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Summary Professor David Brown teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Justice and Crime Prevention courses at the University of NSW in Sydney where he has been since 1974. He is a co-author of the major and innovative Criminal Laws (1990), (1996), (2001), and (2006) which has become the leading student teaching text in criminal law in universities in NSW and the ACT. He 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 26 chapters in books, and over 100 articles in journals and in conference proceedings published; given 100 conference papers and public addresses all over the world; and is a regular media commentator on criminal justice issues. His co-authored book with Russell Hogg, Rethinking Law and Order (1998) was launched by Justice Michael Kirby of the High Court. Books D. Brown, D. Farrier, S. Egger, L McNamara, A. Steel, Criminal Laws: Materials and Commentary on Criminal Law and Process in NSW (2006) (4th edn) The Federation Press: Sydney Pratt, J., Brown, D., Brown, M., Hallsworth, S. and Morrison, W. (eds) The New Punitiveness: Trends, theories, perspectives, (2005) Willan Press: Devon. Brown, D. and Wilkie, M. (eds) Prisoners as Citizens (2002) The Federation Press: Sydney. Brown, D., Farrier, D., Egger, S. and McNamara, L. Criminal Laws: Materials and Commentary on Criminal Law and Process in NSW (2001) (3rd edn) The Federation Press: Sydney. Hogg, R., and Brown, D. Rethinking Law and Order (1998) Pluto Press: Sydney. Brown, D., Farrier, D., Weisbrot, D. Criminal Laws: Material and Commentary on Criminal Law and Process in NSW (1996) Vol 1 and Vol 2, Federation Press: Sydney (reprinted as 1 Vol 1998). Brown, D., Farrier, D., Neal, D. Weisbrot, D. Criminal Laws in NSW: Cases and Materials (1990) Federation Press, Sydney. Hogan, M., Brown, D. and Hogg, R. (eds) Death in the Hands of the State (1988) Redfern Legal Centre Publishing: Sydney. Blackshield, A., Brown, D. Coper, M. and Krever, R. The Judgments of Lionel Murphy (1986) Primavera Press: Sydney. Zdenkowski, G. and Brown, D. The Prison Struggle (1982) Penguin: Melbourne. Boehringer, G., Brown, D. et al (Critique of Law Editorial Collective) Critique of Law, Sydney (1978). Chapters In Books Brown, D. “Challenges to Criminal Justice Reform”, in B. Opeskin and D. Weisbrot (eds) The Promise of Law Reform (2005) The Federation Press: Sydney 343-357. Brown, D. “Continuity, rupture, or just more of the ‘volatile and contradictory’: Glimpses of New South Wales’ Penal Practice behind and through the discursive”, in J. Pratt, D. Brown, M. Brown, S. Hallsworth and W. Morrison (eds) The New Punitivenss (2005) Willan Publishing, Devon UK 27-46. Pratt, J., Brown, D., Brown, M., Hallsworth, S. and Morrison, W. “Introduction” in J. Pratt, D. Brown, M. Brown, S. Hallsworth and W. Morrison (eds) The New Punitiveness (2005) Willan Publishing, Devon UK xi-xxvi. Brown, D. “Commissions of Inquiry and Penal Reform” in S. O’Toole and S. Eyland (eds) Corrections Criminology (2005) The Federation Press: Sydney 42-52. Brown, D. ‘Royal Commissions and criminal justice: behind the ideal’, in G. Gilligan and J. Pratt (eds) Crime, Truth and Justice (2004) Willan Publishing: Devon, UK 26-45. Brown, D. ”Losing my Religion”: Reflections on Critical Criminology in Australia’, in K. Carrington and R. Hogg (eds) Critical Criminology (2002) Willan Publishing: Devon, UK, 73-113. Brown, D. and Wilkie, M. ‘Introduction’ in Brown, D. and Wilkie, M. (eds) Prisoners as Citizens, (2002) The Federation Press, Sydney, xix-xxviii. Brown, D. ‘Prisoners as Citizens’ in Brown, D. and Wilkie, M. (eds) Prisoners as Citizens, (2002) The Federation Press, Sydney, 308-325. Brown, D. ‘jury trial’ in T. Blackshield, M. Coper and G. Williams (eds) The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia (2001) Oxford University Press: Melbourne, 388-391. Brown, D. ‘Governmentality and Law and Order’, in G. Wickham and G. Pavlich (eds) Rethinking Law, Society and Governance (2001) Hart Publishing: Oxford, 109-121. Brown, D. "Imprisonment and Penality in Australia", in R. Weiss and N. South (eds) Comparing Prison Systems: an International Text (1998) Gordon and Breach Publishers (USA) International Studies in Global Change series. Brown, D. `Lionel Murphy and the Criminal Law’ in Coper, M. and Williams G. (eds) Justice Lionel Murphy: Influential or merely prescient? (1997) The Federation Press: Sydney, 71-113. Brown, D. and Hogg, R., `Law and order politics - left realism and radical criminology: a view from down under’ in Mathews, R. and Young, J. (eds) Issues in Realist Criminology, (1992) Sage: London, 136-176. Brown, D. and Duffy, B. `Privatising Police Verbal: The Growth Industry in Prison Informants’, in Carrington, K., Dever, M., Hogg, R., Bargen, J and Lohrey, A. (eds) Travesty!: Miscarriages of Justice, (1991) Pluto: Sydney, 147-183. Hogg, R. and Brown, D. `Criminal Justice Policy in Australia’ in Taylor, I. (ed) The Social Effects of Free Market Policies, (1990) Harvester-Wheatsheaf: London, (1990) 197-229. Brown, D. `Are