Alison Young
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Young |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Young |
| SIGNATURE | YOUNG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6981-9458 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 204 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1938 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
On the Brighter Side of the Night: Discovering Community and Care in Night Shift Work
Within the burgeoning attention being paid to the night‐time economy (NTE) in and by cities, the demands and impacts of night work have gathered increasingly scholarly attention. Research has centred on the darker side of these, pointing to workers' precarity and vulnerability. What if we attend also to a ‘brighter side’ of the night and night shifts? Can we enhance night studies characterizations and advance urban studies debates on the NTE, if …
(Ac)counting for night shift workers: Insights from Australian cities
Recognition for the importance of the night-time economy (NTE) in cities is mounting in both academia and policy. Yet, much of this discourse is centred on the consumption side of the NTE. Analytical and policy insights into the role of those who work to keep our cities ticking 24/7 and the NTE flourishing is still severely limited. Just how many people work at night? And how can we count them? Current assessments, where at all present, often div…
Justice in the streets? Towards a criminology of more-than-spatial justice
Criminology has long taken an interest in cities and in the question of justice in the streets. But what constitutes ‘justice’ in urban spaces such as city streets? We consider this question through a focus on the use of street spaces by public protesters and people experiencing houselessness, whose use of the streets is often subject to legal, social and municipal regulation. Our analysis contributes to criminology’s interest in cities and city …
Spatial Governance of the Unhoused: On Social Death in the Contemporary City
In this article, we examine tactics in municipal policy and the criminal law regarding socio-spatial governance of unhoused individuals in city spaces. We explore the intentions and effects of tactics such as sweeps, which remove or destroy unhoused people's possessions, move on orders targeting the mobility and immobility of unhoused people and spatial banning which prohibits the presence of unhoused people in particular locations. We argue here…
Signifying dissent: The sensory semiotics of protest
Public protests need to communicate their aims to an audience, and the audience must make sense of the message. Initially this article was planned as a visual analysis of protest signs and placards. But to avoid ‘reproduc[ing] the privileged position of sight and vision over other ways of knowing’, we attend to the contested relations between signification, power, and all the senses. The sounds, smells, sights, tastes, and textures found at prote…
Small Things in Everyday Places: Homelessness, Dissent and Affordances in Public Space
In ‘a world that has been built to accommodate only some’ (Ahmed 2019: 221), how do those engaging in public protest or experiencing housing insecurity make use of the material environment? In this article, we examine adaptation of the built environment in four sites in Melbourne, Australia. Everyday urban places are composed of myriad ‘small things’ acted upon as affordances for survival within structures of silencing and dispossession for the u…
Understanding Emotion Regulation and Humor Styles in Individuals with Callous-Unemotional Traits and Alexithymic Traits
Alexithymia is a personality trait which is characterized by impairments in identifying and describing emotions. Both psychopathic and alexithymic personality traits have been associated with impairments in emotion processing. This study aims to clarify the conceptual overlap between psychopathic traits (focusing on callous-unemotional traits) and alexithymic traits, with emotion regulation strategies and humor styles using a community sample. A …
Ghost Criminology: The Afterlife of Crime and Punishment
Bringing together prominent early contributions from this emergent perspective, the volume traces the origins, theory, and method of ghost criminology. From the powers of exorcism and erasure marshalled by state agents, street-level struggles over memorialization and memory, to the lingering violence of crime scenes and the ghostly traces of outlaw artists, Ghost Criminology is a volume attuned to that which is well-theorized in other disciplines…
‘Stay Safe, Stay Home’: Spatial Justice in the Pandemic City
How does spatial justice take place within cities? To understand spatial justice within a city under lockdown, this article considers both the ‘corporeal emplacements’ within spaces identified by Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (2015) and the ‘material geographies’ ( Soja 2010 ) essential to understanding spatial justice in everyday life in contemporary cities. Several of the material localities arising during the ‘stay home’ orders of the State of E…
