Australian and New Zealand Historical Criminology Network
Description
Historical criminology is focused on utilising and embedding historical research and methods into the study of criminology. Historical research about crime, criminal justice and criminology can aid in bridging gaps in contemporary criminological knowledge, as well as providing a deeper and longitudinal understanding of crime, criminal justice and criminology more broadly.
Research that is historical criminology or history of crime in nature has been undertaken into some of the following topics by Australian and New Zealand academics: female offenders, offending (in general), experiences of imprisonment and prisons as sites for crime and criminality, policing, the courts and criminal prosecutions, various types of crime including property and interpersonal offences, colonial and post-colonial criminal justice and its authorities, genocide in Australia and New Zealand, interrogations of criminological method, legal history, and geographies of crime in the colonies.
International researchers have also investigated Australian and New Zealand geographies when researching topics such as penal transportation, imprisonment, offending in the colonies, colonial criminal justice and its authorities, and interrogations of criminological method.
Aims and Objectives
The aim of this group is to promote historical scholarship within Australian and New Zealand criminology, crime and criminal justice studies, and to establish a means for Australian, New Zealand and international researchers who are working across a range of disciplines to share their knowledge and foster new collaboration opportunities.
This group aims to promote historical methods within criminology and demonstrate the value and opportunities that historical resources and scholarship can bring to the teaching and study of criminology in Australia and New Zealand.
The overall objective is to strengthen Australian and New Zealand criminology through attention to historical research into crime, criminal justice and criminology. This group will contribute to an interdisciplinary method of historical criminology, analysis of crime, criminal justice and criminology.
Convenor
Dr Anastasia Dukova , University of Tasmania
Membership List:
Last updated February 2026
- Matthew Allen, University of New England
- Kristen Anderson, Griffith
- Kristi Anderson, University of Queensland
- Lucy Badman, Mitchelton State High School
- Simone Baran, Jurisprudence
- Tayla Barber, The University of Queensland
- Casey Berte, Insight PBS
- Lisa Billington, University of Technology Sydney
- Sally Bishop, University of the Sunshine Coast
- Paul Bleakly, University of New Haven
- Trevor Bradley, Victoria University of Wellington
- Shobanah Brind, University of Newcastle
- Stefanie Brown, QUT
- Christine Carney, Griffith
- Christine Childs, University of Tasmania
- Lok Lee Cho, The University of Hong Kong
- Tschering Choden, Deakin
- Annette Cosgrove, Charles Sturt University
- Stanislava Cubra, Swinburne University of Technology
- Paige Darby, Monash University
- Chloe Debarge, Edith Cowan University
- Dunya Elhayek, UNSW
- Ashley Elridge-Burton
- Edwin Ferreira, Murdoch University
- Jason Feruglio
- Ebony Franzi-Jones, Swinburne University
- Isabella Grover, Vanguard Investments Australia
- Karen Hamer, The University of Texas at Dallas
- Richard Harding, UWA
- Caroline Ingram, University of Western Australia
- Laura Johnstone, University of Canterbury
- Andy Kaladelfos, UNSW
- Jesse Kuskopf, Queensland Police Service
- Olivia Larsen, QLD Police Service
- Tuivalu Lauganiu, University of Auckland
- Ying Liu, Griffith
- Marinella Marmo, Flinders University
- Corrine Marsland, Deakin
- Natalie Maystorovich, Sydney University
- Megan McElhone, Monash University
- Amber McKinley, Centre for Customs and Excise Studies
- Jennine Merigan, Department of Justice, WA
- Nick Moreno, University of Sydney
- Keeley Morgan, Griffith
- Trent Morrison-Francis, Griffith University
- Maria Mouton, LaTrobe University
- Eudoxia Nattas, ULC
- Ryan Neeliyanickal, University of Melbourne
- Jacquinta Nickle, NDIS Provider
- Ray Nickson, University of Newcastle
- Shannon O’Keefe
- Deb Oxtoby
- Swe Zin Linn Phyu, Auckland University of Technology
- Jordan Pilon, University of Central Queensland
- Raneesh Rajan, Kristu Jayanti College
- Dimitri Razos, The University of Melbourne
- Emma Read, RMIT
- Alexandra Ridgeway, RMIT
- Cameron Russell, Deakin
- Tabetha Senior, NSW Department of Communities and Justice
- Rick Sarre, UniSA
- Lora Scampoli, Healing Lotus
- Evan Smith, Flinders University
- Russell Smith, Flinders University
- Kiara Troop, Deakin
- Robert Webb, University of Auckland