Kerry Wimshurst
Biographic Data
| ID | 1502960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kerry Wimshurst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kerry |
| FAMILY NAME | Wimshurst |
| SIGNATURE | WIMSHURST K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Politics of Neglect
This article examines the political forces which influenced the treatment of children legally classified as ‘neglected’ in Queensland, Australia, between 1881 and 1900. It focuses on the two government-run institutions which held ‘neglected children’: The Reformatory School for Boys and the Industrial and Reformatory School for Girls. The article identifies tensions between a range of state and private actors which resulted in a patchwork of unev…
Meaning-making and crime drama
Criminology as a discipline maintains an ambivalent attitude towards mass media. Following from Clifford and White's call for a more nuanced approach to media criminology, the first section of the article contextualises the present study by outlining the uneasy relationship between mainstream criminology and crime drama. The second section explores themes that arose during research that invited criminal justice students to create an outline for a…
Making sense of the combined degree experience
Little research has been undertaken on student experiences of combined degrees. The few studies report that a considerable number of students experienced difficulty with the contrasting epistemic/disciplinary demands of the component programmes. A mixed-methods approach was employed to explore the experiences of graduates from four double degrees that combine criminology with a second degree. While participants experienced epistemological uncerta…
Feed-forward assessment, exemplars and peer marking
The paper reports the findings of evaluative research that attempted to rigorously assess the efficacy of a feed-forward, formative assessment intervention. The aim was to improve participants’ conceptions of quality, and hence improve the quality of a complex piece of summative assessment, by asking them to mark exemplars produced by former students. Feed-forward assessment has theoretical support in the literature, but empirical confirmation ha…
Intersections in colonial and penal politics
In 1870 female prisoners from Brisbane were relocated to Toowoomba, principal town on the Darling Downs. The move angered townspeople who suspected that political reprisal was the motive for imposing the ‘terrible women’ on them. In fact, the relocation was primarily an attempt to solve longstanding problems related to prison labour, and especially the control of male labour. The movement of prisoners provides a penological perspective on social …
Applying threshold concepts theory to an unsettled field
Criminal justice education is a relatively new program in higher education in many countries, and its curriculum and parameters remain unsettled. An exploratory study investigated whether threshold concepts theory provided a useful lens by which to explore student understandings of this multidisciplinary field. Eight highperforming final-year students in a Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice degree were invited to identify and reflect on…
Personal and institutional characteristics of student failure
There is a limited literature on academic failure in higher education despite the fact that failure is a common experience among undergraduates. Student and course characteristics were examined in relation to proportions of fail grades assigned in a Faculty of Arts. Concerns had been expressed that combinations of two grades, F (failure to reach a satisfactory standard) and FNS (failure to submit assessment work), resulted in high fail rates. Reg…
Police Education and the University Sector
University education for police officers continues to be heralded as a major component in the reform of police organizations and police culture. Interestingly, the extensive research literature from the United States over the past 30 years remains ambivalent about the extent to which education achieves these objectives. Individual officers doubtless gain personal and professional benefits, but the relationship between higher education and police …
Entering Youth Justice
The present paper explores how undergraduate students who are relatively new to the field of youth justice conceptualise their possible future work roles. The research compared the views of students who were commencing two undergraduate courses (subjects) concerned with working with young people. One course was taken by human services students and the other was taken by criminology students. Findings indicated that there were significant differen…
Attitudes of criminal justice students to Australian indigenous people
Over the past 10–15 years Australian universities have established degrees for those who wish to work in the criminal justice system in areas such as policing, corrections, and crime prevention. This paper explores the sensitivity of undergraduates to issues of race and diversity. It investigates the beliefs that criminal justice students bring with them to university, their readiness for content that focuses on Aboriginality, and whether their v…
What's in a name? Perceptions of course names for criminal justice professionals
Courses dealing with crime and the criminal justice system go under various names, Criminology, Criminal Justice, Justice Studies, and Justice Administration being among the most popular. Presumably, those who name these courses see subtle differences between these names and select a title that is seen to best reflect the particular focus of their course. For example, in Australia Justice Administration has been generally used for courses that ha…
Control and Resistance
Journal Article Control and Resistance: Reformatory School Girls in the Late Nineteenth Century South Australia Get access Kerry Wimshurst Kerry Wimshurst Brisbane College of Advanced Education Department of Education Studies (Mt. Gravatt Campus), Australia, QIO 4122 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 18, Issue 2, Winter 1984, Pages 273–287, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/18.2.2…
Applying threshold concepts theory to an unsettled field
Criminal justice education is a relatively new program in higher education in many countries, and its curriculum and parameters remain unsettled. An exploratory study investigated whether threshold concepts theory provided a useful lens by which to explore student understandings of this multidisciplinary field. Eight highperforming final-year students in a Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice degree were invited to identify and reflect on…