Architecture as affective law enforcement: Theorising the Japanese Koban
Criminology has long understood architecture to be both a problem, in that design might increase the pains of an individual’s experience within the criminal justice system, and its solution. Study of the Japanese koban , or police box, reveals the ways in which the architecture and design of a built form communicate the values and objectives of criminal justice. The article draws upon recent criminological thinking about space and about the sense…
The Limits of the City: Atmospheres of Lockdown
Criminological engagement with urban environments has burgeoned, including investigations into the criminological sense of place and into the atmospheres of crime and justice. This article analyses cities under lockdown in the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Used in numerous cities, lockdowns conjoin public health initiatives and crime control to restrict the location and activities of citizens. Drawing on textual and ethnographic exploration of lockdown…
Locked-down city
Visible Homelessness in a “Liveable City: Municipal Responses to Homelessness in Melbourne
Despite considerable national and urban prosperity, significant numbers of Australians are homeless. How local governments engage with homelessness has significant implications for the homeless population. In recent years, municipal strategies have inclined towards the maintenance of public order at the cost of the rights of homeless individuals. In this article, we investigate the approach to homelessness proposed by the City of Melbourne in 201…
Arrested Mobilities: Affective Encounters and Crime Scenes in the City
Drawing on insights from emergent thinking within mobility studies to focus on the banalities of everyday urban commuting, walking and other forms of unremarkable travel, this article considers everyday encounters that take place as we pass through the spaces of the city. Consideration of such mundane encounters is located within a framework attending to the interplay of affect, aesthetics, mobilities and materiality, both within the city as it i…
Japanese Atmospheres of Criminal Justice
What is a criminal justice atmosphere? Defined as that connecting individuals within and to the spaces they occupy or move through, the study of criminal justice atmospheres can add to thinking within criminology about space, affect and the aesthetic. Examination of criminal justice atmospheres teaches much about how institutions operate as environments choreographing a range of spatial, affective and aesthetic attachments for citizens. Through e…
Are Prerogative Powers Necessary in the Twenty-First Century?
From object to encounter: Aesthetic politics and visual criminology
Recent criminological research has engaged with images of crime such that there increasingly appears to exist a need for a specifically visual criminology. Within visual criminology, however, images are frequently constructed as objects of analysis rather than as constitutive elements of the discursive field. This article draws upon the specific context of the social, cultural and legal responses to uncommissioned words and images in public space…
Criminal images: The affective judgment of graffiti and street art
This article draws together two distinct strands within contemporary criminological scholarship by focusing on the encounter between the criminal law and the uncommissioned word or image in public space. The first strand of criminological research involves the study of the processes through which aspects of everyday life have become criminalised; the second is that which has investigated the cultural practices known as graffiti and street art, of…
The Art of Public Secrecy
Secrets have been conventionally constructed as existing in the margins of governmental functioning, oscillating between the open and the hidden. But secrecy is in fact enfolded within everyday life: contemporary polities have expanded the boundaries of routine secrecy so that it permeates civil society, resulting in the 'open secret' or 'public secret' as a structural aspect of contemporary social relations. In this article, I examine two aesthe…
Negotiated consent or zero tolerance? Responding to graffiti and street art in Melbourne
This paper critically considers the recent history of graffiti regulation in one municipality. It draws upon my experience of being appointed to develop a Draft Strategy on Graffiti for the City of Melbourne in 2004. My appointment was based upon the several years I had spent as a criminologist and socio‐legal researcher, engaging with the communities of graffiti writers and street artists in Melbourne and internationally. The aim was to develop …
The Screen of the Crime: Judging the Affect of Cinematic Violence
Discussions of screen violence polarize around the question of whether images can cause people to behave differently. Proponents of this position point to the influence of images in other contexts; its critics reject the implication that individuals can be so simplistically motivated. Such debate is intensified by events such as the Columbine or Virginia Tech shootings, where cultural products are named as the causes of lethal violence. This arti…
