Dr Rich Evans

Crime and justice.
Politics
History
Disasters
Australian Studies

Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology

Uniting Church in Australia

Refugee Council of Australia

Just Detention International

PANDA (Post and Ante Natal Depression Association)

• Criminology
• Prisons and punishment
• Penology
• Social Justice
• Surveillance
• Policing
• Mental Illness
• Drusg and Crime
• Social Change
• Australian History
• Media and journalism

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.

Runner-up, RMIT University Postgraduate Lecturer of the Year, 2000.
Joint Winner, Monash University PSI Postgraduate Publication Prize, 2005, for The Pyjama Girl Mystery

Was William Moxley wrongly hanged?
William Cyril Moxley was hanged for a gruesome double murder in Sydney 1932. A forthcoming article will contend that Moxley, a petty criminal, was almost certainly the victim of a miscarriage of justice.

Does the drug-trade act as a ‘resource curse’ for disadvantaged migrant communities?
Do criminal economic activities, such as trading in drugs, have a similar effect on migrant communities to the so-called ‘resource curse’, by which developing nations actually suffer because they own valuable resources, such as oil? An article exploring this question is currently under review by an international journal.

Surveillance as a form of media
This project explores the insights which can be gained by applying media theory to surveillance systems. It is argued that ubiquitous surveillance represents a new media form, an inversion of broadcasting, which I term ‘harvest media’.