Associate Professor Murray Lee

Profile Publications

Profile

Degrees and Qualifications

BA UoN BA (Hons) PhD UWS

Courses Taught

• Criminology
• Risk, Fear and Insecurity
• Environmental Criminology
• Policing and Society

Areas of Research Interest

• Sexting and young people
• Policing, public relations and communications
• Fear of crime
• Crime prevention and the built environment
• Confidence in justice
• Crime and risk

Biographical Information

Murray Lee is an Associate Professor in Criminology and was director of the Sydney Institute of Criminology from 2008 to 2012. He is the author of Inventing Fear of Crime: Criminology and the Politics of Anxiety, co-author of Fear of Crime: Critical Voices in an Age of Anxiety and is co-editor of the journal Current Issues in Criminal Justice. His current research interests involve fear of crime, policing and the media, 'sexting' and young people, crime prevention, confidence in criminal justice systems, and the spatial determinants of crime. Murray currently teaches in the fields of policing, crime theory, fear and risk of victimisation, and environmental criminology.

Murray is a member of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC), the European Society of Criminology and the Australian Sociological Association (TASA) for which he was also foundation convener of the Crime and Governance Thematic Group. Prior to joining the University of Sydney in 2007, Murray was Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Western Sydney (2001-2007) and Director of the Critical Social Sciences Research Centre (2004-2006).

Publications and Conference Papers

Books | Edited Collections | Journal Articles | Book Chapters | Other Refereed Publications | Book review | Invited Lectures & Seminars | Conference / Seminar Papers | Video Production

Books

• Lee, M and McGovern, A (2013 Forthcoming) Police and Media, Routledge, Milton Park and New York.
• Lee, M and Farrall, S (eds) (2009) Fear of Crime: Critical Voices in the Age of Anxiety, Routledge-Cavendish, Milton Park and New York.
• Lee, M, (2007) Inventing Fear of Crime: Criminology and the Politics of Anxiety, Willan, Devon.
• Johnson, A, Lee, M, Schlunke, K and Sheaves, F (eds) (1997) Off The Sheep’s Back: New Humanities, School of Humanities, UWS Hawkesbury.

Edited Collections

• Lee, M and McGee, T (2011) Special Issue of Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Risk, Resilience and Beyond, Vol 23, No 1.
• Lee, M, Mason, G & Milivojeic, S (eds), (2011) The Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2010, Proceedings, Sydney Institute of Criminology: Sydney.

Journal Articles

• Lee, M., Crofts, T., Salter, M., Milivojevic, S. and McGovern, A. (2013) ‘Let’s Get Sexting’: Risk, Power, Sex and Criminalisation in the Moral Domain', 2(1) International Journal For Crime and Justice 35-49.
• Salter, M., Crofts, T and Lee, M. (2013) 'Beyond Criminalisation and Responsibilisation: Sexting, Gender and Young People', 24(3) Current Issues in Criminal Justice 301-316.
• Crofts, T and Lee, M. (2013) 'Sexting, Children and Child Pornography', 35(1) Sydney Law Review 85-106.
• Lee, M. and McGovern, A. (2013) ‘Force to Sell: Policing the Image and Manufacturing Public Confidence’, 23(2) Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy 103-124.
• Clancey, G., Lee, M. and Crofts, T. (2012) ‘“We’re not Batman” – Roles and Expectations of Local Government Community Safety Officers in New South Wales’, 14(4) Crime Prevention and Community Safety: An International Journal 235-257.
• Clancey, G., Lee, M. and Fisher, D. (2012) 'Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) and the New South Wales Crime Risk Assessment Guidelines: A Critical Review’, 14(1) Crime Prevention and Community Safety: An International Journal 1-15.
• Clancey, G., Fisher, D. and Lee, M. (2011) 'Do Crime Risk Assessment Reports Measure Crime Risks?' 23(2) Current Issues in Criminal Justice 235-54.
• Lee, M. and McGee, T. (2011) 'Introduction' 23(1) Special Issue of Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Risk, Resilience and Beyond 1-3.
• Possamai, A. and Lee, M. (2011) 'Hyper-Real Religions: Fear. Anxiety, and Late-Modern Religious Innovation' 47(3) Journal of Sociology 227-242.
• McGovern, A & Lee, M, (2010) ‘“Cop[ying] it Sweet”: Police Media Units and the Making of News’ 43(3) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 444-464.
• Lee, M, (2007) ‘Framing Dissent at Macquarie Fields’ 19(2) Current Issues in Criminal Justice 211-218.
• Lee, M, (2006) ‘Public Dissent and Governmental Neglect: Isolating and Excluding Macquarie Fields’ 18(1) Current Issues In Criminal Justice 33-50.
• Possamai, A. and Lee, M, (2004) ‘New Religious Movements and the Fear of Crime’ 19(3) The Journal of Contemporary Religion 337-352.
• Lee, M. and Herborn, P, (2003) ‘The Role of Place Management in Crime Prevention: Some Reflections on Governmentality and Government Strategy’ 15(1) Current Issues in Criminal Justice 26-39.
• Lee, M, (2001) ‘The Genesis of Fear of Crime’, Theoretical Criminology 5(4) 467-486.
• Byrne-Armstrong, H. Carmody, M. Hodge, R. Hogg, R and Lee, M, (1999) ‘The Risk of Naming Violence: An Unpleasant Encounter Between Legal Culture and Feminist Criminology, 13 The Australian Feminist Law Journal 13-37.
• Lee, M, (1999) ‘The Fear of Crime and Self Governance : Towards a Genealogy’ Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 32(3) pp. 227-246.
• Lee. M, (1996) ‘Governance and Criminality: The 1995 New South Wales Election Campaign and Law and order’ Current Issues in Criminal Justice 8(2)152-162.

