Inaugural Monash Criminology International Roundtable Series
The Asia Pacific Marketplace in Transnational Criminal Justice
Round Table One - Thursday 2nd February and Friday 3rd February 2006
Traditionally, domestic mechanisms of criminal justice increasingly govern regional interactions on organised crime, terrorism, people smuggling and sex trafficking.
The purpose of the round table is to bring together key scholars to examine the trade in Australian criminal justice strategies within the Asia Pacific region across these key sites of concern. This trade is reflected in practical operational level cooperation between Australian police, intelligence agencies, security authorities, customs and immigration services, defence forces, central banks and financial units and other countries in the region.
The round table aims to provide a forum to analyse the nature, dynamic and scale of the market in criminal justice policy and practice in the Asia Pacific region, including both demand and supply in the trade in criminal justice initiatives across the region and the uneven levels of regional power that are deployed and reflected in this trade. Scholarship is yet to identify and conceptualise a regional criminal justice market place although it is increasingly clear that such a market has emerged and is in the process of consolidation. Driven by the new security environment this market is primarily concerned with issues of regional governance. A key focus of this study will be whether these developments are best understood as continuations of long-standing historical trends, or represent new and unique developments in the conceptualisation and implementation of criminal justice beyond the traditional nation-state.
Participants
- Associate Professor Sharon Pickering (Monash University)
- Dr Jude McCulloch (Monash University)
- Dr JaneMaree Maher (Monash University)
- Dr Dean Wilson (Monash University)
- Professor Penny Green (University of Westminster)
- Dr Elizabeth Stanly (Victoria University Wellington)
- Dr Leanne Weber (University of Western Sydney)