It was a simple enough idea: to test whether the routine deployment of police officers with firearms necessarily makes the community and the police themselves safer. We compared four similar-sized jurisdictions, two where operational police routinely carry firearms (Toronto in Canada and Brisbane in Australia); two where they do not (Auckland in New Zealand and […]
ANZSOC members and those interested are invite to attend an event hosted by the Centre for Law and Social Justice at the University of Newcastle on Medicare in Prisons: Lobbying for reforms in custodial healthcare. The event features the following speakers: Details and in-person registration for the event can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/medicare-in-prisons-lobbying-for-reforms-in-custodial-healthcare-tickets-459474880737 For online […]
ANZSOC would like to congratulate Dr Mary Illiadis – Dr Mary Iliadis, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Deakin University and Co-Convenor of the Deakin Network Against Gendered Violence, has been awarded the Vice-Chancellors Early-Career Researcher Award for Career Excellence. Dr Mary Iliadis’ research expertise are in the areas of domestic, family and sexual violence, victims’ rights, […]
Author, Peter Norden AO, is an Honorary Fellow in Criminology at Deakin University. Peter has worked in a variety of roles within the criminal justice system throughout Australia. As a young social work graduate from the University of Melbourne, he established a half-way house for high-risk young offenders in 1977. He was later appointed Chaplain […]
Di Hai Luong is a criminologist and Research Fellow at The University of Queensland. Their recent work involves translating the book ‘Herding Cats’ from Vietnamese into English. Based on previous empirical studies, Luong (2014, 2017, 2019, 2020) tested and clarified family ties and fellow countrymen as the most prioritised forms of those Vietnamese drug trafficking […]
It gives me great pleasure to announce that the paper: The merits and risks of body-worn camera footage in domestic and family violence incidents and legal proceedings: a study of police perceptions and Experiences – Authors: Zarina Vakhitova, Mary Iliadis, Bridget Harris, Danielle Tyson & Asher Flynn, has been awarded the “Outstanding Policing Research Award” 2022. The ANZSOC Policing […]
One day symposium: A Pacific Criminology? An invitation to exploring what Pacific criminology might be or could be. The School of Social and Culutral Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka are hosting a one day symposium to explore Pacific Criminology. Details can be found on the even website here: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/sacs/about/events/pacific-criminology
Five Questions with R.V. Gundur, author of Trying to Make It Congratulations on publishing your book. But, why should people read it; don’t people already know a lot about the drug trade? You’re right! I always felt that Season 1 of The Wire scooped me, but thankfully nobody uses beepers anymore so at least there […]
Professor Chris Cunneen was the receipient of the Distinguished Criminologist Award in 2021 for a lifetime of outstanding, significant and sustained contributions to Australian and New Zealand criminology. Professor Cunneen was also awarded the honorary title Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and is entitled to append the letters of FANZSOC after […]
In a joint initiative involving the ANZSOC Policing Thematic Group and the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies, Dr Ross Hendy and Dr Angela Dwyer are seeking police officers and civilians (former and current) that are engaged in higher degree research anywhere around Australia and New Zealand. We are convening regular online meetings to encourage collegiality and networking […]
We, the members of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC), acknowledge the traditional custodians of Australia and the sovereignty of the Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand.
ANZSOC would like to acknowledge the ongoing Traditional Custodians of the lands for which our constituents conduct their teaching, learning, and research. We would like to acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded and the lands, now called Australia, continue to belong to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the Traditional custodians of the lands. ANZSOC would like to pay respects to the Elders who have passed on the legacy of knowledge and culture to the future generations and acknowledge that the future generations hold the hope, the stories and the continued knowledge for current and emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. May this knowledge through Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing guide you with wisdom and courage.
ANZSOC also recognises iwi Māori and their unceded right to tino rangatiratanga (sovereignty) and their expression of mana motuhaka (self-determination). We acknowledge mātauranga Māori (Māori ways of being and knowing) informs both traditional and contemporary knowledge production and its ability to enhance our collective futures.
The Association acknowledges the consequences and harms that continue to be inflicted by the criminal justice systems of Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand on Indigenous peoples in the region and seeks through its activities to address these harms and to work to prevent them from continuing in the future.