Book Chapters

• McGovern, A. and Lee, M (2012) ‘Police Communications in the Social Media Age’ in Keyzer, P., Johnston, J. and Pearson, M. (eds), Courts & the Media: Challenges in the Era of Digital and Social Media, Halstead Press, Sydney pp. 160-174.
• Lee, M. and McGovern, A, (2012) 'Image Work(s): "Simulated Policing” and the New Police (Popularity) Culture’, in K Carrington, M Ball, E O’Brien, and J Tauri (eds), Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, Palgrave Macmillan pp. 120-132.
• Lee, M, (2011) ‘Be Careful What You Ask For: Exploring Fear of Crime in the Field’ in L Bartels & K Richards (eds), Qualitative Criminology: Stories from the Field, Hawkins Press: Sydney pp. 179-189.
• Lee, M, (2010) ‘Affluence, Disadvantage, and Fear of Crime’ in S Shoham, P Knepper & M Kett (eds), International Handbook of Criminology, CRC Press: Boca Raton, USA 377-394.
• Possamai, A & Lee, M, (2010) ‘Religion and Spirituality in Science Fiction Narratives: A Case of Multiple Modernities?’ in D Houtman & S Aupers (eds), Religions of Modernity: Relocating the Sacred to the Self and the Digital, Brill: Leiden 205-217.
• Lee, M. (2009) ‘Fear of Crime’ in Fleming, J & Wakefield, A (eds), Sage Dictionary of Policing, Sage: London.
• Farrall, S and Lee, M, (2009) ‘Critical Voices in and Age of Anxiety: A Reintroduction to Fear of Crime’ in M Lee and S Farrall (eds) Fear of Crime: Critical Voices in the age of Anxiety, Routledge-Cavendish: Milton Park and New York 1-11.
• Lee, M and Farrall, S, (2009) ‘Critical Voices in and Age of Anxiety: ending with the identification of where to begin…’ in M Lee and S Farrall(eds) Fear of Crime: Critical Voices in the age of Anxiety, Routledge-Cavendish: Milton Park and New York 211-214.
• Lee, M, (2009) ‘The Enumeration of Anxiety: Power, Knowledge and Fear of Crime’ in M Lee and S Farrall (eds) Fear of Crime: Critical Voices in the age of Anxiety, Routledge-Cavendish: Milton park and New York 32-44.
• Weber, L and Lee, M, (2009) ‘Preventing Indeterminant Threats: Fear, Terror, and the Politics of Preemption’ in M Lee and S Farrall (eds) Fear of Crime: Critical Voices in the age of Anxiety, Routledge-Cavendish: Milton Park and New York 59-81.
• Lee, M, (2007) ‘The Blame Game: Struggles Over the Representation of “The Macquarie Fields Riots”’ in S Poynting and G Morgan (eds) Outrageous! Moral Panics in Australia, ACYS Publishing: Hobart 53-66.
• Lee, M, (2007) ‘Fear, Law and Order and Politics: Tales of Two Rural Towns’, in E Barklay, J Scott, J Donnermeyer and R Hogg (eds) Crime in Rural Australia: Integrating Theory, Research and Practice, Federation Press: Sydney 115-126.
• Lee, M, (2004) ‘Governing Fear of Crime’, in R Hill and G Tait (eds) Hard Lessons: Reflections on Crime Control and Governance in Late Modernity, Ashgate: London.
• Lee, M, (1997) ‘Governance and Criminality’ in A Johnson, M, Lee, K Schlunke and F Sheaves, Off The Sheep’s Back: New Humanities, School of Humanities, UWS Hawkesbury: Richmond NSW.

