Monash Criminology researchers are involved in a broad range of ongoing research projects. Below are highlights of current research and recent publications by staff, individual staff profiles provide more details.
- Recent research
Professor Mary Bosworth (Monash University and Oxford University) is currently conducting an ethnography of life in immigration detention centres in the UK. Some of her most recent publications include articles in Theoretical Criminology, Standford Law and Policy Review. She has recently published What is Criminology? (OUP) with Hoyle in 2011.
Dr 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. She is currently co-authoring a book with Professor John Pratt on comparative penology and Scandinavian exceptionalism, and together they have published articles on this research in The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology.
Dr 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 of Provocation (Routledge) 2012.
Dr Leanne Weber and Professor Sharon Pickering have developed international research expertise in the area of border contol, security, immigration and policing as detailed on the Border Observatory. They have most recently published Globalisation and Borders (Palgrave), this follows the success of their 2006 edited collection, Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control.
Dr Bree Carlton and Dr Marie Segrave have recently undertaken research in the area of women’s imprisoment and post-release unatural death in Victoria, publishing a number of articles from their findings including in The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology and Punishment and Society. They are editors of the forthcoming title, Women Exiting Prison: Critical Essay on Gender, Post-Release Support and Survival (Routledge), that includes contributions from leading international scholars such as Kelly Hannh-Moffat and a foreward by Pat Carlen. Bree Carlton’s
Dr Asher Flynn and Kate Fitz-Gibbon are undertaking research on the legal response to the death of Christina Thomas across the criminal jurisdictions of the United States and Australia. They have a forthcoming book on this research, A Second Chance for Justice, to be published by Cambridge Scholars Press.
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.
- Postgraduate Research 2012
Postgraduate researchers in Criminology are advancing scholarship across the discipline. Current research projects are detailed below.
Criminology postgraduates at Monash are supported and encouraged in contributing to the field in the early stages of their research careers and recent achievements are detailed on this page.
Postgraduate researcher achievements
Recent publications from our postgraduate researchers include:
James Martin (2012) Informal Security Nodes and Force Capital, Policing and Society.David Vakalis (2012) Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, Overland, 30 January 2012.Bridget Harris (with Megan Blair) (2012) Just Spaces: Community Legal Centers as levelling places of law, Alternative Law Journal.
Postgraduate Alumni Achievements
Alison Gerard, whose PhD thesis is currently under examination, has been appointed as a Senior Lecturer at Charles Sturt University. She recently co-authored (with Pickering) ‘The Crime and Punishment of Somali women’s extra-legal arrival in Malta’ published in The British Journal of Criminology.
Kate Fitzgibbon recently co-edited a special edition of The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, and published (with Sharon Pickering) in The British Journal of Criminology. Kate was recently appointed as a Lecturer in Criminology at Deakin University.
Postgraduate Research
Name PhD/MA Thesis title Supervisors Crystal Bruton PhD Intimate partner homicide in the context of separation: A re-examination of the issues Dr Danielle Tyson
Dr Jo LindsayEmma Colvin PhD Balancing community safety and individual liberty: How bail support services can reduce the need to remand a defendant in custody Prof. Jude McCulloch
Dr Bree CarltonPhoebe Fenton PhD A study of male victims of stalking in rural Australia Dr Anna Eriksson
Dr Danielle TysonKate Fitz-Gibbon PhD Till death do us part: Judging the men who kill their intimate partners Dr Danielle Tyson
Prof. Sharon PickeringAlison Gerard PhD Border securitization: Women’s experiences of extralegal exit, transit and destination Prof. Sharon Pickering
Prof. Jude McCullochRachel Hale PhD Pathways to desistence: The experiences of young women pre, during and post-incarceration in Victoria Dr Anna Eriksson
Dr Bronwyn NaylorJulie Ham PhD Migrant sex workers in Australia and Canada Prof Sharon Pickering
Dr Marie SegraveBridget Harris PhD Street offences: The policing of public space, youth and the role of community legal centres Prof. Jude McCulloch
Dr Bree CarltonChristine Kirtley PhD An existential examination of the role that Drug Treatment Orders play in women’s desistance from crime Dr Anna Eriksson
Dr Paddy Rawlinson
Dr Asher FlynnJames Martin PhD Do-it-yourself justice: Perspectives of informal policing in Zandspruit Prof. Jude McCulloch
Dr. Dean WilsonMaie Noweir MA Supporting victims of human trafficking: An analysis of the Australian and UK response Prof. Sharon Pickering
Dr Marie SegraveEmma Ryan PhD Below the belt? Sub-lethal weapons use by police in Australia Prof. Jude McCulloch
Dr Bree CarltonSarah Segal PhD Youth migration, identity and security: An Australian case study Prof. Sharon Pickering
Dr Marie SegraveMichelle Sibinek PhD The application of anti-stalking legislation Dr Anna Eriksson
Dr Asher Flynn
Dr Troy McEwanAlita Spratling PhD Drug trafficking discourses: The state, borders and transnational crime control Prof. Jude McCulloch
Dr Dean WilsonKelly Sundberg PhD Comparing approaches to immigration enforcement: A study of Canada and Australia Prof. Jude McCulloch
Prof. Sharon PickeringDavid Vakalis MA How to boil a frog: Counterterrorism, mission creep and outlaw motorcycle clubs In Australia Prof. Jude McCulloch
Dr Bree CarltonFrancesco Vecchio PhD Unwanted people in Hong Kong: How global cities force migrants to cope with illegality Prof. Sharon Pickering
Assoc. Prof. Dharma ArunachalamLaura Vitis PhD The age of innocence and the new child pornography Dr Marie Segrave
Dr Danielle TysonRichard Watkins PhD Developing a model of intervention to reduce road trauma amongst young people based on incentives and restorative justice Dr Anna Eriksson
Prof. Max Cameron - Criminology Postgraduate Alumni
Dr Asher Flynn graduated in 2010. Her PhD Secret deals and bargained justice: Lifting the veil of secrecy surrounding plea bargaining in Victoria was supervised by Prof. Jude McCulloch and Dr. Dean Wilson. Asher is now a lecturer in Criminology at Monash University.
Dr Lucinda Jordan’s PhD thesis, Seeing place: Young people, homelessness and violence (supervised by Prof. Sharon Pickering and Dr Marie Segrave) was successfully passed in 2011. Lucinda is now a Research Fellow at the Centre for Regional Law and Justice.
Kimberley Shirley graduated in 2011 with a Master of Arts. Her thesis, Living with violence: Participatory approaches in transitional justice was supervised by Dr Anna Eriksson and Prof. Sharon Pickering.
Dr Sanja Milivojevic, a lecturer in Criminology at the University of New South Wales, graduated in 2008. Her thesis was entitled, Sex trafficking in Serbia and Australia (supervisors Prof. Sharon Pickering and Dr. Dean Wilson).
Dr Annie Pettitt, who has since moved into a range of advocacy positions including as Child Rights Specialist with Save the Children, completed her doctorate in
