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Associate Professor Thomas Crofts: Director
Associate Professor Thomas Crofts

Room: 512
Phone: +61 2 9351 0474
Fax: +61 2 9351 0200


Areas Of Interest:

  • Comparative criminal law
  • Criminalisation
  • Criminal law reform
  • Criminal responsibility
  • Juvenile justice
Dr Rebecca Scott Bray: Director
Rebecca Scott Bray

Senior Lecturer, Socio-Legal Studies
Room: 139 RC Mills Building, A26
Phone: +61 2 9351 4086
Fax: +61 2 9036 9380


Areas of Interest:

  • Death and the law
  • Coronial law and practice
  • Forensic medicine and science
  • Cultural criminology
  • Crime, law and aesthetics
Garner Clancey: Deputy Director
Garner Clancey

Lecturer
Room: 514
Phone: +61 2 9351 0473
Fax: +61 2 9351 0200


Areas of Interest:

  • Crime prevention
  • Place-based analysis of crime
  • Securitisation
  • Youth crime
  • Juvenile Justice
Professor Mark Findlay: Deputy Director
Professor Mark Findlay

Room: 528
Phone: +61 2 9351 0225
Fax: +61 2 9351 0200


Areas of Interest:

  • Criminal Law
  • Comparative Criminal Justice
  • Crime and Global Governance
  • International Criminal Justice
Professor Terry Carney
Professor Terry Carney

Room: 542
Phone: +61 2 9351 0228
Fax: +61 2 9351 0200


Areas of Interest:

  • Social Security and Welfare Law (income transfer payments and welfare services)
  • Adult Guardianship and Competence
  • Mental Health Law and Policy
  • Ageing and Disability
  • Drugs, Drug Law and Policy
  • Child Welfare and Youth Law
Associate Professor Judy Cashmore
Associate Professor Judy Cashmore

Room: 641
+61 2 9351 0469
Fax: +61 2 9351 0200


Areas of Interest:

  • Family law
  • Child protection and child welfare
  • Children's evidence
  • Children's participation in legal proceedings
Professor Duncan Chappell
Adjunct Professor Duncan Chappell

Adjunct Professor


Areas of Interest:

  • Mental Health Law and Policy
  • Criminal Law
  • Occupational Violence
  • Comparative Policing
  • Sentencing
Graeme Coss
Graeme Coss

Senior Lecturer
Room: 523
Phone: +61 2 9351 0227
Fax: +61 2 9351 0200

Areas Of Interest:

  • Masculinity and Crime
  • Criminal Defences
  • Homicide
  • Violence against Women
  • Clinical Legal Education
Nicholas Cowdery AM QC
Adjunct Professor Nicholas Cowdery AM QC

Adjunct Professor

Dr Salim Farrar
Dr Salim Farrar

Senior Lecturer
Room: 643
+61 2 9351 0393
Fax: +61 2 9351 0200


Areas of Interest:

  • Islamic Law
  • 'Human Rights'
  • Criminal Justice
  • Comparative Criminal Justice in Asia
Dr Kiran Grewal
Dr Kiran Grewal

Lecturer
Room: 445 Old Teachers CollegeRC Mills Building, A22
+61 2 9351 2964


Areas of Interest:

  • Torture
  • Transitional justice
  • International legal institutions
  • Human rights
  • International feminist theory and activism
Deirdre Howard-Wagner
Deirdre Howard-Wagner

Senior Lecturer
Room: 157 RC Mills Building, A26
+61 2 9351 0393
Fax: +61 2 9351 6679


Areas of Interest:

  • Young adults, alcohol, criminal, deviant and risk taking behaviour
  • Alcohol-related crime in public spaces
  • Indigenous criminal justice
  • Indigenous social and legal justice
  • Refugees, citizenship and the law
Professor Michael Humphrey
Professor Michael Humphrey

Room: 128 RC Mills Building, A26
+61 2 9351 0393
Fax: +61 2 9351 6901


Areas of Interest:

  • Human rights
  • Terrorism
  • Transitional justice
  • Trauma and victim politics
  • Victims and victimhood
Associate Professor Murray Lee
Associate Professor Murray Lee

Room: 520
Phone: +61 2 9351 0443
Fax: +61 2 9351 0200


Areas of Interest:

