Working with offenders

Graduates in this area find rewarding employment in sectors such as policing, courts, community corrections, as well as non-government agencies such as post-incarceration support, advocacy and client services.

A 50-day industry placement working in the field provides graduates with practical skills and ensure they are job ready for a career in the criminal justice and/or client advocacy sectors. 

Teaching and research staff in this area investigate pressing criminal and social justice issues such as:

• miscarriages of justice,
• wrongful convictions,
• crime and violence prevention; cyber crime and digital harms, and
• prisoner advocacy, reform and rehabilitation. 

• Dr Gregory Stratton (wrongful convictions, miscarriages of justice, digital criminology, parole)
• Professor Anastasia Powell (family violence, sexual violence, technology-facilitated abuse, digital criminology)
• Associate Professor Michele Ruyters (wrongful convictions, miscarriages of justice, parole)
• Associate Professor Marietta Martinovic (electronic monitoring, incarceration, teaching in prisons)
• Dr Robin Cameron (digital criminology, networked criminality, digital harms)
• Dr Lucy Maxwell (crime prevention, miscarriages of justice, wrongful conviction)
• Alyssa Sigamoney (wrongful convictions, race and miscarriages of justice)
• Monique Moffa (wrongful convictions, miscarriages of justice, parole)
• Rebecca Hiscock (sex work reforms, gender-based violence, crime prevention, policy change)
• Jarryd Bartle (criminal justice, miscarriages of justice, drug policy, and law reform)