The Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference

Chris Cunneen

Professor, NewSouth Global Chair in Criminology, Faculty of Law, UNSW.

‘Reflections on Penal Culture & the Growth of Imprisonment in Australia’

The paper draws on work being undertaken as part of the Australian Prisons Project (www.app.unsw.edu.au).  It reflects on the reasons for the growth of imprisonment since the 1980s, in particular the transformations in penal discourse since the 1970s in Australia.  The paper grounds this reflection through a specific consideration of Indigenous imprisonment.

Chris Cunneen is the NewSouth Global Professor of Criminology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He has published widely in the area of juvenile justice, policing, criminal justice policy, restorative justice and Indigenous legal issues. His books include Indigenous Legal Relations  (Oxford University Press, 2009), The Critical Criminology Companion (Federation Press, 2008)  Juvenile Justice. Youth and Crime in Australia (Oxford University Press, 2007), Conflict, Politics and Crime (Allen and Unwin, 2001) Faces of Hate (Federation Press, 1997) and Indigenous People and the Law in Australia (Butterworths, 1995).

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