVP: anna.eriksson@monash.edu About the book: Why do some modern societies punish their offenders differently to others? Why are some more punitive and others more tolerant in their approach to offending and how can these differences be explained? ...
Monash researchers play a part in improving responses to groups affected by unpaid infringementsDr. Bernadette Saunders, Dr. Anna Eriksson, A/Prof. Gaye Lansdell and Ms. Meredith Brown have just released the Report entitled: An Examination of the Impact of Unpaid Infringement Notices on Disadvantaged Groups and the Criminal Justice System: Towards a Best Practice Model Their research sought to establish the profile of groups affected by unpaid infringements, their experiences ...
Launch of “A Second Chance for Justice” by Dr Asher Flynn and Dr Kate Fitz-GibbonThe 2012 acquittal of Gabe Watson, “dubbed the Honeymoon killer”, for the murder of his wife of eleven days, Tina Thomas, provided a controversial ending to an almost nine-year transnational quest for ‘justice’ that began on 22 October 2003 on Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef and concluded on 23 February 2012 in the Jefferson County Courthouse ...
Hard to escape violence: research in the newsResearch Fellow, Dr Lucinda Jordan, from the Centre for Rural Regional Law and Justice at Deakin University, published the findings from a youth homelessness study in the December edition of Youth Studies Australia (published by the federally funded Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies, and housed at the University of Tasmania). Dr Jordan’s research involved interviews with ...- Monash University Postgraduate Award 2012 – Rosemary CassidyIn 2011 Monash University initiated and sponsered the Monash University Postgraduate Prize, an award for the best presentation at the annual Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Postgraduate Conference. As an annual prize, this is awarded to the most outstanding presentation of criminological research by a current postgraduate. The winner of the 2012 prize was Rosemary ...
Criminology Doctoral Celebration Dec 2012At the December 2012 Graduation Ceremonies held at the Clayton Campus, the Criminology Program celebrated the following PhD thesis. We are very proud of the achievements of Francesco Vecchio. Francesco is working towards the development of Vision First’s VF Research, the first independent resource centre aimed at enhancing political debates while tackling social misconceptions of asylum ...
Monash Arts and Education researchers play a part in reform of legal responses to ‘sexting’Following the completion of the Parliament ofVictoria Law Reform Committee’s Call for Submissions for their Inquiry into Sexting on 15 June 2012, Dr Amy Dobson (Centre for Women’s Studies and Gender Research, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts), Dr Mary Lou Rasmussen (Faculty of Education) and Dr Danielle Tyson (Criminology, School of ...
Human Rights Award Success – Professor Sharon PickeringPlease join us in congratulating Professor Sharon Pickering who was announced as the winner of the 2012 Human Rights Award in Print and Online Media yesterday (see details below). Another outstanding research achievement to add to a long list. The recognition of the importance and impact of Professor Pickering’s research on borders and migration for ...
Dr Alison Gerard – 2012 School of Political and Social Inquiry Prize for Outstanding Doctoral ResearchOn behalf of all in the School, please accept our warmest congratulations to Dr Alison Gerard whose thesis, ‘The Securitisation of Migration and Refugee Women’, has been awarded the 2012 School of Political and Social Inquiry prize for outstanding doctoral research. The award is an important recognition of the quality of Alison’s scholarship and will ...
Dr James Martin – Senior Lectureship at Macquarie UniversityIt is our great pleasure to pass on the very exciting news that one of our PhD Alumni, Dr James Martin, has been offered a position as a Senior Lecturer and program coordinator in The Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism at Macquarie University. We are sure that you will all want to join with us in ...
Professor Sharon Pickering nominated for Human Rights AwardThe Australian Human Rights Commission has announced the nominees for the 25th Human Rights Awards. Dr Sharon Pickering, Professor in Criminology in the School of Political and Social Inquiry, has been nominated in the Print Media Category for The Conversation’s Academic Expert Panel on Asylum Seekers series – Series of 14 articles published in The Conversation. The awards honour ...
Supporting Postgraduate Research: The Monash University Postgraduate PrizeThe Monash University Postgraduate Prize An Award for Best Presentation. Monash Criminology is an active supporter of the pursuit of excellence in postgraduate research. In 2011 it initiated and sponsered the Monash University Postgraduate Prize, an award for the best presentation at the annual Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Postgraduate Conference. As an annual prize, ...
Monash research in the news: Filicide in the context of separationA study – the first to examine all filicides in Victoria for the period 2000 to 2009 – by researchers from Monash in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences and the Faculty of Arts has found a link to parental separation and was recently reported in The Age. The study – conducted by ...
Criminology Doctoral Celebrations Oct 2012At the October 2012 Graduation Ceremony’s held at the Clayton Campus, the Criminology Program celebrated four recently passed PhD theses. We are very proud of the achievements of Dr Alison Gerard, Dr Kate-Fitzgibbon, Dr James Martin and Dr Emma Ryan who graduated in October 2012. Congratulations to all of you!
The asylum impasse: Professor Sharon Pickering & Dr Leanne Weber’s contributions to the national discussionSharon Pickering and Leanne Weber, both experts in border crossing research and the two authors of the 2011 publication Globalisation and Borders: Deaths at the Global Frontier have been contributing to recent media discussions about the limits of the debate in the federal parliament and the failure to reach a policy decision regarding asylum seekers. Sharon’s article in ...
Monash Arts Criminology research plays part in homicide and plea-bargaining reformA report recently released by Monash Arts criminologist Dr Asher Flynn, in collaboration with her colleague Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon (Deakin University), has sparked wide debate about plea-bargaining in the Victorian justice system. Released in June 2012, the study examines the operation of the offence of defensive homicide from 1 November 2005 until 30 April 2012 and ...
Postgraduate Research 2013See the research, achievements and activities of our postgraduate researchers (PhD and Masters).
