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Associate Professor Jude McCulloch

Biography
Research
Publications

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Email: Jude.McCulloch@arts.monash.edu.au
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Building 11 (Menzies), Clayton Campus

Associate Professor Jude McCulloch has degrees in Law, Commerce and Criminology.

Jude teaches

CRI1002 Criminal Justice in Action: Police, Courts and Corrections
CRI2050 CRI3050 International Crime and Justice
CRI4010 Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice

Biography

Prior to working in universities, Associate Professor Jude McCulloch worked as a lawyer for 16 years. Her practices as a lawyer involved providing legal services to disadvantaged members of the community, running test cases, involvement in law reform, and developing legal policy at all levels.

Research

2008 Australian Research Council Discovery: Justice for All: A History of the Victorian Community Legal Centre Movement $ 260,780 (Chief Investigator with Mark Peel)
2005 Monash University Industry Engagement Award – Industry and Community Engagement contract research Equal First ($7,500 plus certificate) Counter-Terrorism Policing and Culturally Diverse Communities (with Sharon Pickering -First CI, Dave Wright-Neville and Peter Lentini)
2005 Griffith University Excellence in Research on Improving Policing for Women Award (Presented by the Australasian Council of Women and Police, Darwin 2005)
2005 Monash Global Movements Institute $37,000 (part of six person team)
2005 Australian Research Council Discovery: Suppression of Financing of Terrorism Legislation and Measures $122,000 (Chief Investigator 1 with four others)
2004 Australian Research Council Linkage Grant: with Victoria Police $800,000 Counter terrorism policing and culturally diverse communities (Chief Investigator with three others)
2003 Small Grant Monash University $8,800 re: Suppressing the financing of terrorism: An effective response or a dangerous and unwarranted expansion of state power? (Chief Investigator with one other)
2002 Criminology Research Council $55,000 re: civil litigation against police (Chief Investigator 1 with one other)
1998 –99 Tender (with two others) Office of Women’s Affairs (administered through Victoria Legal Aid) for c.$140,000 project to deliver legal training on sexual assault issues to community workers. Specific duties involved researching and writing booklet, article, and train the trainer Manual.

Publications

Books

2008 The Violence of Incarceration Routledge (eds Phil Scraton and Jude McCulloch)
2008 Counter-terrorism Policing: Community, Cohesion and Security Pickering, McCulloch, J Wrighth-Neville, D Springer
2001 Blue Army: Paramilitary Policing in Victoria Melbourne University Press, Carlton
1992 Police Shootings In Victoria: You Deserve to Know the Truth Fitzroy: Fitzroy Legal Service [with the families of Mark Militano, Graeme Jensen, Jedd Houghton and the Flemington/Kensington Community Legal Centre]

Edited Refereed Journals

Special Edition, ‘Deaths in Custody and Detention’ Social Justice Vol. 33, No. 4, 2006 (editor with Phil Scraton)
Special Edition, ‘Beyond Trasnational Crime’ Social Justice, Vol. 34, No 2, 2007 (editor with Sharon Pickering)

