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Associate Professor Sharon Pickering

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Research Interests
Research Publications

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Email: Sharon.Pickering@arts.monash.edu.au
Room W10.13 10th Floor
Building 11 (Menzies), Clayton Campus

Publications

Sharon has written for the British Journal of Criminology, Policing and Society, Journal of Refugee Studies, Forced Migration Review, Women and Criminal Justice, Journal of Violence Against Women, Current Issues in Criminal Justice and has authored the books Women, Policing and Resistance in Northern Ireland, and (with Lambert and Alder) Critical Chatter: women and human rights in South East Asia.

Forced migration, security and criminal justice is the focus of her book, Refugees and State Crime. She is currently working with Dr Leanne Weber on a book about Deaths at the Border and is writing a monograph on Women at the Border.

Research

Refugees, borders and justice
Policing, terrorism and security
Human rights and state crime
Gender persecution

Sharon researches issues of policing, human rights, criminalisation and state crime.

Research Publications

Books

Seagrave, M., Milivojevic, S., and Pickering, S., (2009 forthcoming), Sex Trafficking, Devon, UK: Willan.
Pickering, S., Wright-Neville, D., and McCulloch, J., (2008), Counter-Terrorism Policing, New York: Springer.
Pickering, S., (2005), Refugees and State Crime, Sydney: The Federation Press.
Lambert, C., Pickering, S., and Alder, C., (2003), Critical Chatter: Women and Human Rights in South East Asia, Durham: Carolina Academic Press.
Pickering, S., (2002), Women, Policing and Resistance in Northern Ireland, Belfast: Beyond the Pale.

Book Chapters

Pickering, S., (2008), The New Criminals: Refugees and Asylum Seekers, in Anthony, T., and Cuneen, C., The Critical Criminology Companion, Sydney: The Federation Press.
Pickering, S., and McCulloch., J., (2008) Refugees and the Violence of Incarceration, in Scraton, P., and McCulloch, J., (eds), The Violence of Incarceration, London, Routledge.
Pickering, S., (2008), "The Globalisation of Violence Against Refugees", in Devetak, R., (eds), Globalisation and Violence, London: Routledge.
Segrave, M., and Pickering, S., (2006 forthcoming), "Sex Trafficking: Destination Australia", in Pattamaporn Busapathumrong (ed) Social Policy in Transition In Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thammasat University Press.
Pickering, S., and Weber, L., (2006) "Beyond Borders", in Pickering, S., and Weber, L., (eds), Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control, New York: Springer.
Pickering, S., and Weber, L., (2006)"Borders, Mobility and technologies of Control", in Pickering, S., and Weber, L., (eds), Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control, New York: Springer.
Pickering, S., (2006), "Border Talk" in Pickering, S., and Weber, L., (eds), Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control, New York: Springer.
Pickering, S., and Kneebone, S., (2006), "Australia and the Pacific", in Kneebone, S., and Rawlings, Rawlings, F., (eds), The Regionalisation of Refugee Policy, Oxford: Berghan.
Kneebone Kneebone, S., and Pickering, S., (2005), "Australia and South East Asia", in Kneebone, S., and Rawlings, Rawlings, F., (eds), The Regionalisation of Refugee Policy, Oxford: Berghan.
Pickering, S., (2004), "The Narrativisation of Gender and Criminality in the Refugee Determination Process", in Pickering, S., and Lambert, C., (eds), (2003), Global Issues, Women and Justice, Sydney: Federation Press/Institute of Criminology Monograph Series.
Pickering, S., and Gard, M., (2004), Everybody's business: the privatisation of women's imprisonment, in Pickering, S., and Lambert, C., (eds), (2004), Global Issues, Women and Justice, Sydney: Federation Press/Institute of Criminology Monograph Series.
Pickering, S., (2002), "Domestic Violence in Australia", in Summers, R., and Hoffman, A., (eds), Domestic Violence: a Global Perspective, Westport: Greenwood Publishing.
Pickering, S., and Alder, C., (2000), "Women and Criminal Justice: trends for the new millennium", in Chappell, D., and Wilson, P., (eds), (2000), The Australian Criminal Justice System: 2000 and Beyond, Butterworths, Sydney.
Pickering S., (2000) "Female Crime in Australia", in Rafter, N., (ed), Encyclopaedia of Women and Crime, Oryx Press, Phoenix.
Pickering, S., (2000), "Women's Experiences of Policing in Northern Ireland" in Rounds, D., International Criminal Justice: Issues in Global Perspective, Allyn & Bacon, USA.