Images in the aftermath of trauma: Responding to September 11th
An event such as the attack on Manhattan on September 11th 2001 is socially, culturally and politically traumatizing. Those who saw the attack (in person or through media coverage) emphasized its visual impact. Faced with such visual trauma, it is unsurprising that the aftermath of the attacks had a representational dimension, as individuals and institutions strove to suture the resulting wound through image making. This article investigates the …
Our desires are ungovernable’: Writing graffiti in urban space
Our aim in this article is to contribute to the body of research on graffiti by considering some of the hitherto hidden aspects of graffiti culture. Drawing on detailed interviews with graffiti writers, we examine four main themes: motivations for graffiti writing; thresholds dividing ‘art’ from ‘vandalism’; writers’ reactions to ‘blank’ surfaces; and graffiti’s relation to other types of crime. We orient our discussion towards the affective dime…
The Meanings of Graffiti and Municipal Administration
This article explores various sociocultural aspects of graffiti, and examines municipal administrative responses to its occurrence. It is argued that the diversity of graffiti — in terms of its authors, styles and significance — poses a number of problems for agencies attempting in the first instance to classify graffiti (as “crime” or “art”) and in the second to control its occurrence (whether to “eradicate” or “permit”). Drawing on discussions …
The Politics of Regulation: Privatized Utilities in Britain
Our desires are ungovernable’: Writing graffiti in urban space
Our aim in this article is to contribute to the body of research on graffiti by considering some of the hitherto hidden aspects of graffiti culture. Drawing on detailed interviews with graffiti writers, we examine four main themes: motivations for graffiti writing; thresholds dividing ‘art’ from ‘vandalism’; writers’ reactions to ‘blank’ surfaces; and graffiti’s relation to other types of crime. We orient our discussion towards the affective dime…
From object to encounter: Aesthetic politics and visual criminology
Recent criminological research has engaged with images of crime such that there increasingly appears to exist a need for a specifically visual criminology. Within visual criminology, however, images are frequently constructed as objects of analysis rather than as constitutive elements of the discursive field. This article draws upon the specific context of the social, cultural and legal responses to uncommissioned words and images in public space…
Negotiated consent or zero tolerance? Responding to graffiti and street art in Melbourne
This paper critically considers the recent history of graffiti regulation in one municipality. It draws upon my experience of being appointed to develop a Draft Strategy on Graffiti for the City of Melbourne in 2004. My appointment was based upon the several years I had spent as a criminologist and socio‐legal researcher, engaging with the communities of graffiti writers and street artists in Melbourne and internationally. The aim was to develop …
Japanese Atmospheres of Criminal Justice
What is a criminal justice atmosphere? Defined as that connecting individuals within and to the spaces they occupy or move through, the study of criminal justice atmospheres can add to thinking within criminology about space, affect and the aesthetic. Examination of criminal justice atmospheres teaches much about how institutions operate as environments choreographing a range of spatial, affective and aesthetic attachments for citizens. Through e…
The Limits of the City: Atmospheres of Lockdown
Criminological engagement with urban environments has burgeoned, including investigations into the criminological sense of place and into the atmospheres of crime and justice. This article analyses cities under lockdown in the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Used in numerous cities, lockdowns conjoin public health initiatives and crime control to restrict the location and activities of citizens. Drawing on textual and ethnographic exploration of lockdown…
Criminal images: The affective judgment of graffiti and street art
This article draws together two distinct strands within contemporary criminological scholarship by focusing on the encounter between the criminal law and the uncommissioned word or image in public space. The first strand of criminological research involves the study of the processes through which aspects of everyday life have become criminalised; the second is that which has investigated the cultural practices known as graffiti and street art, of…
A Cheardach Mhor, Drimore, South Uist
The Screen of the Crime: Judging the Affect of Cinematic Violence
Discussions of screen violence polarize around the question of whether images can cause people to behave differently. Proponents of this position point to the influence of images in other contexts; its critics reject the implication that individuals can be so simplistically motivated. Such debate is intensified by events such as the Columbine or Virginia Tech shootings, where cultural products are named as the causes of lethal violence. This arti…
