Peter Gill
Biographic Data
| ID | 3922250 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Gill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Gill |
| SIGNATURE | GILL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7772-4849 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Network-based insights into distress and sexual addiction: Intersectional differences in heterosexual and gender/sexual minority populations
Addictive-type sexual behaviour results in significant distress and impact to daily functioning. Furthermore, differences have emerged regarding behavioural presentation and psychosocial outcomes between heterosexual men, heterosexual women, and gender and sexual minority (GSM) individuals. The current research employed partial correlation and Bayesian network modelling, analysing differences in symptoms of distress and sexual addiction among 934…
Development and preliminary validation of the Meat Consumption Scale
The psychology of eating meat has emerged as a major field of study due to growing awareness of the negative impacts of excessive meat consumption on human and planetary health. Examining psychological profiles and testing strategies to address psychological barriers to meat reduction has become a prominent focus in psychology and various other disciplines. However, given the critical importance of psychometrically valid measurement tools in quan…
Extending the Coss Model to Youth Mental Health: Outcomes and Learnings from the Albury Project Mental Health Pilot
This article presents key findings and learnings from the Albury Project Mental Health Pilot, a six-month exploratory opportunity designed to extend the Community of Schools and Services (COSS) Model to proactively identify and support young people experiencing psychological distress in a regional Australian community. Working within the established COSS Model architecture and using population-level screening via the Australian Index of Adolescen…
Same-sex parented families: Can stigma contribute to resilience
Going around the long route to get where I want to be: Exploring the university experiences of care leaver students
There is an evident, systemic lack of understanding regarding the university success of care leaver students. The few studies in this area indicate that care leavers tend to be highly independent, motivated, and determined to academically succeed, yet also more likely to face compound disadvantage that can impact their participation and completion. The current study sought to better understand the perceived support needs of care leaver university…
Understanding the Meat-Masculinity Link: Traditional and Non-Traditional Masculine Norms Predicting Men’s Meat Consumption
Conformity to masculinity ideology predicts men's meat consumption and willingness to reduce their meat intake, but it is unknown which specific masculine norms account for these relationships. This study investigated which traditional and nontraditional masculine norms predict meat consumption, red and processed meat consumption, and willingness to reduce meat consumption in 557 Australian and English males. Men who support the use of physical v…
A critical evaluation of adolescent resilience self-report scales: A scoping review
Valid quantitative measures of adolescent resilience are important for the development of knowledge and have implications for practice with adolescents. This scoping review followed Arksey and O’Malley’s (2005) five step process and aimed to (1) identify the most used self-report scales that measure resilience of adolescents in studies published between 2000 and 2021, (2) describe the scales’ psychometric properties, (3) describe the scales’ conc…
Twenty years on: Intelligence and Security Committee and investigating torture in the 'war on terror'
The central objective of democratic governance of intelligence is, through debate and law, to establish public confidence that the agencies work efficiently, effectively and properly. Oversight of intelligence can be seen as a contest between agencies, government and overseers for the control of information. The four interacting dimensions of information control are secrecy, gathering, evaluation and persuasion. This article assesses the oversigh…
Social connectedness and suicidal ideation: The roles of perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness in the distress to suicidal ideation pathway
Overall, the findings confirm the importance of our social relatedness in suicide. Increasing belongingness and reducing the perception of being a burden on others may be an important intervention strategy for weakening the link between distress and suicide ideation
A multilevel study of peer victimization and its associations with teacher support and well-functioning class climate
The aim of the current study was to examine whether students’ perceptions of teacher support at an individual-level, teacher support and well-functioning class climate at classroom-level, and teacher support and well-functioning class climate at school-level were associated with peer victimization. Data were obtained from a Student School Survey administered by the selected Swedish municipality. Multilevel analyses were based on 5,646 students in…
The Gender Paradox: Understanding the Role of Masculinity in Suicidal Ideation
It is important to understand the role of social determinants, such as gender, in suicidal ideation. This study examined whether conformity to specific masculine norms, particularly high self-reliance and emotional self-control, moderated the relationship between psychological distress and suicidal ideation for men. The other norms explored were those pertaining to behavioral–emotional or social hierarchy status aspects of masculinity, and whethe…
