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David Brown

Professor

DipCrim Camb, LLB Auck


Contact Details

Telephone: +61 2 9385 2262
Email: d.brown@unsw.edu.au
Office: Law Building 341


Publications

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Overview

I have been on the academic staff since 1974, an old timer. I have taught mainly in the criminal law-criminal justice area, helping to develop the compulsory Criminal Law subject, the undergraduate electives Advanced Criminal Law and Penology, and the LLM subjects Crime Prevention Policy; Community Corrections and The Criminal Justice System.

My main research interests are in the criminal law, criminology, penology and criminal justice areas. My major publications can be seen in the Publications list.


Courses Taught

LAWS1001 Criminal Law 1
LAWS1011 Criminal Law 2
LAWS1002 Advanced Criminal Law
LAWS1005 Penology
LAWS3003 Crime Prevention Policy
LAWS3008 Criminal Justice System


Career Profile

1971 employed Haigh Charters, Barrister and Solicitors, Auckland.

1973 appointed research assistant, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge, U.K.

1974 appointed Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales.

1979 appointed Visiting Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Papua New Guinea for 2nd session, 1979 (with the leave of the University of New South Wales).

1981 appointed Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales.

1 January 1990 appointed Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of NSW.

1996 March -May, appointed inaugural Visiting Fellow, Law Faculty, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.


Research Interests

Criminal law, Criminal justice, Criminology, Penology


Current Research Projects

Criminal law theory
The politics of law and order
Punishment and `decivilisation`


Grants

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


Journal Affiliations

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Member Editorial Board
Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Member Editorial Board
Indigenous Law Bulletin, Member Editorial Board
International Journal of Criminal Law Education, Member Editorial Board



Other Activities

Chair of the Lionel Murphy Foundation








 
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