Faculty Member, School of Social and Political Sciences
Professor
About
Alison Young has an LL.B (Hons) from Edinburgh University and an M.Phil and Ph.D in Criminology from Cambridge University. She is the author of Judging the Image (2005), Imagining Crime (1996) and Femininity in Dissent (1990), as well as numerous articles on the intersections of law, crime and culture. She previously taught in criminology, law and women's studies at the Universities of Manchester, Lancaster and East Anglia. Professor Young is an Associate Editor or member of the Editorial Boards of journals including Feminist Theory, the Griffith Law Review, and Law and Critique. She has been a Visiting Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and at Amherst College, and a Visiting Research Fellow at McGill University, London University, New York University and Hong Kong University. In 1998 and 2000, she was the Karl Loewenstein Fellow in Political Science and Jurisprudence at Amherst College, Massachusetts. Professor Young has been an invited plenary speaker at numerous international conferences, including the US Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, the British Criminological Conference, the Canadian Law and Society Association, the Law and Society Association of the United States, the British Critical Legal Conference, and the International Association of Law and Literature. She is currently researching in 3 areas: first, she is completing a book on spectatorship, violence and justice in cinema, entitled Visions of Violence: Cinema, Crime, Affect (Routledge, forthcoming); second, she is engaged in a 5 year study of the police response to sexual assault (together with colleagues in the Melbourne Law School and at Edith Cowan University); and third, and is undertaking a three year research project, funded by the Australian Research Council, concerning the social, legal and cultural responses to street art.
Contact Information
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School of Social and Political Sciences
John Medley Building
University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC 3010
Australia
+61 (0)3 8344 6569
