Dr David Baker
Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice and Public Policy
Dr David Baker is a Senior Lecturer, Criminal Justice, School of Humanities , Communications and Social Sciences, at Monash University . From 2001-2005, he was a Senior Lecturer, Criminal Justice and Criminology, School of Political and Social Inquiry. From 1991 to 2000, he was a Lecturer in the Department of Police and Justice Studies at Monash University . Previous to his Monash lecturing appointment, he was a Training Instructor at the Victoria Police Academy for five years.
His main area of research is public order policing. His most significant contribution is a single-authored book, Batons and Blockades: Policing Industrial Disputes in Australasia , Circa, 2005. This original book, which examines and analyses changes in the way police services in Australia and New Zealand control the workplace dynamics of industrial conflict, is based on public order policing theory and practice within an industrial relations context. He is a member of the International Policing Research Consortium that is near completing the International Comparative Research Project on Police Use of Force. David has researched and published a number of interdisciplinary articles and chapters in relation to police history, the strategic role of the Australian Federal Police, South Pacific policing, police unionism, criminal justice, labour history, industrial relations and politics. He is an Associate Investigator for the ARC Research Centre of Excellence for Policing and Security from 2007-2111 that is centred at Griffith University . His involvement focuses on Project 1.2 'Understanding conflict in vulnerable communities'.
David has designed and taught a range of university subjects including Police Organisations and Practice', Structure and Organisation of Policing',Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice', Criminal Justice in Action: Police, Courts and Corrections', Comparative Policing', Development of Policing in Australia', Policing, Politics and Protest' and Liberty and Order'. In 2006, he designed two new Criminal Justice units (Crime: Theory and Practice' and The Criminal Justice Process') for the Gippsland campus and through off-campus learning. David teaches these first-year units, as well as the new unit,Comparative Criminal Justice: an International Perspective' in 2008.
Research Interests / Publications
Authored Book
Baker, D. (2005) Batons and Blockades: Policing Industrial Disputes in Australasia , Melbourne Publishing Group, 2005.
Book Chapters
Baker, D. (2008) 'The "new" policing of industrial discord'. In G Michelson, S Jamieson and J Burgess (eds.), New Employment Actors: Development fromAustralia. Bern : Pete Lang AG. pp. 67-87.
Lewis, C., Baker, D. (2006)“Australia’ World Police Encyclopaedia, Editor-in-Chief, Dilip Das, Routledge, New York , 2006, pp.41-50. (50% contribution)
Baker, D. (2006) ‘Solomon Islands, World Police Encyclopedia, Editor-in-Chief, Dilip Das, Routledge, NY , 2006, pp.755-759.
Baker, D. (2006) ‘Vanuatu’, World Police Encyclopedia, Editor-in-Chief, Dilip Das, Routledge, NY, 2006, pp.899-903.
Baker, D. (2005) Policing Vulnerable Pacific States from Without and Within, in J. Henderson and G. Watson (eds) Securing a Peaceful Pacific, University of Canterbury , pp.223-228.
Baker, D. (2002) Public Order Policing in T. Prenzler and J. Ransley (eds)Police Reform: Building Integrity, Federation Press, Annandale , pp.39-52.
Baker, D. (2001) Barricades and Batons: A Historical Perspective of the Policing of Major Industrial Disorder in Australia in M. Enders & B. Dupont (eds) Policing the Lucky Country, Federation Press, Annandale , pp.199-222.
Baker, D. (2001) Community Police Peacekeeping Amidst Bitter and Divisive Industrial Confrontation in R. Markey (ed), Labour and Community: Historical Essays, University of Wollongong Press , Wollongong , pp.174-200.
Refereed Journal Articles
Baker, D. “Policing the ‘Bastard Boys’: Reality and Significance of the Police-Union “Accord” during the National Waterfront Dispute” Flinders Journal of Law Reform, 2007-8, vol.10, no.3, pp.357-372.
Baker, D. “Policing Industrial Conflict in Rural and Regional Settings: Local and ‘Outside’ Approaches” International Journal of Rural Crime, vol.1, 2007, pp.79-92.
Baker, D. “From Batons to Negotiated Management: The Transformation of Policing Industrial Disputes inAustralia ” Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, Oxford University Press, vol.1, no.4, 2007; pp.390-402.
