Michael Grewcock
Senior Lecturer
BA/LLB (UNSW);Grad.Dip.Legal Practice (UTS); MA (Refugee Studies) (UEL); PhD (UNSW)
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Brief overview
Having worked as a solicitor in London for 13 years, Michael Grewcock returned to UNSW in 2004 to complete a PhD. He has taught criminology and criminal law on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs since 2006.
Areas of expertise
State Crime; Border Policing; Criminal Law; Criminal Justice and Criminology.
Memberships
Friend of the International State Crime Initiative: http://www.statecrime.org
Editorial Board and Reviews Editor, State Crime
Editorial Advisory Group, Howard Journal of Crime and Justice
Reviews Editor, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology (2010 - 2012)
UNSW research networks: Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law; Criminal Justice Research Network.
Member: Institute of Criminology; Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology; International Association of Genocide Scholars
Research supervision
Scientia PhD current, with Assoc.Professor Sarah Williams and Dr.Nicola McGarrity: Natalie Hodgson, 'Legal Responses to Institutionalised Offending: A Comparison of New South Wales and the International Criminal Court.'
PhD current, with Professor Andrew Byrnes and Dr.Melissa Crouch: Ashraful Azad, 'State and unauthorised migration: the movement of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh to Malaysia.'
PhD current, with Professor Jill Hunter: David Lusty, ''Reconciling Compulsory Lawfully Compelled Self-Incrimination with Criminal Justice.'
PhD current, with Dr.Vicki Sentas and Professor David Dixon: Megan McElhone, 'Does the NSW Police Force's Middle-Eastern Organised Crime Squad compromise the implementation of community policing in NSW?'
PhD completed 2016, with Assoc.Professor Sarah Williams: Hannah Harris, 'Evaluating the Global Anti-Corruption Regime - the case of UNCAC in PNG.'
Social Sciences (Criminology) Honours 2016: Charlotte Ferrier
Social Sciences Honours 2015: Joshua Thorpe
Social Sciences (Criminology) Honours 2014: Megan McElhone and Prattana Pantad.
Social Sciences (Criminology) Honours 2012: Robert Polosak
Grants
Joint CI, ARC Discovery Grant, Exporting Risk: the Australian deportation project, DP 110102453, 2011-2013.
Courses taught
- Crime & the Criminal Process (LAWS1021)
- Advanced Criminal Law (LAWS3102)
- Penology (LAWS3105)
- Transnational Policing & Human Rights (LAWS8013)
- State Crime, the Law and Civil Society (LAWS8193)
Courses taught (Criminology)
- Policing (CRIM2014)
- Criminal Law and Justice 1 (CRIM2020)
- Criminal Law and Justice 2 (CRIM2021)
- Prisons and Punishment (CRIM2036)
- State Crime and Human Rights (CRIM3015)
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