2021 ANZSOC Awards: Adam Sutton Crime Prevention Award

Associate Professor Jeremy Prichard, Professor Richard Wortley, Professor Paul Watters, Dr Caroline Spiranovic, Dr Charlotte Hunn and Associate Professor Tony Krone were awarded the 2021 Adam Sutton Crime Prevention Award for the best publication or report in the area of crime prevention in 2020. It’s a real joy to pen some reflections on the Adam […]

2021 ANZSOC Awards: The Allen Austin Bartholomew Award

The Allen Austin Bartholomew Award in 2021 was awarded to Professor James Sheptycki for the best article in The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology in 2020 for their article “The politics of policing a pandemic panic.” Supported by Sage Publications Further reflections on the politics of policing When I began writing about the politics […]

2021 ANZSOC Awards: Christine M Alder Book Award

Dr Anita MacKay was the recipient of the 2021 Christine M Alder Book Award in 2021 for the book ‘Towards Human Rights Compliance in Australian Prisons’. It is a huge honour to be awarded the 2021 Christine M Alder book award for my 2020 book Towards Human Rights Compliance in Australian Prisons (ANU Press), providing recognition by […]

2021 ANZSOC Awards: Award for Excellent and Innovation in Teaching

The 2021 Award for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching was awarded to Dr Vicky Nagy, Dr Alana Piper, Associate Professor Nancy Cushing, Katherine Ibbott, and Dr Georgina Rychner for outstanding and innovative teaching in Australian and New Zealand criminology. We were very honoured to receive the Award for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching for our […]

2021 ANZSOC Awards: New Scholar Prize

Dr Simone Deegan has been awarded the New Scholar Prize in 2021. As an early career researcher, I am honoured to be awarded with the New Scholar Prize for my article, ‘The Meaning of Murder: Family members in the lives of juvenile homicide offenders’. The article focuses on the family members (mothers, fathers, siblings, and […]

2021 ANZSOC Postgrad and ECR Conference (PECRC)

The longstanding annual Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Conference (PECRC) is traditionally an opportunity for researchers to present their work and network with peers. This year, PECR Day was a little bit different – in lieu of an in-person conference with HDR presentations, a number of academics presented live via Zoom on a number of […]

2021 ANZSOC Conference Chair Reflections

In December 2021 the Griffith Criminology Institute (GCI) hosted the 33rd annual Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC) Conference, as well as the Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Conference. The online format for these was not by choice. We hoped the conference would be a return to some type of new normal, and […]

PacifiCrim is going digital!

Dear ANZSOC Members, Based on member feedback and support gathered for the initial idea of testing out something new for the ANZSOC newsletter at the 2021 AGM, PacifiCrim is now going digital! Instead of two PacifiCrim issues published each year, PacifiCrim will now accept and publish contributions online year-round. You can access the PacifiCrim articles […]