By Associate Professor Vicki Sentas

Books

Sentas V, 2014, Traces of Terror: Counter-Terrorism, Law, Policing and Race, OUP Oxford, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199674633.001.0001

Book Chapters

Sentas V, 2018, 'Beyond Media Discourse: Locating Race and Racism in Criminal Justice Systems', in Bhatia M; Poynting S; Tufail W (ed.), Crime, Media, Racism, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 359 - 379, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71776-0

Sentas V, 2018, 'Beyond Media Discourse: Locating Race and Racism in Criminal Justice Systems', in Media, Crime and Racism, Springer International Publishing, pp. 359 - 379, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71776-0_18

Durbach A; Edgeworth B; Sentas V, 2017, 'Poverty and the Law in Australia Today', in Durbach A; Edgeworth B; Sentas V (ed.), Law and Poverty in Australia: 40 Years after the Poverty Commission, Federation Press, Sydney

Durbach A; Edgeworth B; Sentas V, 2017, 'Law and Poverty in Australia Today: A Reassessment', in Durbach A; Edgeworth B; Sentas V (ed.), Law and Poverty in Australia: 40 Years after the Poverty Commission, Federation Press, Sydney, pp. 1 - 11

Sentas V, 2017, 'The Poverty of Criminal Law: Criminalisation and the Limits of Access to Justice', in Durbach A; Edgeworth B; Sentas V (ed.), Law and Poverty in Australia: 40 Years after the Poverty Commission. Editors: Durbach A, Edgeworth B, Sentas V . Federation Press, Sydney 2017, Federation Press, Sydney, pp. 249 - 264

Sentas V, 2012, 'One More Successful War? Tamil Diaspora and Counter-Terrorism after the LTTE', in Poynting S; Whyte D (ed.), Counter-Terrorism and State Political Violence, Routledge

Nadarajah S; Sentas V, 2012, 'The politics of state crime and resistance: Self- determination in Sri Lanka', in Stanley E; McCulloch J (ed.), State Crime and Resistance, Routledge, USA, pp. 68 - 83, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203101063

Edited Books

Durbach A; Edgeworth B; Sentas V, (eds.), 2017, Law and Poverty in Australia 40 Years After the Sackville Report

Journal articles

Dertadian GC; Sentas V, 2025, '“No penalties. No arrests. No jails”: Perspectives on drug decriminalization among people who inject drugs in Sydney', International Journal of Drug Policy, 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104657

Sentas V; Boon-Kuo L; Ellis JR, 2024, 'Policing WorldPride: gatekeepers at the festival turnstiles', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2024.2319912

Sentas V; Boon-Kuo L, 2023, 'PEOPLE’S EXPERIENCES OF PANDEMIC POLICING: WHY CRIMINALISATION IS BAD FOR THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 46, pp. 1356 - 1384

Green P; Lasslett K; McCulloch J; Rolston B; Keenan J; Tombs S; Wise L; Stańczak D; MacManus T; Regents RMA; Seoighe R; Rothe DL; Kramer RC; Stanley E; Barak G; Cameron H; Whyte D; Scraton P; Barsocchini RJ; Bradshaw EA; Ciocchini P; White R; Williams C; Huggins MK; Poynting S; Meirelles R; Cunneen C; Catello R; Sherwood A; Ward T; McConnachie K; Falk R; Elver H; Bandiera R; Perugini N; Zeffert H; da Silva Filho JCM; Matyakubova D; Sentas V; Giannacopoulos M; Sobout A; Grewcock M; de Nardin Budó M; Forero-Cuéllar A; Darke S; Afana R; McMillan N, 2023, 'INTERNATIONAL EXPERT STATEMENT ON ISRAELI STATE CRIME', State Crime Journal, 12, pp. 126 - 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.13169/statecrime.12.2.0126

Boon-Kuo L; Brodie A; Keene-McCann J; Sentas V; Weber L, 2021, 'Policing biosecurity: police enforcement of special measures in New South Wales and Victoria during the COVID-19 pandemic', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 33, pp. 76 - 88, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2020.1850144

Grewcock M; Sentas V, 2021, 'Strip searches, Police power and the infliction of harm: An analysis of the New South Wales strip search regime.', International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. Advance online publication., 10, pp. 191 - 206, http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.1665

