David Brown

Emeritus Professor

DipCrim Camb, LLB Auck LLD Auckland

Contact details

Room:

347 Law Building

Phone:

9385 2262

E-mail:

d.brown@unsw.edu.au

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Brief overview

Emeritus Professor David Brown taught Criminal Law, Advanced Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, Crime Prevention, Community Corrections and Penology courses at the University of NSW in Sydney from 1974 to 2008. He is a co-author of the major and innovative Criminal Laws (1990), (2nd edn 1996) and (3rd edn 2001) (4th edn 2006) (5th edn 2011) which has become the leading student teaching text in criminal law in universities in NSW.

David is very widely published across the broad areas of criminal law, criminal justice, criminology and penology, both in Australia and internationally. He has co-authored or co-edited 10 books; published 33 chapters in books, and over 100 articles in journals and in conference proceedings published; given 120 conference papers or public addresses all over the world; and is a regular media commentator on criminal justice issues.

Areas of expertise

Criminal law, Criminal justice, Criminology, Penology

Professional memberships and affiliations

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Member Editorial Board Current Issues in Criminal Justice,

Fellow of Australian Academy of Law

Chair, Lionel Murphy Foundation since 2002

Research supervision

Tracey Booth

Maggie Hall

Grants

2008 (with Chris Cunneen, Eileen Baldry. Mark Brown and Alex Steel) $500,000 ARC grant for Australian Prison Project

1990 (with Dr S Egger, R Hogg, J Stubbs) $50,000 ARC grant for Local Crime Victim Survey

1992 ARC $35,000 ARC grant to continue crime victim project

1991 $24,000 from Criminology Research Council for project on prison informers