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Dr Danielle Tyson

Biography

Danielle Tyson is a Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University. Prior to this appointment (in 2007) she taught Criminology at the University of Brighton, England and at the University of Melbourne, Australia and Legal Studies at La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia. Her current research focuses on changing legal responses to intimate partner homicide and reform of the defences to homicide. Dr. Tyson is also involved in a collaborative research project with Social Work at Monash University that examines filicide and separating / separated families in Victoria between 2000-2010. Her most recent research includes an examination of the impact of new media technologies on the legal process.

Dr Tyson's book, Sex, Culpability and the Defence of Provocation, is to be published in July 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish as part of their Discourses of Law series. Dr. Tyson is a member of the Wellbeing of Children Following Separation and Divorce Research Consortium funded by the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth. In June 2010, Dr. Tyson was a Visiting Scholar at the Social and Legal Responses to Violence in Canada Research Unit, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. 

Danielle Tyson currently teaches:

ATS2457 / ATS3457 Crime and the Media
ATS2466 / ATS3466 Sex and Crime (co-taught with Dr Jane Maree Maher)

Offices Held

• Member, Editorial Board, The Australian Feminist Law Journal
• Public Officer, The Australian Feminist Law Journal Inc.
• Member, The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology
• Member, The Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand Inc.

Research

• Changing Legal responses to Intimate Partner Homicide
• Gender, Crime and the Media
  
• Law and New Media Technologies
• Filicide and Separating Families
• Feminist Legal Theory
• Narrative and Literary Theory
• Masculinities and Men's Violence Against Women
  
• Cultural Criminology

Grants and Commissions

2012-2013: Blood on Whose Hands II: The Killing of Women and Children in Australia, Victorian Women's Trust 2010/11 General Grants Program (Joint initiative between Dr Danielle Tyson, Monash University and Dr Debbie Kirkwood, Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria, DVRCV) http://www.vwt.org.au/store/files/1314061286.pdf

2009-2010: Provision of research into family violence since 2006 Family Law Reforms, Attorney General's Department Tender. (Professor T Brown, Dr B Batagol, Dr A Sifris and Dr D Tyson, Monash University. Associate Professor D Bagshaw, Dr S Wendt, Dr E McInness and Dr A Campbell, University of South Australia. Dr B Tinning, James Cook University and Associate Professor C Power, Flinders University.)

2009: Mental Health, Filicide and Parental Separation and Divorce, Victoria 1997-2007: The Need for Intervention and a Better Coordinated Approach, Cross-Faculty Funded Project, Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Medicine, Monash University. (Professor T Brown, Social Work, Monash University and Dr D Tyson, Criminology, Monash University).

2008: Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth national competitive seed-funding grant for 'The wellbeing of children following parental separation and divorce'. The project was led by Professor Thea Brown, Department of Social Work, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University - http://www.med.monash.edu.au/childwellbeingrc/

2005 -- 2006: A pilot study of the impact of the Victorian Government's decision to implement major reforms to the law of homicide, Faculty of Arts Small Grant Scheme, University of Melbourne.

Publications

Books

• Tyson, D. (forthcoming July 2012) Sex, Culpability and the Defence of Provocation, London: Routledge-Cavendish (Discourses of Law) http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415560207/ 
  

Research Reports and Papers

• Tyson, D., Capper, S., and Kirkwood, D. (2010) Review of the Offence of Defensive Homicide, submitted to the Department of Justice, Victoria, on behalf of the Victorian Women's Trust (VWT), Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria (DVRCV), Domestic Violence Victoria (DV Vic) Inc., the Federation of Community Legal Centres (FCLC), Koorie Women Mean Business (KWMB), and Women's Health Victoria (WHV), 13 September 2010.
  http://www.dvrcv.org.au/defensive-homicide-submission
  
  
• Bagshaw, D., Brown, T., Wendt, S., Campbell, A., McInnes, E., Tinning, B., Batagol, B., Sifris, A., Tyson, D., Baker, J., Fernandez Arias, P. (2010) Family Violence and Family Law in Australia: The Experiences and Views of Children and Adults from Families who Separated Post-1995 and Post-2006, Attorney-General’s Department, Canberra.
  http://www.apo.org.au/research/family-violence-and-family-law-australia
  