Using Online Gambling Disorder Questionnaire (OGD-Q) with Adults: Factor Structure, Reliability, External Validity, and Measurement Invariance Across Age and Gender
Socioeconomic and immigration status and Covid-19 testing in Toronto, Ontario: Retrospective cross-sectional study
Targeted efforts are needed to improve testing availability in high-risk regions. These same strategies may also ensure equitable COVID-19 vaccine delivery
Intelligence, oversight and the ethics of whistleblowing: The case of Witness K
Official secrecy and the actions states take against so-called unauthorised disclosures by those working in intelligence agencies, referred to either as ‘whistleblowers’ or ‘leakers’, raise questions relating to both the law and ethics of security intelligence as well as the rights of officials. A recent case in Australia has brought this issue into sharp relief, but it concerns all states in which intelligence operates within a democratic framew…
Predicting Anxiety from the Complex Interaction Between Masculinity and Spiritual Beliefs
Research suggests that adherence to traditional and hegemonic masculinities can be detrimental to men’s mental health. In particular, anxiety can result from the incongruence between idealised and lived experiences. Emerging research suggests that holding spiritual beliefs may protect against such anxiety. This Australian study investigated whether two aspects of spiritualism (Spiritual Openness and Spiritual Support) could moderate the relations…
An Investigation of Alternative Factor Models of Impulsivity using the UPPS-P
The UPPS-P measures impulsivity as a five-factor construct (lack of premeditation, lack of perseverance, positive urgency, negative urgency and sensation seeking). Drawing on a number of theoretical considerations and alternative conceptions of impulsivity, the current study used confirmatory factor analysis (N = 1635) and multiple regression to evaluate and test alternative models comprising three, five, and a hierarchical model containing laten…
Of intelligence oversight and the challenge of surveillance corporatism
This article examines the experience of oversight during the last fifty years in order to inform current debates in both the older and newer democracies. First, there is a discussion of certain key concepts: intelligence governance including control, authorisation and oversight; second, the difficulties facing oversight, specifically, how these can be alleviated by a structure involving both parliamentary and specialist bodies and, third, the cha…
Explaining Intelligence Failure: Rethinking the Recent Terrorist Attacks in Europe
Between 2015 and May 2018 there were fifty-two “jihadist” attacks in eight European Union countries: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. These resulte
Parental attitudes to the Australian anti-bullying Safe Schools program: A critical discourse analysis
You cannot forgive and you cannot forget”: The Serbian refugee settlement experience in Australia
Currently, there is limited research on the settlement experiences of refugees from the Balkan regions and in particular Serbia. There is also a need to provide a contextual understanding of the refugee settlement experience. The current study explored the refugee experience of 12 male Serbian refugees (aged 30 to 65), who migrated to Australia following the Yugoslav Civil War (1991–2001). A qualitative, phenomenological methodology explored the …
More than a diet”: A qualitative investigation of young vegan Women's relationship to food
Intelligence in an Insecure World
Developing Intelligence Theory
What Is Intelligence Studies
In the second decade of the 21st century, the academic study of intelligence continues to develop apace, as evidenced by the growth in publishing, undergraduate and postgraduate academic courses that combine historical and social science approaches, the increase in undergraduate programs in intelligence analysis aimed at those seeking to enter the profession, and the development of professional training courses internationally. The idea of “intel…
That whole macho male persona thing”: The role of insults in young Australian male friendships
Same-sex friendship can increase an individual's health, happiness, and sense of social connectedness. To date, few studies have explored young men's accounts of their friendships and the communication strategies within close male friendships. The present qualitative study explored the ways in which 7 young, White, heterosexual, working/middle-class men from rural Victoria construct their understanding of their friendships and the discursive stra…
Policing and Regulation: Whatisthe Difference
The literatures regarding policing and regulation are largely separate, reflecting the common assumption that there is some essential distinction between the activities. The relevance of the decline in state sovereignty and associated shifts to ‘governance’ and the ‘regulatory state’ are discussed. Much state intervention regarding crime is aimed formally at the repression of illegal markets while states also seek to regulate legal ones. Yet the …
Not Just Joining the Dots But Crossing the Borders and Bridging the Voids: Constructing Security Networks after 11 September 2001The initial version of this article was presented to the ESRC Seminar “…
Widespread concerns and controversies have erupted in the wake of 9/11 in relation to the structures and processes by which states acquire intelligence with respect to security threats. More specifically, the controversies have centred on the issue of “failure”: first, to what extent did the 9/11 attacks reflect an intelligence failure on the part of US and other intelligence services and, second, how did most western intelligence services fail t…
More than a diet”: A qualitative investigation of young vegan Women's relationship to food
The Politics of ‘Transnational Organized Crime’: Discourse, Reflexivity and the Narration of ‘Threat’
