Associate Professor David Baker
Head of Criminal Justice Section
| Phone: | +61 3 990 26387 or +61 3 512 26387 | |
| Fax: | +61 3 990 26359 or +61 3 512 26359 | |
| Office: | 1E 228, Gippsland Campus | |
| Email: | david.baker@monash.edu |
Biography
After working as a Communications Skills Lecturer at the Victoria Police Academy, David commenced at Monash in 1991 in the Police Studies Department. He was a senior lecturer in Criminal Justice and Criminology on the Caulfield and Clayton campuses before establishing the Criminal Justice program on the Gippsland campus in 2006.
Research interests
His main area of research is public order policing. His most significant contribution is a single-authored book, Batons and Blockades: Policing Industrial Disputes in Australasia , Circa, 2005. Other research interests include the policing of political and environmental protest, police history and reform, police unionism, comparative criminal justice, the role of the Australian Federal Police, policing in the Pacific region, and labour history. He is an executive member of the Criminal Justice Research Consortium.
Current research project
Currently, researching the policing of climate camp protests in Australia and Great Britain.
Recent publications
Chapters in books
- 2010, “An Exploration of Police Use of Firearms in Australia” in J. Kuhns and J. Knutsson, Police Use of Force: A Global perspective (Global Crime and Justice series) Santa Barbara (CA): Praeger Publishers, pp.141-151
- 2010, “Interview with Commissioner Mal Hyde: South Australia’s Long-serving and Reformist Police Commissioner”. In D. Das & O. Marenin, International Policing: Interviews with Police Leaders from across the World, Taylor & Francis, chapter 1
- 2010, (forthcoming) “Tonga: Crime and Punishment”, Crime and Punishment around the World, Vol.3, General editor, Graeme Newman, Greenwood Publishing
- 2009, “'Bloody Sunday' in review: an analysis of the confused policing of the 1919 Fremantle waterfront”, in Bobbie Oliver (ed) Labour History in the New Century, Black Swan Press, Perth WA Australia, pp. 51-62
- 2008, 'The "new" policing of industrial discord'. In G Michelson, S Jamieson and J Burgess (eds.), New Employment Actors: Development from Australia. Bern: Pete Lang AG. pp. 67-87
Peer-refereed journal articles
- 2010, (forthcoming) With Hyde, M. (Commissioner of South Australian Police), “The Service Model of Policing: Police have customers too” in Police, Practice & Research
- 2010, “‘Switch off Hazelwood’: Policing, Protest and a ‘Polluting Dinosaur’" Current Issues in Criminal Justice, July
- 2009, “Police Confirmation of Use of Force in Australia: ‘To be or not to be?’ Crime, Law and Social Change. Special edition, “Police Talk about the Use of Force: A Comparative International Perspective.” DOI 10.1007/s10611-008-9180-y
- 2009, Waddington, P. Birbeck, C., Baker, D. et al “Researching the Use of Force: The Background to the International Project”, Crime, Law and Social Change. Special edition, “Police Talk about the Use of Force: A Comparative International Perspective.” DOI 10.1007/s10611-008-9177-6
- 2009, Waddington, P. Birbeck, C., Baker, D. et al, “Singing the Same Tune? International continuities and discontinuities in how police talk about using force”, Crime, Law and Social Change. Special edition, “Police Talk about the Use of Force: A Comparative International Perspective.” DOI 10.1007/s10611-008-9176-7
- 2008, “Paradoxes of Policing and Protest”, Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism. Vol.3, no. 2, pp. 8-22
- 2008, “A Tale of Two Towns: Industrial Pickets, Police Practices and Judiciary” Labour History, no.95, pp.151-168
- 2008, “Policing the ‘Bastard Boys’: Reality and Significance of the Police-Union “Accord” during the National Waterfront Dispute” Flinders Journal of Law Reform, vol.10, no.3, pp.357-372
- 2007, “Policing Industrial Conflict in Rural and Regional Settings: Local and ‘Outside’ Approaches” International Journal of Rural Crime, vol.1, pp.79-92
- 2007, “From Batons to Negotiated Management: The Transformation of Policing Industrial Disputes in Australia” Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, Oxford University Press, vol.1, no.4, pp.390-402
- 2007, “Policing, Politics and Civil Rights: Analysis of the Policing of Protest against the 1999 Chinese President’s Visit to New Zealand” Police Practice and Research: an International Journal, vol.8, no.3, pp.219-238
Teaching
Co-ordination and lecturing for:
- ATS1283 Crime: Theory and Practice
- ATS1284 The Criminal Justice Process
- ATS2471 Comparative Criminal Justice: an international perspective
- ATS3471 Comparative Criminal Justice: an international perspective
- ATS2472 Crime and Violence: Rural, regional and urban communities
- ATS3472 Crime and Violence: Rural, regional and urban communities
- APG4416 Crime Prevention: a global perspective
- APG4417 Policing, Security and Risk Management
- APG4264 Criminal Behaviours and Enterprises: Individuals, Groups and Organisations
- APG5736 Criminal justice research project (12 points)
- APG5738 Criminal justice dissertation (24 points)
Expert media commentary
- Proposed workplace relations ramifications for policing of industrial strikes (SBS News Radio)
- Police unionism controversies (various occasions),
- “The Police Firearms Debate” ( 774 radio),
- “Police Association Board turmoil” ( ABC TV Stateline);
- “The State Budget and Police” (94.7 FM, Geelong radio).
- Newspaper opinion pieces about the policing of industrial disputation and dissent in general, the role of the AFP and police leadership
Postgraduate supervision
Current supervision:
Grants
- CI for ARC Linkage grant pending on “Impact of Incarceration on Children’s Care”