we sending too many people to gaol?’, in Gollan, A. (ed) Questions for the Nineties (1990) Left Book Club: Sydney, 81-94. Brown, D., Kramer, H. and Quinn, M. `Women in Prison: Task Force Reform’ in Findlay, M. and Hogg, R. (eds) Understanding Crime and Criminal Justice (1988) Law Book Company: Sydney , 273-308. Brown, D. `"In the course of duty"? Kenny Evans: A postscript’, in Hogan, M., Brown, D. and Hogg, R. (eds) Death in the Hands of the State (1988) Redfern Legal Centre Publishing: Sydney, 37-40. Brown, D. `Deaths in Australian Prisons: A Review’, in Hogan, M., Brown, D. and Hogg, R (eds) Death in The Hands of the State (1988) Redfern :Legal Centre Publishing: Sydney, 51-60. Brown, D. and Neal, D. `The Jury and the Media’ in Duff, P. and Findlay, M. (eds) The Jury Under Attack, (1988) Butterworths: Sydney, 126-139. Brown, D. `Some Preconditions for Sentencing and Penal Reform’, in Wickham, G. (ed) Social Theory and Legal Politics, (1987) Local Consumption Publications: Sydney, 94-119. Brown, D. `The Politics of Reform’, in Zdenkowski, G., Ronalds, C., Richardson, M. (eds) The Criminal Injustice System: Vol 2, (1987) Pluto Press; Sydney, 254-281. Brown, D. `Prison Discipline, Legal Representation and the N.S.W V.J. Courts’ in Tomasic, R. and Lucas, R. (eds) Power, Regulation and Resistance: Studies in the Sociology of Law (1986), Canberra College of Advanced Education: Canberra, 137-150. Hogg, R. and Brown, D. `Reforming Juvenile Justice: Issues and Prospects’ in Borowski, A. and Murray, J.M. (eds) Juvenile Delinquency in Australia (1985) Methuen: Sydney (1985) 393-412. Brown, D. `Criminal Law’ in Critique of Law Editorial Collective (eds) Critique of Law(1979) Critique of Law Collective: Sydney 78-91. Brown, D. `Criminal Justice Reform: A Critique’ in Chappell and Wilson (eds) The Australian Criminal Justice System 2nd ed. (1977) Butterworths: Sydney 471-491. Major Journal Articles Brown, D. ‘The Nagle Royal Commission 25 Years On: Gaining perspective on two and a half decades of NSW penal reform’, (2004) Alternative Law Journal Vol 29:3 June 135-141 (reprinted in Community Restorative Centre Newsletter, July 2004, 9-16). Brown, D. ‘The Politics of Law and Order’, (2002) October Law Society Journal, 64-72 Indermaur, D. Brown, D. Egger, S. and Hogg, R. ‘Shadow Boxing with an Imaginary Enemy – a response to Law and Order Blues’, (2002) 35(2) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 145-158 Brown, D. ‘Mandatory Sentencing: A Criminological Perspective’, in (2001) 7:2 The Australian Journal of Human Rights 31-51. Brown, D. ‘The Royal Commision into the NSW Police Service: Process Corruption and the Limits of Judicial Reflexivity’, (1998) 9:3 Current Issues in Criminal Justice 228-240. Brown, D., and Hogg, R. ‘The Uncivil Politics of Law and Order’ (1998) 33 February-March Arena, 43-47. Brown, D. ‘Launch Speech of Beyond Bars Alliance’, (2002) 14(2) Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 205-210 Brown, D. ‘Features of Current Law and Order politics’ (2002) Spring Issue, Poetic Justice, 27-29. Brown, D. ‘Legislative Council Select Committee on the Increase in Prisoner Population, Interim Report, July 2000; Final Report, November 2001: A Review’, )2002) 14(1) Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 111-118 Brown, D. ‘Farewell to Three Colleagues’ (2000) Issue 1 Poetic Justice, 18-21. Brown, D. ‘Mandatory Sentencing: Hyping the Penal’ (2000) Issue No 1 Poetic Justice, 30-31. Brown, D. "The Royal Commision into the NSW Police Service: Process Corruption and the Limits of Judicial Reflexivity", (1998) 9:3 Current Issues in Criminal Justice 228-240. Brown, D., and Hogg, R. "The Uncivil Politics of Law and Order" (1998) 33 February-March Arena 43-47. Brown, D. ‘Breaking the Code of Silence: the Wood Royal Commission into New South Wales police’, (1997) 22:5 Alternative Law Journal 220-224. Brown, D. ‘The Chidiac Case: Another Miscarriage of Justice?’ (1997) 22:5 Alternative Law Journal 237-247. Brown, D. and Hogg, R. `Violence, Masculinity and Sport: Governanace and the Swinging Arm’ (1997) 3:1 The UTS Review 129-141. Brown, D. and Hogg, R. ‘Law and Order Commonsense’ (1996) 8:2 Current Issues in Criminal Justice 175-191. Travis, G., Brown, D., Egger, S., Hogg, R., O’Toole, B., Stubbs, J. `The International Crime Victim Surveys: Some Methodological Concerns’, (1995) 6:3 Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 346-361. Brown, D. `Some things change, some stay the same’,(1994) 19:6 Alternative Law Journal, 253-257. Brown D, and Hogg R, `Masculinity, Sport and the Swinging Arm’, (1993) 4:2 Polemic, 83-87. Brown, D. `Notes on the Culture of Prison Informing’, (1993) 5:1 Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 54-71. Brown, D. `Prison Informers: Where the grasses are greener’, (1993) 18:2 Alternative Law Journal 80-85. Brown, D. and Hogg, R. `Essentialism, Radical Criminology and Left Realism’, (1992) 25:3 The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 195-230. Brown, D. `Battles Around Truth: A Commentary on the Sentencing Act 1989’, (1992) 