Rob White
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3635183 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rob White |
| NOMBRES | Rob |
| APELLIDO | White |
| FIRMA | WHITE R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8800-0093 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 111 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 244 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 110 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1938 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Ten ways to Improve Juvenile Justice
The main problem with juvenile justice tends to be political rather than scientific or institutional. In effect, it is not fact-based evidence but skewed perception that is driving contemporary criminal justice policy. The universal questions are how to construct systems that work best for young people and their communities, and how to address the underlying problems of both inequality and institutional bias. Using Australia as a case in point, t…
A social licence to crime? Organised environmental crime in community context
Biodiverse regions are particularly susceptible to exploitation of natural resources by dominant actors, including organised crime groups, states and corporations. Many environmental harms and crimes linked to these activities transcend land or border-related issues, evolving into global problems with far-reaching socio-economic, geopolitical and ecological consequences. In these extraction processes, the dual role of local communities as both vi…
Bluewashing and the Illusion of Sustainability in the Cruise Industry
The cruise industry often presents itself as a champion of sustainable tourism. However, despite its public commitments to environmental responsibility, its operations remain a major source of marine pollution, habitat degradation and ecological damage. Drawing on green criminology and the concept of eco-justice, this article critically examines how the cruise tourism industry engages in “bluewashing”. This refers to the strategic use of misleadi…
Steal that car
This article seeks to better understand the increase in motor vehicle theft (MVT) in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, by answering three research questions: (i) what is the spatial distribution of MVT rates across Local Government Areas (LGAs) in NSW?, (ii) which factors predict MVT?; and (iii) do those factors play a more significant role in particular regions as compared to others? Using generalized least squares (ordinary least squares (with …
Developments in DNA analysis and forensic procedures legislation
Forensic procedures legislation guides the collection and analysis of forensic material, including DNA, and the establishment of DNA databases. It requires the balancing of several competing interests, such as identifying and convicting those who commit criminal offences, ensuring that individuals in Australian society are not subjected to unlawful or unfair treatment, and preserving individual privacy and civil liberties. With increased data-sha…
Conceptions of ecocide and challenges for social transformation
This paper examines four conceptions of ‘ecocide’ that relate to descriptions of environmental harm, criminalisation of these harms and inclusion of ecocentric considerations. It then positions advocacy pertaining to ecocide laws in the context of a political economy that both creates and fails to respond to the problems and consequences of ecocide. As part of this, the paper briefly reviews key challenges to the protection of the environment and…
Understanding the challenges of disaster victim identification
Disaster victim identification (DVI) is an important process in the aftermath of disasters to provide answers for the families and communities of victims. Australian forensic practitioners contribute to such processes internationally under difficult post-disaster circumstances. The aim of the study was to better understand the challenges experienced by forensic practitioners in international DVI operations. Participants ( N = 20) included DNA ana…
Forensic DNA analysis and legislative provisions
This article considers the historical development of DNA-related forensic procedures legislation in Australian jurisdictions from a critical forensic studies lens. It shows that the original intent of such legislation was to balance society’s need for effective crime control against certain rights of the individual, such as privacy and bodily integrity, and the rights of a suspect to due process. The article documents how the initial legislative …
Redrawing the Boundaries of Criminology
Forensic science is a topic of fascination and intrigue, yet popular understandings do not always accord with the realities. Trenchant critiques of forensic science – and how it is used in the criminal justice system – highlight a need for greater forensic literacy amongst criminal justice practitioners. Drawing on 15 years of unit outlines, 10 years of student evaluations and recent reflections by the teaching team, this article documents the de…
What happens on the ice, stays on the ice
This article explores the nature of transgression in Antarctica, an isolated and extreme environment. Drawing upon interviews with Antarctic expeditioners, the paper examines harms and crimes of Australian Antarctic bases, some of which are unique to this physical and social environment. The article then considers how and why there is greater tolerance of ‘deviant’ behaviour in this setting and the layers of ‘silence’ that accompany various trans…
Shades of green
The Tasmanian forestry industry has undergone major transition due to industry readjustments and critique from environmental movements. This article focuses on how Tasmanian forestry workers think and feel about an industry in transition. Through the sociological lens of habitus, it investigates how these workers seek to behave in ways that they see as reflecting moral, ethical, and sustainable behaviour. Thematic analysis of semi-structured inte…
The Emerald Handbook of Crime, Justice and Sustainable Development
This volume brings together a diverse collection of essays that critically examine issues relating to crime and justice in the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Chapters examine the issues that practitioners face in working to advance this agenda and the possibilities that exist to advance sustainable development outcomes.
