Dr Dean Wilson
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- Email: Dean.Wilson@arts.monash.edu.au
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Dr Dean Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology. Dr Wilson is currently the Discipline Convenor for Criminology.
Dr Wilson teaches:
Biography
Dr Wilson completed his undergraduate and initial postgraduate studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His Masters thesis was an historical study of violence, the law and local community in a colonial settlement. Dean continued postgraduate study in Australia, gaining a scholarship to Monash University where he undertook the first major historical study of urban policing in Australia. Having completed his PhD in 2001, Dean has subsequently concentrated on contemporary criminological research, including research into closed circuit television and surveillance practices, policing and victims of crime and media representations of criminal justice. Dean's research and teaching engage interdisciplinary methodologies that traverse the fields of criminology, sociology, media and cultural studies, law, history and politics.
Research
- Surveillance and social control
- Crime Prevention
- Cultures and histories of policing
- Crime and the media
- Victims of Crime
Dean's research interests include surveillance and social control, media representations of crime, victimology and victims of crime and histories of policing. He has worked as a consultant with state and local government on the operation of CCTV . Dean is currently working on the impact of biometrics on border control, police responses to victims of crime and the role of surveillance networks in the structuring of security. Dean recently completed a major report for the Criminology Research Council on Open Street CCTV in Australia. His book The Beat: Policing a Victorian City was published 2006.
Publications
Books
- 2006 Surveillance, Crime and Social Control. Ashgate: Dartmouth. (with C. Norris)
- 2006 The Beat: Policing a Victorian City, Circa Press: Melbourne.
Book Chapters
- 2008 "The Politics of Australia's 'Access Card'" in C. Bennett & D. Lyon (eds.) Playing the Identity Card: Surveillance, Security and Identification in Global Perspective, Routledge: London.
- 2006 "Biometrics, Borders and the Ideal Suspect" in S. Pickering and L. Weber (eds.) Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control. Springer: Dordrecht.
- 2005 "Sleuths or Technicians? The Changing Image of the Detective in Victoria" in H. Shpayer-Makov & C. Emsley (eds.) Police Detectives in History 1750-1950. Ashgate: Dartmouth. (with M.Finnane)
- 2005 "Traces and Transmissions: Techno-scientific symbolism in early twentieth century policing" in G. Dunstall & B. Godfrey (eds) Crime and Empire 1840-1940: criminal justice in local and global context. Cullompton: Willan.
- 2001 "Community and Gender in Victorian Auckland" in J. Binney (ed) The Making of History: Essays from the New Zealand Journal of History, Bridget Williams Books/Auckland University Press: Auckland.
Refereed Journal Articles
- 2008 "Surveillance, Risk and Preemption on the Australian Border" Surveillance & Society, 5(2): 121-141.(with Dr Leanne Weber)
- 2007 "Australian Biometrics and Global Surveillance" International Criminal Justice Review, 17(3): 207-219.
- 2005 "Behind the Cameras: monitoring and open-street CCTV surveillance in Australia" Security Journal, 18(1): 43-54.
- 2005 "Open-Street CCTV in Australia: Politics, Resistance and Expansion" Surveillance and Society 2(2/3): 310-322. (with A. Sutton).
- 2005 "Policing Poverty: destitution and police work in Melbourne, 1880-1910" Australian Historical Studies, 37(125): 97-112.
- 2004 "Watched Over or Over Watched? Open-street CCTV in Australia" Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 37(2): 211-230. (with A. Sutton).
- 2004 "Media, Secrecy and Guantanamo Bay" Current Issues in Criminal Justice 16(1): 79-84. (with A. Third & S. Pickering)
- 2004 "Payday Lending: policy making for the financial fringe" Just Policy (33): 17-25.
- 2003 "Open-street CCTV in Australia" Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice (271): 1-6. (with A. Sutton)
- 2003 "The Melbourne Constable as Automatic Policeman" , Victorian Historical Journal. 74(2): 197-224.
- 2002 "Explaining the Criminal: Ned Kelly's Death Mask" , La Trobe Journal,(69): 51-58.
- 1996 "Community and Gender in Victorian Auckland" , New Zealand Journal of History 30 (1): 24-42
Non Refereed Publications
- 2006 "CCTV and Crime Prevention" Local Government Reporter, 5(3/4): 29-31.
- 2005 "Police and Policing" in A. Brown May & S. Swain (eds) Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
- 2005 Short entries (300-500 words), "1923 Police Strike", "Police Gazette", "Phrenology", "Marine Store Dealers", "Pawnbrokers" in A. Brown May & S. Swain (eds) Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
- 2004 Book Review of Norval Morris Machonichie's Gentlemen & Emsley, Dunstall & Godfrey (eds) Comparative Histories of Crime. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 37(2): 296-301.
- 2003 "A Vision of Control: The proliferation of CCTV in Australia",Arena Magazine , February-March, 63: 33-34.
- 2002 "Benevolent Vision? Public CCTV Surveillance" in Chris Chesner et al.Networks of Excellence: Fibreculture 2002, Sydney: Waikato Institute of Technology/Power Institute, p. 13.
- 2002 "The Decline of the Beat: Organisational Change in the Policing of Melbourne, 1854-1923", W. Rumbles & P. Havemann (eds) Prospects and Retrospects: Law and History 20 th Annual Law and History Conference Proceedings , Faculty of Law/Department of History, University of Waikato, pp. 115-121.
- 1997 Review of David Walker et al. Crimes and Trials, Labour History (73): 263-65.
Reports
- 2003 Open-Street CCTV in Australia: a comparative study of establishment and operation , Criminology Research Council: Canberra (with A. Sutton)
- 2003 Todd Mall Closed Circuit Television Feasibility Study. Alice Springs: Alice Springs Town Council.
- 2002 Payday Lending in Victoria: A Research Report , Consumer Law Centre Victoria: Melbourne.
External Grants
- 2007 Australia Research Council Discovery Grant DP0880323 "Closed Circuit Television Surveillance, Security Networks and Australian Public Space" Chief Investigator $60 000 over 2 years (2008-2010)
- 2006 Australia Research Council Linkage Grant LP0775304 "The Police Role in Victim and Witness Support" Chief Investigator Total Grant $914 427 over four years (2007-2011)
- 2002 "Public CCTV in Australia: A Comparative Study of Establishment and Operation", Criminology Research Council Grant 26/01-02, $36 062 awarded over six months. (with Dr Adam Sutton)