3:3 Current Issues in Criminal Justice 329-334. Brown, D. `The state of the Prisons under the Greiner Government: Definitions of Value’, (1991) Journal for Social Justice Studies Special Issue Series Vol 4 Politics, Prisons and Punishment - Royal Commissions and Reforms 27-60. Brown, D. `Putting the Value Back in Punishment", (1990) 15:6 Legal Service Bulletin 177-185. Brown, D. `Returning to Sight: Contemporary Penality’, (1989) 15 Social Justice, (USA) Special Issue, The Politics of Empowerment in Australia 141-157. Brown, D. `Post Election Blues: Law and Order in NSW Inc’, (1988) 13:3 Legal Service Bulletin, 99-104. Brown, D. `Themes in an Inquisition: Justice Murphy and the liberal press’, (1987) 10:1 University of New South Wales Law Journal 60-92. Brown, D. `Judicial Independence: an Examination’, (1986) 58:4 The Australian Quarterly, 348-357. 14.Brown, D., Hogg, R., Boehringer, G. & Tubbs, M. `Re-presenting Justice Murphy: A Contemporary Inquisition’, (1986) 11 Legal Service Bulletin 147-153. Brown, D. and Hogg. R. `Abolition Reconsidered’ (1985) 2:2 Australian Journal of Law and Society 56-75. Brown, D. and Neal, D.`The Gang of Twelve’, (1986) Australian Society, Feb. 10-14. Brown, D. and Quinn, M. `Review of N.S.W. Task Force Report: Women in Prison’, (1985) 10 Legal Service Bulletin, 261-266. Brown, D., Hogg, R., Boehringer, G. and Tubbs, M., `The Murphy Case: Some Issues’ (1985) 10:4 Legal Service Bulletin, 153-7. Brown, D.,and Zdenkowski, G. `Socialism and Penal Policy: A Reply to Hawkins’ (1985) 18:1 Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 41-48. Brown, D. `Judging the Judges’, (1984) 3:4 Australian Society 21-5. Brown, D. `A Critique of the Legal Service Bulletin’ in Neal, D. (Ed) On Tap, Not on Top: Legal Centres Australia 1972-82 (1984) Legal Service Bulletin: Special Issue 40-48. Boehringer, G., Brown, D., Edgeworth, B., Hogg, R. & Ramsay, I. `Law and Order for Progressives: An Australian Response.’, (1983) 19 Crime and Social Justice, (USA) 2-12. Brown, D. `A Note on Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish’, (1981) 4 Alternative Criminology Journal, 114-128. Brown, D. et al `Abolition’, Prisoner’s Action Group (PAG) third submission to the N.S.W. Royal Commission into Prisons, (1980) 3:4 Alternative Criminology Journal, Whole issue pp.1-74. Brown, D. et al `Contemporary Penal Practices’, PAG second submission to the N.S.W. Royal Commission into Prisons. (1980) 3:3 Alternative Criminology Journal, Whole issue pp.1-67. Brown, D. `"Braithwaite and Biles: On Being Unemployed and A Victim of Crime" - a Response’ (1980) 15:3 Australian Journal of Social Issues, 223-229. Brown, D. Boehringer, G., Catt, S., Ekstein, P., Golding, H., Green, A., Hogg, R., Jewson, B., Peacock, M., Pernu, G., `Knowledge of Crime and its Causes’ P.A.G. first submission to the N.S.W. Royal Commission into Prisons, (1979) 3:2 Alternative Criminology Journal, Whole issue pp.1-74. Brown, D. `The State of Play in Criminology’, (1978) 2:4 Alternative Criminology Journal, 76-92. Minor Journal Articles Brown, D. ‘The Nagle Report 25 Years On Symposium’, (2004) Current Issues in Criminal Justice Vol 16:1, July, 108-111. Brown, D. ‘The Nagle Royal Commission 25 Years On’, (2003) 15(2) Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 170-175 Brown, D. ‘The Nagle Royal Commission 25 Years On’, (2003) 195 Civil Liberty, 10-12. Brown, D. ‘Launch Speech of Beyond Bars Alliance’, (2002) 14(2) Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 205-210 Brown, D. ‘Features of Current Law and Order politics’ (2002) Spring Issue, Poetic Justice, 27-29. Brown, D. ‘Legislative Council Select Committee on the Increase in Prisoner Population, Interim Report, July 2000; Final Report, November 2001: A Review’, (2002) 14(1) Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 111-118 Brown, D. ‘Farewell to Three Colleagues’ (2000) Issue 1 Poetic Justice, 18-21. Brown, D. ‘Mandatory Sentencing: Hyping the Penal’ (2000) Issue No 1 Poetic Justice, 30-31. Brown, D. and Hogg, R. ‘Rethinking Law and Order: A Rejoinder’ (1999) 23:3 The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 331-333 Brown, D. ‘Imprisonment in Australia’ (1999) 11:1 Legal Date, March 5-7 Brown, D. ‘Go to Goal’, (1997) 22:4 Alternative Law Journal 197-8 Brown, D. `Silencing in Court: The Abolition of the Dock Statement in New South Wales’, (1994) 6:1 Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 158-162. Brown, D. `Transcending Dichotomies:The Criminal Justice Network and a Dialogue Concerning Prisoners and Victims’, (1994) 6:1 Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 143-147. Brown, D. `Facing the knife’, (1994) 19:23 Alternative Law Journal 130-133. Brown D, Silencing in Court, (1993) 153 Civil Liberty, 5-6. Brown, D. Introduction, (1993) 5:1 Current Issues in Criminal Justice 6-8. Brown, D. `Postcard from LALA land’ (1992) 17:6 Alternative Law Journal 274-277. Brown, D. and Hogg, R. Facing facts on justice, (1992)The Alliance Nov-Dec 7-8. Brown, D. and Hogg, R. Policing Patriarchy, (1992) 144 Australian Left Review 