  • Fear of Crime
  • Crime and Social Isolation
  • Criminological Theory
  • Rural Violence
  • Criminalisation of Drug Use
Dr Arlie Loughnan
Dr Arlie Loughnan

Senior Lecturer
Room: 527
Phone: +61 2 9351 0246
Fax: +61 2 9351 0200


Areas of Interest:

  • Criminal Law Theory
  • Jurisprudence
  • Legal History
  • Mental Health Law
  • Feminist Theory
Dr Greg Martin
Dr Greg Martin

Senior Lecturer
Room: Room 149, RC Mills Building, A26
Phone: +61 2 9351 3319
Fax: +61 2 9036 9380


Areas of Interest:

  • Cultural criminology
  • Political sociology
  • Protest and public order policing
  • Social movements
  • Youth studies
Associate Professor Gail Mason
Associate Professor Gail Mason

Room: 522
Phone: +61 2 9351 0326
Fax: +61 2 9351 0200


Areas of Interest:

  • Hate crime, homophobic violence and racist violence
  • Harassment and discrimination law
  • Poststructural, Foucauldian and feminist theory
  • Law and emotion
  • Gender, sexuality and law
Bron McKillop
Bron McKillop

Honorary Senior Lecturer
Phone: +61 2 9351 0236
Fax: +61 2 9351 0200


Areas of Interest:

  • Inquisitorial Systems of Justice
  • French Criminal Procedure
  • Criminal Law
  • Evidence
Tanya Mitchell
Tanya Mitchell

Lecturer
Room: 518
Phone: +61 2 9351 0308
Fax: +61 2 9351 0200


Areas of Interest:

  • Criminal Law and Human Rights
  • Criminal Law and Culture
  • Criminal Procedure
Professor Pat O'Malley
Professor Pat O

Room: 524
Phone: +61 2 9351 0395
Fax: +61 2 9351 0200


Areas of Interest:

  • Risk and Security
  • Social and criminological theory
  • Criminal Justice
  • Modern legal sanctions
Dr Helen Paterson
Dr Helen Paterson

Lecturer
Room: 439, Brennan MacCallum Building, A18
Phone: +61 2 9036 9403
Fax: +61 2 9036 5223


Areas of Interest:

  • Eyewitness memory
  • Eyewitness identification procedures
  • Social contagion of memory
  • Post-incident debriefing
  • Interviewing witnesses
Associate Professor Kane Race
Associate Professor Kane Race

Room: J407, Main Quadrangle, A14
Phone: +61 2 9351 3662
Fax: +61 2 9351 3918

Areas of Interest:

  • Night-time economies
  • Drug policy and policing
  • Sexualities
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Consumer culture
Associate Professor Kristin Savell
Associate Professor Kristin Savell

Senior Lecturer
Room: 536
Phone: +61 2 9351 0442
Fax: +61 2 9351 0200


Areas of Interest:

  • Criminal Law
  • Health Law
  • Feminist Legal Theory
Dr Rita Shackel
Dr Rita Shackel

Senior Lecturer
Room: 525
Phone: +61 2 9351 0368
Fax: +61 2 9351 0200


Areas of Interest:

  • Criminal Law & Criminal Processes
  • Children, Juveniles and Law
  • Ethics, the Legal Profession and Dispute Resolution
  • Evidence & Procedure
  • Law, Psychology and Mental Health
  • Victimology
Louisa Di Bartolomeo
Louisa Di Bartolomeo

Institute Assistant
Room: 519
Phone: +61 2 9351 0450
Fax: +61 2 9351 0200


Areas of Interest:

  • Criminal law
  • Heritage law, theories of property and property crime
  • Criminal processes, especially prosecution practices

Our Research Members

Pota Forrest-Lawrence
Pota Forrest-Lawrence

PhD student


Areas of Interest:

  • Drug Law and Policy, Drugs
  • Young people and risk
  • Criminological theory
  • Cybercrime
  • Policing and mental health
  • Crime Prevention
Janice Sim
Janice Sim

PhD student


Areas of Interest:

  • Criminal Justice and Penal Philosophy
  • Critical Social Theory
  • Family and child law
  • Familial homicide
  • Risks and Governance
  • Law, Crime and Representation
Linda Steele

PhD student


Areas of Interest:

  • Forensic mental health law
  • Cognitive impairment and the law
  • Women in prison
  • Legal theory, disability theory & feminist theory
  • Social justice and human rights
  • Therapeutic jurisprudence