Chris Cunneen
Biographic Data
| ID | 476186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Cunneen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Cunneen |
| SIGNATURE | CUNNEEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3348-9282 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Criminologists for Palestine meeting at ANZSOC conference 2025: Meeting notes
meeting notes
Statement on the war in Gaza and genocide of the Palestinian people: Drafted by Chris Cunneen and signed by over 100 Australian and New Zealand scholars
We made our Statement on the War in Gaza and Genocide of Palestinian People to break the unconscionable silence among the criminological community within Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia on the genocide, and the ongoing apartheid, land dispossession and other human rights abuses of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and within Israel
The War in Gaza and Genocide of Palestinian People: Why Should Criminologists Be Engaged
The silence within the criminological community on the genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza, and the ongoing apartheid, land dispossession and other human rights abuses of Palestinians in the Occupied Territory of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and in Israel, is pronounced. This article sets out to unpack why these events should be seen as core to the work we undertake within the discipline. The article argues that the events in Palestine (i…
Can Indigenous truth commissions overcome the legacies and contemporary effects of colonialism: A study on the Australian-Canadian experience to explore possible paths in Argentina
Can Indigenous truth commissions overcome the legacies and contemporary effects of colonialism? A study on the Australian-Canadian experience to explore possible paths in Argentina While restorative justice has been extensively growing in democratic settings, less explored is its connection with transitional justice or, in other words, there have been insufficient attempts to explore the possibility of applying restorative justice mechanisms in c…
Critical Indigenous Criminology in Practice and Praxis
Criminologists and policy makers often acknowledge the over-representation of Indigenous peoples in criminal legal systems as one of the significant issues facing the discipline and the policy sector. However, legislation, policies and interventions targeting this issue are too often based on theoretical and analytical frameworks that reify the individual as the focus of intercession, pathologise Indigenous peoples, and/or criminalise Indigenous …
The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice
Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order
Youth Justice and Penality in Comparative Context
This book represents the first major analysis of Anglo-Australian youth justice and penality to be published and it makes significant theoretical and empirical contributions to the wider field of comparative criminology. By exploring trends in law, policy and practice over a forty-year period, the book critically surveys the ‘moving images’ of youth justice regimes and penal cultures, the principal drivers of reform, the core outcomes of such pro…
Principles in diversion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people from the criminal jurisdiction
The over-imprisonment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children within Australian youth detention facilities is one of the nation’s most significant social and human rights issues. This article discusses findings from recent research on youth penality combined with observations on the current offerings in youth diversion in Australia, to suggest nine principles of good practice in diversion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young p…
Youth justice and racialization: Comparative reflections
Drawing on comparative work between Australia and England and Wales, this article considers issues of criminalization, racialization and youth justice. The article explores both the overt and more subtle forms of racializing and criminalizing young people and highlights the necessity for historically and situationally contextualized understandings of identity and race. The rationalities, practices and discourses of youth justice through which rac…
Institutional racism and (in)justice: Australia in the 21st century
This article focusses on systemic and institutionalised racism against Indigenous people as a contemporary feature of the Australian social and penal landscape, and its implications for justice. There has been ongoing concern with institutional racism within the criminal justice system, however, this article concentrates on the intersection between institutional racism in non-criminal justice settings and their compounding effect on criminalizati…
Community Conferencing and the Fiction of Indigenous Control
The paper analyses the use of community conferencing for young people in various jurisdictions in Australia in the light of its impact in Indigenous communities. It argues that the manner in which these programs have been introduced has ignored Aboriginal rights to self-determination and has grossly simplified Indigenous mechanisms for resolving conflicts. In most jurisdictions, community conferencing has reinforced the role of state police and d…
Human rights and youth justice reform in England and Wales: A systemic analysis
This article examines critically the persistently antagonistic relationship – across the past quarter-century – between the provisions of international human rights instruments and the nature and direction of youth justice reform in England and Wales. It introduces the core provisions of the human rights framework that pertain to youth justice and it sketches the nature and direction of policy reform over the 25-year period under scrutiny (1991–2…