Refereed Journal Articles

2008 'Counter-terrorism policing: towards social cohesion' /Crime, Law and Social Change /in print [2nd author with Pickering, S and Wright-Neville, D]
2007 'Transnational Crime as Productive Fiction' /Social Justice//,/ Vol. 34, No 2, pp. 19-32./ /
2006 ‘Australia’s counter terrorism laws and the Jack Thomas case’ Current Issues In Criminal Justice vol. 18, n2, pp 357-365
2006 ‘Introduction to Special Edition of Social Justice ‘Deaths in Custody and Detention’ Social Justice Vol. 33, No. 4 pp. 1-14 [ 2^nd author with Phil Scraton]
2006 ‘The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes: Hyper-militarism in the neo liberal economic free fire zone’ Social Justice Vol. 33, No. 4 pp. 92-106 [1^st author withVicki Sentas]
2006 Preempting justice: the suppression of financing of terrorism and the ‘war on terror’, Current Issues In Criminal Justice Vol 17 pp. 397-412 [1^st author with Bree Carlton]
2005 Dishonouring masculinities: The provocation defence in Victorian Law Australian Feminist Law Journal Vol 23 pp. 147- 164 [with Maher, J, Seagrave, M and Pickering, S]
2005 (In)security in the age of globalisation: human precariousness in the move from welfare to warfare state, 37 Just Policy pp. 19-24
2005 Loggerheads over old growth forests: overcoming the timber wedge in building civil society against state crime Vol 16 No 3 Current Issues in Criminal Justice pp. 351-367
2005 Suppressing the Financing of Terrorism: Proliferating State Crime, Eroding Censure and Extending Neo-colonialism British Journal of Criminology Vol 45 pp. 470-486 [first author with Pickering, S]
2005 Secret State, Transparent Subject: The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation in the Age of Terror The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology [first author with Tham, J] 38 No 3 pp. 400-415
2004 Review Essay ‘Unmasking the crimes of the powerful and Deviant knowledge’ Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology Vol 37 pp. 443-448
2004 Review Essay ‘[W]here women face the judgement of their sisters’: Review of HelenGarner, (2004) Joe Cinque’s Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law’, PanMacillan Current Issues in Criminal Justice Vol 16 pp. 233-240 [second author with Maher, J and Pickering, S]
2004 ‘Suppressing the financing of terrorism’ Current Issues in Criminal Justice [first author with Mclean, R, Pickering, S, Wright-Neville, D Tham. J] Vol 16 pp. 71-78
2004 Review Essay ‘Defending the Homeland’ Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 37 pp.155-159
2004 ‘National (in)security politics in Australia: fear and the federal election’ Alternative Law Journal vol 29 pp. 87-91
2004’ Blue armies, Khaki police and the cavalry on the new American frontier: Critical Criminology for the 21^st Century’ Critical Criminology pp. 309-326
2003 ‘Counter terrorism’, human security and globalisation—from welfare to warfare state? Current Issues in Criminal Justice vol 14 pp. 283-298
2002 ‘Counter terrorism and (in)security: fallout from the Bali bombing’ Borderlands ejournal Nov 2002 (http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/vol1no1_2002/mcculloch_counter.html)
2002 ‘War at Home: National Security after September 11’ Alternative Law Journal vol 27 pp. 87-91
2001 ‘The New McCarthyism’ Overland vol 165 pp. 4-9
2001 ‘S11, paramilitary surveillance and globalisation’ Current Issues in Criminal Justice pp. 311–323.
2000 ‘Policing the Mentally Ill’ Alternative Law Journal vol. 25 pp. 241–244.
2000 ‘Capsicum spray: Safe alternative or dangerous chemical weapon?’ Journal of Law and Medicine vol .7 pp. 311–323.
1998 ‘Craig Minogue v Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’ Alternative Law Journal vol. 23 no.5 October 1998 pp. 44–45.
1997 'Behind the headlines: How does the media portray fatal shootings by the police' Alternative Law Journal vol. 22 no. 3 June 1997 pp. 133–137.
1996 ‘Blue murder: press coverage of fatal police shootings’ Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology vol. 29, August 1996 pp.102–120.
1996 ‘Victoria on the Move! Move! Move!’ Alternative Law Journal vol. 21 June 1996 pp. 103–108 [with Marcus Clayton].
1995 ‘The Bongiorno affair’ Alternative Law Journal vol. 30 no. 3 June 1995 pp. 140–142.
1995 ‘Name and Address?’ Alternative Law Journal vol. 20 no. 6 Dec 1995 pp. 300–302 [with Philip Grano].
1994 ‘Police Shootings in Victoria’ Socio-legal Bulletin Special Edition: Disability Issues in the Criminal Justice System Summer 1994 pp. 34–40.
1994 ‘Putting the politics back into prosecutions’ Alternative Law Journal vol. 19 no. 2 [with G. Connellan & A. Isles], 1994 pp 78–82.
1994 ‘Brute force: the need for affirmative action in the Victoria police force’ Australian Feminist Law Journal vol. 1 [with L. Schetzer], 1994 pp. 45—62.
1989 ‘A longer arm for the law?’ Arena Journal no. 87 1989 pp. 41–44.