Refereed Journal Articles

Pickering, S., McCulloch, J., and Wright-Neville, D., (2008), Counter-terrorism policing: towards social cohesion, Crime, Law and Social Change, Vol. 40, pp 91-109
Pickering, S., (2008), Transnational Crime and Refugee Protection, Social Justice, Vol 34, No. 2. pp47-61.
Pickering, S., (2006), "Crimes of the State: the persecution and protection of refugees", Journal of Critical Criminology.
Maher, J., Segrave, M., Pickering, S., and McCulloch, J., (2005), "Dishonouring Masculinities: the provocation defence in Victorian Law, Australian Feminist Law Journal, Vol 23, pp 147-164.
McCulloch, J., and Pickering, S., (2005) Suppressing the Financing of Terrorism: Proliferating State Crime, Eroding Censure and Extending Neo-Colonialism, British Journal of Criminology Special Edition on State Crime, Vol 45, pp470-486.
Wilson, D., Third, A., and Pickering, S., (2005) Secrecy, Media and Guantanamo Bay, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 16, 1, pp 79-84.
Pickering, S., Wonders, N., Danner, M., and Weaver, D., (2004), Globalisation and Criminal Justice: an interactive collaborative approach to global learning, Refereed Conference Proceeding, EdMedia Conference, Switzerland, June 2004:
McCulloch, J., Pickering, S., Wilson, R., Choong, J., and Wright-Neville, D., (2004), Financing Terror, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 16, 1, pp 71-78.
Pickering, S., (2004), "Border Terror: policing, forced migration and terrorism", Journal of Global Change, Peace and Security, pp 211-232.
Pickering, S., (2004), "The production of sovereignty and the rise of transversal policing: people smuggling and federal policing", Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Vol 37, No 3, pp 340-358
Pickering, S., and Third, A., (2003), "Castrating Conflict: Gender(ed) terrorists and terrorism domesticated" in Social Alternatives, Volume 22, Number 2, pp8-16.
Pickering, S., and Lambert C., (2003) International Human Rights Discourse: domestic violence and women living on the Thai Burma border, Forced Migration Review, Issue 17, pp 41-43.
Pickering, S., (2003), Gender and Persecution: a response to the UNHCR Gender Guidelines, Comparative Law Yearbook 2003, Auckland: New Zealand Association of Comparative Law, pp347-358.
Pickering, S., (2003), "Women and the police in Northern Ireland: No Police Thank you" in Irish Journal of Feminist Studies, Volume 5, Issues 1 and 2, pp 34-54.
Pickering, S., and Lambert, C., (2002), Deterrence: Australia’s Refugee Policy, Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Refugee Issues and Criminology, Volume 14, Number 1, pp 65-86.
Pickering, S., and O'Kane, M., (2002), Policing, Exile and Gender in States' Borderlands, Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Refugee Issues and Criminology, Volume 14, Number 1, pp 106-110.
Pickering, S., and Lambert, C., (2001), Immigration Detention Centres, Human Rights and Criminology in Australia, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Volume 13, Number 2, pp 219-223.
Pickering, S., (2001), "Undermining the Sanitised Account: violence and emotionality in the field in Northern Ireland", in The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 41, pp 485-501.
Pickering, S., (2001), "Engendering Resistance: Women and Policing in Northern Ireland", in Policing and Society, Volume 11, Numbers 3-4, pp 337-358.
Pickering, S., (2001), "Original Deviance and Normality: Representations of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the Australian Press", Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 14, Number 2, pp 169-186.
Pickering, S., (2000), "The Press of Asylum", in Forced Migration Review, No. 8, pp 31-34.
Lambert, C., and Pickering, S., (2000), "Violence as another name: the use of human rights discourse by domestic violence and women’s crisis centres in South East Asia", Journal of Violence Against Women, pp 24-35.
Pickering, S., (2000), "Motherhood, the family and sexuality: women's formal contact with policing in Northern Ireland" in Women and Criminal Justice, Vol. 15, No.3, pp 49-82.
Ross, J., Barak, G., Ferrell, J., Kauzlarich, D., Hamm, M., Friedrichs, D., Matthews, R.,Pickering, S., Presdee, M., (1999), "The State of State Crime Research", in Humanity and Society, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp272-281.

Edited Collections

Pickering, S., and McCulloch, J., (eds), (2008), Social Justice, Special Edition on Transnational Crime.
Pickering, S., and Weber, L., (2006), Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control, New York: Springer.
Pickering, S., and Lambert, C., (eds), (2004), Global Issues, Women and Justice, Sydney: The Federation Press/Institute of Criminology Monograph Series, pp388.
Pickering, S., (2002), Guest Editor of Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Special Edition on Refugee Issues and Criminology, Volume 14, Number 1, pp128.