Other Refereed Publications

• Lee, M. and McGovern, A. (2011) Image Work(s): “Simulated Policing” and the New Police (Popularity) Culture, in Crime Justice and Democracy Published Conference Proceedings.
• Lee, M, (2011)“Force Selling: Policing and the Manufacture of Public Confidence?’ in M Lee, G Mason & S Milivojeic (eds), The Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2010, Proceedings, Sydney Institute of Criminology: Sydney, University of Sydney, 1-2 July 2010.
• Lee, M, (2009) ‘Confidence in Justice Systems: Assessing Public Opinion’ in Segrave, M (ed), Australian & New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2009: Conference Proceedings 132-141.
• Lee, M, (2009) ‘Against Environmental Criminology: Designing Out Crime and the Death of Utopian Visions’ in Lockie, S, Bissell, D, Greig, A, Hynes, M, marsh, D, Saha, L, Sikora, J & Woodman, D (eds), The Future of Sociology 1-11.
• Lee, M & Mythen, G, (2008) ‘Security, Liberty and Justice: 1984 and the Past Present’ in Majoribanks, T, Barraket, J, Chang, J-S, Dawson, A, Guillemin M, Henry-Waring, M, Kenyon, A, Kokanovic, R, Lewis, J, Lusher, D, Nolan, D, Pyett, P, Robins, R, Warr, D, Wyn, J (eds), Annual Conference of The Australian Sociological Association: Re-imagining Sociology 1-16.
• Lee, M, (2007) ‘The Fear of Crime Debates: Questions of Power and Governance’ in Curtis, B, Matthewman, S & McIntosh, T (eds), TASA & SAANZ Joint conference Proceeding - Public Sociologies: Lessons and Trans-Tasman Comparisons, University of Auckland.
• McGovern, A and Lee, M, (2006) ‘Mediating Cops: News-Making and the NSW Police Media Unit’ in Colic-Peisker, V, Tilbury, F & McNamara, B (eds), TASA 2006 Conference Proceedings: Sociology for a mobile world.
• Lee, M, (2005) ‘”Fields of Fire”: Crime Dissent and Social Isolation in South-Western Sydney’ in Julian, R, Rottier, R & White, R (eds), TASA 2005 Conference Proceedings: Community, Place, Change.
• Lee, M, (2004) ‘Locating “Fear of Crime”: Safety Talk in a South Western Sydney Context’ in Richmond, K (ed), TASA 2004 Conference Proceedings: Revisioning Institutions: Change in the 21st Century.
• Lee, M, (1999) ‘Fear of Crime and Governance’ 5 Food for Thought: New Directions in Sociology, School of Sociology, University of NSW 175-181.

Book Reviews

• Lee, M. (2011) “Social Order and Fear of Crime in Contemporary Times” by Stephen Farrall, Jonathan Jackson and Emily Gray, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Vol 23, no.1.
• Lee, M, (2002) ‘The Exclusive Society by Jock Young’ Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology.
• Lee, M, (2000) ‘Black Body by R Mohanram’, Journal of Sociology.
• Lee, M (1998) ‘Governing the dangerous by John Pratt’ Current Issues in Criminal Justice.

Invited Lectures & Seminars

• Policing Publics: Simulations and Communications in the Age of Social Media, September 19th 2012, Monash University Faculty of Arts in the Criminology seminar Series.
• Procedural Justice and simulated policing: the medium is the message (Dr Murray Lee and Dr Alyce McGovern UNSW), 12th October 2012, International Colloquium on Organisational and Procedural Justice at the Australian Institute of Police Management.
• Image Work(s): “Simulating Policing” and the New Police (Popularity) Culture, September 2011, Crime, Justice and Social and Democracy conference, QUT.
• Police Image Work and the Manufacture of Public Confidence, December 2nd 2010, London School of Economics and Political sciences, UK.
• Policing Confidence: The Direction of Police Public Relations, 6th December 2010, University of Liverpool, UK.
• Policing Confidence: Directing Police Public Relations in Australia, Thursday 11 November 2010, University of Surrey, UK.
• "Fear of Crime" author meets critics session, American Society of Criminology Conference, San Francisco, November 7th 2010.
• Police Public Relations and Public Confidence, October 27th 2010, University of Leicester, UK.
• Crime Time, (11 Sept 2008) NSW Police and Justice Museum.
• Thinking About Partnerships, Partnerships in Crime Prevention (22nd April 2008), University of Western Sydney.
• The Roots of Riots: Understanding the Causes of Youth Crime and Community Disturbances (22nd July 2005), Australian Social Policy Conference, Sydney NSW.
• Governing "Fear of Crime" (18th May 2005), Criminology School Seminar, Keele University, UK.
• Crime and Social Isolation: Beyond Moral Panics and Bad Parents, 14/04/2005 Social Policy in the City Address: Mission Australia Crime and Social, Sydney Australia.
• Crime and Social Isolation: Beyond Moral Panics and Bad Parents (14 April 2005) Social Policy in the City Address, Sydney NSW.
• ‘Talk About Crisis’ (Oct 25th 2003) Attorney General’s Dept: Safer Towns and Cities Conference, Cronulla, NSW.
• ‘Crime Prevention Issues for Bankstown Plaza’ (August 6th 2002) Bankstown CBD Community Safety Planning Seminar, Bankstown NSW.

