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Professor Sharon Pickering

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Biography
Research interests
Grants
Publications

Biography

Professor Sharon Pickering researches irregular border crossing and has written in the areas of refugees and trafficking with a focus on gender and human rights. She currently leads a series of ARC projects focusing on the intersections of security and migration. She has previously worked in Northern Ireland, on counter-terrorism policing, and human rights and women in South East Asia. She is currently head of the Criminology program at Monash University and is the Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. She has recently taken up an ARC Future Fellowship on Border Policing and Security.

Research interests

Refugees, borders and justice
Policing, terrorism and security
Human rights and state crime
Gender persecution

Sharon researches issues of policing, human rights, criminalisation and state crime.

Current research grants include:

ARC Future Fellowship (2011-2014)
Policing the border: security, human rights and gender
Women are the fastest growing group undertaking extra-legal border crossing, yet we know little about the gendered character of border enforcement. This project will develop a regulatory framework for border policing that is adaptable to the gender determinants of mobility, human rights and the future challenges of border management.

ARC Discover Project (2010-2013)
Fluid Security in the Asia Pacific
Professor Pickering, Dr Weber, Dr Segrave and Dr Tazreiter (UNSW)
Fluid Security in the Asia Pacific
At a time of global and regional insecurity fuelled by economic and terrorism concerns, this project will provide a rigorous evidence base for the Asia Pacific to better manage mobility in a more inclusive way. This directly fits with understanding our region and the world by providing an evidence base for better understanding of how and why people move throughout the Asia Pacific and their impact and experiences of security. It also contributes to protecting Australia from terrorism and crime by identifying the reasons and ways people move in unauthorized ways and therefore to help to design systems that reduce experiences of victimization and criminalisation.

ARC Discovery Project (2011-2014)
Exporting Risk: The Australian Deportation Project
Professor Pickering, Dr Weber, Dr Grewcock (UNSW), Dr Segrave
This study will investigate the use of deportation. It will test our claim that deportation has a significant impact on institutions, individuals and communities, and will contribute to a more ethically and legally robust approach to deportation.

ARC Linkage Project (2011-2013)
Targeted Crime: Policing and Social Cohesion
Prof Sharon J Pickering, A/Prof Gail Mason, (USyd) Prof Jude McCulloch, Dr JaneMaree Maher, Prof Lorraine A Mazerolle (UQ) , Dr Rebecca L Wickes,(UQ) Mr Jeffrey S Pope (VicPol), Mr Ashley E Dickinson(VicPol), Ms Leanne T Sargent, (VicPol), Dr David L Ballek (VicPol),
This project will undertake a criminological study of the policing of targeted incidents and crime, that is, incidents and crimes motivated by bias, prejudice or hatred towards members of particular groups, communities and individuals. It will develop a best practice policing framework for targeted crimes and incidents.

Publications

Books

Pickering, S., and Weber, L., (2011), Borders and Globalization: Deaths at the Global Frontier, London: Palgrave.
Pickering, S., (in press 2010). Women, Borders and Globalization, New York: Springer.
Segrave, M., Milivojevic, S., and Pickering, S., (2009), Sex Trafficking: International Context and Response, Devon: Willan Publishing, pp345.
Pickering, S., Wright-Neville, D., and McCulloch, J., (2008), Counter-Terrorism Policing, New York: Springer, pp142.
Pickering, S., and Weber, L., (2006), Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control, New York: Springer.
Pickering, S., and Lambert, C., (eds), (2004), Global Issues, Women and Justice, Sydney: The Federation Press/Institute of Criminology Monograph Series, pp388.
Pickering, S., (2005), Refugees and State Crime, Sydney: The Federation Press, pp224.
Lambert, C., Pickering, S., and Alder, C., (2003), Critical Chatter: Women and Human Rights in South East Asia, Durham: Carolina Academic Press, pp193.
Pickering, S., (2002), Women, Policing and Resistance in Northern Ireland, Belfast: Beyond the Pale, pp214.