Baker, D. (2007) Policing, Politics and Civil Rights: Analysis of the Policing of Protest against the 1999 Chinese President's Visit to New Zealand Police Practice and Research: an International Journal, vol.8, no.3, pp.219-238.
Baker, D. (2005) Policing the Single-Issue protest: The Trials of Trees, Tripods and Tunnels, Law Enforcement Executive Forum ( Western Illinois University ), vol.5, no.3, pp.147-160.
Baker, D. (2004) The Re-invention of Australian Federal Policing in Pursuit of National Security International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, vol.28. no.2, pp.145-168.
Baker, D. (2003) Policing Industrial Disputation: Lessons from the Lyttelton Picket Line Tragedy New Zealand Journal of Industrial Relations, vol.28, no. 3, pp.258-270.
Baker, D. (2002) The Changing Australian Prototype of Policing, Pickets and Public Order International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, vol.26. no.1, pp.1-28.
Baker, D. (2002) You Dirty Bastards, Are You Fair Dinkum? Police and Union Confrontation on the Wharf New Zealand Journal of Industrial Relations, vol.27, no.1, pp. 33-47 (special edition).
Baker, D. (2001) The Fusion of Picketing, Policing and Public Order Theory within the Industrial Relations Context of the 1992 APPM Dispute at BurnieAustralian Bulletin of Labour, vol.27, no. 1, pp.61-77.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Baker, D. (2007) A Tale of Two Towns: Industrial Pickets, the Police and the Judiciary in Markey, R. (ed) Trans Tasman Labour History: Comparative or Transnational? Proceedings of the Trans Tasman Labour History Conference, Auckland University of Technology, pp.11-22.
Baker, D. (2003) The Volatile Mix of Pickets, Policing and Politics: A Return to SEQEB in Bowden, B. and Kellett, J. (eds) Transforming Labour: Work, Workers, Struggle and Change : Proceedings of the Eighth National Labour History Conference, Griffith University , Brisbane , pp.15-22.
Baker, D. (2003) Policing the Tragedy of the Lyttelton Community Picket Line in Teicher, J. and Holland , P. (eds) Reflections and New Directions: Proceedings of the Seventeenth Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Melbourne.
Baker, D. (2002) Police and Union Confrontation on the Wharf in McAndrew, I. and. Geare, A. (eds) Celebrating Excellence: Proceedings of the 16 th Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Queenstown, New Zealand, pp.32-43.
Baker, D. (2001) Policing the 1873 Lothair mines dispute at Clunes, in Griffiths, P. and Webb, R. (eds) Work Organisation Struggle : Proceedings of the Seventh National Labour History Conference, ANU, Canberra , pp.26-33.
Baker, D. (2001) The Fusion of Picketing, Policing and Public Order Theory within the Industrial Relations Context of the 1992 APPM Dispute at Burnie in Kelly, D. (ed) Crossing Borders: Employment, Work, Markets and Social Justice Across Time, Discipline and Place : Proceedings of the Fifteenth Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Wollongong, pp.1-10.
Baker, D. (2000) Meat in the Sandwich: The Vicissitudes of Policing Contemporary Industrial Disputes in Burgess, J. and Strachan, G. (eds)Research on Work, Employment and Industrial Relations 2000: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Newcastle, pp.199-207.
Articles
Lewis, C., Baker, D. (2006) Australia ' World Police Encyclopaedia , Editor-in-Chief, Dilip Das, Routledge , New York .
Baker, D. (2006) Solomon Islands ', World Police Encyclopedia , Editor-in-Chief, Dilip Das, Routledge , NY .
Baker, D. (2006) Vanuatu ', World Police Encyclopedia , Editor-in-Chief, Dilip Das, Routledge , NY .
Baker, D. (2006) Tonga ', World Police Encyclopedia , Editor-in-Chief, Dilip Das, Routledge , NY .
Baker, D. (2006) Tuvalu ' World Police Encyclopedia , Editor-in-Chief, Dilip Das, Routledge , NY .
Contact Details
- Phone:
- 03 9902 6387
- Fax:
- 03 9903 2795
- Office:
- 1E228
- Email:
- David.Baker@arts.monash.edu.au
- Address:
- Criminal Justice
School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences
Monash University
P.O.Box 197
Caulfield East, 3145