8-9. Brown, D. The Prison Sell, (1992) 141 Australian Left Review 32-34. Brown, D. Jailhouse Blues, (1992) 138 Australian Left Review 31-33. Brown, D. Punishing Regime’, (1992) 137 Australian Left Review 18-21. Brown, D. "Prisoner Informants: The Privatisation of Police Verbal?", (1991) 1:1 UNSW Law School Bulletin 6-8. Brown, D. `Prisoner Informants: the new growth industry’, (1991) Australian Society June 11-12. Brown, D. `How not to run a prison system’, (1990) Australian Society Dec 28-29. Brown, D. `Strangeways: The path to ruin’, (1990) 5 Campaign for Criminal Justice Bulletin 6-8. Brown, D. `Back to Grafton: Via Sparta’, (1990) 5 Campaign for Criminal Justice Bulletin 7-8. Brown, D. `Blackburn: Lancing the Bottom’ (1990) 5 Campaign for Criminal Justice Bulletin 8. Brown, D. `Law and Order Bites Back’ (1990) 5 Campaign for Criminal Justice 1-4. Brown, D. `Sentencing Changes: What Truth?’, (1989) 14 Legal Service Bulletin 161-3. Brown, D. `Sentencing Changes: What Truth’, (1989) 4 Campaign for Criminal Justice Bulletin 1-4. Brown, D. `Katingal: The Return of the Old Regime’, (1989) 4 Campaign for Criminal Justice Bulletin, 5-6. Brown, D. `The Dangers of Delay’, (1989) 4 Campaign for Criminal Justice Bulletin, 7-8. Brown, D. `Criminal Justice Policies of the Major Political Parties: Comparison and Comment’, (1988) 1 Campaign for Criminal Justice Bulletin, 5-6. Brown, D. `Fear and loathing in Darlinghurst: To Neighbourhood Watch or not?’ (1987) 12 Legal Service Bulletin, 251-252. Brown, D. `Appeal bail in NSW: an update’ (1987) 12 Legal Service Bulletin, 242. Brown, D. `Interrogating the Interrogators’, (1987) 101 Australian Left Review, 16-20. Brown, D. `Remanded in Custody: A NSW Refrain’, (1987) 12 Legal Service Bulletin, 185-6. Brown, D. `Another way to gaol’, (1987) Australian Society, June, 32. Brown, D. `New NSW Prisoners Group’ (1987) 12 Legal Service Bulletin, 81. Brown, D. `Imprisonment for Fine Default Revisited’, (1987) 12 Legal Service Bulletin 84-5. Brown, D. `A Changing Climate for Penal Reform’. (1986) Australian Society, July, 23-26. Brown, D. `Second International Conference on Prison Abolition 24-27 June 1985’ (1986) 11 Legal Service Bulletin, 34-36. Brown, D. `The Judicial Mystique’, (1985) 4:5 Australian Society, 6-9. Brown, D. `You’re Poor. Go Directly to Jail’, (1984) 3:6 Australian Society, 12-14. Brown, D. `Organised Crime : Changing Practices, Markets and Relations’ (1984) 90 Australian Left Review, 10-12. Brown, D. `Thinking about "Organised Crime" and "Corruption": Some Themes’, (1984) 9:5 Legal Service Bulletin, 243-5. Brown, D. and Hogg, R. `Police Killings’ in Brown, D., et al, (eds) Policing: Practices, Strategies, Accountability, (1984) A.C.J. Special Issue 129-38. Brown, D. `A.L.W.G. Discussion Paper on Policing, 13/5/82.’ in Brown, D. et al (eds) Policing: Practices, Strategies, Accountability, (1984) A.C.J. Sydney, (1984), 87-8. Brown, D. `Policing the "Riots": A Commentary’ in Brown, D. et al (eds) Policing: Practices, Strategies, Accountability, (1984) A.C.J., Sydney, 87-88. Brown, D. `The National Prison Census: Women prisoners in N.S.W.’ (1983) 8:5 Legal Service Bulletin, 219-221. Weisbrot, D., Neal, D., Brown, D., Farrier, D., Meure, D., & Zdenkowski, G. `Reforming the Criminal Process in NSW.’ (1983) 8:4 Legal Service Bulletin, 175-8. Brown, D. `Democratic Psychiatry in Italy’ in Psychiatric Hospitals - The Need for Alternatives (1982) Committee on Mental Health Advocacy (COMHA): Sydney 8-13. Brown, D. `Mental Health : The Italian Experience’, (1982) 7 Legal Service Bulletin, 126-9. Brown, D. `The Parklea Cages: The Wran Government’s `New Deal’ Segregation Units’, (1982) 7 Legal Service Bulletin 139-140. Brown, D. `A view on working with, movement lawyers: Australia 1980.’ (1981) 38:2 The Guild Practitioner, (USA) 43-45. Brown, D. `Goulburn Gaol: Henry report unveiled’ (1980) 5 Legal Service Bulletin, 152-156. Brown, D. `Australian Legal Workers Group: Police Verbal Meeting’, (1980) 5 Legal Service Bulletin 73-4. Brown, D. `Crime and the Visiting "Expert"’ (1978) 3:3 Legal Service Bulletin, 102-5. Brown D. `Penal Philosophies in the 1970’s’ (1976) 1:4 Alternative Criminology Journal, 7-16. Conference Proceedings Published Brown, D. ‘Neo-liberal governance, criminal law and intoxication: wild nights with Norm Hewitt, Noa Nadruku, Craig Gower, Freddy Fittler et al’ in Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference : A Capital Century The Law In Review, Victoria University Wellington New Zealand 4-7 July 1999 Proceedings Vol 1 pp1-15 Egger, S., Brown, D., Hogg, R., O"Toole, B., Stubbs, J. and Travis, G. (1995) "Counting Crime: Are victim surveys the answer?" in D. Brereton (ed) Crime Victim Surveys In Australia Proceedings of a conference held at Griffith University, 28-29 November 1994, Queensland Criminal Justice Commission, Griffith University Centre for Crime Policy and Public Safety, and Queensland Government Statistician, Toowong Qld, pp83-95. Brown, D. `Prison Policy: A Commentary’, paper given at a seminar conducted by the Sydney Institute of