Book chapters

McCulloch, J., and Pickering, S., (2010) Counter-terrorism Policing, in McGarrity, N., Lynch, A., and Williams, G., (eds), Terrorism Law and Response, London: Routledge.
Pickering, S, (2009), Journeying Through Criminology, in Critical Voices in Criminology, US: Lexington Press.
Pickering, S., (2008), The New Criminals: Refugees and Asylum Seekers, in Anthony, T., and Cuneen, C., The Critical Criminology Companion, Sydney: The Federation Press.
Pickering, S., and McCulloch., J., (2008) Refugees and the Violence of Incarceration, in Scraton, P., and McCulloch, J., (eds), The Violence of Incarceration, London, Routledge.
Pickering, S., (2008), "The Globalisation of Violence Against Refugees", in Devetak, R., (eds), Globalisation and Violence, London: Routledge.
Segrave, M., and Pickering, S., (2006 forthcoming), "Sex Trafficking: Destination Australia", in Pattamaporn Busapathumrong (ed) Social Policy in Transition In Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thammasat University Press.
Pickering, S., and Weber, L., (2006) "Beyond Borders", in Pickering, S., and Weber, L., (eds), Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control, New York: Springer.
Pickering, S., and Weber, L., (2006)"Borders, Mobility and technologies of Control", in Pickering, S., and Weber, L., (eds), Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control, New York: Springer.
Pickering, S., (2006), "Border Talk" in Pickering, S., and Weber, L., (eds), Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control, New York: Springer.
Pickering, S., and Kneebone, S., (2006), "Australia and the Pacific", in Kneebone, S., and Rawlings, Rawlings, F., (eds), The Regionalisation of Refugee Policy, Oxford: Berghan.
Kneebone Kneebone, S., and Pickering, S., (2005), "Australia and South East Asia", in Kneebone, S., and Rawlings, Rawlings, F., (eds), The Regionalisation of Refugee Policy, Oxford: Berghan.
Pickering, S., (2004), "The Narrativisation of Gender and Criminality in the Refugee Determination Process", in Pickering, S., and Lambert, C., (eds), (2003), Global Issues, Women and Justice, Sydney: Federation Press/Institute of Criminology Monograph Series.
Pickering, S., and Gard, M., (2004), Everybody's business: the privatisation of women's imprisonment, in Pickering, S., and Lambert, C., (eds), (2004), Global Issues, Women and Justice, Sydney: Federation Press/Institute of Criminology Monograph Series.
Pickering, S., (2002), "Domestic Violence in Australia", in Summers, R., and Hoffman, A., (eds), Domestic Violence: a Global Perspective, Westport: Greenwood Publishing.
Pickering, S., and Alder, C., (2000), "Women and Criminal Justice: trends for the new millennium", in Chappell, D., and Wilson, P., (eds), (2000), The Australian Criminal Justice System: 2000 and Beyond, Butterworths, Sydney.
Pickering S., (2000) "Female Crime in Australia", in Rafter, N., (ed), Encyclopaedia of Women and Crime, Oryx Press, Phoenix.
Pickering, S., (2000), "Women's Experiences of Policing in Northern Ireland" in Rounds, D., International Criminal Justice: Issues in Global Perspective, Allyn & Bacon, USA.

