The Journal of Criminology has a new Editorial team for the next three years commencing from December 2025 until December 2028. We are pleased to introduce Editors-in-Chief, Associate Professor Alice Mills, University of Auckland, Associate Professor Jodi Death, Queensland University of Technology, and Dr Michael Chataway, Queensland University of Technology, who will continue to work with Dr Rebecca Powell, as the Managing Editor.
This is the first Trans-Tasman Editorial team in the history of the Journal, a deliberate decision, intended to not only share the responsibilities of editorship, but also to ensure that criminological issues affecting Aotearoa New Zealand receive broader and sustained attention within the journal’s pages.
The Editorial team present their first Editorial, setting out their vision for their Editorship of the Journal in the current June Issue, Vol. 59, No. 2, that can be accessed via the Journal website.
The Editorial Team shared their vision, goal and forthcoming Special Issues for the Journal from the commencement of their tenure:
A shared vision to cultivate a journal that not only publishes rigorous criminological work but also pushes the discipline forward by broadening who is heard, what is explored, and how we engage with one another.
A goal to boldly confront the numerous contemporary challenges ranging from the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence and its impacts on academic work through to the deepening intersections of politics and violence for example, by fostering open, critical, respectful, and thoughtful scholarship.
The Editors wish to uphold the Journal as a platform for diverse voices including via the publication of two Special Issues in the coming months: Criminologies of Genocide: Past and Present, led by Leighann Spencer, Rhiannon Bandiera, Maria Giannacopoulos and Chris Cunneen that will gather critical perspectives that “re-centre the criminologies of genocide through situating this crime within its broader settler colonial context and the lived experiences of those peoples being killed” and a Special Issue on International Perspectives on Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs and Crime under the Guest Editorship of David Bright and Chad Whelan. This issue aims to enrich the discipline of criminology by deploying innovative theoretical lenses to analyse OMCG social dynamics and criminal activities.
The Editors have finalised their Board Membership, upholding a diversity of members and the establishment of new Associate Editor positions including Indigenous and First Nations Editor (Aotearoa New Zealand), Statistics Associate Editor, AI and Integrity Associate Editor to bring additional areas of expertise and support to the Editorial Board. The Editors have also welcomed two industry representatives to the Board.
The Editorial Team welcomes manuscript submissions to the Journal at any time and expressly seeks to publish theoretical, empirical and policy-oriented research from around the world, as well as maintaining a strong commitment to high quality research in the Australasian region. In line with our updated Journal Aims and Scope, the Editors are interested in submissions falling within the following categories:
The Journal of Criminology electronic or print versions are included as a benefit of ANZSOC membership with four issues published per year.
Associate Professor Alice Mills, studied for her PhD at Cardiff University, then became a Lecturer in Criminology and a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, UK. She was appointed as a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Auckland in 2011. Her research interests and expertise include in the areas of prisons, criminal justice, housing, post-prison reintegration, specialist courts, prison privatisation, mental health and criminal justice, NGOs/community organisations, Non-Government sector, reoffending.
Associate Professor Jodi Death’s primary research interest is in child sexual abuse in institutional care. This includes identifying and responding to the voices and needs of survivors and developing an understanding of historic paedophile networks. This work builds on Jodi’s PhD which examined the role of forgiveness in ways that churches are responding to child sexual abuse by church leaders. As part of an interdisciplinary team, Jodi has completed work for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child sexual abuse considering children’s perspectives of safety in Out of Home Care. Jodi’s more recent work considers the ways in which the Family Law Court of Australia manages and responds to allegations of child sexual abuse in custody disputes.
Dr Michael Chataway is a Senior Lecturer and researcher with a focus on workplace violence, fear of crime, and safety. Michael currently leads a dynamic program of research that leverages technology and digital interventions to enhance the measurement of workplace violence (WV) and responses to it—particularly in healthcare settings. His work is at the forefront of efforts to improve how WV is measured and managed, with a focus on supporting nurses and midwives who face elevated risks.
Dr Rebecca Powell completed her PhD at Monash University in 2024 investigating the deportation of convicted New Zealanders from Australia. She is currently the Managing Editor of the Journal of Criminology and the ANZSOC Manager. She is the Project Manager of the ARC Discovery Project, ”Criminal deportation’: Analysing interactions between migration control and criminal justice systems in Australia’ working with Professors Alison Gerard (University of Canberra), Leanne Weber (University of Canberra) and Marinella Marmo (Flinders University).