It's all about the Benjamins’: Infringement notices and young people in New South Wales
This article provides a brief analysis of the place, role and purpose of monetary penalties and their theoretical underpinnings. Against this critique of financial penalties and the revenue ('the Benjamins') 1 that flows from penalty infringement notices, the article examines the six-fold growth in penalty infringement notices 2 issued to children and young people in NSW between 1998 and 2013. It outlines the disproportionate impact of monetary p…
Indigenous peoples and rural criminology
This chapter explores the relationship between Indigenous people and rural criminology. It focuses on Indigenous people in Australia. The chapter presents that the applicability of rural criminology to Indigenous people needs to take account of the complexity and diversity of Indigenous experiences, much of which has been influenced by longer-term colonial policies. Two key issues are identified for further exploration: access to justice, and Ind…
Penal Culture and Hyperincarceration: The Revival of the Prison
What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies? What changes have there been in penality and use of the prison over the past 40 years that have led to the re-valorization of the prison? Using penal culture as a conceptual and theoretical vehicle, and Australia as a case study, this book analyses international developments in penality and imprisonment. Authored by some of Australia’s leading penal theorists…
Justice Reinvestment: Winding Back Imprisonment
Justice reinvestment was introduced as a response to mass incarceration and racial disparity in the United States in 2003. This book examines justice reinvestment from its origins, its potential as a
Juvenile Justice, Young People and Human Rights in Australia
This article identifies the key human rights issues that emerge for young people in juvenile justice in Australia. While there is a clear framework for respecting the human rights of children within juvenile justice, the article poses the question: To what extent does Australia actually operationalise and comply with these rights in law, policy and practice? In answering, it discusses various national and international reports, legislation, acade…
Access to justice for Aboriginal People in the Northern Territory
This article discusses research in the Northern Territory on Aboriginal civil and family law needs. It is based on focus group discussions and interviews with legal services providers and other associated organisations. The article argues that key areas of legal need involve discrimination, housing, child protection, social security, credit/debt and consumer law problems. It further argues that welfare conditionality, particularly as embodied in …
Penal Culture and Hyperincarceration: The Revival of the Prison
What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies? What changes have there been in penality and use of the prison over the past 40 years that have led to the re-valorization of the prison? Using penal culture as a conceptual and theoretical vehicle, and Australia as a case study, this book analyses international developments in penality and imprisonment. Authored by some of Australia’s leading penal theorists…
Elizabeth Kolsky, Colonial Justice in British India. White Violence and the Rule of Law
[Extract] Elizabeth Kolsky's book is centred on the relationship between law, violence and the development of the colonial state. It provides a legal, social and political analysis of how the British in India all too readily were able to literally get away with murder. She argues that racial violence was a constant and constituent element of British dominance in India, and that regular acts of violence 'simultaneously menaced and maintained Briti…
Indigeneity, Sovereignty, and the Law: Challenging the Processes of Criminalization
The processes of criminalization lay the foundation for creating significant disadvantage among Indigenous people across the former settler societies of Australia, New Zealand, and North America. Yet the massive incarceration of Indigenous people has not resulted in ensuring the safety of individuals within Indigenous communities. Imposed criminal justice systems have not ensured the maintenance of social order in Indigenous communities. This ess…
Debating Restorative Justice
Debating Law is a new, exciting series that gives scholarly experts the opportunity to offer contrasting perspectives on significant topics of contemporary, general interest. In this first volume of the series Carolyn Hoyle argues that communities and the state should be more restorative in responding to harms caused by crimes, antisocial behaviour and other incivilities. She supports the exclusive use of restorative justice for many non-serious …
Black Politics: Inside the Complexity of Aboriginal Political Culture By Sarah Maddison
Black Politics: Inside the Complexity of Aboriginal Political Culture By Sarah Maddison." Australian Journal of Human Rights, 15(2), pp. 155–156
Criminology, Criminal Justice and Indigenous People: A Dysfunctional Relationship
This lecture looks at issues of crime and violence in Indigenous communities in the context of broader problems of criminal justice law, policy and practice. In particular it addresses four points: • the problem the legal system has in ensuring protection of Indigenous women in the context of domestic and family violence; • the problem Indigenous people have in using the legal system to protect and enhance their own interests and rights, particul…