Refereed journal articles

Pickering, S., and McCulloch, J., (2010), Counter-Terrorism Policing and the Haneef Case, Policing and Society, 21-38.
Maher, J., and Pickering, S., (2009) Noisy Regulatory Spaces and Sex Work, Refereed Conference Proceedings of the Australian Sociological Association, Leonard Bloom Prize.
McCulloch, J., and Pickering, S., (2009), Pre-Emption and Counter-Terrorism, British Journal of Criminology, 49 (5) 628-645.
Pickering, S., McCulloch, J., and Wright-Neville, D., (2008), Counter-terrorism policing: towards social cohesion, Crime, Law and Social Change, Vol. 40, pp 91-109
Pickering, S., (2008), Transnational Crime and Refugee Protection, Social Justice, Vol 34, No. 2. pp47-61.
Pickering, S., (2006), "Crimes of the State: the persecution and protection of refugees", Journal of Critical Criminology.
Maher, J., Segrave, M., Pickering, S., and McCulloch, J., (2005), "Dishonouring Masculinities: the provocation defence in Victorian Law, Australian Feminist Law Journal, Vol 23, pp 147-164.
McCulloch, J., and Pickering, S., (2005) Suppressing the Financing of Terrorism: Proliferating State Crime, Eroding Censure and Extending Neo-Colonialism, British Journal of Criminology Special Edition on State Crime, Vol 45, pp470-486.
Wilson, D., Third, A., and Pickering, S., (2005) Secrecy, Media and Guantanamo Bay, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 16, 1, pp 79-84.
Pickering, S., Wonders, N., Danner, M., and Weaver, D., (2004), Globalisation and Criminal Justice: an interactive collaborative approach to global learning, Refereed Conference Proceeding, EdMedia Conference, Switzerland, June 2004:
McCulloch, J., Pickering, S., Wilson, R., Choong, J., and Wright-Neville, D., (2004), Financing Terror, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 16, 1, pp 71-78.
Pickering, S., (2004), "Border Terror: policing, forced migration and terrorism", Journal of Global Change, Peace and Security, pp 211-232.
Pickering, S., (2004), "The production of sovereignty and the rise of transversal policing: people smuggling and federal policing", Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Vol 37, No 3, pp 340-358
Pickering, S., and Third, A., (2003), "Castrating Conflict: Gender(ed) terrorists and terrorism domesticated" in Social Alternatives, Volume 22, Number 2, pp8-16.
Pickering, S., and Lambert C., (2003) International Human Rights Discourse: domestic violence and women living on the Thai Burma border, Forced Migration Review, Issue 17, pp 41-43.
Pickering, S., (2003), Gender and Persecution: a response to the UNHCR Gender Guidelines, Comparative Law Yearbook 2003, Auckland: New Zealand Association of Comparative Law, pp347-358.
Pickering, S., (2003), "Women and the police in Northern Ireland: No Police Thank you" in Irish Journal of Feminist Studies, Volume 5, Issues 1 and 2, pp 34-54.
Pickering, S., and Lambert, C., (2002), Deterrence: Australia’s Refugee Policy, Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Refugee Issues and Criminology, Volume 14, Number 1, pp 65-86.
Pickering, S., and O'Kane, M., (2002), Policing, Exile and Gender in States' Borderlands, Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Refugee Issues and Criminology, Volume 14, Number 1, pp 106-110.
Pickering, S., and Lambert, C., (2001), Immigration Detention Centres, Human Rights and Criminology in Australia, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Volume 13, Number 2, pp 219-223.
Pickering, S., (2001), "Undermining the Sanitised Account: violence and emotionality in the field in Northern Ireland", in The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 41, pp 485-501.
Pickering, S., (2001), "Engendering Resistance: Women and Policing in Northern Ireland", in Policing and Society, Volume 11, Numbers 3-4, pp 337-358.
Pickering, S., (2001), "Original Deviance and Normality: Representations of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the Australian Press", Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 14, Number 2, pp 169-186.
Pickering, S., (2000), "The Press of Asylum", in Forced Migration Review, No. 8, pp 31-34.
Lambert, C., and Pickering, S., (2000), "Violence as another name: the use of human rights discourse by domestic violence and women’s crisis centres in South East Asia", Journal of Violence Against Women, pp 24-35.
Pickering, S., (2000), "Motherhood, the family and sexuality: women's formal contact with policing in Northern Ireland" in Women and Criminal Justice, Vol. 15, No.3, pp 49-82.
Ross, J., Barak, G., Ferrell, J., Kauzlarich, D., Hamm, M., Friedrichs, D., Matthews, R., Pickering, S., Presdee, M., (1999), "The State of State Crime Research", in Humanity and Society, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp272-281.