Dr Bree Carlton
- Tel: +61 3 990 55430
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- Email: Bree.Carlton@arts.monash.edu.au
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- Building 11 (Menzies), Clayton Campus
Dr Bree Carlton is a Lecturer in Criminology.
Biography
Bree Carlton has undertaken extensive research and published widely in the area of history and prison studies nationally & internationally. To date Dr Carlton has published articles in journals such as Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Social Justice and the Prison Service Journal. 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. Her current research is focused on prisoner survival after release in Victoria. Dr Carlton's book, Imprisoning Resistance: Life and Death in an Australian Supermax, was published by the Sydney Institute of Criminology Series in 2007 and nominated in the True Crime category of the 8th Davitt Awards in 2008.
Research
- Deviance management and social control
- Impacts of state practices on communities and individuals
- The politics of imprisonment
- Prisoner resistance
- Human rights and deaths in custody
- State accountability, official discourse and public inquiries
- Post-release mortality and prisoner survival
Publications
Books
- Bree Carlton (2007) Imprisoning Resistance: Life and Death in an Australian Supermax, Sydney: Sydney Institute of Criminology Federation Press Series.
Book Chapters
- Bree Carlton (2008)'Understanding Resistance: Power, Visibility and Survival in High-Security', in Cunneen, C. & Anthony, T. (eds), Australasian Critical Criminology Reader, Sydney: Federation Press.
- Bree Carlton (2008) 'Entombing Resistance: Institutional Power and Polarisation in the Jika Jika High-Security Unit', in Scraton, P. & McCulloch, J. (eds) The Violence of Incarceration, London: Routledge.
Refereed Journal Articles
- Bree Carlton (2009), Proliferating Control and Crisis: The Official Uses and Abuses of Modern High-Security in Australia’, The Prison Service Journal, May: 183: 3-12.
- Bree Carlton (2009) ‘Isolation as Counter-insurgency: Supermax Prisons and the ‘War on Terror’, in Cunneen , C. & Salter, M. (eds), Proceedings of the 2nd Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 19-20 June 2008, Crime and Justice Research Network & the Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Network, pp. 77-90.
- Bree Carlton and Jude McCulloch (2008), 'Contemporary Comment: R v Benbrika and Ors (Ruling No 20): The 'War on Terror' Human Rights and the Pre-emptive Punishment of Terror Suspects in High-Security', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 20:2: 287-292
- Bree Carlton (2006) 'From H Division to Abu Ghraib: The Historical Proliferation of State Inflicted Terror and Violence in Maximum-Security',Social Justice Journal, Vol 33, No 4, pp. 15-36.
- Jude McCulloch and Bree Carlton (2006) 'Pre-empting Injustice: Suppression of Financing of Terrorism and the 'War on Terror'', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, vol. 17 no. 3, pp.397-412.
- Bree Carlton (2001) 'Researching Secrecy: State Power and Prisoner Resistance in the Australian High-Security Prison', Melbourne Historical Journal, Vol. 29, pp. 50-56.
- Bree Carlton (1999) 'Machine Living: The Discourses and Ideologies of Spatial Order which Informed the High Rise Developments of the Housing Commission of Victoria 1950-1970', Melbourne Historical Journal, Vol. 27, pp. 100-117.
Non-refereed Articles
- Bree Carlton (2008) 'In the Care of the State? Child Deaths in Penal Custody in England and Wales', Review Article, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Vol 20, No 1, pp. 141-142.
- Bree Carlton (2006) 'The Political Imprisonment of Women in Northern Ireland 1972-1998', Review Article, Punishment and Society, , Vol 8, No 4, pp. 485-487.
Conferences
- Bree Carlton (2009) Surviving and Dying Outside: Legacies of State Neglect, Resistance and Survival, Sisters Inside Are Prisons Obsolete Conference, Mecure Hotel, Brisbane, 2-4th September [Invited Plenary].
- Bree Carlton and Marie Segrave (2009) ‘They Died of a Broken Heart: Bearing Witness of Women’s Post-Release Accounts of Survival and Death’, Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference, Monash University Law Chambers, 8-9th July.
- Marie Segrave and Bree Carlton (2009) ‘Surviving Outside: Researching Women’s Care in Victoria’, Public Health Association of Australia Justice Health Conference, ‘Beyond the Convict Era: Meeting the Challenges for the 21st Century’, Hilton on the Park, Melbourne, 6-7th April.
- Bree Carlton (2009) 'The Human Costs of High-Security', Prison Construction, Design and Management Conference, Holiday Inn, Brisbane 24-25th February, [Invited Paper].
- Bree Carlton (2008) 'Systemic Neglect: The Politics of Official Disclosure, Accountability and the Placement of Prisoners in High-Security', Australian New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference, University of NSW, June [Invited Paper].
- Bree Carlton (2007) 'Understanding Prisoner Resistance: Reopening a Critical Space for Subjective Exploration of the Prison Experience', Australasian Teaching Critical Criminology Conference, University of Sydney Law School, 13th July [Invited Paper].
- Bree Carlton (2006), 'Supermax as State Terror, Torture and Harm', North-South Criminology Conference, Queens University Belfast Northern Ireland, February, [Invited Paper].
- Bree Carlton & Minogue C. (2006), 'It's Back to the Future: Have the Lessons of Jika Jika Been Forgotten?' Eleventh International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA XI), University of Tasmania Hobart, February.
- Bree Carlton (2006) 'Supermax as State Crime', Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Wrest Point Casino Hobart, 7th-9th February.