Over the past decade the perceived ‘threat’ of transnational organised crime (TOC) to the security of western political economies has become a principal issue on the agendas of key international forums such as the United Nations, G7/8 elite industrial countries and the Council of Europe. The intense policy activity around this threat is indicative of a key trend in post-Cold War international relations, that is, the reorientation of western secur…
What Is Intelligence Studies
In the second decade of the 21st century, the academic study of intelligence continues to develop apace, as evidenced by the growth in publishing, undergraduate and postgraduate academic courses that combine historical and social science approaches, the increase in undergraduate programs in intelligence analysis aimed at those seeking to enter the profession, and the development of professional training courses internationally. The idea of “intel…
Parental attitudes to the Australian anti-bullying Safe Schools program: A critical discourse analysis
Normative approaches to justice in physical education for pupils with physical disabilities – dilemmas of recognition and redistribution
Seeking social justice in education for pupils with disabilities creates certain dilemmas. A ‘school for all’ means that educators are faced with the dilemma whereby the notion of ‘disability’ is perceived as ought not to matter but where in actual fact it seems to matter very much! This article explores ways out of this general educational dilemma using the context of physical education (PE) for pupils with physical disabilities within the compu…
Making sense of police intelligence? The use of a cybernetic model in analysing information and power in police intelligence processes
Writing and research into policing has concerned issues of police action much more than their information and intelligence activities. Police themselves are now paying more attention to the latter for a number of reasons including transnational policing developments such as Europol, a post Cold War increase in concern with ‘transnational organised crime’, the application of the ‘new public management’ to police, a search for new police strategies…
That whole macho male persona thing”: The role of insults in young Australian male friendships
Same-sex friendship can increase an individual's health, happiness, and sense of social connectedness. To date, few studies have explored young men's accounts of their friendships and the communication strategies within close male friendships. The present qualitative study explored the ways in which 7 young, White, heterosexual, working/middle-class men from rural Victoria construct their understanding of their friendships and the discursive stra…
The Intelligence and Security Committee and the challenge of security networks
A major feature of current security is the development of intelligence networks between agencies within and between nations and across public and private sectors. The performance of the UK Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) is examined within this context, especially regarding allegations of collusion by UK agencies in rendition and torture. Proposed changes to the ISC are discussed and it is argued that the ISC must seek to leverage its l…
A multilevel study of peer victimization and its associations with teacher support and well-functioning class climate
The aim of the current study was to examine whether students’ perceptions of teacher support at an individual-level, teacher support and well-functioning class climate at classroom-level, and teacher support and well-functioning class climate at school-level were associated with peer victimization. Data were obtained from a Student School Survey administered by the selected Swedish municipality. Multilevel analyses were based on 5,646 students in…
You cannot forgive and you cannot forget”: The Serbian refugee settlement experience in Australia
Currently, there is limited research on the settlement experiences of refugees from the Balkan regions and in particular Serbia. There is also a need to provide a contextual understanding of the refugee settlement experience. The current study explored the refugee experience of 12 male Serbian refugees (aged 30 to 65), who migrated to Australia following the Yugoslav Civil War (1991–2001). A qualitative, phenomenological methodology explored the …
Client-centred Case Management: How Much Makes a Difference to Outcomes for Homeless Jobseekers
Case management has become the predominant model for attempting to improve outcomes for young adults experiencing both homelessness and unemployment. However, there is little evidence-based knowledge about how young adults respond to case management, and how much intervention is needed to be effective. This Australian study utilised quantitative government data to investigate the effects of the amount of case management on key outcomes. With a pu…
Improving Outcomes for Unemployed and Homeless Young People: Findings of the YP 4 Clinical Controlled Trial of Joined Up Case Management
The YP4 study was a clinical controlled trial (CCT) of joined up services for young people experiencing both homelessness and unemployment in Victoria, Australia. The joined up service delivery (J group, n = 222) participants were offered intensive client-centred case management, involving direct provision of a range of services as well as the brokering of additional services. The standard services (S group, n = 174) participants remained eligibl…
Clearing up Crime: The Big 'Con
The problem of using the clear-up or 'detection' rate as a means of assessing the effectiveness of police forces has been recognised for some time by police, Home Office officials and researchers alike.1 Since, however, the police have frequently found it convenient to use the rate as an indicator, depending on circumstances, of how effective they have become or the enormous problems they face, (and, sometimes, both simultaneously) much of the de…
