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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Criminology GraduationsThe Criminology Program's most recent doctoral graduate, Dr Lucinda Jordan, was part of the April graduation ceremonies at Monash Clayton. Her research offered a unique insight into contemporary policing issues for young people experiencing homelessness i...
Postgraduate Research 2012See the research, achievements and activities of our postgraduate researchers (PhD and Masters).
About Criminology ResearchCriminology Research covers a variety of areas including: border security, imprisonment, human mobility, sentencing, law reform, homicide, life course theory, new technologies and crime, young people, homelessness and violence, human trafficking, counter-terrorism law, policing and transnational crime.
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Globalization and Borders Death at the Global Frontier, a book by Leanne Weber and Sharon Pickering.Two Criminology researchers, Dr Leanne Weber (Senior Research Fellow) and Professor Sharon Pickering, have recently published Globalization and Borders Death at the Global Frontier (Palgrave). Drawing on data from official sources, media reports and l...
Dr Anna Eriksson awarded prestigious Australian Research Council DECRADr Eriksson is one of only two scholars in Australia to be awarded a DECRA in Criminology in 2011. She has received funding to undertake a three year program of research titled 'Othering' in Penal Policy and Practice: A cross-national study of imprisonment in Australia and Sweden.
Launch of the Border Crossing ObservatoryThe Border Crossing Observatory focuses on the complex process of border crossings and the implications of crime and justice. Its aim is to enhance scholarly and public policy debates at local, regional and international levels.
Criminology in Prato 2012Crime & Human Rights in a Global Era Coordinator: Dr Marie Segrave
Criminology Postgraduate AlumniFind out about what our alumni are doing
Ethnography of life in immigration detention centres in the UKProfessor Mary Bosworth (Monash University and Oxford University) is currently conducting an ethnography of life in immigration detention centres in the UK.- Restorative and transitional justiceDr Anna Eriksson researches and publishes in the areas of restorative and transitional justice. Her book Justice in Transition: Community Restorative Justice in NorthernIreland was published in 2009
Legal responses to intimate partner homicide and related law reformDr Danielle Tyson undertakes research in the area of legal responses to intimate partner homicide and related law reform and the impact of new media technologies on the legal process. Her most recent publication is Sex, Culpability and the Defence ...
