Select Publications
Books
2016, Sex Crimes in the Fifties, Melbourne Univ. Publishing
,Book Chapters
2023, 'Criminal Certainties: Knowable, Unknowable, and Transformable Criminals in Nineteenth-Century Cultural Representations', in Finnane M (ed.), A Global History of Crime and Punishment in the Age of Empire, Bloomsbury, London, pp. 189 - 211, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474206259.ch-8
,2022, 'Sexual violence, racism, and the death penalty', in A History of Crime in Australia Australian Underworlds, Taylor & Francis
,2022, 'Criminal Justice after the Convicts: A History of the Long Twentieth Century', in Cane P; Ford L; McMillan M (ed.), The Cambridge Legal History of Australia, Cambridge University Press, pp. 605 - 628, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108633949.026
,2019, 'Australia’s Long History of Immigration, Policing and the Criminal Law', in Billings P (ed.), Crimmigration in Australia Law, Politics, and Society, Springer, pp. 19 - 37, https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811390920#aboutAuthors
,2019, 'Uncovering a Hidden Offence: Social and Legal Histories of Familial Sexual Abuse', in Piper A; Stevenson A (ed.), Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, Monash University Press, Carlton, Vic, pp. 63 - 77, https://publishing.monash.edu/books/gva-9781925835304.html
,2017, 'Race and Ethnicity in Sex Crimes Trials', in Mason R (ed.), Legacies of Violence in Modern Australia, Berghahn Publishing, pp. 217 - 232, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvss40bc
,2016, 'Introduction', in Smaal Y; Kaladelfos A; Finnane M (ed.), The Sexual Abuse of Children Recognition and Redress, pp. 1 - 5
,2016, 'Sexual Assault by Teachers: Historical Legislative, Policy, and Prosecutorial Responses', in Smaal Y; Kaladelfos A; Finnane M (ed.), The Sexual Abuse of Children: Recognition and Redress, Monash University Publishing, pp. 20 - 34
,2013, ''Until Death Does Part Us’: Male Friendship, Intimacy, and Violence in Late Colonial Australia', in Willett G; Smaal Y (ed.), Intimacy, Violence and Activism: Gay and Lesbian Perspectives VI, Monash University Publishing, pp. 39 - 55
,Edited Books
Smaal Y; Kaladelfos A; Finnane M, (eds.), 2016, The Sexual Abuse of Children, Monash University Press, Carlton, Vic., https://www.publishing.monash.edu/books/tsaoc-9781876924171.html
Journal articles
2024, 'Historical criminology and colonialism', History Australia, 21, pp. 163 - 183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2024.2336953
,2022, 'Gender is dynamic for all people', Discover Psychology, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s44202-022-00054-2
,2019, 'Sexual violence and male prisons: an Australian queer genealogy', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 31, pp. 349 - 364, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2019.1641881
,2018, 'The “Good Old Days” of Courtroom Questioning: Changes in the Format of Child Cross-Examination Questions Over 60 Years', Child Maltreatment, 23, pp. 186 - 195, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077559517733815
,2018, 'Immigration and criminality: Australia’s post-war inquiries', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 64, pp. 48 - 64, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12425
,2018, 'Sharing the archive: Using web technologies for accessing, storing and re-using historical data', Methodological Innovations, 11, pp. 2059799118787749, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2059799118787749
,2018, 'Gender, Victimisation and Prosecutorial Discretion in the Attrition of Sexual Offences', Law and History, 86, pp. 86 - 86, https://heinonline-org.wwwproxy1.library.unsw.edu.au/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/lwanhist5&id=282&collection=journals#
,2017, 'A historical comparison of Australian lawyers’ strategies for cross-examining child sexual abuse complainants', Child Abuse and Neglect, 72, pp. 236 - 246, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.07.010
,2017, 'Lawyers' Strategies for Cross-examining Rape Complainants: Have We Moved beyond the 1950s?', British Journal of Criminology, 57, pp. 551 - 569, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azw023
,2017, 'British Migrants, Criminality and Deportation: Shaping the Australian Post-war Approach', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 45, pp. 339 - 363, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2017.1294240
,2017, 'Sexual assault complainants on the stand: a historical comparison of courtroom questioning', Psychology, Crime and Law, 23, pp. 15 - 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2016.1217334
,2016, 'Race and justice in an Australian court: Prosecuting homicide in Western Australia, 1830-1954', Australian Historical Studies, 47, pp. 443 - 461, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2016.1194442
,2016, 'Phillips' brief: The maliciousness of rape', CRIMINAL LAW JOURNAL, 40, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000390925700004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2014, 'Hierarchies of Harm and Violence: Historicising Familial Sexual Violence in Australia', Australian Feminist Studies, 29, pp. 306 - 324, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2014.958122
,2014, 'Sexual and gender-based violence: definitions, contexts, meanings', Australian Feminist Studies, 29, pp. 233 - 237, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2014.958121
,2013, 'The dark side of the family: paternal child homicide in Australia', Journal of Australian Studies, 37, pp. 333 - 348, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2013.813574
,2012, 'The condemned criminals: Sexual violence, race, and manliness in colonial Australia', Women's History Review, 21, pp. 697 - 714, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2012.658186
,2012, 'The Politics of Punishment: Rape and the Death Penalty in Colonial Australia, 1841–1901', History Australia, 9, pp. 155 - 175, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2012.11668407
,2010, 'Murder in Gun Alley: Girls, grime and gumshoe history', Journal of Australian Studies, 34, pp. 471 - 484, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2010.519104
,2009, '"Call All Male Offenders By Their RIght Name": Masculinity and the Age of Consent', Melbourne Historical Journal, Special Issue, pp. 1 - 19
,Reports
2024, Submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission: Current and emerging threats to trans and gender diverse human rights
,2020, The NSW Legislative Council Standing Committee on Social Issues: Inquiry into Gay and Transgender Hate Crimes between 1970 and 2010, https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lcdocs/submissions/67294/0013%20-%20Australian%20Hate%20Crime%20Network.pdf
,2019, Submission to Inquiry Into Gay and Transgender Hate Crimes between 1970 and 2010, https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lcdocs/submissions/62552/0019.%20Panel%20of%20criminologists.pdf
,Media
2023, Explainer: Anti-trans laws on the rise in the United States, https://www.humanrights.unsw.edu.au/research/commentary/explainer-anti-trans-rights-bills-united-states
,2020, Femicide: An Intractable History, Online only, http://www.auswhn.org.au/blog/femicide-intractable-history/
,2018, Sexual Abuse, Harassment and Discrimination "rife" among Australian academics, https://theconversation.com/sexual-abuse-harassment-and-discrimination-rife-among-australian-academics-97856
,2018, Inquiry into LGBTIQ hate crime could improve how police and communities respond, https://theconversation.com/inquiry-into-lgbtiq-hate-crime-could-improve-how-police-and-communities-respond-108493
,2018, Man who burnt his wife alive gets at least 27 years’ jail, but not life – as victim was no stranger, https://theconversation.com/man-who-burnt-his-wife-alive-gets-at-least-27-years-jail-but-not-life-as-victim-was-no-stranger-106527
,Other
2023, Rachel Franks uncovers the life of a hangman (Book Review), Taylor and Francis Group, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2023.2271960
,2017, The Prosecution Project Database, https://prosecutionproject.griffith.edu.au/
,2016, Across the Seas: Australia's Response to Refugees, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2016.36
,2013, NSW Capital Convictions Database, https://research.forbessociety.org.au/
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