Clearing up Crime: The Big 'Con
The problem of using the clear-up or 'detection' rate as a means of assessing the effectiveness of police forces has been recognised for some time by police, Home Office officials and researchers alike.1 Since, however, the police have frequently found it convenient to use the rate as an indicator, depending on circumstances, of how effective they have become or the enormous problems they face, (and, sometimes, both simultaneously) much of the de…
Playing Numbers Or Politics? Approaches to the Prioritisation of Development Needs in South Africa
Making sense of police intelligence? The use of a cybernetic model in analysing information and power in police intelligence processes
Writing and research into policing has concerned issues of police action much more than their information and intelligence activities. Police themselves are now paying more attention to the latter for a number of reasons including transnational policing developments such as Europol, a post Cold War increase in concern with ‘transnational organised crime’, the application of the ‘new public management’ to police, a search for new police strategies…
Police intelligence processes: A study of criminal intelligence units in Canada
A model of an intelligence ‘system’ is used to develop an exploratory map of specialist criminal intelligence units at municipal, provincial and federal levels in Canada. This involves part‐competing and part‐complementary structures, especially as represented by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on the one hand and the Criminal Intelligence Service Canada on the other. Processes of targeting and priority‐setting are considered, including especia…
The Politics of ‘Transnational Organized Crime’: Discourse, Reflexivity and the Narration of ‘Threat’
Over the past decade the perceived ‘threat’ of transnational organised crime (TOC) to the security of western political economies has become a principal issue on the agendas of key international forums such as the United Nations, G7/8 elite industrial countries and the Council of Europe. The intense policy activity around this threat is indicative of a key trend in post-Cold War international relations, that is, the reorientation of western secur…
Policing and Regulation: Whatisthe Difference
The literatures regarding policing and regulation are largely separate, reflecting the common assumption that there is some essential distinction between the activities. The relevance of the decline in state sovereignty and associated shifts to ‘governance’ and the ‘regulatory state’ are discussed. Much state intervention regarding crime is aimed formally at the repression of illegal markets while states also seek to regulate legal ones. Yet the …
Transnational Organised Crime: Perspectives on Global Security
Part 1: Origins of the Concept 1. Transnational Organised Crime: The Global Reach of an American Concept 2. Europe's Response to Transnational Organised Crime 3. Global Law Enforcement as a Protection Racket: Some Sceptical Notes on Transnational Organised Crime as an Object of Global Governance Part 2: Measurements and Interpretations 4. Measuring Transnational Organised Crime: An Empirical Study of Existing Data Sets on TOC with Particular Refe…
Not Just Joining the Dots But Crossing the Borders and Bridging the Voids: Constructing Security Networks after 11 September 2001The initial version of this article was presented to the ESRC Seminar “…
Widespread concerns and controversies have erupted in the wake of 9/11 in relation to the structures and processes by which states acquire intelligence with respect to security threats. More specifically, the controversies have centred on the issue of “failure”: first, to what extent did the 9/11 attacks reflect an intelligence failure on the part of US and other intelligence services and, second, how did most western intelligence services fail t…
Intelligence theory: Key Questions and Debates
Normative approaches to justice in physical education for pupils with physical disabilities – dilemmas of recognition and redistribution
Seeking social justice in education for pupils with disabilities creates certain dilemmas. A ‘school for all’ means that educators are faced with the dilemma whereby the notion of ‘disability’ is perceived as ought not to matter but where in actual fact it seems to matter very much! This article explores ways out of this general educational dilemma using the context of physical education (PE) for pupils with physical disabilities within the compu…
The Intelligence and Security Committee and the challenge of security networks
A major feature of current security is the development of intelligence networks between agencies within and between nations and across public and private sectors. The performance of the UK Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) is examined within this context, especially regarding allegations of collusion by UK agencies in rendition and torture. Proposed changes to the ISC are discussed and it is argued that the ISC must seek to leverage its l…
Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia since Live Aid
The Ethiopian famine of 25 years ago was the greatest humanitarian disaster of the late 20th century, killing more than 600,000 people before the world took notice. Peter Gill was the first journalist to reach the epicenter of the famine in 1984 and he returned at the time of Live Aid to research the definitive account of the disaster, A Year in the Death of Africa. Now, in Famine and Foreigners, Gill returns to Ethiopia to piece together the rea…
Down with Democracy?
