By Associate Professor Alyce McGovern

Books

McGovern A, 2019, Craftivism and Yarn Bombing A Criminological Exploration, Palgrave Pivot, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57991-1

Crofts T; Lee M; McGovern A; Milivojevic S, 2015, Sexting and Young People, Palgrave Macmillan

Lee M; McGovern A, 2013, Policing and Media, Routledge, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203095997

Lee M; McGovern A, 2013, Policing and the Media: Public Relations, Simulations and Communications, Routledge, London, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415632133/

Book Chapters

McGovern A; Fitzpatrick T, 2023, 'Craftivism and Crime: Craft as a Vehicle for Criminal and Social Justice Activism', in Canning V; Martin G; Tombs S (ed.), The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology, Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 297 - 309, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80262-199-020231019

McGovern A, 2022, 'Yarn Bombing', in Atkinson R; Ayres T (ed.), Shades of Deviance: A Primer on Crime, Deviance and Social Harm, Routledge, London, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003138198-4

Fishwick E; McGovern A, 2019, 'In Stitches: Crafting, Crime, Harm and Justice', in Mandell H (ed.), Crafting Dissent Handicraft as Protest from the American Revolution to the Pussyhats, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, pp. 263 - 277, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538118399/Crafting-Dissent-Handicraft-as-Protest-from-the-American-Revolution-to-the-Pussyhats

Crofts T; Lee M; McGovern A; Milivojevic S, 2018, 'Sexting pleasures: Young people, fun, flirtation, and child pornography', in Grealy L; Driscoll C; Hickey-Moody A (ed.), Youth, technology, governance, experience: Adults understanding young people, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351112673

McGovern A; Lee M, 2018, ''A sexting 'panic'? What we learn from media coverage of sexting incidents', in Walrave M; Van Ouytsel J; Ponnet K; Temple J (ed.), Sexting: Motives and risks in online sexual self-presentation., Palgrave Macmillan, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71882-8

McGovern A; Lee M, 2018, 'A Sexting 'Panic'? What We Learn from Media Coverage of Sexting Incidents', in Walrave M; VanOuytsel J; Ponnet K; Temple JR (ed.), SEXTING: MOTIVES AND RISK IN ONLINE SEXUAL SELF-PRESENTATION, PALGRAVE, pp. 99 - 118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71882-8_7

McGovern A, 2018, 'Policing, Performance Indicators and Fear of Crime', in Lee M; Mythen G (ed.), The Routledge International Handbook on Fear of Crime, Routledge, Milton Park, pp. 299 - 311, https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-International-Handbook-on-Fear-of-Crime/Lee-Mythen/p/book/9781138120334

McGovern AM; Phillips ND, 2017, 'Police, Media, and Popular Culture', in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology, Oxford University Press, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.279

McGovern AM, 2014, 'Media and Crime', in Arrigo BA (ed.), Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice Ethics, Sage Publications Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book240470?subject=900&fs=1#tabview=title

McGovern AM, 2014, 'Police-Citizen Interaction on Social Media', in Arrigo BA (ed.), Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice Ethics, Sage Publications Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book240470?subject=900&fs=1#tabview=title

Lee M; McGovern AM, 2014, 'Police communication: The uncertain logic of risk', in Deodatis G; Ellingwood BR; Frangopol DM (ed.), Safety, Reliability, Risk and Life-Cycle Performance of Structures and Infrastructures, CRC Press, pp. 119 - 124, http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781138000865

Lee M; McGovern A, 2013, 'Image Work(s): The New Police (Popularity) Culture', in Carrington K; Ball M; OBrien E; Tauri JM (ed.), CRIME, JUSTICE AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES, PALGRAVE, pp. 120 - 132, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000321252600010&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Wise J; McGovern A, 2012, 'Crime Time: The Rise of Police Programming on Television', in Jones C; Barclay E; Mawby R (ed.), The Problem of Pleasure: leisure, tourism and crime, Willan, London, pp. 20 - 31