Journal Articles

• Brown, T., Batagol, B., Sifris, A., Tyson, D., and Arias Fernandes, P., (in progress) 'The Emerging Picture of Family Violence and Family Law in Australia', Australian Journal of Family Law.
• Brown, T. and Tyson, D. (2012) 'An Abominable Crime: Filicide in the Context of Parental Separation and Divorce', Children Australia, December.
• Tyson, D. (2011) 'Victoria's New Homicide Laws: Provocative Reforms or More Women "Asking For It"?', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Vol 23(2), pp. 203-235.
• Brown, T., Bagshaw, D., Batagol, B., Wendt, S., Campbell, A., McInnes, E., Tinning, B., Sifris, A., Tyson, D., Baker, J., Fernandez Arias, P. (2011) 'Parents and Children's Experiences of Violence both Before and After the 2006 Family Law Reforms', Australian Family Lawyer, Vol 22(1), pp. 11-18.
• Bagshaw, D., Brown, T., Wendt, S., Campbell, A., McInnes, E., Tinning, B., Batagol, B., Sifris, A., Tyson, D., Baker, J., Fernandez Arias, P. (2010) 'The Effect of Family Violence on Post-Separation Parenting Arrangements. The Experiences and Views of Children and Adults from Families who Separated Post-1995 and Post-2006', Family Matters, No.86, pp. 35-47
• Tyson, D. (2009) 'Questions of Guilt and Innocence in the Victorian Criminal Trial of Robert Farquharson and the Fact Before Theory Internet Campaign', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Vol. 21(2), pp. 181-205.
• Tyson, D. (2007) 'Rewriting the Event of Murder: Provocation, Automatism and the Law's Use of a Narrative of Insult, Law/Text/Culture, Vol. 11, pp. 286-317.
• Tyson, D. (2006) 'The Death of a Defence: Reflections on Provocation's Afterlife', Refereed full written paper in proceedings of PASSAGES: law, aesthetics, politics, 13-14 July 2006, Melbourne, Australia.
• Tyson, D. (2003) (PhD Abstract) 'Trials of the Voice', The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law: Forensic Linguistics, Vol. 10(1), pp. 163-66.
• Tyson, D. (1999) 'Asking For It': An Anatomy of Provocation', Australian Feminist Law Journal, Vol. 13(2), September, pp. 66-86.
• Tyson, D. (1997) 'Angry Men, Feminist Practice and the Role of the Support Worker', Australian Feminist Law Journal, Vol. 9(2), September, pp. 159-71.
• Tyson, D (1997) 'Interrogating the Scene of Gang Rape and Murder in the Film Blackrock: A Crime of the Imagination?', Protocol: Journal of Law and Social Justice, Vol. 1(2), October, pp. 35-45.

Reviews

• Tyson, D. (2008) Captive Images: Race, Crime, Photography, Katherine Biber, Routledge-Cavendish, Abingdon, 2007, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Vol.20(2), November 2008, pp. 319-321.

National and International Conference Papers

• 2011, (with Professor Thea Brown) 'An Abominable Crime: Filicide in the Context of Parental Separation and Divorce', paper presented 30 September 2011 at the 24th Annual Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC) conference, Crime and the regions: from the local to the regional, national and international, Geelong, Australia.
  