Postcolonial Trauma: The Contemporary Removal of Indigenous Children and Young People From Their Families in Australia
The removal of Indigenous children from their families within contemporary Australia is considered by way of both child protection and juvenile justice interventions and within the context of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families. In particular, the article considers the findings and recommendations of the Inquiry in relation to contemporary removals and Government responses…
Male Violence, Male Fantasy and the Commodification of Women through the Internet
This article considers the construction of particular forms of masculinity and femininity in the context of a new global market for sex and marital trade via the Internet. The work arose from research conducted on disproportionate levels of violence against Filipino women in Australia; in particular, high victimisation rates in cases of spousal homicides compared to other Australian women. The research led to a consideration of the intersection b…
Institutional racism and (in)justice: Australia in the 21st century
This article focusses on systemic and institutionalised racism against Indigenous people as a contemporary feature of the Australian social and penal landscape, and its implications for justice. There has been ongoing concern with institutional racism within the criminal justice system, however, this article concentrates on the intersection between institutional racism in non-criminal justice settings and their compounding effect on criminalizati…
Youth justice and racialization: Comparative reflections
Drawing on comparative work between Australia and England and Wales, this article considers issues of criminalization, racialization and youth justice. The article explores both the overt and more subtle forms of racializing and criminalizing young people and highlights the necessity for historically and situationally contextualized understandings of identity and race. The rationalities, practices and discourses of youth justice through which rac…
Human rights and youth justice reform in England and Wales: A systemic analysis
This article examines critically the persistently antagonistic relationship – across the past quarter-century – between the provisions of international human rights instruments and the nature and direction of youth justice reform in England and Wales. It introduces the core provisions of the human rights framework that pertain to youth justice and it sketches the nature and direction of policy reform over the 25-year period under scrutiny (1991–2…
Indigeneity, Sovereignty, and the Law: Challenging the Processes of Criminalization
The processes of criminalization lay the foundation for creating significant disadvantage among Indigenous people across the former settler societies of Australia, New Zealand, and North America. Yet the massive incarceration of Indigenous people has not resulted in ensuring the safety of individuals within Indigenous communities. Imposed criminal justice systems have not ensured the maintenance of social order in Indigenous communities. This ess…
Colonialism and Historical Injustice: Reparations for Indigenous Peoples
This article is concerned with the issue of reparations for Indigenous peoples for the harms caused by colonial law, policy and practice. I argue that many of the harms against Aboriginal peoples in Australia and north America relied on law for their legitimacy. Law was essentially aimed at facilitating the destruction of Indigenous cultures. An underlying thread to these human rights abuses were colonial assumptions about the racial inferiority …
It's all about the Benjamins’: Infringement notices and young people in New South Wales
This article provides a brief analysis of the place, role and purpose of monetary penalties and their theoretical underpinnings. Against this critique of financial penalties and the revenue ('the Benjamins') 1 that flows from penalty infringement notices, the article examines the six-fold growth in penalty infringement notices 2 issued to children and young people in NSW between 1998 and 2013. It outlines the disproportionate impact of monetary p…
Access to justice for Aboriginal People in the Northern Territory
This article discusses research in the Northern Territory on Aboriginal civil and family law needs. It is based on focus group discussions and interviews with legal services providers and other associated organisations. The article argues that key areas of legal need involve discrimination, housing, child protection, social security, credit/debt and consumer law problems. It further argues that welfare conditionality, particularly as embodied in …
Assessing the outcomes of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
The paper assesses the outcomes of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in the ten years since its finalisation. Despite specific recommendations designed to reduce the over-representation of Indigenous people in the criminal justice system, the situation has not improved in relation to custodial levels or deaths in custody, particularly in prison. However, it is argued that the Royal Commission also had a broader impact on Aust…
The social meanings of conflict in riots at the Australian Grand Prix motorcycle races
Since the early 1960s confrontations have occurred regularly between police and spectators attending the annual Australian Grand Prix Motorcycle Races. By the late 1970s these confrontations had escalated to become localized riots occurring at the site of the police compound on the Mount Panorama race circuit in Bathurst. To address the social meanings of these riots, historical, structural and phenomenological levels of analysis are used. Histor…