Excavations at Dun Cuier, Isle of Barra, Outer Hebrides
During the last season of excavation at the Aisled Farmhouse of Tigh Talamhanta, at the head of the Allasdale, trial trenching was undertaken at the adjacent site of Dun Cuier, in the hope of ascertaining the relationship of these structures.The material recovered seemed of sufficient significance to warrant further examination of the Dun and, with the generous support of this Society, two seasons, each of three weeks duration, have been spent in…
Arrested Mobilities: Affective Encounters and Crime Scenes in the City
Drawing on insights from emergent thinking within mobility studies to focus on the banalities of everyday urban commuting, walking and other forms of unremarkable travel, this article considers everyday encounters that take place as we pass through the spaces of the city. Consideration of such mundane encounters is located within a framework attending to the interplay of affect, aesthetics, mobilities and materiality, both within the city as it i…
An aisled farmhouse at the Allasdale, Isle of Barra
An Iron Age A site on the Chilterns
In 1946 a visit to the barrow, which lies on the edge of the western scarp of Chinnor Common, and a cursory examination of the adjoining area, cultivated during the war, resulted in finds of pottery and other objects indicating Iron Age occupation. The site lies on the saddleback of a Chiltern headland, at a height of about 800 ft. O.D. Two hollow ways traverse the western scarp, giving access to the area from the Upper Icknield Way, which contou…
Architecture as affective law enforcement: Theorising the Japanese Koban
Criminology has long understood architecture to be both a problem, in that design might increase the pains of an individual’s experience within the criminal justice system, and its solution. Study of the Japanese koban , or police box, reveals the ways in which the architecture and design of a built form communicate the values and objectives of criminal justice. The article draws upon recent criminological thinking about space and about the sense…
The Art of Public Secrecy
Secrets have been conventionally constructed as existing in the margins of governmental functioning, oscillating between the open and the hidden. But secrecy is in fact enfolded within everyday life: contemporary polities have expanded the boundaries of routine secrecy so that it permeates civil society, resulting in the 'open secret' or 'public secret' as a structural aspect of contemporary social relations. In this article, I examine two aesthe…
Introduction To 'Beyond Criticism: Law, Power and Ethics
Brochs and Duns
THE study of the brochs has been the concern of many students of Scottish Archaeology, not least among these Professor Gordon
Signifying dissent: The sensory semiotics of protest
Public protests need to communicate their aims to an audience, and the audience must make sense of the message. Initially this article was planned as a visual analysis of protest signs and placards. But to avoid ‘reproduc[ing] the privileged position of sight and vision over other ways of knowing’, we attend to the contested relations between signification, power, and all the senses. The sounds, smells, sights, tastes, and textures found at prote…
Aesthetic Vertigo and the Jurisprudence of Disgust
Decapitation or feticide: The fetal laws of the universal subject
Justice in the streets? Towards a criminology of more-than-spatial justice
Criminology has long taken an interest in cities and in the question of justice in the streets. But what constitutes ‘justice’ in urban spaces such as city streets? We consider this question through a focus on the use of street spaces by public protesters and people experiencing houselessness, whose use of the streets is often subject to legal, social and municipal regulation. Our analysis contributes to criminology’s interest in cities and city …
Small Things in Everyday Places: Homelessness, Dissent and Affordances in Public Space
In ‘a world that has been built to accommodate only some’ (Ahmed 2019: 221), how do those engaging in public protest or experiencing housing insecurity make use of the material environment? In this article, we examine adaptation of the built environment in four sites in Melbourne, Australia. Everyday urban places are composed of myriad ‘small things’ acted upon as affordances for survival within structures of silencing and dispossession for the u…
Locked-down city
Visible Homelessness in a “Liveable City: Municipal Responses to Homelessness in Melbourne
Despite considerable national and urban prosperity, significant numbers of Australians are homeless. How local governments engage with homelessness has significant implications for the homeless population. In recent years, municipal strategies have inclined towards the maintenance of public order at the cost of the rights of homeless individuals. In this article, we investigate the approach to homelessness proposed by the City of Melbourne in 201…
SignifyingJustice: Law, Culture and theQuestions ofFeminism
