Dr Danielle Tyson
- Tel: +61 3 990 52987
- Fax: +61 3 990 52410
- Email: Danielle.Tyson@arts.monash.edu.au
- Room W10.11 10th Floor
- Building 11 (Menzies), Clayton Campus
Biography
Danielle joined the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University as a Lecturer in Criminology in 2007. Prior to this she taught Criminology at the University of Brighton, England and at the University of Melbourne, Australia and Legal Studies at La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia. Danielle has worked as a research assistant on a number of projects including the Victorian Law Reform Commission's reference to reform the laws of sexual assault. Danielle has also previously been engaged in community service and worked for a time as a volunteer Court Networker for the Court Network Information and Referral Service based at the Melbourne and Dandenong Family Courts, a telephone counselor for Lifeline and an administrative assistant for the Australian Committee of Investigation into War-Crimes.
Danielle's research focuses on changing social and legal responses to intimate homicide; the relationship between mental health, filicide and parental separation and divorce and theories of gender, narrative and representation. Her PhD examined insults in the context of the defence of provocation, and she is currently writing a book based on this research entitled Sex, Culpability and the Defence of Provocation, due to be published in 2010 with Routledge-Cavendish as part of the Discourses of Law series.
In 2009, and in collaboration with Professor Thea Brown (Monash, Social Work), Danielle was awarded Cross-Faculty Funding to conduct a pilot project that will examine the links between the mental health of the perpertrator of filicide and separation and divorce in Victoria over a ten-year period. Related to this, Danielle is a member of The Wellbeing of Children following Parental Separation and Divorce Research Consortium convened by Professor Thea Brown, Social Work, Monash University. The research consortium currently has 14 members and is funded by the Australian Research Alliance for Children & Youth (ARACY) and the ARC/NHMRC 'Future Generation' Research Network.
Danielle has been a member of the editorial board of the Australian Feminist Law Journal since 1997 (http://www.griffith.edu.au/publication/aflj/).
Danielle currently teaches:
CRI2008 / CRI3008 Crime and the Media
CRI2140 / CRI3140 Sex and Crime (co-taught with Dr Jane Maree Maher)
Danielle is the Undergraduate Co-ordinator for Criminology and the School of Political & Social Inquiry.
Offices Held
- Member, Editorial Board, The Australian Feminist Law Journal
- Public Officer, The Australian Feminist Law Journal Inc.
- Member, The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology
- Member, The Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand Inc.
Research
- Gender, Masculinities and Crime
- Crime and the Media
- Intimate partner homicide
- Filicide in the context of parental separation and divorce
- Feminist legal theory
- Cultural Criminology
Publications
Journal Articles
- Tyson, D. (forthcoming) 'Questions of Guilt and Innocence in the Victorian Criminal Trial of Robert Farquharson and the Fact Before Theory Internet Campaign', Current Issues in Criminal Justice.
- Tyson, D (2007) 'Rewriting the Event of Murder: Provocation, Automatism and the Law's Use of a Narrative of Insult, Law/Text/Culture, Vol. 11, pp. 286-317.
- Tyson, D (2006) 'The Death of a Defence: Reflections on Provocation's Afterlife', Refereed full written paper in proceedings of PASSAGES: law, aesthetics, politics, 13-14 July 2006, Melbourne, Australia.
- Tyson, D (2003) (PhD Abstract) 'Trials of the Voice', The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law: Forensic Linguistics, Vol. 10(1), pp. 163-66.
- Tyson, D (1999) 'Asking For It': An Anatomy of Provocation', Australian Feminist Law Journal, Vol. 13(2), September, pp. 66-86.
- Tyson, D (1997) 'Angry Men, Feminist Practice and the Role of the Support Worker', Australian Feminist Law Journal, Vol. 9(2), September, pp. 159-71.
- Tyson, D (1997) 'Interrogating the Scene of Gang Rape and Murder in the Film Blackrock: A Crime of the Imagination?', Protocol: Journal of Law and Social Justice, Vol. 1(2), October, pp. 35-45.
Reviews
- Tyson, D. (2008) Captive Images: Race, Crime, Photography, Katherine Biber, Routledge-Cavendish, Abingdon, 2007, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Vol.20(2), November 2008, pp. 319-321.
