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Overview Professor David Dixon has been Dean since January 2007. Previously he was Senior Associate Dean in 2006 and Director or Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty from 1995 to 2005. His strong commitment to interdisciplinary research is indicated by his education: undergraduate law at Cambridge, postgraduate criminology in the Department of Social Policy at Hull, then a doctorate on the social history of gambling regulation in the Department of Sociology at University College, Cardiff. He came to Australia in 1989 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UNSW to carry out a comparative fieldwork study of policing in England and NSW. Previously, he had been a lecturer at the Law School, University of Hull, England. After a period as a research fellow at the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University in Newark and at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, he rejoined the UNSW Law Faculty in 1992. He has acted as adviser to the Home Office (England & Wales), the (then) Criminal Justice Commission (Queensland), the NSW Police, and the Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service (NSW). As well as teaching Criminal Law in the LL.B. and Policing in the LL.M., he regularly teaches B.Soc.Sci. Criminology students. He was co-editor of Criminal Justice: An International Journal of Policy and Practice, and editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. Focusing on the interrelationships between law and policing practice, his recent and current research includes projects on police interrogation; comparative crime control strategies, police reform, and the policing of drug markets. His books include ‘From Prohibition to Regulation: Bookmaking, Anti-Gambling and the Law’ (Oxford University Press); ‘Law in Policing: Legal Regulation and Police Practices’ (Oxford University Press); ‘A Culture of Corruption: Changing and Australian Police Service’ (Hawkins Press); and ‘Interrogating Images: Audio-visually Recorded Police Questioning of Suspects’ (Institute of Criminology) . Research Interests Policing, Criminal justice, Illegal markets, Interrogation, Regulation Journal Affiliations Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Member Editorial Board Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Member Editorial Board Criminology and Criminal Justice: The International Journal of Policy and Practice, Member Editorial Board |