Rethinking Youth
Young people grow up in varied circumstances with different priorities and perspectives. While youth does not exist as a single group we need to understand what is happening in young people's lives. Rethinking Youth challenges the conventional wisdoms surrounding the position and opportunities of young people today and provides a systematic overview of the major perspectives in youth studies.The authors demonstrate how the concept of youth involv…
Emerald Handbook of Crime, Justice and Sustainable Development
A Marxist Perspective on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
This chapter examines the theoretical contributions of Marx and Engels as a framework for analysing the historical evolution of the idea of inequality within the domestic and international legal frameworks in capitalist societies. It discusses what can be referred to as a triple inequality in the legal frameworks that emerged at the end of the eighteenth century in a historical context dominated by bourgeois revolutions. The new ruling class reli…
Mapping Emotions
Counter-mapping refers to the public dissemination by activist groups of maps that visually document particular harms and offenders or sites of justice and prior ownership. Drawing upon green criminology, this article analyses the consequences of using counter-mapping as an activist tool. It examines how media framing of the Aussie Farms map is constructed around particularly polarizing narratives. This interactive map demonstrates the location a…
Debate, Research and Critique in Contemporary Youth Studies
In and Against the State
International and Transnational Crime and Justice
International crime and justice is an emerging field that covers crime and justice from a global perspective. This book introduces the nature of international and transnational crimes, theoretical foundations to understanding the relationship between social change and the waxing and waning of the crime opportunity structure, globalization, migration, culture conflicts, and the emerging legal frameworks for their prevention and control. It present…
Violence in the mosh pit
The mosh pit is a unique crowd formation where audience members dance aggressively to engage with the music, the performers and each other. However, in this space, Australian punks may experience violations of bodily integrity. Multiple levels and types of transgression occur, as members break with mosh pit ethics by engaging in unwanted and unlawful sexual and physical violence. This case study provides an example of how group normative behaviou…
Transnational environmental crime threatens sustainable development
Ecocentrism and criminal justice
Ecocentrism refers to valuing nature for its own sake. This ecophilosophical orientation requires that all social practices incorporate ecological sensitivities and heightened awareness of the intrinsic value of non-human entities. This article explores what ecocentrism means for criminal justice and how the core principles of an ecocentric worldview translate into concrete application. Trends within criminal justice that are broadly supportive o…
Green victimology and non-human victims
This article explores the tensions and interplay between human and non-human environmental victims from the point of view of eco-justice. The article begins by sketching out the broad contours of green victimology as a newly emerging area of intellectual engagement. Human victims of environmental harm are not widely recognised as victims of ‘crime’. Moreover, within the category ‘victim’, the non-human environmental victim is seldom considered wo…
Criminology
This entry describes the main theoretical orientations of criminology as a multidisciplinary field. After distinguishing two approaches to the doing of criminology, it notes three broad levels of criminological explanation: the individual, the situational, and the structural. The entry then considers a key conceptual divide within criminology that hinges upon whether crime is explained primarily in terms of individual choice or is seen to be dete…
David Whyte
Crime, Ecophilosophy and Environmental Harm
This article sketches out three broad philosophical frameworks relating to the human/environment nexus—the anthropocentric, biocentric and ecocentric perspectives. To illustrate the importance of an `ecological imagination', each philosophy is considered in relation to the regulation and use of old-growth forest
Environmental Issues and the Criminological Imagination
This article provides an exploration of how the criminological imagination can provide particular insights into the nature of environmental issues. To illustrate the contribution of criminology to such discussions, the article provides a case study of the social, political and economic dynamics surrounding the provision of drinking water. The article demonstrates the complexities in determining the character, extent and impact of environmental ha…
Animals and modernity
In this article we provide an empirical test of Franklin's (1999) recent contribution to the burgeoning study of human-animal relations. Drawing on the anthropological claim that animals are good to think with, Franklin used theories of reflexive modernization to explain a shift to increasingly zoocentric and sentimentalized relations with animals. After deriving a series of expectations from this account, we tested them through a content-analysi…
Are Women More Ethical? Recent Findings on the Effects of Gender Upon Moral Development
This study investigates the effect of gender upon moral development. Prior moral development research on the gender difference is substantial but ambiguous, but little research has examined public-sector employees. This study compares the moral development of 299 male and female members of the U.S. Coast Guard. The study uses Kohlberg's moral development framework to operationalize levels of moral judgment, and it employs Rest's Defining Issues T…
