Dr Bree Carlton - Researcher Profile

Biography

Prior to her academic career Dr Carlton was involved in community radio broadcasting and also worked as a freelance producer for the ABC Radio National social history unit.

Dr Carlton completed her doctoral thesis in 2005. She was awarded the Vice Chancellor's commendation for excellence in doctoral research one of two competitive awards for exceptional candidates nominated for research excellence across the Arts Faculty. Bree's doctoral thesis focused on the controversial deaths and prisoner protests in the Pentridge Prison Jika Jika High-Security Unit in the 1980s and will be published by the Sydney Institute Federation Press Series in 2007.

In 2005 Dr Carlton was a recipient of the Australian Academy of Humanities Travelling Fellowship for her research on women and political imprisonment in Northern Ireland. In February and March 2006, Bree travelled to Belfast, Northern Ireland to conduct interviews with Republican women former prisoners about their experiences of resistance and survival in prison and in the community post-release.

Research & Supervision Interests

Bree has researched and written chapters and articles for publication in the area of history and prison studies. She is interested in the historical and contemporary functions of deviance management and social control, particularly the impact of criminal justice institutions and state practices on communities and individuals in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Specific areas of focus include punishment, the politics of high-security and supermax prisons; political imprisonment; prisoner resistance; human rights and deaths in custody; official discourse and public inquiries; state crime, crimes of the powerful; critical criminology, research theory and practice.

Keywords

deviance management and social control, prison studies

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2005

BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONOURS)

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 2000

Publications

Books

Carlton, B.A., 2007, Imprisoning Resistance: Life and Death in an Australian Supermax, Institute of Criminology Press, Sydney Nsw Australia.

Book Chapters

Carlton, B.A., 2009, Entombing Resistance: Institutional Power and Polarisation in the Jika Jika High-Security Unit, in The Violence of Incarceration, eds Phil Scraton and Jude McCulloch, Routledge, UK, pp. 37-59.

Carlton, B.A., 2008, Understanding prisoner Resistance: Power, Visibility and Survival in High-Security, in The Critical Criminology Companion, eds Thalia Anthony and Chris Cunneen, Hawkins Press, Australia, pp. 240-252.

Journal Articles

Segrave, M., Carlton, B., 2011, Counting the costs of imprisonment: researching women's post-release deaths in Victoria, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology [P], vol 44, issue 1, Sage Publications Ltd., UK, pp. 41-55.

Carlton, B., Segrave, M., 2011, Women's survival post-imprisonment: Connecting imprisonment with pains past and present, Punishment and Society [P], vol 13, issue 5, SAGE, London UK, pp. 551-570.

Segrave, M., Carlton, B., 2010, Women, trauma, criminalisation and imprisonment ..., Current Issues in Criminal Justice [P], vol 22, issue 2, University of Sydney, Institute of Criminology, Sydney, Australia, pp. 287-305.

Carlton, B.A., 2008, In the Care of the State? Child Deaths in Penal Custody in England and Wales, Barry Goldson and Deborah Coles, Inquest, London, 2005, Journal of the Institute of Criminology: Current Issues in Criminal Justice, vol 20, issue 1, Institute of Criminology University of Sydney, Australia, pp. 141-142.

Carlton, B.A., 2008, Proliferating Coercive Control and Crisis: The Official Uses and Abuses of Modern High-Security in Australia, Prison Service Journal [P], vol 1, issue 183, H M Prison Service, UK, pp. 3-12.

Carlton, B.A., McCulloch, J., 2008, R v Benbrika and ors (Ruling No. 20): The "War on terror", Human Rights and the Pre-emptive Punishment of Terror Suspects in High-Security, Journal of the Institute of Criminology: Current Issues in Criminal Justice, vol 20, issue 2, Institute of Criminology University of Sydney, Australia, pp. 287-292.

Carlton, B.A., 2007, From H Division to Abu Ghraib: regimes of justification and the historical proliferation of state-inflicted terror and violence in maximum-security, Social Justice, vol 33, issue 4, Global Options, USA, pp. 15-36.

Carlton, B.A., 2006, Book reviews: Out of order: the political imprisonment of women in Northern Ireland 1972-1998, Punishment & Society, vol 8, issue 4, Sage Publications, London England, pp. 485-487.

McCulloch, J., Carlton, B.A., 2006, Preempting justice: suppression of financing of terrorism and the'war on terror', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, vol 17, issue 3, Law School, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 397-412.

Carlton, B.A., 2006, Review of intractable: hell has a name, life inside Australia's first super-max prison, Social Justice, vol 33, issue 4, Social Justice, San Francisco CA USA, pp. 191-193.

Conference Proceedings

Carlton, B.A., Segrave, M.T., 2009, Surviving outside: Bering witness to women's post-release experiences of survival and death, Conference Proceedings: Australian & New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2009, 8 July 2009 to 9 July 2009, Criminology, School of Political & Social Inquiry, Monash University, Australia, pp. 41-50.

Carlton, B.A., 2008, Isolation as Counter-Insurgency: Supermax Prisons and the War on Terror, Proceedings of the 2nd Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference, 19-20 June 2008, The Crime and Justice research Network, University of New South Wales, Australia, pp. 77-90.

Carlton, B., 2002, Researching secrecy, state power and prisoner resistance in the Australian high-security prison, Proceedings of the Mass Historia Postgraduate Conference, 19 July 2001 to 21 July 2001, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 50-56.

Grants

Title:

Inquiry into the impact of drug-related offending on female prisoner.

Investigators:

Carlton, B

Funding:

(2010 - 2014). Parliament of Victoria.