About
I am Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. I have contributed to feminist and critical race criminology, and research on criminal justice, restorative justice, Indigenous sentencing courts, civil justice, money justice, and institutional justice. My current research is on redress for institutional abuse of children and related historical/policy wrongs in international context. I received the Sutherland Award from the American Society of Criminology in 2024.
Career highlights
PhD, Sociology, University of Massachusetts, 1983
Distinguished Scholar Award, Division of Women and Crime, American Society of Criminology, 1994 (inaugural co-recipient with Meda Chesney-Lind)
Hindelang Book Award for Gender, Crime, and Punishment, 1995
U.S. Fulbright Senior Scholar, 1995-96 (Australia National University)
Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, 2007
Fellow, American Society of Criminology, 2014
Alder Book Prize for Redressing Institutional Abuse of Children, 2015
Distinguished Criminologist, Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, 2015
Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, 2016
Sutherland Award, American Society of Criminology, 2024
See coverage of my receiving this award by the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and Griffith Criminology Institute.
My address to the 2024 annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology can be accessed here.
My article ‘Justice: work, idea, practice’ significantly expands and revises the 2024 Sutherland address.
Previous appointments
State University of New York-Albany, Visiting Assistant Professor, Sociology, 1982-83
Yale University, Assistant Professor (1983-88), Associate Professor (1988-92), Sociology
University of Michigan, Visiting Associate Professor (1992-95), Sociology