Criminology, NSW Parliament House, 29 March 1995, published in (1995) 6:4 Current Issues in Criminal Justice 68-76. Brown, D. `From Purpose to Pluralism, Penology to Politics, Critique to Policy’, in Proceedings of inaugural one day conference, (1993) National Centre for Socio-Legal Studies: La Trobe University, 13-27. Brown, D. `Comment’, Proceedings of a Seminar on Sentencing, (1988) Institute of Criminology, Sydney University Law School, 26 October,100-102. Brown, D. `Comment’, Proceedings of a Seminar on the Listening Devices and Electronic Surveillance: Police Powers and Citizen’s Rights, (1987) Institute of Criminology, Sydney University Law School, 27 April 82-3. Brown, D. `Preconditions for Sentencing and Penal Reform in New South Wales: Some Suggestions Towards a Strategy for Contesting a Law and Order Climate’ in Potas, I. (ed) Sentencing in Australia, (1987) Australian Institute of Criminology: Canberra, 341-361. Brown, D. `Comment’, Proceedings of a Seminar on The Control of Organised Crime’, (1986) Institute of Criminology, Sydney University Law School, 12 March, 68-70. Brown, D. & Hogg, R. `Abolition reconsidered: issues and problems’ Proceedings International Conference on Prison Albolition (1985), Criminologisch Instituut, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 26-50. Brown, D. `Comment’, Proceedings of a Seminar on Illegally Obtained Evidence’, (1984) Institute of Criminology, Sydney University Law School, 19 September 89-91. Brown D. `Comment’, Proceedings of a Seminar on Offender Management in the 80s, (1984) Institute of Criminology, Sydney University Law School, 2 May, 64-66. Brown, D. `Background Discussion Paper on Police Verbals’, Proceedings: Stop the Verbal, (1984) Sydney Law School, Breakout 1-26. Brown, D. `I’m all lost in the Supermarket’, Proceedings of a Seminar on Shoplifting, (1983) Sydney Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney, June, 47-57. Brown, D. `Politics of Reform’ in Basten et al (eds) The Criminal Injustice System, (1982) ALWG/L.S.B. Sydney, 300-302, 306-8. Brown, D. `Comment’, Proceedings of a Seminar on Community Justice Centres, (1982) Institute of Criminology, Sydney University Law School, 10 March, 82-3. Book Reviews Brown, D. Review of Maconachie’s Gentlemen: The Story of Norfolk Island and the Roots of Modern Penal Reform by Norval Morris in (2004) 15(3) Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 275-8. Brown, D. Review of Punishment and Civilisation by John Pratt in (2003) 36(2) The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 241-6 Brown, D. Review of Ann Aungles, The Prison and the Home, in (1995) 7:1 Current Issues in Criminal Justice 104-107. Brown, D. Review of Police Shootings in Victoria 1987-1989 by The families of Mark Militano, Graeme Jensen and Jedd Houghton and Flemington/Kensington Community Legal Centres, (1993) 26:2 Australian and New Zealand Criminology Journal 186-188. Brown, D. Review of Corrective Services in New South Wales (eds) Cullen, B., Dowding, M. and Griffin, J. (1988) 21 Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology pp 282-4. Brown, D. `Disturbing failure to acknowledge openly past errors’, S.M.H. 8/8/87. Review of Wilson, D. Big Shots II. Brown, D. `Justice and Corruption etched in black on white’ S.M.H. 27/12/86. Review of Whitton, E. Can of Worms. Brown, D. `Crime: an aquarium full of sharks’ S.M.H. 16/8/86. Review of Hall, R. Disorganised Crime. Brown, D. Review of Drugs and Crime : A Survey of NSW Prison Property Offenders, (1984), NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, by Dobinson, I. and Ward, P. in (1985) 10 Legal Service Bulletin 82-3. Brown, D. `Criminal Justice in Australia’ in (1984) 9:5 Legal Service Bulletin 186-90 Review of Sallmann and Willis Criminal Justice in Australia. Brown, D. `Marx at the Bar’ Australian Society April (1983), 34-5. Review of Collins, H. Marxism and Law. Brown, D. `The Paradox of Justice’, Australian Society, September (1981), 17-18. Review of McBarnet, D. Conviction. Selected Newspaper Articles Brown, D. “Majority verdicts: a poor judgement”, Sydney Morning Herald November 10 2005. Brown, D. ‘Bars on the Ballot Box’, Sydney Morning Herald July 9, 2002 Brown, D. ‘Spare us this cynical auction’ The Sunday Telegraph June 16, 2002 Brown, D. ‘”Silly old duffers” tag taking its toll’, The Sun Herald June 9, 2002 Brown, D. ‘Reactions ignore the incendiary motives’, The Australian January 9, 2002 Brown, D. ‘On the Borderland of defence and revenge’, The Age 8/8/1997. Brown, D. ‘Shedding Light on Shots in the dark’ The Age 8/7/1997. Brown, D. `Police not the only players in the game of criminal justice’, S.M.H. 16/5/1997. Brown, D. `Many’s release raises legal - not political -questions’, S.M.H. 7/3/1995. Brown, D. `Many: Evidence test vital’, Sunday Telegraph, 5/3/1995. Brown, D. `Rugby League and Good Friday: why the Church should play ball’, S.M.H. 6/4/1993. Brown, D. `Justice on the Word of Criminals: a Conundrum’, S.M.H. 1/4/1993. Brown, D. `Danger in the Growth of Prison Informers’, Sun Herald 13/4/1991. Brown, D. `Legal Rights