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
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
- 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 and Jude McCulloch (November 2008 Forthcoming), '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.
- 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 (2008) 'The Human Costs of High-Security', Prison Construction, Design and Management Conference, Mecure Hotel, Brisbane 28-29 October, [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.