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Dr Bree Carlton

Dr Bree Carlton is a Lecturer in Criminology.

Biography

Prior to her academic career Dr Carlton was involved in community radio broadcasting and also worked as a freelance producer for the ABC Radio National social history unit.

Dr Carlton completed her doctoral thesis in 2005. She was awarded the Vice Chancellor's commendation for excellence in doctoral research one of two competitive awards for exceptional candidates nominated for research excellence across the Arts Faculty. Bree's doctoral thesis focused on the controversial deaths and prisoner protests in the Pentridge Prison Jika Jika High-Security Unit in the 1980s and will be published by the Sydney Institute Federation Press Series in 2007.

In 2005 Dr Carlton was a recipient of the Australian Academy of Humanities Travelling Fellowship for her research on women and political imprisonment in Northern Ireland. In February and March 2006, Bree travelled to Belfast, Northern Ireland to conduct interviews with Republican women former prisoners about their experiences of resistance and survival in prison and in the community post-release.

Research

Bree has researched and written chapters and articles for publication in the area of history and prison studies. She is interested in the historical and contemporary functions of deviance management and social control, particularly the impact of criminal justice institutions and state practices on communities and individuals in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Specific areas of focus include punishment, the politics of high-security and supermax prisons; political imprisonment; prisoner resistance; human rights and deaths in custody; official discourse and public inquiries; state crime, crimes of the powerful; critical criminology, research theory and practice.

Publications

Books

Book Chapters

Refereed Journal Articles

Non-refereed Articles

Conferences

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