in Danger in Cutting Court Delays’, Financial Review, 11/5/1989. Brown, D. `Four points to better prisons’ S.M.H. 9/12/87. Brown, D. `Judge J. is simply beside the point’ S.M.H. 16/9/86. Brown, D. `Fine default ripe for reform’ S.M.H. 3/7/86. Brown, D. `Organised Crime: an evil or a business’ S.M.H. 6/6/86. Brown, D. `Should Justice Murphy remain or resign. He must stay and defend’ S.M.H. 6/4/86. Brown, D. `The Cost of Isolating our Judges’ S.M.H. 24/3/86. Papers Delivered At Conferences The following papers or addresses were delivered at conferences and public meetings. The list is not exhaustive. ‘Miscarriages of Justice in Australia’ paper delivered at Plenary Session of Conference on Miscarriages of Justice, University of Auckland, New Zealand, February 26 2006. ‘What happened to the Nagle Report? Penal Abolitionist arguments in NSW” paper delivered at International Conference on Prison Abolition, Hobart, Tasmania, 11 February 2006 ‘Prisoners Rights’, Plenary paper delivered at plenary session of Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, 9 February 2006 ‘Penal practice and the discursive’, paper delivered to the European Society of Criminology Conference, Kracow, Poland, Friday 2 September 2005. “Developments in Australian Criminal Law”, Faculty seminar delivered at the Law School, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, Friday 15 July 2005. “Continuity, rupture, or just more of the ‘volatile and contradictory’: Glimpses of New South Wales’ Penal Practice behind and through the discursive”, Faculty seminar delivered at the Institute of Criminology, Victoria University, Wellington, Tuesday 12 July 2005. “Developments in Australian Criminal Law’, Faculty seminar delivered at the Law School, The University of Auckland, 15 July 2005. “The Shifting Contexts of Criminal Justice reform – from decriminalisation to the ‘uncivil politics of law and order’ and the challenges of popular punitiveness”, Paper delivered at the Australasian Law Teachers Conference (ALTA), Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand, 7 July 2005. “Guerillas in our Midst, protecting the habitus: the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal, Standard Minimum Penalties and R v Way”, Paper delivered to Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Auckland New Zealand, February 10 2005. Introduction to and comment upon Dr Inga Clendinnen, “Making Stories, Telling Tales: Life Litarature, Law”, 18th LIONEL MURPHY MEMORIAL LECTURE Wednesday 17 November 2004 THEATRETTE - PARLIAMENT HOUSE MACQUAR1E STREET SYDNEY “The propects for penal reform : an accounting”, paper delivered to the Australian Prison Chaplains Conference, St Joseph’s Spirituality Centre, Baulkham Hills, 8 September 2004. “The history of UNSW Law School”, talk to Progressive Law Students Movement, Law Faculty Common Room, Thursday 13 May 2004. ‘“There is life in the old dog yet”: the punitive turn, the penal welfare complex and popular punitiveness’, paper presented to faculty seminar program, Law Faculty, UNSW, 23 March 2004 “The Nagle Report 25 Years On”, paper presented at seminar at NSW Parliament House, 25 February 2004. The following papers were delivered at Conferences. The list is not exhaustive. “There is life in the old dog yet”; NSW penal practice since Nagle, penal welfarism and popular punitiveness’, paper delivered at the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Sydney, 3 October, 2003. ‘The Nagle Report into NSW Prisons: 25 years on’, speech to the NSW Council for Civil Liberties, Presidents Dining Room, Legislative Council, NSW Parliament House, 5 September 2003. ‘Prisoners as Citizens’, Paper presented as guest speaker in a plenary session at the Association of Public Health Professionals Conference, Brisbane, April 3, 2003. ‘The Effectiveness of the Prison System’, Lecture delivered to HSC students, Cole Auditorium, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 18 March 2003. ‘Law and Order in NSW’, Speech delivered to NSW Public Defenders, 29 November 2002, Sydney. ‘Prisons, Politics and Punishment Forum’, Speech delivered to Civil Rehabilitation Committee Justice Support 51st AGM, 21 November 2002, Sydney. ‘Prisoners Rights in Australia’, Speech delivered to UNSW Law Student Council for Civil Liberties, 15 October 2002, University of NSW Law Faculty. ‘Law and Order politics in NSW in the lead-up to the 2003 state election’, paper delivered at the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference, Brisbane 1 October 2002 ‘Launch of Beyond Bars Alliance’, Speech delivered at NSW Parliament House, 25 September 2002 ‘Prisoners as Citizens’, paper presented at International Association of Law and Society Conference, Budapest, Hungary, July 5 2001. ‘Reflections on the past and future of Critical Criminology’, paper presented to the “Critical Criminology: Prospects for the next Century” at University of Western Sydney, 26 February 2001 ‘Tales of Ordinary Madness: Reflections on a Life of Crime’, paper delivered to the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Melbourne