Gender, Crime and Enforcement
These projects address the intersection of gender and criminality with a focus on the ways in which the institutions of law and justice draw on and reinforce gendered ideologies.
Sex Work: Labour, mobility and sexual services (Routledge forthcoming 2012)
Associate Professor JaneMaree Maher and Professor Sharon Pickering
Sex work has always attracted policy, public and prurient interest. Currently, legal frameworks in developed countries range from prohibition, through partial legalisation to active regulation. Globalisation has increased women’s mobility between developing and developed countries at the same time as women’s employment opportunities in the developed world are shifting. Family and intimate relationships are being transformed by changing demographics, shifting social mores and new intersections between intimate lives and global markets. Sex work is located at the nexus of new intimacies, shifting employment patterns and changing global mobilities.
Sex Work: Labour, mobility and sexual services draws together the everyday practices of sex workers and the broader global markets in which workers negotiate employment. In bringing together these two important intersecting areas, it offers a grounded and innovative account of sex work at the borders and intersections of globalisation and draws out the ways in which the bodies and intimate practices of women sex workers are mobilised in contemporary societies.
Targeted Crime: Policing and Social Cohesion
ARC Linkage Project (2011-2013)
Prof Sharon J Pickering, A/Prof Gail Mason, (USyd) Prof Jude McCulloch, Associate Professor JaneMaree Maher, Prof Lorraine A Mazerolle (UQ) , Dr Rebecca L Wickes,(UQ) Mr Jeffrey S Pope (VicPol), Mr Ashley E Dickinson(VicPol), Ms Leanne T Sargent, (VicPol), Dr David L Ballek (VicPol),
This project will undertake a criminological study of the policing of targeted incidents and crime, that is, incidents and crimes motivated by bias, prejudice or hatred towards members of particular groups, communities and individuals. It will develop a best practice policing framework for targeted crimes and incidents.