National and International Conference Papers
- 2009 (with Professor Thea Brown) 'Mental Health, Filicide and Parental Separation and Divorce Victoria 1997 -2009: the need for early intervention and a better co-ordinated approach', paper presented at the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration (AIJA) Family Violence Conference, 1-3 October, Brisbane, Queensland.
- 2008 (with Professor Thea Brown) 'He's no killer; he was a "loving doting dad": Preliminary findings from a study of filicide in the context of parental separation and divorce in Victoria, 1997 – 2007', paper presented at the AIC International Conference on Homicide-Domestic related Homicide, 3-5 December, Holiday Inn, Gold Coast.
- 2008 'Incriminating Images: Audio/Visual Evidence and Culpability in the Police Investigation and Trial of Robert Farquharson', paper presented at the 21st Annual Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference, Criminology: linking theory, policy and practice, 25-28 November, National Convention Centre, Canberra.
- 2008 'The Will to Narrate: Imagining the Circumstances of Child Death', paper presented at the 2nd annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference, 19-20 June, Law School Building, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
- Tyson, D and R Scott Bray (2007) 'Narratives of Injury: Death Scenes and their Interpretation', paper presented at the 20th annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology held in Adelaide from 23-26th September.
- 2006 'The Death of a Defence: Reflections on Provocation's Afterlife', paper presented at the annual Australian Law and Literature Association Conference, PASSAGES: law, aesthetics, politics, 13-14 July 2006, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
- 2003 'Reflections on the Link between the Masculinity of Men and Male Violence in light of the Biographical Turn Within Criminology', paper presented at the annual British Society of Criminology conference, 24-26 June, Centre for Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Wales, Bangor, Wales.
- 2003 'Rethinking Provocation Law Reform: Bringing Law into Relationship with Literature', paper presented at the annual Socio-Legal Studies Association conference, 14-16 April, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, England.
- 2002 'Trials of the Voice: constructions of sexual difference within criminological and legal discourse', paper presented to the School of Applied Social Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Brighton, 27 November.
- 2001 'Imaging the Subject of Insult in the Provocation Defence', paper presented at the fifth joint meeting of the Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (of the International Sociological Association), 4-7 July, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
- 2001 'Asking For It": An Anatomy of Provocation', paper presented at the Sixth Annual Cultural Encounters with Law conference, 30 March, School of English, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia.
- 2001 'Reading Difference Differently', paper presented at The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology 15th Annual Conference, 21-23 February, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- 2000 'Tracing the Remains of the Emotional Subject of Law', paper presented at the 10th Annual International Conference of the Law and Literature Association of Australia, 7-9 July, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
- 1999 'Garrulous Bodies, Unruliness and the Force of the Imagination', paper presented at the 9th Annual International Conference of the Law and Literature Association of Australia, 5-7 February, La Trobe University, Beechworth, Victoria, Australia.
- 1999 'Imagining the Unruly Orifice and Provocative Speech', paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, 27-29 May, Chicago, U.S.A.
- 1998 'Configurations of Desire and Violence in Legal Narratives of Insult', paper presented at 'Five Lines of Criminological Thought', 22 May, Department of Criminology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- 1998 'Towards a Theory of the Unruly Speaking Body in Legal Discourse', paper presented at the 1st Annual International Conference on Gender, Sexuality and Law, 19-21 June, Keele University, Stoke-on-Trent, U.K.
- 1998 'Configurations of Desire and Violence in Legal Narratives of Insult', paper presented at panel titled 'Violence and Masculinity' at the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, 4-7 July, Aspen, Colorado, U.S.A.
- 1997 'Injurious Insults, Insulting Acts? Oral Provocation in Intimate Spousal Homicide', paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Society of Criminology, 18-22 November, San Diego, California, U.S.A.
Higher Degree Research Supervision
Postgraduate research students currently being supervised include:
| Student | Thesis Title / Topic | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Kate Fitz-Gibbon | Till death do us part: Judging the men who kill their intimate partners: An international comparison | Danielle Tyson / Sharon Pickering |
| Crystal Bruton | Intimate partner violence in the context of separation | Sharon Pickering / Danielle Tyson |
| Vicky Nagy | Stop the wretched woman in her career: A study of competing representations of femininity in social and legal responses to female poisoners | Maryanne Dever / Danielle Tyson |