Dr Danielle Tyson - Researcher Profile

Biography

Danielle joined the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University as a Lecturer in Criminology in 2007. Prior to this she taught Criminology at the University of Brighton, England and at the University of Melbourne, Australia and Legal Studies at La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia. Danielle's research focuses on gender and violence; domestic homicide and criminal law reform; filicide and separating families and youth, mobile technologies and gender politics. Dr Tyson has just published Sex, Culpability and the Defence of Provocation (Routledge-Cavendish 2013). Danielle is a member of the Wellbeing of Children Following Separation and Divorce Research Consortium funded by the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth.

Research & Supervision Interests

• Gender and Violence
• Crime and the Media
• Intimate partner homicide
• Filicide in the context of parental separation and divorce
• Feminist legal theory
• Cultural Criminology

 

Keywords

Crime, Gender, LAW, Narrative

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY CRIMINOLOGY

Institution: The University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 2002

BACHELOR OF ARTS WITH HONOURS - LEGAL STUDIES

Institution: La Trobe University

Year awarded: 1997

Publications

Books

Tyson, D., 2013, Sex, Culpability and the Defence of Provocation, Routledge, Abingodn, Oxon, UK.

Journal Articles

Brown, T.C., Tyson, D., 2012, An abominable crime: filicide in the context of parental separation and divorce, Children Australia [P], vol 37, issue 4, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 150-159.

Bagshaw, D., Brown, T., Wendt, S., Campbell, A., McInnes, E., Tinning, B., Batagol, B., Sifris, A., Tyson, D., Baker, J., Fernandez Arias, P., 2011, The effect of family violence on post-separation parenting arrangements: The experiences and views of children and adults from families who separated post-1995 and post-2006, Family Matters [P], vol 86, Australian Institute of Family Studies, Australia, pp. 49-61.

Tyson, D., 2011, Victoria's new homicide laws: provocative reforms or more stories of women 'asking for it'?, Current Issues in Criminal Justice [P], vol 23, issue 2, Sydney Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, pp. 203-233.

Bagshaw, D., Brown, T., Wendt, S., Campbell, A., McInnes, E., Tinning, B., Batagol, B., Sifris, A., Tyson, D., Baker, J., Fernandez Arias, P., 2010, Family Violence and Family Law in Australia: The experiences and views of children and adults from families who separated post 1995 and post 2006, Australian Family Lawyer [P], vol 21, Family Law Section, Law Council of Australia, Australia, pp. 1-219.

Bagshaw, D., Brown, T., Wendt, S., Campbell, A., McInnes, E., Tinning, B., Batagol, B., Sifris, A., Tyson, D., Baker, J., Fernandez Arias, P., 2010, Family Violence: parents' and children's experiences before and after the 2006 reforms, Australian Family Lawyer [P], vol 21, issue 2, Law Council of Australia, Melbourne, pp. 11-18.

Tyson, D., 2009, Questions of guilt and innocence in the Victorian criminal trial of Robert Farquharson and the fact before theory internet campaign, Current Issues in Criminal Justice [P], vol 21, issue 2, University of Sydney, Law School, Institute of Criminology, Australia, pp. 181-204.

Tyson, D., 2008, Captive Images: Race, crime, Photography, Katherie Biber, Routledge-Cavendish, Abingdon, 2007, Journal of the Institute of Criminology: Current Issues in Criminal Justice, vol 20, issue 2, Institute of Criminology University of Sydney, Australia, pp. 319-321.

Tyson, D., 2007, Rewriting the event of murder: Provocation, automatism and the law's use of a narrative of insult, Law Text Culture, vol 11, University of Wollongong, Legal Intersections Research Centre, Wollongong, NSW, pp. 286-316.

Conference Proceedings

Tyson, D., 2006, The Death of a Defence: Reflections on provocation's afterlife, Passages: law, aesthetics, politics, 13 - 14 July 2006, Centre for Media and Communications Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1-14.

Activities

Professional organisation memberships

From: 01/01/2008
The Australian Feminist Law Journal
Member, Editorial Board

From: 01/01/2008
The Australian Feminist Law Journal
Public Officer

From: 01/01/2008
The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology
Member

From: 01/01/2008
The Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand Inc
Member

Grants

Title:

Blood on Whose Hands II : The Killing of women and children in domestic homicides.

Investigators:

Tyson, D

Funding:

(2012 - 2016). Victorian Womens Trust Ltd.

Title:

Family Violence and 2006 Family Law Reforms.

Investigators:

Brown, T, Tyson, D, Batagol, B, Sifris, A

Funding:

(2009 - 2013). Attorney General Department.

(2009 - 2014). Attorney General Department.

(2010 - 2014). Attorney General Department.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

A study of male victims of stalking in rural Australia.

Supervisors:

Eriksson, A (Main), Tyson, D (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Adolescents, the new child pornograhers? An analysis of the Australian and American prosecutions of adolescents under child pornography laws doe 'sexting'.

Supervisors:

Segrave, M (Main), Tyson, D (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Intimate partner violence in the context of separation: a re-examination of the issues.

Supervisors:

Tyson, D (Main), Lindsay, J (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Transitions in and out of sex work.

Supervisors:

Tyson, D (Main), Maher, J (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Women's experience of violence following the Black Saturday bushfires.

Supervisors:

Mclean, K (Main), Tyson, D (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Fitz-Gibbon, K.

Program of Study:

The aftermath of provocation: homicide law reform in Victoria, New South Wales and England. (PHD) 2012.

Supervisors:

Pickering, S (Main), Tyson, D (Main).

Student:

Nagy, V.

Program of Study:

"Stop the wretched woman in her horrid career": a study of competing representations of femininity in social and legal responses to female poisoners, 1846-1851. (PHD) 2011.

Supervisors:

Tyson, D (Main), Maher, J (Associate).