• 2010, 'Provocative Reforms or Old Wine in New Bottles: A Critical Exploration of Some Emerging Impacts of the Abolition of Provocation, Victoria, Australia', paper presented 29 September 2010 at the 23rd Annual Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC) conference, Cross-border Domestic and Transnational Crime: Risks and Responses, Alice Springs, Australia.
• 2010 'A Voyage into “Unchartered Territory”: Reflections on the Impacts of the Abolition of Provocation in Recent Cases of Homicide, Victoria, Australia', invited paper presented 18 June, 2010, at the Social and Legal Responses to Violence in Canada Research Unit, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
• 2009 (with Professor Thea Brown) 'A Study of Filicide in the Context of Parental Separation and Divorce', Family Court of Australia's 2009 National Judges Conference, 9-10 November 2009, Family Court of Australia, Melbourne.
• 2009 (with Professor Thea Brown) 'Mental Health, Filicide and Parental Separation and Divorce Victoria 1997-2009: the need for early intervention and a better co-ordinated approach', paper presented at the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration (AIJA) Family Violence Conference, 1-3 October, Brisbane, Queensland.
• 2008 (with Professor Thea Brown) 'He's no killer; he was a "loving doting dad": Preliminary findings from a study of filicide in the context of parental separation and divorce in Victoria, 1997 – 2007', paper presented at the AIC International Conference on Homicide-Domestic related Homicide, 3-5 December, Holiday Inn, Gold Coast.
• 2008 'Incriminating Images: Audio/Visual Evidence and Culpability in the Police Investigation and Trial of Robert Farquharson', paper presented at the 21st Annual Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference, Criminology: linking theory, policy and practice, 25-28 November, National Convention Centre, Canberra.
• 2008 'The Will to Narrate: Imagining the Circumstances of Child Death', paper presented at the 2nd annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference, 19-20 June, Law School Building, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
• Tyson, D and R Scott Bray (2007) 'Narratives of Injury: Death Scenes and their Interpretation', paper presented at the 20th annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology held in Adelaide from 23-26th September.
• 2006 'The Death of a Defence: Reflections on Provocation's Afterlife', paper presented at the annual Australian Law and Literature Association Conference, PASSAGES: law, aesthetics, politics, 13-14 July 2006, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
• 2003 'Reflections on the Link between the Masculinity of Men and Male Violence in light of the Biographical Turn Within Criminology', paper presented at the annual British Society of Criminology conference, 24-26 June, Centre for Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Wales, Bangor, Wales.
• 2003 'Rethinking Provocation Law Reform: Bringing Law into Relationship with Literature', paper presented at the annual Socio-Legal Studies Association conference, 14-16 April, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, England.
• 2002 'Trials of the Voice: constructions of sexual difference within criminological and legal discourse', paper presented to the School of Applied Social Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Brighton, 27 November.
• 2001 'Imaging the Subject of Insult in the Provocation Defence', paper presented at the fifth joint meeting of the Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (of the International Sociological Association), 4-7 July, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
• 2001 'Asking For It": An Anatomy of Provocation', paper presented at the Sixth Annual Cultural Encounters with Law conference, 30 March, School of English, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia.
• 2001 'Reading Difference Differently', paper presented at The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology 15th Annual Conference, 21-23 February, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• 2000 'Tracing the Remains of the Emotional Subject of Law', paper presented at the 10th Annual International Conference of the Law and Literature Association of Australia, 7-9 July, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
• 1999 'Garrulous Bodies, Unruliness and the Force of the Imagination', paper presented at the 9th Annual International Conference of the Law and Literature Association of Australia, 5-7 February, La Trobe University, Beechworth, Victoria, Australia.
• 1999 'Imagining the Unruly Orifice and Provocative Speech', paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, 27-29 May, Chicago, U.S.A.
• 1998 'Configurations of Desire and Violence in Legal Narratives of Insult', paper presented at 'Five Lines of Criminological Thought', 22 May, Department of Criminology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• 1998 'Towards a Theory of the Unruly Speaking Body in Legal Discourse', paper presented at the 1st Annual International Conference on Gender, Sexuality and Law, 19-21 June, Keele University, Stoke-on-Trent, U.K.
• 1998 'Configurations of Desire and Violence in Legal Narratives of Insult', paper presented at panel titled 'Violence and Masculinity' at the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, 4-7 July, Aspen, Colorado, U.S.A.
• 1997 'Injurious Insults, Insulting Acts? Oral Provocation in Intimate Spousal Homicide', paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Society of Criminology, 18-22 November, San Diego, California, U.S.A.

Higher Degree Research Supervision

Postgraduate research students currently being supervised include:

Student	Thesis Title / Topic	Supervisor(s)
Crystal Bruton	Intimate partner violence in the context of separation	Danielle Tyson / Jo Lindsay
Fairleigh Gilmour	"Girls in the cellar": Media representations of female crime victims	Danielle Tyson / JaneMaree Maher
Laura Vitis	The Age of Innocence and the new Child Pornography	Marie Segrave / Danielle Tyson
Pheobe Fenton	A study of male victims of stalking in rural Australia.	Anna Eriksson / Danielle Tyson
Kate Fitz-Gibbon	Till death do us part: Judging the men who kill their intimate partners: An international comparison	Sharon Pickering / Danielle Tyson
Vicky Nagy	Stop the wretched woman in her career: A study of competing representations of femininity in social and legal responses to female poisoners	Danielle Tyson / JaneMaree Maher

 

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