Lee M; McGovern A, 2012, 'Image Work(s): 'Simulated Policing' and the New Police (Popularity) Culture', in Carrington K; Ball M; O'Brien E; Tauri J (ed.), Crime, Justice and Social Democracy: International Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, UK, pp. 120 - 132, http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=571640%20(copyright%20info%20available)

McGovern A; Lee M, 2012, 'Police Communications in the Social Media Age', in Keyzer P; Johnston J; Pearson M (ed.), The Courts and the Media: Challenges in The Era of Digital and Social Media, Halstead Press, Ultimo, pp. 162 - 176, http://halsteadpress.com.au/site/?page_id=108/http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/164861143?selectedversion=NBD49013888%20(copyright%20info%20available)

McGovern A, 2011, 'Negotiating access to the NSW Police Force Media Unit: A personal research experience', in Bartels L; Richards K (ed.), Qualitative criminology: stories from the field, Federation Press, Australia, pp. 51 - 59, http://www.lawbooks.com.au/book/qualitative-criminology-stories-from-the-field.do

Journal articles

McGovern A, 2022, 'Risky, Subversive, and Deviant? A Criminological Analysis of Guerrilla Knitting', Textile: the journal of cloth and culture, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14759756.2022.2085987

McGovern A; Barnes C, 2022, 'Visible Mending, Street Stitching, and Embroidered Handkerchiefs: How Craftivism is Being Used to Challenge the Fashion Industry', International Journal For Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 11, pp. 87 - 101, http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.2352

Gordon F; McGovern A; Thompson C; Wood MA, 2022, 'Beyond Cybercrime: New Perspectives on Crime, Harm and Digital Technologies', International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 11, pp. I - VIII, http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/IJCJSD.2215

Fitzpatrick T; McGovern A, 2021, 'Home, Health and Power: Exploring Experiences of and Responses to the Pandemic through the Global @covid19quilt Project', The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 61, pp. 43 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.19205/61.21.3

Wood MA; McGovern A, 2021, 'Memetic copaganda: Understanding the humorous turn in police image work', Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, 17, pp. 305 - 326, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1741659020953452

Milivojevic S; Lee M; Crofts T; McGovern A, 2018, '‘A Sneaky Bit of Stalking’: Young People, Social Network Sites, and Practices of Online Surveillance', Temida, 21, pp. 181 - 205, http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/TEM1802181M

Lee M; McGovern A, 2016, 'Logics of risk: police communications in an age of uncertainty', Journal of Risk Research, 19, pp. 1291 - 1302, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2015.1115423

McGovern AM; Crofts T; Lee M; Milivojevic S, 2016, 'Media, legal and young people’s discourses around sexting', Global Studies of Childhood, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2043610616676028

Lee M; Crofts T; McGovern AM; Milivojevic S, 2015, 'Sexting among young people: Perceptions and practices', Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice, pp. 1 - 9, http://aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/tandi/501-520/tandi508.html

McGovern A, 2015, 'Anita Lam (2014) Making Crime Television: Producing Entertaining Representations of Crime for Television Broadcast. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge.', International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 4, pp. 150 - 152, http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v4i4.269

McGovern AM, 2015, 'Book review: Anita Lam (2014) ‘Making Crime Television: Producing Entertaining Representations of Crime for Television Broadcast’', International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 4, pp. 150 - 152, http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v4i4.269

McGovern AM; Wise J; Wise N, 2015, ''When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die': Concepts of justice in George R R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire', Media & Arts Law Review, 20, pp. 1 - 13

Ellis JR; McGovern AM, 2015, 'The end of symbiosis? Australian police-media relations in the digital age', Policing and Society: an international journal of research and policy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2015.1016942

McGovern A, 2015, 'Crime, Media and New Technologies', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 27, pp. 137 - 140, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2015.12036037

Milivojevic S; McGovern AM, 2014, 'The Death of Jill Meagher: Crime and Punishment on Social Media', International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 3, pp. 22 - 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v3i2.144

