Julie Stubbs
Professor
BA (Hons) Woll, MA Tor
Contact details
Brief overview
Julie is co-Director of the Centre for Crime, Law and Justice. She is a criminal justice scholar who joined UNSW Law in 2010. She previously held positions as Professor of Criminology and Director of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Sydney, and as a senior researcher with the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research.
Areas of expertise
Her research interests include: justice reinvestment, imprisonment, community sanctions, domestic violence, legal responses to violence against women, homicide, restorative justice, and bail; she also has undertaken research on young offenders, and on cross-cultural issues in criminal justice. More generally she is interested in gender and criminal justice.
She is currently a member of the Board of the Law and Justice Foundation, an adviser to ANROWS, a CI on the National Survey of Attitudes to Violence Against Women, and a member of the advisory committee of the Institute of Criminology. She was a member of: the NSW Advisory Panel on Domestic and Family Homicides; the Criminal Justice Sexual Assault Taskforce; and the Department of Corrective Services Institutional Ethics Committee. She has undertaken consultancy research for Legal Aid NSW and several criminal justice agencies.
Memberships
Julie is a member of the International Advisory Board of the British Journal of Criminology , and the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy , and of the Editorial Board for the journals: Women, Law and Human Rights e-journal, Critical Criminology, and Current Issues in Criminal Justice..
Research supervision
Julie is currently supervising students researching: therapeutic jurisprudence and drug courts; women and welfare fraud; children in out of home care involved in criminal justice; Aboriginal community patrols; victims of crime; bail; sex offender registration and same-sex domestic violence.
Grants
ARC DP17 - Addressing the Australian Penal Crisis: Rethinking Community Sanctions (with Eileen Baldry, David Brown, Chris Cunneen & Mel Schwartz).
ARC DP13 - Justice Reinvestment: Conceptual Foundations for Criminal Justice Innovation (with Mel Schwartz, David Brown & Chris Cunneen).
Courses taught
- Gender, Race and Justice (LAWS8075)
- Current Issues in Criminal Justice (LAWS8076)
- Current Issues in Criminal Justice (JURD7376)
- Gender, Race and Justice (JURD7475)
- Legal Concepts, Research and Writing for Criminal Justice & Criminology (LAWS8101)
- Penology (JURD7405)
- Penology (LAWS3105)
Courses taught (Criminology)
- Prisons and Punishment (CRIM2036)
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