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PROF ALISON YOUNG



Contact Details

Organization: Social and Political Sciences
Position: PROFESSOR
Email:
Homepage: http://www.crim.unimelb.edu.au/staff/alison.html
Work: 8344 9447
Fax: 9349 4259
Room: 429
Level: 04
Building: 234 Queensberry St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Sexual Assault and the Criminal Law sexual assault, rape, trials, law reform Australia
Graffiti graffiti, young people, regulation, cultural criminology, street art Australia, United States of America, United Kingdom
Cultural Representations of Law, Crime and Justice culture, film and television, visual communication, cultural criminology Australia, United States of America, United Kingdom
Socio-Legal Responses to Art art, regulation, justice, judgment Australia, United States of America, United Kingdom

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States New York University Research
United Kingdom Birkbeck, University of London Research
United States Amherst College Research, Teaching
United States State University of New York at Buffalo Teaching

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Laws The University of Edinburgh 31-Dec-1984
Master of Philosophy University of Cambridge 31-Dec-1985
Doctor of Philosophy University of Cambridge 31-Dec-1988

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Scholarship Economic and Social Research Council, U.K. 07-Oct-1985

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
ADULT SEXUAL ASSAULT: AN EVIDENCE BASED POLICY, PRACTICE AND ADVOCACY MODEL FOR THE VICTORIAN POLICE Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/07/2006
Urban images and the appearance of city spaces Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Culture, Critical Criminology and the Imagination of Crime


    Year: 2008
    Book: The Critical Criminology Companion
    Publisher: Hawkins Press
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Piss Christ on Trial: Disgust, Obscenity and Transgression
    Year: 2007
    Book: The Trials of Art
    Publisher: Ridinghouse
    Authors(s):

Journal Articles

  • Images in the aftermath of trauma: Responding to September 11th
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Crime, Media, Culture
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 30-48
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Our Desires are Ungovernable: Writing Graffiti in Public Spaces
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Theoretical Criminology
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 275-306
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • Judging the Image: Art, Value, Law
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • 'Into the Blue': the cinematic possibility of judgment with passion
    Year: 2004
    Book: Law's Moving Image
    Publisher: Cavendish Publishing(London)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • "Into the Blue": The Image Written on Law


    Year: 2003
    Book: Cultural Studies, Cultural Analysis and the Law
    Publisher: Duke University Press
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  • Into the Blue: The Image Written on Law
    Year: 2003
    Book: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law
    Publisher: Duke University Press(Durham)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • The Meanings of Graffitti and Municipal Administration
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 165-186
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  • The meanings of graffiti and municipal administration
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 165-186
    Publisher: Australian Academic Press(Sydney)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • A Judgment Dwelling in Law: Violence and the Relations of Legal Thought
    Year: 2001
    Book: Law, Violence, and the Possibility of Justice
    Publisher: Princeton University Press(Princeton)
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Journal Articles

  • 'Into the Blue': The Image Written on Law
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities
    Volume: 13
    Issue: Special Issue
    Page numbers: 305-327
    Publisher: Yale University(New Haven)
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