Criminology
Thesis Topics & Supervisors
The following is a list of criminology postgraduates and their thesis topics. If you are a postgraduate student in criminology and would like to have your name added or removed from this list, or if you would like to have your email or and abstract listed as well, you can do so simply by contacting our Postgraduate Coordinator Sue Stevenson.
| PhD | ||
| Student | Topic | Supervisor/s |
|---|---|---|
| Asher Flynn | "Plea bargaining in Victoria: A case for reform" | Prof. Jude McCulloch / Dr. Dean Wilson |
| Bridget Harris | "Legitimate vice: Culture, the criminal justice system and community legal centres" | Prof. Jude McCulloch / Prof. Mark Peel |
| Lucinda Jordan | "Barriers to justice: An exploration of young homeless people's experiences and encounters with the Victoria Police" | Dr Dean Wilson / Dr Anna Eriksson |
| Annie Pettitt | "Counter-terrorism policing and international legal frameworks" | Assoc. Prof. Sharon Pickering / Prof. Jude McCulloch |
| Emma Ryan | "Below the belt? Police and non-lethal weapons in Australia" | Prof. Jude McCulloch / Dr Dean Wilson |
| Vicki Sentas | "Counter-terrorism policing, interagency cooperation and culturally and liguistically diverse communities" | Assoc. Prof. Sharon Pickering / Prof. Jude McCulloch |
| Alita Spratling | "Drug trafficking discourses: The state, borders and transnational crime control" | Dr. Dean Wilson / Prof. Jude McCulloch |
| Kelly Sundberg | "Global transitions in border services: Australia, Britain and Canada in the post 9/11 era" | Prof. Jude McCulloch / Assoc. Prof. Sharon Pickering / Dr. John Wynterdyk |
| MA | ||
| Student | Topic | Supervisor/s |
|---|---|---|
| Kate Hahn | "Australian administrative detention and the impact of secularisation post 9/11" | Prof. Jude McCulloch / Assoc.Prof. Sharon Pickering |
| Stephane Shepherd | "Community work as a condition of a community based order (CBO): Assessing its capacity to rehabilitate, re-integrate and prevent recidivism and the role of case management in shaping these outcomes" | Dr Dean Wilson / Dr Bree Carlton |
| Completions | ||
| Student | Topic | Supervisor/s |
|---|---|---|
| Sanja Milivojevic (PhD) 2007 | "Sex trafficking in Serbia and Australia" | Assoc. Prof. Sharon Pickering / Dr. Dean Wilson |
| Tamara Morozoff (MA) 2006 | "The politics of prostitution: An analysis of Victorian prostitution legislation" | Dr. Colleen Lewis |
| Marie Segrave (PhD) 2007 | "Restoring order: Statecraft, the border and sex trafficking" | Assoc. Prof. Sharon Pickering / Dr. JaneMaree Maher |