Bartels L; McGovern AM; Richards K, 2014, 'Degrees of difference? A preliminary study of criminology degrees at Australian universities', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Published online before print April 2, 2014, pp. 1 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004865814523437

Lee M; Crofts T; Salter M; Milivojevic S; McGovern A, 2013, ''Let’s Get Sexting’: Risk, Power, Sex and Criminalisation in the Moral Domain', The International Journal for Crime and Justice, 2, pp. 35 - 49, https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view/89

Johnston J; McGovern A, 2013, 'Communicating Justice: A Comparison of Courts and Police Use of Contemporary Media', International Journal of Communication, 7, pp. 1667 - 1687, http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/2029/960

Lee M; McGovern A, 2013, 'Procedural Justice and Simulated Policing: The Medium and the Message', Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 8, pp. 166 - 183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18335330.2013.821736

Lee M; McGovern A, 2012, 'Force to Sell: Policing the Image and Manufacturing Public Confidence', Policing and Society, 22, pp. 1 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2011.647913

McGovern A; Lee M, 2010, '“Cop[ying] it Sweet”: Police Media Units and the Making of News', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 43, pp. 444 - 464, http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/acri.43.3.444

McGovern A, 2010, 'Review- State Power Crime', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 43, pp. 182 - 185

McGovern A; Wise J; Fitz-Gibbon K; Grewcock M, 2010, 'Reviews', Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 43, pp. 175 - 194, http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/acri.43.1.175

Conference Papers

Albury K; Bliemel MJ; Fletcher C; McGovern A; Jacqui P, 2016, 'Innovation and entrepreneurship in the contemporary Australian media landscape: implications for university teaching and workforce development.', in ANZCA 2016 Proceedings, Newcastle, NSW, presented at Australia New Zealand Communication Association, Newcastle, NSW, 05 July 2016 - 08 July 2016, https://anzca2016.com/program/

Wearing MJ; McGovern A; Melville R; Riley A, 2016, 'Will counter-advertising on social media change young women’s use of alcohol?: Stakeholder’s Interests and Alcohol Consumption of Female University Students', UNSW City Campus, presented at Public Policy Network Conference, UNSW City Campus, 27 January 2016 - 29 January 2016

Lee M; McGovern A, 2011, 'Image Work(s): “Simulated Policing” and the New Police (Popularity) Culture', in Conference Proceedings Crime, Justice and Social Democracy: An International Conference, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, pp. 100 - 117, presented at QUT Crime and Democracy Conference, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 26 September 2011 - 28 September 2011, http://www.crimejusticeconference.com/

McGovern A, 2010, 'Tweeting the News: Criminal Justice Agencies and their Use of Social Networking Sites', in The Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference Proceedings 2010, Sydney Institute of Criminology, Sydney, pp. 1 - 6, presented at Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference, Sydney Institute of Criminology (University of Sydney) and the School of Social Sciences (University of Western Sydney), 01 July 2010 - 02 July 2010, http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7378

McGovern A, 2009, 'The Best Police Force Money Can Buy: The Rise of Police PR Work', in Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2009 Proceedings, Criminology, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Melbourne, presented at 3rd Annual Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference, Monash University, Victoria, 08 July 2009 - 09 July 2009, http://arts.monash.edu.au/criminology/c3-conference-proceedings/anz-critical-criminology-

Conference Posters

McGovern A, (ed.), 2011, 'Using Blogs to Explore Crime in the Media', Kensington, pp. 31 - 32, presented at Assessment: Feedback and Beyond Learning and Teaching Forum September 2011, University of NSW, Kensington, 16 September 2011 - , http://teaching.unsw.edu.au/forum-september-2011

Reports

Innes M; Innes H; Dobreva D; Chermak S; Huey L; McGovern A, 2018, From Minutes to Months: A rapid evidence assessment of the impact of media and social media during and after terror events., Crime and Security Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, https://crimeandsecurity.org/feed/minutestomonths

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