(1999). Signifying Justice: Law, Culture and the Questions of Feminism. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 13, LAW, CULTURE AND THE QUESTIONS OF FEMINISM, pp. 3-12
A Crime ofConsequence and aFailure ofLegalImagination: TheSexualOffences of theModelCriminalCode
(1997). A Crime of Consequence and a Failure of Legal Imagination: The Sexual Offences of the Model Criminal Code. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 100-133
Cup and Ring-Markings on Craig Ruenshin, with some Comparative Notes
The larger group of carvings is on a flat piece of living rock. The smaller group is found on a tilted rock face. The larger group comprises twenty cups, nine surrounded\r\nby circles. One cup is encircled by two concentric rings, a second by three rings, and a third by three rings and a fourth ring only partly discernible. In the last\r\ncase there is a cup in the third ring and another in the remains of the fourth. There are some vestiges of ch…
Report on excavation at Monzie
Report on the excavation of a rough circle of ten stones, one of which was carved, in Monzie, Perthshire. A causeway leading from the circle to an outlying slab with cup and ring mark carvings was identified. A stone cist within the circle contained burnt human bone and the remains were identified as an adult and a child aged six to eight years. Finds included pottery, charcoal (mainly hazel) and a flint flake
Report on standing stones and other remains near Fowlis Wester, Perthshire: With a report on the quartzes and a report on samples of soil from the East circle
A report on the excavation of a stone circle and a denuded cairn. One of the stones which formed part of the cairn had cup marks and burnt bone and charcoal were found in its centre. Very small fragments of burnt bone and charcoal were found within the circle
An Iron Age A site on the Chilterns
In 1946 a visit to the barrow, which lies on the edge of the western scarp of Chinnor Common, and a cursory examination of the adjoining area, cultivated during the war, resulted in finds of pottery and other objects indicating Iron Age occupation. The site lies on the saddleback of a Chiltern headland, at a height of about 800 ft. O.D. Two hollow ways traverse the western scarp, giving access to the area from the Upper Icknield Way, which contou…
A tripartite bowl from Kintyre
An aisled farmhouse at the Allasdale, Isle of Barra
Excavations at Dun Cuier, Isle of Barra, Outer Hebrides
During the last season of excavation at the Aisled Farmhouse of Tigh Talamhanta, at the head of the Allasdale, trial trenching was undertaken at the adjacent site of Dun Cuier, in the hope of ascertaining the relationship of these structures.The material recovered seemed of sufficient significance to warrant further examination of the Dun and, with the generous support of this Society, two seasons, each of three weeks duration, have been spent in…
A bronze pin from South Uist
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A Cheardach Mhor, Drimore, South Uist
Brochs and Duns
THE study of the brochs has been the concern of many students of Scottish Archaeology, not least among these Professor Gordon
Short‐sighted and doubly short‐sighted are they a brief examination of the game laws of Victoria, 1858–1958
Of the essential in criticism: Some intersections in writing, political protest and law
Innovations in family and community health
1Coordinator for Emergency Care Instruction, Professor of Health, Department of Health and Safety, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky 2State Injury Prevention Specialist, Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
The Dilemmas of the HIV Positive Prisoner
The spread of HIV among the prison community is the subject of considerable concern among pressure groups and prison authorities alike. This article examines the approach taken to the care of HIV positive prisoners in England in the light of arguments about prisoners' rights. Four areas are examined in detail; testing for HIV infection; confidentiality of information concerning HIV positive prisoners; the contrast in care facilities provided to t…
The Authority of the Name
Feminist Perspectives in Criminology
Decapitation or feticide: The fetal laws of the universal subject
Introduction To 'Beyond Criticism: Law, Power and Ethics
Imagining crime: Textual Outlaws and Criminal Conversations
Imagining Crime
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A Crime ofConsequence and aFailure ofLegalImagination: TheSexualOffences of theModelCriminalCode
(1997). A Crime of Consequence and a Failure of Legal Imagination: The Sexual Offences of the Model Criminal Code. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 100-133
In theEyes of theLaw: TheLook ofViolence
(1997). In the Eyes of the Law: The Look of Violence. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 9-26
Imagining Crime
SignifyingJustice: Law, Culture and theQuestions ofFeminism
(1999). Signifying Justice: Law, Culture and the Questions of Feminism. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 13, LAW, CULTURE AND THE QUESTIONS OF FEMINISM, pp. 3-12
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