Book Chapters

(2008) 'Enemies Everywhere: (In)security Politics, Asylum Seekers and Other Enemies Within' /Asylum Seekers: International Perspectives on Interdiction and Deterrence’ /Cambridge Scholars Press (eds) Alperhan Babacan and Linda Briskman pp. 112-127
(2008) ‘Key Issues in Policing for Critical Criminology’ C Cunneen & T Anthony (eds) Critical Criminology Reader Federation Press pp. 206-217
(2006) “The Financial War on Terrorism: Human Security and Xenophobia’ in Islam and Human Security (eds) Mansouri, F and Akbarzadeh, S Cambridge Scholars Press: Newcastle pp. 67-85
(forthcoming 2008) Stripping prisoners’ rights in Violence and Incarceration (eds Jude McCulloch and Phil Scraton London: Routledge
2005 ‘Melbourne: The Life and Crimes’ (ed Colin Long, Kate Shaw & Claire Merlo) Sububan Fantasies: Melbourne Unmasked Australian Melbourne: Scholarly Publishing pp. 236-252
2002 ‘Civil actions against police’ Corruption and Reform in Australian Policing (ed. Tim Prenzler) New South Wales: Federation Press
2002 ‘With us or with the terrorists’ in Beyond September 11 (ed. Phil Scraton) London: Pluto Press pp. 54-59
2000 ‘Keeping the peace and making war: the police and the military—rhetoric and reality’ in Ethics in Public Life: Victoria and Police Culture (eds. Cody, T; Miller, S & James, S, Miller, S and O'Keefe, M.) Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000, pp. 182–204.
1995 ‘Women, prison, and law and order’ in Women and Imprisonment (eds. Women & Imprisonment Group) Fitzroy: Fitzroy Community Legal Service, 1995, pp 5–14.
1995 ‘All’s fair in love and war: policing women’ in Women and Imprisonment (eds. Women & Imprisonment Group) Fitzroy: Fitzroy Community Legal Service, 1995, pp. 36–45.
1995 ‘Brute Force: the need for affirmative action in the Victoria Police Force’ in Women and Imprisonment (eds. Women & Imprisonment Group) Fitzroy: Fitzroy Community Legal Service, 1995 pp. 46–58 [with Lou Schetzer].

Booklet

1999 Sexual Assault: The Law, Your Rights Sexual Assault: The Law, Your Rights : Victoria Legal Aid [co-author] pp. 26
2004 (revised 2 nd edition] Sexual Assault: The Law, Your Rights Victoria Legal Aid [co-author] pp. 26

Book Reviews

Newburn, T & Sparks, R (2004) Criminal Justice and Political Cultures: National and international dimensions of crime control Willan Publishing Current Issues in Criminology November 2005 Vol 17 pp. 320-21
Poynting, S, Noble, G, Tabar, P & Collins, J (2004) Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other Sydney Institute of Criminology: Sydney Alternative Law Journal August 2005 Vol 30 p. 202
Green, P and Ward, T (2004) State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption Pluto Press Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 2005 p.
Hoser, R (1999) Victoria Police Corruption 1& 2 Kotabi Publications Overland Spring 2002 p.108
Burke, A (2001) In Fear of Security: Australia’s Invasion Anxiety Annandale New South Wales: Pluto Press Overland Winter 2002 pp. 106-07
Cunneen, C (2001) Conflict Politics and Crime: Aboriginal Communities and the Police Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, Overland Autumn 2002, pp. 106-07
Cunneen, C (2001) Conflict Politics and Crime: Aboriginal Communities and the Police Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, Current Issues in Criminal Justice November 2001, pp.227–9.
Goldsmith, A & Lewis, C (eds.) (2000) Civilian Oversight of Policing: Governance, Democracy and Human Rights Oxford: Hart Publishing, Arena Magazine.
Finane, M (1994) Police and Government—Histories of Policing in Australia Melbourne: OUP for Alternative Law Journal vol. 20 no. 1 February 1995
Skolnick, J & Fyfe, J (1993) Above the Law: Police and the Excessive Use of Force New York: The Free Press for Current Issues in Criminal Justice vol. 5 November 1993

Major Reports

(2005) Civil Litigation Against Police by citizens between 1994-2002 http://www.aic.gov.au/crc/reports/200102-19.html(Funded by the Criminology Research Council, 1^st author with Darren Palmer) (55,000wds)
(2004) Major Report to Victoria Police, Counter-terrorism Policing and Culturally Diverse Communities, in confidenceb (3^rd Author with S, Pickering, D, Wright-Neville and P, Lentini) pp. 84
(2007) Counter-Terrorism Policing and Culturally Diverse Communities (3^rd Author with S, Pickering, D, Wright-Neville and P, Lentini) pp. 125