Conference / Seminar Papers

• '"The Force is with you": The policing of public confidence’, 2010 European Society of Criminology Conference, Leige, 10 September 2010.
• ’Force Selling: Policing and the Manufacture of Public Confidence’, 2010 Australian Critical Criminology, University of Sydney, 2 July 2010.
• ’Confidence in Justice Systems: Assessing Public Opinion’, Australian & New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2009, Monash University, 4 July 2009.
• ’Against Environmental Criminology: Designing Out Crime and the Death of Utopian Visions’, the 2009 TASA, Australian National University, Canberra, 7 December 2009.
• ‘“Cop[ying] it Sweet”: Police Media Units and the Making of News’, Sydney Law School Lunchtime Seminar Series, University of Sydney, 21 May 2009.
• ‘Security, liberty and justice: 1984 and the past present’, Murray Lee, University of Sydney; Gabe Mythen, University of Liverpool, TASA Conference University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2-5 December 2008.
• Session Chair ‘Understanding Fear of Crime: Critical Assessment and Practical Innovation’ and presenter ‘the Affluence to Fear Crime’ XV World Congress of the International Society for Criminology, Bacelona, 20 -25 July 2008.
• ‘Middle Class Fear of Crime in the West: Or How Security Begets Security’, 2008 RCSL Annual Meeting, "Law And Justice in the Risk Society", Milan And Como, Italy, 9-12 July 2008.
• ‘A Wealth of Fear’ , Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2008, The Crime and Justice Research Network and Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Network, 18-19 June 2008.
• ‘The Fear of Crime Debates: Questions of Power and Governance’, Public Sociologies, TASA & SAANZ Joint Conference Proceedings, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 4 - 7 December 2007.
• ‘Mediating Cops: News-Making and the NSW Police Media Unit’, TASA Conference , University of Western Australia, Perth, December 2006.
• ‘Governing “Fear of Crime”’, Criminology School Seminar, Keele University, UK, 18 May 2005.
• The Roots of Riots: Understanding the Causes of Youth Crime and Community Disturbances, Australian Social Policy Conference, Sydney NSW, 22nd July 2005.
• The Changing Face of Crime in Sydney?: Mean streets or Lost Suburbs, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW, 28 April 2005.
• Crime and Social Isolation: Beyond Moral Panics and Bad Parents, Social Policy in the City Address, Sydney NSW, 14 April 2005.
• Locality and ’Fear of Crime’: Talk About Crime, Space and Place, ANZSOC Conference Wellington, New Zealand, 10 February 2005.
• Locating ’Fear of Crime’: Safety Talk in a South Western Sydney Context, TASA Conference, Beechworth Victoria, 9 December 2004.
• ‘News Media Narratives In The Age Of Anxiety’, with Gaffey, J, TASA Conference, Armidale NSW, November 2003.
• ‘Talk About Crisis’, Attorney General’s Dept: Safer Towns and Cities Conference, Cronulla, NSW, 25 October 2003.
• Consuming Subjectivities: News Media in the Age of Anxieties, with Gaffey, J, Australia and New Zealand Society Of Criminology Conference, Sydney NSW, 3 Oct 2003.
• ‘Talk About Crisis: Crime Fear in Rural Localities’, Australia and New Zealand Society Of Criminology Conference, Sydney NSW, 2 October 2003.
• ‘Gendering the ‘fear of crime’ , XV World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane, Qld. 'A place for GIS and Place Management in Crime Prevention’ with Herborn, P. (2001) AIC Conference: Crime Prevention in Regional Australia, Townsville, QLD, July 2002.
• ‘The Genesis of Fear of Crime’Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Melbourne, Vic, 2001.
• ‘Fear of Crime and Locality’, American Society of Criminology Conference, San Francisco, USA, 2000
• ‘Fear of Crime and Governance’, Food for thought, New directions in Sociology 5, University of NSW, 1998.
• ‘Crime, Rurality and Violence’, Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, Griffith University Queensland, 1997.
• Gender and the Fear of Crime’, Law and Society Conference, Latrobe University, 1997.
• ‘The Fear of Crime: A Brief Genealogy', Regulating Identities, Queensland University of Technology, 1996.
• ‘Governance and Criminality’, Off the sheep’s back: a postgraduate colloquium, University of Western Sydney – Hawkesbury, 1996.

Video Production

• Carrington, K & Lee, M, (1997) Crime, Rurality & Violence.

External Grant Income