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DR MARK BROWN



Contact Details

Organization: Social and Political Sciences
Position: SENIOR LECTURER IN CRIMINOLOGY
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Homepage: http://www.crim.unimelb.edu.au/staff/mark.html
Work: 8344 9461
Fax: 9349 4259
Room: 433
Level: 04
Building: 234 Queensberry St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Colonial Penal History Penal History, Colonial India, Colonial Law and Justice India, United Kingdom
Corrections and Penology Corrections, Penology, Penal Theory, Parole, Risk Australia, New Zealand

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom University of London Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts (Honours)(First Class)(Psychology) Massey University 01-Dec-1986
Bachelor of Arts (Psychology and Criminology) Victoria University of Wellington 01-Dec-1983
Doctor of Philosophy Victoria University of Wellington

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Member 04-Feb-2001
Member Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society Member 04-Feb-2001

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
Crime, governance and the colonial state: a study of the criminal tribes act 1871 Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
POST-RELEASE SUPPORT OF WOMEN PRISONERS-PROCESSES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL TRANSITION Chief Investigator VICTORIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2005
THE PRISON PROJECT: PENAL CULTURE AND THE RE-INVENTION OF THE PRISON IN AUSTRALIA Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF NSW Discovery Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2008

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
DEPT OF JUSTICE- PGS- HOLLAND Principal Supervisor DEPT OF JUSTICE 01/01/2002

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

  • Risk, Punishment and Liberty


    Year: 2008
    Book: The Critical Criminology Companion
    Publisher: Hawkins Press
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  • The road less traveled: Arts-Based Programs in Youth Corrections


    Year: 2008
    Book: The Arts and Youth at Risk: Global and Local Challenges
    Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing(Newcastle upon Tyne)
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  • True crime: William Sleeman and the thugs


    Year: 2008
    Book: Tall takes and true
    Publisher: Monash University Press(Clayton)
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Publications in 2007

Major Reference Works

  • The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics:

    Prisons


    Year: 2007
    Reference Work Title: The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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Publications in 2006

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Before Citizenship: Liberalism's Colonial Subjects
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Asia Reconstructed: Proceedings of the 16th Biennial Conference of the ASAA
    Conference Publication: Asia Reconstructed
    Page numbers: 1-17
    Publisher: Wollongong University(Wollongong)
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • The New Punitiveness: Trends, theories, perspectives
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Willan Publishing(Devon)
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Book Chapters

  • Colonial history and theories of the present: some reflections upon penal history and theory
    Year: 2005
    Book: Crime and Empire 1840-1940: Criminal Justice in local and global context
    Publisher: Willan Publishing(Devon)
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  • Corrections
    Year: 2005
    Book: Issues in Australian Crime and Criminal Justice
    Publisher: LexisNexis(Chatswood)
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  • Introduction
    Year: 2005
    Book: The New Punitiveness: Trends, theories and perspectives
    Publisher: Willan Publishing(Devon)
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  • Liberal exclusions and the new punitiveness
    Year: 2005
    Book: The New Punitiveness: Trends, theories and perspectives
    Publisher: Willan Publishing(Devon)
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Journal Articles

  • "That Heavy Machine": Reprising the colonial apparatus in 21st century social control.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict and World Order
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 41-52
    Publisher: Global Options
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Crime, Liberalism and Empire: Governing the Mina Tribe of Northern India
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Social & Legal Studies
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 191-218
    Publisher: Sage Publications
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  • The good lives model and conceptual issues in offender rehabiliation
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Psychology, Crime and Law
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 243-257
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • The Risk-Need Model of Offender Rehabilitation - A Critical Analysis
    Year: 2003
    Book: Sexual Deviance - Issues and Controversies
    Publisher: Sage Publications(California)
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  • The assessment of dangerous behaviour
    Year: 2003
    Book: Focus on Behavioral Psychology
    Publisher: Nova Science Publishers(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • Ethnology and colonial administration in nineteenth-century British India: the question of native crime and criminality
    Year: 2003
    Journal: British Journal for the History of Science
    Volume: 36
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 201-219
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • The assessment of dangerous behaviour
    Year: 2002
    Book: Advances in Psychology II
    Publisher: Nova Science Publishers(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • "We are neutral therapists": psychology, the state and social control
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Psychologist
    Volume: 37
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 165-171
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  • Crime, governance and the company Raj: the discovery of Thuggee
    Year: 2002
    Journal: British Journal of Criminology
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: 77-95
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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  • The politics of penal excess and the echo of colonial penality
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Punishment & Society
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 403-423
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Race, Science and the Construction of Native Criminality in Colonial India
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Theoretical Criminology
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 345-368
    Publisher: Sage Publications(London)
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  • Recent Trends in Sentencing and Penal Policy in New Zealand
    Year: 2001
    Journal: International Criminal Justice Review
    Volume: 10
    Page numbers: 1-31
    Publisher: Georgia State University(Georgia)
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  • The Most Desperate Characters in All India
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Punishment & Society
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 433-440
    Publisher: Sage Publications(London)
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