The Emergent Commonwealth: Australian Federation: Expectations and Fulfilment 1889-1910
Malthus and His Time
The social meanings of conflict in riots at the Australian Grand Prix motorcycle races
Since the early 1960s confrontations have occurred regularly between police and spectators attending the annual Australian Grand Prix Motorcycle Races. By the late 1970s these confrontations had escalated to become localized riots occurring at the site of the police compound on the Mount Panorama race circuit in Bathurst. To address the social meanings of these riots, historical, structural and phenomenological levels of analysis are used. Histor…
Trends in Prosecutions Under Occupational Health and Safety Legislation in NSW: An Overview
The Report of the Inquiry into the Death of David John Gundy, Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
(1991). The Report of the Inquiry into the Death of David John Gundy, Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 143-147
Aboriginal Juveniles in Custody
(1991). Aboriginal Juveniles in Custody. Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 204-218
Aboriginal Imprisonment During and Since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
(1992). Aboriginal Imprisonment During and Since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 351-355
Two Laws by N Williams, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies
The Families of Mark Militano, Graeme Jensen and Jedd Houghton and the Flemington/Kensington Community Legal Centre: Police Shootings in Victoria 1987-1989
The Families of Mark Militano, Graeme Jensen and Jedd Houghton and the Flemington/Kensington Community Legal Centre: Police Shootings in Victoria 1987-1989." Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 4(3), pp. 280–281
Monitoring Hate Crimes: A Report on a Pilot Project in New South Wales
Ethnic Minority Youth and Juvenile Justice: Beyond the Stereotype of Ethnic Gangs
Schissel, B, Social Dimensions of Canadian Youth Justice
Schissel, B, Social Dimensions of Canadian Youth Justice." Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 8(1), pp. 97–98
Aboriginal Incarceration and Deaths in Custody: Looking Back and Looking Forward
Michael Tonry, Malign Neglect. Race, Crime and Punishment in America
Michael Tonry, Malign Neglect. Race, Crime and Punishment in America." Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 9(2), pp. 202–203
Federal Programs for Access to Justice under a Conservative Australian Government
(1998). Federal Programs for Access to Justice under a Conservative Australian Government. Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 15-36
Zero Tolerance Policing and the Experience of New York City
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Mark Findlay, The Globalisation of Crime. Understanding Transitional Relationships in Context
(2000). Mark Findlay, The Globalisation of Crime. Understanding Transitional Relationships in Context. Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 129-131
Male Violence, Male Fantasy and the Commodification of Women through the Internet
This article considers the construction of particular forms of masculinity and femininity in the context of a new global market for sex and marital trade via the Internet. The work arose from research conducted on disproportionate levels of violence against Filipino women in Australia; in particular, high victimisation rates in cases of spousal homicides compared to other Australian women. The research led to a consideration of the intersection b…
Postcolonial Trauma: The Contemporary Removal of Indigenous Children and Young People From Their Families in Australia
The removal of Indigenous children from their families within contemporary Australia is considered by way of both child protection and juvenile justice interventions and within the context of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families. In particular, the article considers the findings and recommendations of the Inquiry in relation to contemporary removals and Government responses…
Conflict, politics and crime: Aboriginal communities and the police
Assessing the outcomes of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
The paper assesses the outcomes of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in the ten years since its finalisation. Despite specific recommendations designed to reduce the over-representation of Indigenous people in the criminal justice system, the situation has not improved in relation to custodial levels or deaths in custody, particularly in prison. However, it is argued that the Royal Commission also had a broader impact on Aust…
William John McKell: Boilermaker, Premier, Governor General
William McKell, the long-serving Labor Premier of New South Wales (1941-47), is in many ways the architect of the great electoral success of the ALP in NSW since the Second World War. - His political life began after the momentous 1916 split in the ALP over the conscription issue, when he became the youngest endorsed Labor candidate for the NSW state election. - Before he turned thirty he had become NSW Minister of Justice, and he eventually won …
Mandatory Sentencing and Human Rights
(2002). Mandatory Sentencing and Human Rights. Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 322-327
The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, Volume 1, 1901-1929
The Stolen Generations and Individual Criminal Victimisation: Valerie Linow and the New South Wales Victims Compensation Tribunal
(2003). The Stolen Generations and Individual Criminal Victimisation: Valerie Linow and the New South Wales Victims Compensation Tribunal. Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 306-309
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