University, February 21 2001 ‘Mandatory Sentencing: A Criminological Perspective’, paper presented to a Symposium on Mandatory Sentencing, University of NSW, October 28 2000. ‘Imprisonment Rates’ paper presented to Annual Conference of the NSW Probation and Parole Officers Association, Sydney, 26 November 1999 ‘Neo-liberal governance, criminal law and intoxication’ paper delivered to Law Faculty, Auckland University, New Zealand October 1999 ‘Neo-liberal governance, criminal law and intoxication: wild nights with Norm Hewitt, Noa Nadruka, Freddy Fittler et al’ paper delivered to the Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference 1999 Wellington New Zealand July ‘The Uncivil Politics of Law and Order’ paper delivered to the Aannual General Meeting of the Civil Rehabilation Society of NSW, Sydney, October 1998 "Politics, Culture and Identity- A Postcard from Australia" joint paper with Janice Gray presented at Law and Cultural Studies Conference, Onati Spain 24-25 September 1998 "Governmentality and Law and Order" paper presented at the "post-Foucauldian Politics" Seminar, Onati, Spain, Septemeber 14-15 1998. "The role of Politics in Governmentality analyses of Criminology and Criminal Justice", paper presented at the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference, Gold Coast, 8 July 1998. "The Uncivil Politics of Law and Order", speech presented at the Rethinking Law and Order Forum, NSW Parliament House 1 July 1998. "The Uncivil Politics of Law and Order", talk delivered at a "Police Powers Forum", University of Technology, 12 May 1998. "Crime Wave? What Crime Wave?", Public Lecture delivered on the Come Back to UNSW day, Sunday March 22 1998, UNSW. "The Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service: the Limits of Judicial Reflexivity", Paper delivered at the 12th Annual Conference of the ANZ Society of Criminology, Griffiths University, July 1997. "Musings on Law and Order in Fiji" paper presented at a public meeting at Granville TAFE 19 October 1996 Comment on address by Professor Richard Ericson, ‘Policing the Risk Society’, Plenary Session, Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology 11th Annual Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, 29 January - February 1996. Australian Imprisonment, Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology 11th Annual Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, 29 January - 1 February 1996. Police Fabrication and the review of Wrongful Convictions, Forum, NSW Parliament House, 23 November 1995. `Prison Policy: A Commentary’, paper delivered to the "Prison Policy: Where to Now?", Seminar conducted by the Sydney Institute of Criminology, NSW Parliament House, 29 March 1995. `Masculinities, sport and violence: the swinging arm in rugby league’, paper delivered at the Cultural Studies Conference, University of Technology, Sydney, 6 December 1994. ‘An Honest Politician’s guide to sentencing reform: a primer’, paper presented to the Fifth International Criminal Law Congress", Sydney 28 September 1994. ‘The Victim/Offender Dichotomy and the Politics of Criminal Justice Reform’, paper presented to the ANZ Society of Criminology Conference, UNSW, 30 September 1994. ‘The Australian Institute of Criminology and Australian Criminology’, paper presented to the ANZ Society of Criminology, UNSW, 28 September 1994. ‘The International Crime Victim Surveys: Some Methodological Concerns’, paper presented to the ANZ Society of Criminology Conference, UNSW, 27 September 1994. ‘The Newtown Local Crime Victim Survey’, paper delivered to the ANZ Society of Criminology Conference, University of NSW, 29 September 1994. ‘Research Methodologies: reform involvement (The Prison Struggle), doctrinal exposition and critique (Criminal Laws) and social survey (The Newtown Crime Victim Survey)’, Seminar presented at a research methodolgies seminar, Humanities Department, University of Technology, Sydney, 17 April 1994. ‘The Newtown Local Crime Victim Survey’, paper presented together with Dr Sandra Egger and Gail Travis, to UNSW Law Faculty Staff Seminar, 10 April 1994. ‘Fracturing Legal Subjectivities’, paper delivered at the Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, October 1993. ‘Masculinities, Sport and Violence: The Swinging Arm’, paper delivered to the ANZ Society of Criminology Conference, University of Sydney, September 1993. ‘Law and Order Dichotomies’ paper delivered at the Crime and Punishment: Has Politics Failed? Community Forum, NSW Teachers Federation 18 August 1993. ‘The Politics and Culture of Prison Informing’, paper delivered at The Ultimo Series: Contemporary research and practice in the Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Humanities, University ofTechnology, 19 May 1993 ‘A Comment on the ICAC Report on the Investigation into the Use of Informers’, The University of NSW, Faculty of Law 1993 Continuing Legal Education Program, 3 May 1993. ‘The Culture of Prison Informing’, paper delivered to the ANZ Society of Criminology Conference, Melbourne University, November 1992. ‘The Emergence