This chapter discusses the conflicting political stances of Amare Aregawi, Meles Zenawi, Dr. Berhanu Nega, and other prominent individuals who opposed the Zenawi's administration. It explains the approaches and campaigns used by Aregawi through his newspaper The Reporter which promoted press and media freedom and active political opposition. It also describes the ‘Dominant Party Democracy’ or ‘Dominant Coalition Democracy’ — a political principle…
Alguns aspectos da reforma da inteligência na América Latina
Este artigo identifica algumas das características principais da reforma no setor de inteligência na América Latina, dentro do contexto mais amplo das relações entre os estados e os agentes de segurança. São consideradas três questões principais: o legado autoritário, a transição e o lugar em que os estados se encontram, mas esta última questão é abordada mais para a conveniência da análise do que para sugerir qualquer sequência natural e necessá…
Improving Outcomes for Unemployed and Homeless Young People: Findings of the YP 4 Clinical Controlled Trial of Joined Up Case Management
The YP4 study was a clinical controlled trial (CCT) of joined up services for young people experiencing both homelessness and unemployment in Victoria, Australia. The joined up service delivery (J group, n = 222) participants were offered intensive client-centred case management, involving direct provision of a range of services as well as the brokering of additional services. The standard services (S group, n = 174) participants remained eligibl…
Client-centred Case Management: How Much Makes a Difference to Outcomes for Homeless Jobseekers
Case management has become the predominant model for attempting to improve outcomes for young adults experiencing both homelessness and unemployment. However, there is little evidence-based knowledge about how young adults respond to case management, and how much intervention is needed to be effective. This Australian study utilised quantitative government data to investigate the effects of the amount of case management on key outcomes. With a pu…
What Is Intelligence Studies
In the second decade of the 21st century, the academic study of intelligence continues to develop apace, as evidenced by the growth in publishing, undergraduate and postgraduate academic courses that combine historical and social science approaches, the increase in undergraduate programs in intelligence analysis aimed at those seeking to enter the profession, and the development of professional training courses internationally. The idea of “intel…
That whole macho male persona thing”: The role of insults in young Australian male friendships
Same-sex friendship can increase an individual's health, happiness, and sense of social connectedness. To date, few studies have explored young men's accounts of their friendships and the communication strategies within close male friendships. The present qualitative study explored the ways in which 7 young, White, heterosexual, working/middle-class men from rural Victoria construct their understanding of their friendships and the discursive stra…
"El delito como empresa? El caso del "Delito Trasnacional Organizado
Intelligence in an Insecure World
Developing Intelligence Theory
You cannot forgive and you cannot forget”: The Serbian refugee settlement experience in Australia
Currently, there is limited research on the settlement experiences of refugees from the Balkan regions and in particular Serbia. There is also a need to provide a contextual understanding of the refugee settlement experience. The current study explored the refugee experience of 12 male Serbian refugees (aged 30 to 65), who migrated to Australia following the Yugoslav Civil War (1991–2001). A qualitative, phenomenological methodology explored the …
More than a diet”: A qualitative investigation of young vegan Women's relationship to food
Of intelligence oversight and the challenge of surveillance corporatism
This article examines the experience of oversight during the last fifty years in order to inform current debates in both the older and newer democracies. First, there is a discussion of certain key concepts: intelligence governance including control, authorisation and oversight; second, the difficulties facing oversight, specifically, how these can be alleviated by a structure involving both parliamentary and specialist bodies and, third, the cha…
Explaining Intelligence Failure: Rethinking the Recent Terrorist Attacks in Europe
Between 2015 and May 2018 there were fifty-two “jihadist” attacks in eight European Union countries: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. These resulte
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