Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Humanities and Social Sciences


   Dr. Richard Evans

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Position Lecturer in Criminology
Email richard.evans@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Phone +61 3 522 73407
Campus Geelong
Location ic2.205
Role and profile Lecturer in Criminology
Teaching responsibilities Unit Chair, ASL111 The Criminal Justice System
Research interests Crime and justice.
Politics
History
Disasters
Australian Studies
Current research projects The development of a general theory of miscarriages of justice.
A political and social history of the Black Friday bushfire disaster of 1939.
A history of the struggle for abortion law reform in Melbourne in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Service to the University,
discipline or community  		 Volunteer counsellor and ambassador for Post and Ante Natal Depression Association
Awards Runner-up, RMIT University Postgraduate Lecturer of the Year, 2000.
Joint Winner, Monash University PSI Postgraduate Publication Prize, 2005, for The Pyjama Girl Mystery
Qualifications Doctor of Philosophy, Monash, 2006
Master of Arts (Communication)Monash, 2001
Batchelor of Arts (Journalism) RMIT, 1998
Memberships Post and Ante Natal Depression Association
Australian Historical Association
Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society
Baptist Church
Refugee Council of Australia
Australian Prison Foundation
Conferences ‘Challenging the New Punitivism: Strategies, tactics and strange allies’, National Conference on Australian Prison Issues, Sydney, Nov. 2010
'Painful lessons: Public memory and the politics of disasters,' APSA Conference, Melbourne, Sept. 2010
with Helen McKernan, ‘Policing refugee communities: Past arrivals and new arrivals in Victoria’, ANZSOC conference, Perth, Nov. 2009
‘“The police are rottenly corrupt”: Social geography, police corruption and the mobilization of scandal’, The Talk about Town: Urban Lives and Oral Sources in 20th Century Australia, Melbourne, Aug. 2009
with Helen McKernan, ‘“A bit of a feared minority group”: Policing and the Vietnamese Community in Victoria’, Inaugural Human Rights and Policing Conference, Melbourne, Dec. 2008
‘Black Days: Bushfire, disaster and contesting public memory’, Australia and New Zealand Law and History Conference, Melbourne, Dec. 2010.
Research link View Deakin associated research data
Additional URLs

Radio National interview - Deluges that have gone before

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