Negotiating Social Change
This article explores paradoxical elements in the relationship between youth and society. It argues that researchers need to take account of both the distinctive circumstances of the post-1970 generation and the new approaches they are developing to make a life. It argues that questions about how social structures and social divisions affect young people's life patterns need to recognize the ways in which young people themselves are responding to…
Youth agency and social context
This paper draws on ideas and research in youth studies in order to compare and con trast three approaches to the notion of social agency. The paper charts how youth stud ies commentators have generally relied upon either a 'deterministic' or a 'voluntaristic' conception of social action in explaining the life worlds of young people. It is argued that a 'contextual' understanding of youth experience provides a better appreciation of how youth age…
Green victimology and non-human victims
This article explores the tensions and interplay between human and non-human environmental victims from the point of view of eco-justice. The article begins by sketching out the broad contours of green victimology as a newly emerging area of intellectual engagement. Human victims of environmental harm are not widely recognised as victims of ‘crime’. Moreover, within the category ‘victim’, the non-human environmental victim is seldom considered wo…
Criminology and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
The UN Sustainable Development Goals address a number of criminological issues. This article accounts for why criminologists should contribute to this agenda in a way that might benefit the international development community. We acknowledge a heightened risk of crime in parts of the Global South but argue criminologists should cautiously embrace this agenda as a platform for achieving human and sustainable development outcomes. Supporting this a…
Depleted uranium, state crime and the politics of knowing
This article explores the use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions and armour in war, and its impact on environments, humans and other animals. Specifically, the concern is to describe the use of depleted uranium weapons in the Gulf (over two wars, within the space of sixteen years), and to trace the health and environmental implications of this use. The article then analyses the use of depleted uranium from the point of view of state crime, in rel…
Critical Criminology and the Struggle Against Climate Change Ecocide
Creating Collective Attention in the Public Domain
Building on Helen MacGill Hughes's News and the Human Interest Story, we examine how human interest stories create collective attention, essential for the establishment of a public or demos, and the limitations of that process. Although human interest stories are not unique in this regard, such stories encourage shared identification, important for social cohesion and the maintenance of a public sphere. However, since the embedded story is presen…
Young People, Social Problems and Australian Youth Studies
Several major theoretical issues which have emerged in Australian youth studies in recent years are identified. Broad conceptual developments in youth studies are discussed, and an overview of the main analytical issues associated with doing youth research in the Australian context is provided. More specifically, the ways in which assumptions relating to youth agency and social structure influence how youth issues are constructed are examined. Th…
Environmental insecurity and fortress mentality
This article explores the political, economic and ecological context within which environmental insecurity emerges and feeds back into a fortress mentality. Shortages of food, water and energy sources are the trigger for nefarious activities involving organized criminal networks, transnational corporations and governments at varying political levels. The consequences of such activities contribute to even more ruthless exploitation of rapidly vani…
Social and Political Aspects of Men's Health
Men's health has become an issue of significant public concern in recent years. Why and how men's health has become a matter that is 'taken seriously' is reviewed. This is followed by an extended discussion of the relationship between specific features of men's health and the social construction of masculinity. The article explores and critically evaluates strategies that challenge key elements of 'hegemonic masculinity', especially those that at…
Ecocentrism and criminal justice
Ecocentrism refers to valuing nature for its own sake. This ecophilosophical orientation requires that all social practices incorporate ecological sensitivities and heightened awareness of the intrinsic value of non-human entities. This article explores what ecocentrism means for criminal justice and how the core principles of an ecocentric worldview translate into concrete application. Trends within criminal justice that are broadly supportive o…
Greening Justice
This article examines the growth of ecological awareness, alongside the emergence of environmental sustainability initiatives, within criminal justice institutions around the world. To date, such developments have received little empirical analysis from criminology scholars. Internationally, this article is among the first to critically analyse the ‘greening’ of policing, courts, prisons, offender supervision and community reintegration. Availabl…