Review of major reports

Review and analysis of Australian country report for Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative ‘Stamping Out Rights: The Impact of anti-terrorism laws on policing’ 2007

http://www.humanrightsinitiative.org/publications/chogm/chogm_2007/chogm_report_2007.pdf

Published Conference Papers

‘The War on Terror’ Advance Australia Fair: Building Sustainability, Justice and Peace, Now We the People Proceedings of the Third National Conference 2006 pp. 130-131
‘Paramilitary policing, community policing and women’ Paper delivered at the Australasian Council of Women and Police 4^th Conference 2005 Australian Institute of Criminology web site
‘Globalisation, terror and the militarisation of law enforcement’ Proceeding of the ‘War on Terrorism: Democracy Under Challenge Conference’ Melbourne: Law School, Victoria University 2002 (cd)
‘All’s fair in love and war: woman and law and order’ Proceedings of the Women and the Law Conference Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology 1992 pp. 229–240.
‘Police shootings and community relations’ in The Police and the Community in the 1990’s Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 1990 pp. 153–60.
‘Police and guns’ in Weapons and Violence in Australia: Making the 1990’s Safer Chelsea: Gun Control Australia, 1990 pp. 108–114.
‘Police response to domestic violence, Victoria’ in the proceedings of the National Conference on Domestic Violence Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 1986 pp. 523–532.
‘The control and criminalisation of women’s bodies: prostitution’ ANZAAS Congress Papers 1986. Paper no. 251 pp. 1–16.

Refereed Conference Papers

2008 'Policing to Prevent Terrorism: Opportunities and challenges in the contemporary policy and legislative environment' Counter Terrorism International Conference Convened by Victoria Police, Victorian State Government, Australian Multicultural Foundation and Monash University.
2006 Anticipating Risk in the ‘War on Terror’: Preventive Paradigm or Recipe for Disaster? Community Development in a ‘Global Risk Society’ Hosted by Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation Deakin University.

Articles in Professional Journals, Magazine & Newspapers

2008 'Perils of Justice by Crystal Ball' /Herald Sun /newspaper 22 September 2008 [with Sharon Pickering] http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24380331-5000117,00.html
2007 'The United States as the World's Jailer in the "war on terror"' December/January 2006/7 /Arena Magazine/ December/January pp. 9-10
2007 ‘In the Occupied Territory, Howard targets the “enemy” within’ Agenewspaper 6 July 2007 http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/07/05/1183351371041.html
2005 ‘State of Emergency: The militarization of civil society’ Dissent No 19 Summer 2005/2006 pp. 7-9
2006 ‘Militarism, policing and women: Is the force still with us?’ Australasian Council of Women and Policing Journal
2005 ‘Secrecy, Silence and State Terror’ June/July 2005 Arena Magazine pp. 46-47 [with Tham, J]
2005 ‘Social Science Research and Diversity: What can it teach us?’ Australian Mosaic pp. 33-35 [with Pickering, S]
2004 ‘The neo-liberal fear factory: Or how Howard plans to win the federal election’ ArenaMagazine June /July 2004 pp. 23-26
2003 ‘Blue armies, Khaki police and the cavalry on the new American frontier’ Arena Magazine December 2003/January 2004 pp. 34-37
2003 ‘A thin political edge of a military wedge’ Opinion piece Canberra Times newspaper 29 October 2003
2002 ‘The end of liberal democracy’ Opinion piece Age newspaper 3 May 2002
2001 ‘Policing and anti-globalisation movements’ Opinion piece Age newspaper 24 July 2001. Reprinted in newsletter of the Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights (Deakin University) September
2001 ‘S11: the courts will have the last word’ Opinion piece, Age newspaper, 15 June 2001. Reprinted in newsletter of the Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights (Deakin University) September 2001
2001 ‘Police must halt their military march’ Opinion piece, Age newspaper, 26 April 2001. Reprinted in On Line Opinion (http://www.onlineopinion.com.au) 16 May 2001; Indemedia (on line independent news; http://www.indemedia.com) 27 April 2001; and newsletter of the Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights (Deakin University) June 2001.
2001 ‘Killing us softly’ (new police weapons) Arena Magazine March/April 2001 pp.
2000 ‘Disobedient citizens are citizens nonetheless’ Opinion piece (on police use of force at World Economic Forum) Age newspaper 16 September 2000.
2000 ‘Mandatory Sentencing: Creating an incarcerated generation' Arena Magazine June/July 2000 pp. 33–36.
2000 ‘A dirty deal, done dirt cheap’ Opinion piece (on mandatory sentencing in the Northern Territory) Age newspaper 12 April 2000. Reprinted in Senator Cooney’s newsletter, ‘A dirty diversion deal on mandatory sentencing’ April/May 2000.
2000 ‘Keeping the police and military in check: Lessons from East Timor’ Arena Magazine February/March 2000 pp. 46–47.
1994 ‘Strip search: Naked abuse’ Alternative Law Journal vol. 19 no. 6 Dec 1994 pp. 289–290 [with Greg Connellan].
1993 ‘Bleeding the system: comparing Medicare fraud and social security fraud’ Health Issues no. 39 1993 pp. 11–15.
1993 ‘Police shootings: charges laid’ Alternative Law Journal vol. 18 no. 4 Aug 1993 pp. 195–196.
1992 ‘Heroes and martyrs in the "war on crime"?’ Alternative Law Journal vol. 17 no. 3 1992 pp. 135–137.
1991 ‘Walsh Street’ Legal Service Bulletin vol. 16 no. 4 1991 pp. 201–202.
1991 ‘Press coverage of fatal shootings by police’ Legal Service Bulletin vol. 16 no. 2 1991 pp. 70–72.
1989 ‘Armed and dangerous?: police shootings in Legal Service Bulletin vol. 14, no. 4 1989 pp. 171–174.
1989 ‘Prison video links’ Legal Service Bulletin vol. 14 no. 6 1989 pp. 293–294.
1988 ‘Victorian sentencing report released: the Starke reality’ Legal Service Bulletin vol. 13 no. 5 1988 pp. 208–210.
1988 ‘Bars on equal rights: women in prison’ Herald newspaper opinion piece, 1988.
1988 ‘Shoot first, ask questions now’ Herald newspaper opinion piece 1988.
1988 ‘Police killings: deadly force’ Legal Service Bulletin vol. 13 no. 2 1988 pp 56–57.
1988 ‘Women in prison’ Legal Service Bulletin vol. 13, no. 2, 1988 pp. 60–61.
1988 ‘Domestic violence: the Victorian experience’ Legal Service Bulletin vol. 13, no. 5 [with the Domestic Violence Working Group], 1988 pp. 202–204.