Control and Resistance
Journal Article Control and Resistance: Reformatory School Girls in the Late Nineteenth Century South Australia Get access Kerry Wimshurst Kerry Wimshurst Brisbane College of Advanced Education Department of Education Studies (Mt. Gravatt Campus), Australia, QIO 4122 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 18, Issue 2, Winter 1984, Pages 273–287, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/18.2.2…
Control and Resistance
Journal Article Control and Resistance: Reformatory School Girls in the Late Nineteenth Century South Australia Get access Kerry Wimshurst Kerry Wimshurst Brisbane College of Advanced Education Department of Education Studies (Mt. Gravatt Campus), Australia, QIO 4122 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 18, Issue 2, Winter 1984, Pages 273–287, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/18.2.2…
What's in a name? Perceptions of course names for criminal justice professionals
Courses dealing with crime and the criminal justice system go under various names, Criminology, Criminal Justice, Justice Studies, and Justice Administration being among the most popular. Presumably, those who name these courses see subtle differences between these names and select a title that is seen to best reflect the particular focus of their course. For example, in Australia Justice Administration has been generally used for courses that ha…
Attitudes of criminal justice students to Australian indigenous people
Over the past 10–15 years Australian universities have established degrees for those who wish to work in the criminal justice system in areas such as policing, corrections, and crime prevention. This paper explores the sensitivity of undergraduates to issues of race and diversity. It investigates the beliefs that criminal justice students bring with them to university, their readiness for content that focuses on Aboriginality, and whether their v…
Police Education and the University Sector
University education for police officers continues to be heralded as a major component in the reform of police organizations and police culture. Interestingly, the extensive research literature from the United States over the past 30 years remains ambivalent about the extent to which education achieves these objectives. Individual officers doubtless gain personal and professional benefits, but the relationship between higher education and police …
Entering Youth Justice
The present paper explores how undergraduate students who are relatively new to the field of youth justice conceptualise their possible future work roles. The research compared the views of students who were commencing two undergraduate courses (subjects) concerned with working with young people. One course was taken by human services students and the other was taken by criminology students. Findings indicated that there were significant differen…
Personal and institutional characteristics of student failure
There is a limited literature on academic failure in higher education despite the fact that failure is a common experience among undergraduates. Student and course characteristics were examined in relation to proportions of fail grades assigned in a Faculty of Arts. Concerns had been expressed that combinations of two grades, F (failure to reach a satisfactory standard) and FNS (failure to submit assessment work), resulted in high fail rates. Reg…
Applying threshold concepts theory to an unsettled field
Criminal justice education is a relatively new program in higher education in many countries, and its curriculum and parameters remain unsettled. An exploratory study investigated whether threshold concepts theory provided a useful lens by which to explore student understandings of this multidisciplinary field. Eight highperforming final-year students in a Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice degree were invited to identify and reflect on…
Intersections in colonial and penal politics
In 1870 female prisoners from Brisbane were relocated to Toowoomba, principal town on the Darling Downs. The move angered townspeople who suspected that political reprisal was the motive for imposing the ‘terrible women’ on them. In fact, the relocation was primarily an attempt to solve longstanding problems related to prison labour, and especially the control of male labour. The movement of prisoners provides a penological perspective on social …
Feed-forward assessment, exemplars and peer marking
The paper reports the findings of evaluative research that attempted to rigorously assess the efficacy of a feed-forward, formative assessment intervention. The aim was to improve participants’ conceptions of quality, and hence improve the quality of a complex piece of summative assessment, by asking them to mark exemplars produced by former students. Feed-forward assessment has theoretical support in the literature, but empirical confirmation ha…
Making sense of the combined degree experience
Little research has been undertaken on student experiences of combined degrees. The few studies report that a considerable number of students experienced difficulty with the contrasting epistemic/disciplinary demands of the component programmes. A mixed-methods approach was employed to explore the experiences of graduates from four double degrees that combine criminology with a second degree. While participants experienced epistemological uncerta…
Meaning-making and crime drama
Criminology as a discipline maintains an ambivalent attitude towards mass media. Following from Clifford and White's call for a more nuanced approach to media criminology, the first section of the article contextualises the present study by outlining the uneasy relationship between mainstream criminology and crime drama. The second section explores themes that arose during research that invited criminal justice students to create an outline for a…
The Politics of Neglect
This article examines the political forces which influenced the treatment of children legally classified as ‘neglected’ in Queensland, Australia, between 1881 and 1900. It focuses on the two government-run institutions which held ‘neglected children’: The Reformatory School for Boys and the Industrial and Reformatory School for Girls. The article identifies tensions between a range of state and private actors which resulted in a patchwork of unev…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Criminal justice (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Evaluation of Teaching Practices (5 works) · Higher education (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works)