Corporate Crime
Description
The thematic group brings together scholars to advance theory, knowledge and practice in the study of corporate or so-called ‘white-collar’ crime. Criminology has long-recognised that in spite of the huge losses to victims and harms to society the criminal legal system has great difficulty in conceptualising and responding to corporate crime. Organisational harms may be redefined and responded to as regulatory offences, if at all. This thematic group will bring together members who undertake research in this area including:
- Harms caused by corporations – including environmental and workplace harms
- Victims of corporate crime
- The intersectionality of corporate and state crime
- Multinational corporations
- Crime and misconduct against organisations
- Organisational theory
- Regulatory models and regulatory capture
- Construction of the corporation as a legal subject
- Establishing organisational culpability
- Punishment of the corporation
- Cultural representations of corporate crime
- Public knowledge and understanding of corporate crime
Aims and Objectives
- Foster the exchange and deepening of ideas between scholars operating in Australia/New Zealand-Aotearoa and globally
- Form a cross-institutional research network that promotes communication, research, collaboration, dissemination, mentoring and support
- Enhance the relevance and impact of existing and emerging research areas
- Provide a ‘corporate crime’ stream within the ANZSOC conference program
- Maintain a presence on the ANZSOC website and act as a point of first contact for information about this research area
Convenor
Douglas Allan, Charles Sturt University
Jamie Ferrill, Charles Sturt University
Membership List:
Last updated February 2026
- Rhiannon Bandiera, Maynooth University
- Simone Baran, Jurisprudence
- Sally Bishop, University of the Sunshine Coast
- Tamara Brennan, Department of Justice and Community Safety (VIC)
- Julia Britton, Queensland Health
- Maxim Calvitto, LaTrobe University
- Lok Lee Cho, University of Hong Kong
- Tshering Choden, Deakin
- Hazel D’Cruz, VicTrack
- Chloe Debarge, Edith Cowan University
- Dunya Elhayek, UNSW
- Ashley Elridge-Burton
- Moses Faleolo, Victoria University of Wellington
- Ebony Franzi-Jones, Swinburne
- Isabella Grover, Vanguard Investments Australia
- Alara Güner, University of Newcastle
- Kendrick Guo, University of Sydney
- Fiona Haines, University of Melbourne
- Lauren Harrison, Department for Education
- Alison Husain, Griffith
- Colin King, University of Sydney
- Jade Lindley, UWA
- Andrew Low, SA Police
- Corinne Marsland, Deakin
- Anton Moiseienko, ANU
- Keeley Morgan, Griffith
- Trent Morrison-Francis, Griffith
- Ryan Neeliyanickal, University of Melbourne
- Lillian Penny, Sunshine Coast Council
- Swe Zin Linn Phyu, Auckland University of Technology
- Amanda Porter
- Kymberly Radivojevic, Murdoch University
- Dimitri Razos, University of Melbourne
- Alexandra Ridgway, RMIT
- Shane Ryan, Griffith
- Lora Scampoli, Healing Lotus
- Alex Simpson, Macquarie University
- Constance Skeffington, University of Sydney
- Russell Smith, Flinders University
- Rebecca Tscheresch, Diabetes SA
- Hamuera Tutaki, University of Otago
- Peter Wah Fun Mok, Chambers, Hong Kong