Refereeing of Articles for Refereed Journals

Feminist Review 2006 (article on women’s security in the context of national security)
Current Issue in Criminal Justice 2006 (article on sedition laws)
Borderlands 2006 (Australia’s anti terrorism laws and the Muslim community)
University of New South Wales Law Journal 2006 (balancing human rights and security)
Eras 2005 (comparing US Presidential rhetoric re Pearl Harbour and 9/11)
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 2005 (waterfront security post 9/11).
Borderlands 2005 (article on Australian foreign policy and the ‘war on terror’)
E Law - Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law 2004 (article on ASIO powers)
Current Issue in Criminal Justice 2004 (article on police attitude to firearms)
Just Policy 2004 (article on refugees, social cohesion and capital)
Current Issue in Criminal Justice 2003 (article on the ‘war on terror’ and its potential impact on the recruitment of ‘terrorists’)
Current Issue in Criminal Justice 2003 (article on right to silence and undercover police operations)
Labor & Industry 2002 (article on new managerialism and women in Australian police services)
Borderlands 2002 (article on proposed ASIO powers, international anti-terror legislation, and issues of philosophical universalism and human rights)
Women’s Studies International Forum 2001 (article on national and human security)
Just Policy 2000 (article on private prisons)
Current Issues in Criminal Justice 1999 (article on capsicum spray)
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 1998 (article on police carriage and use of firearms)

Supervision Experience

Associate Supervisor (25%) PhD ‘Imprisoning Histories: Prisoner Resistance in Jika Jika Maximum Security Prison’ (Monash University) Degree awarded 2005
Joint Supervisor (50%) MA Counter terrorism and interagency cooperation amongst Australian police forces (Monash University)
Associate Supervisor (20%) PhD The psychology of suicide terrorists (Monash University)
Joint Supervisor (50%) PhD The ‘war on terror’ and the international legal framework (Monash University)
Joint Supervisor (50%) PhD The ‘war on terror’, citizenship and exclusion in Australia (Monash University)
External Supervisor Masters (by research) Refugee detention and Agamben’s state of exception (Sydney University)
External Supervisor PhD ‘Torture and Truth: The Timorese Truth Commission’ (Victoria University, Wellington)
Supervisor Australian and New Zealand Work Place Project Masters