of Prisoner Informant Testimony’, seminar delivered to the Law Faculty and Institute of Criminology, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, 8 April 1992. ‘Teaching Criminology at the University of NSW’, Teaching Criminology Workshop, Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference, University of Melbourne, 4 October 1991. ‘Penal Politics’, National Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Inaugural One Day Conference, Prisons, Prisoners and Politics: Australia and Abroad, Melbourne, 23 August 1991. ‘A local crime victim survey in NSW: a report’, Law in the Global Village Conference, Amsterdam, 1991. ‘Privatising police verbal : the emergence of prison informants in NSW’, Law in the Global Village Conference, Amsterdam, 1991. ‘The NSW Sentencing Act 1989: Whose and What Truth?’, Sydney Institute of Criminology Seminar on Sentencing, 8 August 1991. ‘A New Direction for Law and Order’, Living in Sydney Conference, August 3-4 1991, Granville TAFE. ‘Prison informants’, Academics for Justice Conference, NSW State Library, 23 Feb. 1991. ‘The Law and Order Policies of the Greiner Government’, The Australian Sociological Association Conference, Emmanuel College, University of Queensland, 16 December 1990. ‘Left Realism and Australian Criminology’, Law and Society Conference, Griffith University, Brisbane, 9 December 1990. ‘Left Realism and Australian Criminology’, Sociology School, Murdoch University, Western Australia, 7 November 1990. ‘Issues in Teaching Criminal Law’, Staff Seminar, Murdoch University School of Law, Western Australia, 6 November 1990. ‘The State of the Prisons in NSW’, Moving the Boundaries, Freemantle, 3 November 1990. ‘Violence and Public Policy’, Crime Research Centre, University of Western Australia, 2 November 1990. ‘Free Market Ideology and Crime Policy’, (jointly with Russell Hogg) Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, Fifth Annual Conference, University of Sydney, 12 July 1989. ‘Intellectual Activity and Social Change’, Beyond Social Control Conference, University of Technology, Sydney, 10 June 1989. ‘The Media and Crime Reporting: Responsibility, Accuracy, Ethics’, Australian Institute of Criminology and the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal Conference, Media and Crime Reporting, Sydney, 16 April 1989. ‘Left Realism and Criminology: An Australian Perspective,’ Centre for Criminology, Toronto, Canada, 22 November 1988. ‘Law and Order Politics: Left Realism and Criminology: An Overview’, American Society of Criminology Conference, Chicago, 12 November 1988. ‘Women in Prison in NSW: Task Force Reform’, European Deviancy Group Conference, Oslo, Norway, 3 September 1988. ‘Does the prison have a future’, A Public Lecture in the Crime and Control in the Eighties series held under the auspices of the Department of Legal Studies, La Trobe University, Melbourne, 21 October 1987. ‘Some Themes in the Teaching of Criminal Law at UNSW’, University of New South Wales Criminal Law Teachers, AULSA, Monash University, August 1987. ‘Sentencing and Penal Reform in N.S.W.’ Department of History, University of Wollongong, 29 July 1987. ‘Murphy and the Media’, Law and Society Conference, Griffiths University, Brisbane, December 1986. ‘Judicial Independence: An Examination’, AULSA Conference, Goroka, August 1986. ‘Re-presenting Justice Murphy: a contemporary inquisition’, University of Sydney Law School Seminar, 26 July 1986. ‘Some Pre-conditions for Sentencing Reform’, Australian Institute of Criminology, Conference on Sentencing, Canberra, March 1985. ‘NSW V.J. Courts and Prison Discipline’, Law and Society Conference, Canberra, December 1985. ‘Abolition Revisited: Issues and Problems’, Second International Conference on Prison Abolition, Free University, Amsterdam, 27 June 1985. ‘The Organised Crime and Corruption Debate in Australia’, Australian Studies Centre, London, 18 June 1985. ‘The Politics of Prison Abolition’, Law Faculty, University of Kent, England, 11 June 1985. ‘Directions in Australian Criminology’, Middlesex Polytechnic, Centre for Criminology, 4 June 1985. ‘Juvenile Justice Reform’, Sociology Department, University of NSW, 1985. ‘Judicial Independence: A Doctrine for all Seasons’, Law and Society Conference, Macquarie University, December 1984. ‘Background Discussion Paper on Police Verbals’ Stop the Verbal Conference, Sydney University Law School, October 1984. ‘I’m all lost in the supermarket’, Sydney Institute of Criminology, Shoplifting Seminar June 1983. ‘Policing: Current Developments’, ANZAAS Conference, Macquarie University, November 1982. ‘A Comment on Reform’, The Criminal Injustice System, University of Sydney, 28 February 1981. ‘Media Treatment of Prisons Issues’, Media Responsibility Conference, Mitchell CAE, February 1980. ‘The Media and Prisons’, NSWIT Communications Conference, 24 August 1980. ‘Criminological Research’, Australian Institute of Criminology, Armidale NSW August 1975. ‘Criminology and Prison Research: Who Benefits?’ Alternatives to Imprisonment Conference, University of NSW, May 1975. |