Sentas V; Grewcock M, 2018, 'Criminal law as police power: Serious crime, unsafe protest and risks to public safety', International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 7, pp. 75 - 90, http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v7i3.554

Sentas V, 2018, 'Redfern Legal Centre: Challenging Everyday Police Powers', Court of Conscience, pp. 40 - 45

Sentas V, 2018, 'Terrorist Organization Proscription as Counterinsurgency in the Kurdish Conflict', Terrorism and Political Violence, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2018.1432215

Bastable E; Sentas V, 2016, 'Over policing Indigenous Youth: The Suspect Target Management Plan', Human Rights Defender, 5, pp. 16 - 16

Sentas V, 2016, 'Policing the Diaspora: Kurdish Londoners, MI5 and the Proscription of Terrorist Organizations in the United Kingdom', British Journal of Criminology, 56, pp. 898 - 918, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azv094

Sentas V; McMahon R, 2014, 'Changes to Police Powers of Arrest in New South Wales', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 25, pp. 785 - 801, http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=tsh&AN=95066470&site=ehost-live

Sentas V, 2010, 'Terrorist Organisation Offences and the LTTE: R v Vinayagamoorth', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, pp. 159 - 169

Sentas V, 2010, 'The Violence of Terrorist Organisation Bans', Criminal Justice Matters, 82, pp. 16 - 17

Sentas V; Whyte J, 2009, 'Law, Crisis, Revolution', Australian Feminist Law Journal, 31, pp. 3 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2009.10854424

Pettitt A; Sentas V, 2005, 'Terrorism', Alternative Law Journal, 30, pp. 283 - 285, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1037969x0503000606

Reports

Sentas V, 2023, Submission to Law Enforcement Conduct Commission: Operation Tepito Discussion Paper for the Youth Justice Coalition on the Investigation into Police use of the Suspect Target Management Plan (STMP) for children and young people, Youth Justice Coalition, Sydney

Gooley G; Sentas V, 2022, Submission to the Law Enforcement Conduct Committee on Operation Tepito (Interim Report)- Investigation into the use by NSW Police Force of the Suspect Targeted Management Plan (STMP), Youth Justice Coalition, Sydney

McNamara L; Matthews I; Sentas V; Williams L, 2022, Submission to the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission NSW: Review of the operation of amendments to the consorting law under Part 3A Division 7 of the Crimes Act 1900, Centre for Crime, Law and Justice, UNSW

Boon Kuo L; Sentas V; Weber L, 2021, COVID-19 Policing in the Pandemic: Analysis of Reports Submitted to the COVID-19 Policing in Australia Coalition, Flemington & Kensington Community Legal Centre, Victoria, Melbourne, https://www.policeaccountability.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/COVID-policing_report_print.pdf.

Sentas V, 2020, Submission to Law Enforcement Conduct Commission NSW: Draft Final Report of the Inquiry into NSW Police Force strip search practices

Grewcock M; Sentas V, 2019, Rethinking Strip Searches by NSW Police, UNSW Law, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/27582, https://rlc.org.au/sites/default/files/attachments/Rethinking-strip-searches-by-NSW-Police-web.pdf

Appleby G; McNamara L; Sentas V, 2019, Submission to the Department of Justice, Strategic Legislation and Policy on the Workplaces (Protection from Protesters) Amendment Bill 2019 (Tas), https://www.justice.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/551032/University-of-New-South-Wales-submission-Workplace-protesters.PDF

Sentas V; Pandolfini C, 2017, Policing Young People in NSW: A Study of the Suspect Targeting Management Plan, Youth Justice Coalition, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/26502, http://www.yjc.org.au/report.html

Sentas V; Boon-Kuo L; Hayes B; Sullivan G, 2014, Building Peace in Permanent War: Terrorist Listing and Conflict Transformation, International State Crime Initiative, London

Sentas V, 2010, Campaign Against Criminalising Communities, Submission to the Joint Committee for HumanRights on the Terrorist Asset-Freezing Etc. Bill (UK), UK

Sentas V; Dias M, 2009, Federation of Community Legal Centres (Vic.), Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, Review of the re-listing of Hamas’ Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Kurdistan Workers Party, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations under the Criminal Code Act 1995, Australia

Sentas V; Dias M, 2008, Federation of Community Legal Centres (Vic.), Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, Review of the re-listing of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) as a Terrorist Organisation, Australia

Back to profile page