Publications

  • Below are recent publications by staff from the Criminology Department, individual staff profiles provide more details.


  • Racialized Correctional Governance: The Mutual Constructions of Race and Criminal Justice by Claire Spivakovsky
    Dr Claire Spivakovsky joined the School of Political and Social Inquiry as a Lecturer in Criminology in 2013. Claire has worked in the academic, community and government sectors developing a range of social justice projects. Claire’s first book, Racialized Correctional Governance: The Mutual Constructions of Race and Criminal Justice, is due to be published in April ...
  • A Second Chance for Justice: The Prosecutions of Gabe Watson for the Death of Tina Thomas by Dr Asher Flynn and Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon
    A Second Chance for Justice critically examines the legal responses to the death of Tina Thomas in October 2003, and the two subsequent prosecutions of her husband of eleven days, Gabe Watson, initially in Queensland, Australia in June 2009 (outcome: a negotiated guilty plea to manslaughter by criminal negligence) and then in Alabama, United States ...
  • Contrasts in Punishment: An Explanation of Anglophone Excess and Nordic Exceptionalism by Professor John Pratt and Dr Anna Eriksson
    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? Based on extensive historical analysis and fieldwork in the penal systems of England, Australia, New Zealand on the one hand, and Finland, Norway ...
  • Women Exiting Prison: Critical Essays on Gender, Post-Release Support and Survival by Dr Bree Carlton and Dr Marie Segrave
    Dr Bree Carlton and Dr Marie Segrave’s forthcoming book, Women Exiting Prison: Critical Essays on Gender, Post-Release Support and Survival (Routledge), will be published in May 2013 and includes contributions from world class scholars Kristin Bulmiller, Kathleen Kendall, Eileen Baldry, Kelly Hannah-Moffat and Foreword by Pat Carlen. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415630764/
  • Sex, Culpability and the Defence of Provocation by Dr Danielle Tyson
    Criminology researcher, Dr Danielle Tyson, examines the controversial partial defence of provocation in her new book, Sex, Culpability and the Defence of Provocation (Routledge, 2013). The partial defence of provocation is one of the most controversial doctrines within the criminal law. It has long been said to operate as a classic apology for male violence against ...
  • ANZ Critical Conference Proceedings 2009
    ANZ Critical Conference Proceedings 2009 In 2009 Monash Criminology hosted the annual Australia and New Zealand Critical Criminolgy Conference. The Critical Criminology Conference is an important annual forum that encourages diversity and breadth in the development of critical criminological research in Australia and New Zealand.  Over the course of two days over fifty papers were presented ...
  • 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 lists of deaths collated by non-governmental organizations in Europe, Australia and North America, this book draws direct parallels between the border ...
  • From Fear to Fraternity
    Dr Paddy Rawlinson, Convenor of Criminology,  researches in the area of transnational and organised crime in the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe. Her book From Fear to Fraternity: A Russian Tale of Crime, Economy and Modernity was published by Pluto Press in 2010.