Awards To Supervised Students

2005 the Vice Chancellor's Commendation for Excellence in Doctoral Research to Dr Bree Carlton for her thesis, 'Imprisoning Histories: State Power and Prisoner Resistance in Jika Jika High-Security Unit 1980-1987'. Supervised by Associate Professors Mark Peel (HS) and Jude McCulloch (PSI)

Examination Experience

2008 PhD Thesis University of New South Wales 'Crimes of Exclusion: The Australian State's Responses to Unauthorised Migrants'
2007 4 Monash University Honours Thesis
2007 5 Masters in Criminology and Correction in the School of Sociology and Social Work, University of Tasmania
2007 2 Masters in Criminology and Correction in the School of Sociology and Social Work, University of Tasmania
2005 PhD thesis ‘Progressing Towards Conservatism. A Gramscian Challenge to the Conceptualisation of class, Agency, Corruption and Reform in “Progressive” Analyses of Policing’ (University of Western Sydney)
2004 Honours thesis ‘Their Day in Court: Young People’s Right to Participation as Understood by Solicitors and Youth Workers’ (University of Western Sydney)
2004 Honours thesis ‘Civil Actions against Australian Police (Griffith University)
2004 Various honours thesis (Monash University)

Selected Conference & Seminar and Professional Presentations

International Conference on Counter Terrorism – Counter Terrorism Policing and Culturally Diverse Communities Victoria Police, Monash University, Victoria Government and Australian Multicultural Foundation ‘Policing to Prevent Terrorism’, Melbourne, 2007 (Keynote)
The 5^th Australasian Women and Policing Conference: Women Leading Change, Australasian Council of Women and Policing ‘The Impact of Christine Nixon’s Leadership on the Victoria Police, Melbourne, 2007
Australasian Teaching Critical Criminology Conference University of Sydney Law School, Sydney, 2007
Sisters Inside International Conference ‘Is Prison Obsolete’, Darwin, 2007 (Keynote)
Asylum Seeker Symposium Convened by Centre for Applied Social Research RMIT and Centre for Human Rigths Education, Curtin University of Technology, 2006 (invited speaker)
Policy and Legislative Forum on counter-terrorism policy and law in Australia, Co Hosted by Monash University and Victoria Police 2006 (invited speaker)
Community Development in a ‘Global Risk Society’ Hosted by Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation Deakin University. Anticipating Risk in the ‘war on terror’ 2006 (Keynote)
Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference. Violence, Incarceration and the ‘war on terror’ 2006 (invited plenary speaker)
Women and Policing in the Asia Pacific Region. Australasian Council of Women and Policing. Women, community policing and paramilitary policing, 2005 (invited plenary speaker).
Now We the People conference. Trades Hall. Paper on the changing nature of state power in the ‘war on terror’, 2005 (invited)
Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference. Paper on preemptive criminal justice and the ‘war on terror’, 2005
New International Bookshop and Arena Magazine. Trades Hall. Seminar on fear and the federal election, 2004 (invited)
British Society of Criminology Conference. Portsmouth University, England, 2004
VictoriaLegal Aid. Seminar on sexual assault, the law, your rights, 2004 (invited)
Federation of Community Legal Centres. Seminar on non-lethal weapons and the introduction of the trial of Taser electro shock weapons by Victoria Police, 2004 (invited)
MonashUniversity, School of Social and Political Inquiry Women’s Studies and Gender Studies. Paper on Dystopia, fundamentalism and the ‘war on terror’, 2004
Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference. Paper on police military fusion post 9/11, 2003
LibertyVictoria and Free Speech Australia Paper on the ‘war on terror and domestic legislation, 2003 (invited)
MonashUniversity, School of Social and Political Inquiry Bridging the solitudes seminar series. Seminar on police military fusion post 9/11, 2003.
MonashUniversity Guest Lecture in History Deptartment. Lecture on Terror, counter-terror, mass murder, and the mass media, 2003.
VictoriaUniversity—Teach-In—War, The Middle East and ‘The New World Order’ . Presentation on the impact on civil liberties internationally and in Australia (invited speaker), 2003.
Centre for Studies in Crime and Social Justice (Edge Hill) in collaboration with the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control. Presentation at opening Plenary ‘State of Terror’, (invited speaker), 2003
Trades Hall Council Executive meeting. Presentation on the implications of proposed anti-terrorist measures on trade unions (invited speaker), 2002.