Indigenous Young Australians, Criminal Justice and Offensive Language
This paper explores how offensive language is socially constructed in ways that serve to criminalize the street activities of young indigenous people in Australia. The first part of the paper describes the general relationship between young indigenous people and the Australian criminal justice system. This is followed by a discussion of how indigenous young people are policed in public spaces. The paper then provides an extended exploration of th…
In and Against the State
Transnational environmental crime threatens sustainable development
Seniors in shopping centres
Many studies have examined issues of youth and public spaces; however, less attention has been devoted to seniors and their navigation and experience of community spaces, particularly in relation to their sense of inclusion in, or exclusion from, consumptive spaces. This article explores the everyday experiences of seniors in four Australian shopping centres, two in Melbourne and two in Hobart. Based on a survey of 260 seniors (the majority aged …
Utilizing Mixed Research Methods to Develop a Quantitative Assessment Tool
This article outlines the process of developing a quantitative instrument and livelihood asset index. The intent of the index was to assess household perspectives of the impact of the removal of explosive remnants of war on livelihoods. Conducted in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the study used a sequential mixed methods design. It began with a qualitative component, which informed instrument development. The article discusses the instrume…
David Whyte
Dissent, Litigation, and Investigation
Researching Transnational Environmental Harm
The study of transnational environmental harm demands appreciation of specific methodological and conceptual issues that impinge upon the data collection process. Some of these issues include the ethics and politics of ‘outsiders’ researching other people's territory, the differential availability and types of data in different jurisdictions, the ways in which state denial and corporate resistance impede the research process, and the importance o…
Stifling Environmental Dissent
Letters From South Africa in 1895
LETTERS FROM SOUTH AFRICA IN 1895 Get access ROBERT WHITE, C.B., C.M.G. D.S.O. ROBERT WHITE, C.B., C.M.G. D.S.O. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume XXXVII, Issue CXLVII, April 1938, Pages 167–173, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a101330 Published: 01 April 1938
Pictures in/and Print
Between Friends/Entre Amis. Edited by Lorraine Monk. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976. 294 pp. Robert Harney and Harold Troper. Immigrants: A Portrait of the Urban Experience, 1890-1930. Toronto and New York: Van Nostrand Rein- hold, 1975.212 pp. Michael Lesy. Real Life: Louisville in the Twenties. New York: Panth- eon Books, 1976. 237 pp. VousufKarsh. Karsh Portraits. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976.203 pp. Richard Avedon. Portra…
Democracy in the Theatre
The Use of Section 3 Resolutions
In the USA
Fifteen Years of Calvin Studies in French (1965–1980)
Section 3 Resolutions
R. W. Connell
Adoption, Custodianship or Fostering
Quality and Stress in Nigerian Education; Selected Addresses and Papers 1975–1985
Students, Vocationalism and Progressive Education
(1989). Students, Vocationalism and Progressive Education. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 70-86
Taking Custody to the Community
(1991). Taking Custody to the Community. Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 171-184
Whose future on whose terms
Police Unions and Police Powers
(1992). Police Unions and Police Powers. Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 157-174
Ministries of education in small states
Making small practical
The Middle Ground
List of abbreviations Introduction 1. Refugees: a world made of fragments 2. The middle ground 3. The fur trade 4. The alliance 5. Republicans and rebels 6. The clash of empires 7. Pontiac and the restoration of the middle ground 8. The British alliance 9. The contest of villagers 10. Confederacies 11. The politics of benevolence Epilogue Index
A smith's hoard from Tattershall Thorpe, Lincolnshire
During 1981, excavation of a large sand and gravel pit in Tattershall Thorpe, Lincolnshire, revealed many traces of Neolithic occupation and three Roman pits (fig. 8). In the southwestern part of the site, a sub-rectangular feature, aligned approximately east-west (pl. II a ), was found to contain a large number of iron tools and other objects, including Roman coins and glass which initially caused the material to be reported as Romano-British. S…
The Frontier in American Culture
Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick join their inimitable talents to explore our national preoccupation with this uniquely American image. Richard White examines the two most enduring s…
Green politics and the question of population
(1994). Green politics and the question of population. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 18, No. 40, pp. 27-43
The Problem of Theory in Australian Youth Studies
Criminalising street life
Culture and Capitalism in Contemporary Ireland
The Police and Young People in Australia
Tables and figures Introduction Rob White and Christine Alder 1. Larrikins, delinquents and cops: police and young people in Australian history Mark Finnane 2. The legal framework of juvenile justice Kate Warner 3. Cautions and appearances: statistics about youth and police David Tait 4. Young people and their rights Ian O'Connor 5. Street life: police practices and youth behaviour Rob White 6. Enforcing genocide? Aboriginal young people and the …
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