Victorian Peace Network Teach-In—The war on Iraq: Australian responses. Presentation at Plenary session, (invited speaker), 2002.
DeakinUniversity Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Forum at the RACV Club on the Bali Bombing. Presentation on counter-terrorism and human (in)security in the context of the Bali bombing, 2002.
Sponsored by City of Melbourne, 3RRR & University of Technology Sydney City/State A critical forum on surveillance & social control in our society. Presentation on Australia’s new or proposed anti-terrorist laws, (invited speaker), 2002.
SKA/TV & Trades Hall Forum to commemorate thirtieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Northerm Ireland. Presentation making links between Northern Ireland in 1972 and Australia today, (invited speaker) 2002.
Human Rights Alliance Public Meeting on proposed new ASIO powers. Presentation on nature of proposed legislative changes and implications for democracy, (invited speaker)2002.
Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference. Paper on new police weapons, 2001.
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University. Cultural Encounters with Law Conference. Paper ‘S11, Globalisation, terrorists and counterterrorists’ (invited speaker), 2001.
New International Bookshop/Fabian Society/Labor History Society/Arena magazine/Overland Magazine Joint Forum. Presentation on paramilitary policing in Australia (invited speaker), 2001.
Key Centre for Ethics Law and Governance. Building Police Integrity Conference. Paper on civil actions against police, 2001
National Centre for Australian Studies: Seminar Series Monash University (invited speaker), 2001.
Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament—Australian Militarism in an Increasingly Dangerous World. Paper on paramilitary policing in Australia, 2000.
Experimenta—multimedia group. Paper on paramilitary surveillance (invited speaker), 2000
Australian Institute of Criminology Histories of Crime and Punishment conference. Paper on the history of policing in Victoria, 1999.
Melbourne University presentation to Post Graduate workshop: Blue Army: Paramilitary policing in Victoria, 1999.
Clean kills and bloody slaughters: making and unmaking of law and order. International Conference on Law and Society La Trobe University (in collaboration with Dr Mark Minchinton), 1998
Policing in Australia. Asia–Pacific Anti-Military Forum (invited speaker & workshop convenor), 1997
Police in Victoria: military approaches to policing. Alternative Law Journal & Victorian Council of Civil Liberties Seminar (invited speaker), 1996
The law in practice. Australian Women’s Research Centre Conference—Women and the Law: Judicial Attitudes as they Impact on Women (invited speaker), 1993.
‘Brute force: the need for affirmative action in the Victorian police force’ Australian & New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference, 1993
‘All’s fair in love and war: women and law and order’ Australian Institute of Criminology Conference: Women and the Law (invited speaker), 1991.
Police shootings in Victoria. Academics for Justice: Miscarriages of Justice (invited speaker), 1991
Police shootings in Victoria. Australian Institute of Criminology & Queensland Criminal Justice Commission Joint Conference: Community Policing, 1990
Police powers and civil liberties. Victorian Law Institute & Victorian Law Institute Joint Seminar Police in Society (invited speaker), 1987.
‘The control and criminalisation of women’s bodies: prostitution’ ANZAAS Conference: Control & Criminalisation of Women’s Bodies (invited speaker), 1986
‘Police response to domestic violence, Victoria’ Australian Institute of Criminology Conference: Domestic Violence, 1986.

Boards & Committees

2006 – present Faculty Board, Monash University
2006 – present Associate Professor Promotions Committee, Monash University
2005 – present Australian Research Council OZ Reader
2005 –2006 Human Research and Ethics Committee, Monash University
2005 – 2007 Outside Studies Program Committee, Monash University (Arts Faculty)
2003–present Victorian Civil Rights Network
2002/3 Policy Advisory Committee, Deakin Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights
2002 Arts Faculty Consultative Committee on academic workloads, Deakin University
2001 Human Research & Ethics Committee, Deakin University
2000/3 Deputy Chair Human Research & Ethics Committee, Arts Faculty, Deakin University
1996–present Trustee of Wallace Scott Trust Fund. Fund set up to support research on police issues.
1994–96 Chairperson Legal Aid Commission of Victoria, Legal Aid Grant review panel
1989–93 Project work on police shootings funded by Uniting Church ($100,000+)