Prof Sharon Pickering - Researcher Profile

Biography

Professor Sharon Pickering is an Australian Research Council Professorial Future Fellow and Professor of Criminology. She completed her Masters at the University of Southampton and PhD at the University of Melbourne (2000) with a study of women, policing and resistance in Northern Ireland. Upon returning to Australia she was appointed lecturer in Justice Studies at Charles Sturt University where she focused on developing research on the criminalisation of migration and extended her work into South East Asia through an ARC SPIRT project with Amnesty International on women and human rights in South East Asia (with Alder and Lambert). She held a visiting fellowship at Oxford University in the Refugee Studies Centre in 2000. In 2003 she moved to Monash University to take up a position in Criminology and expanded her work through collaborations with Professor Jude McCulloch and Dr Leanne Weber and in 2002 was a visiting scholar at the University of Westminster and in 2003 at Northern Arizona University. In 2004 she lead the ARC Linkage Project collaboration with Victoria Police on Counter Terrorism Policing and Culturally Diverse Communities which developed an evidence base for a social cohersion approach to counter-terrorism rooted in an abiding commitment to human rights. In 2006 she co-convened the first Monash Prato International Roundtable on Transnational Crime (held four times hence) which brings together an international network of criminological scholars. In 2009 she was appointed Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology and later that year appointed Professor of Criminology. In 2009 and 2010 she was funded by the ARC in two large projects studying Fluid Security in the Asia Pacific and the use of Deportation in Australia and Internationally. In 2011 she founded the Border Observatory and the international network of scholars studying borders, security, crime and justice www.borderobservatory.org.

Research & Supervision Interests

Professor Sharon Pickering researches irregular border crossing and has written in the areas of refugees and trafficking with a focus on gender and human rights. Sharon leads a series of Australian Research Council projects focusing on the intersections of security and migration, deportation, and police and community responses to Prejudice Motivated Crimes. She has worked extensively with government agencies and law enforcement and with local and international NGOs. She has previously worked in Northern Ireland, on counter-terrorism policing, and human rights and women in South East Asia. She is the immediate past editor Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. She has recently taken up five year Australian Research Council Fellowship on Border Policing: Gender, Human Rights and Security. Her books include Sex Work (with Maher and Gerard); Globalization and Borders: Deaths at the Global Frontier (with Weber), Borders and Crime (with McCulloch); Gender, Borders and Violence; Sex Trafficking (with Segrave and Milivojevic); Counter-Terrorism Policing (with McCulloch and Wright-Neville); Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control (with Weber); Refugees and State Crime; Critical Chatter: women and human rights in South East Asia (with Lambert and Alder); Global Issues, Women and Justice (with Lambert); Women, Policing and Resistance in Northern Ireland. She has a forthcoming edited collection (with McCulloch) on Borders and Crime and has begun work on editing the Routlege Handbook on Migration and Crime to be published in 2014. 

Keywords

Borders, Border Control, Refugees, Trafficking, Smuggling, Irregular Migration, migration policing; gender; criminology;, policing law enforcement counter terrorism, policing transnational policing crime transnational crime law enforcement

Qualifications

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2005

CRIMINOLOGY

Institution: Unknown

Year awarded: 2000

CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Institution: Unknown

Year awarded: 1996

ARTS

Institution: Unknown

Year awarded: 1994

Publications

Books

McCulloch, J., Pickering, S.J. (eds), 2012, Borders and Crime: Pre-Crime, Mobility and Serious Harm in an Age of Globalization, Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, UK and New York, USA.

Maher, J.M., Pickering, S.J., Gerard, A.F., 2012, Sex Work: Labour, Mobility and Sexual Services, Routledge, London.

Weber, L., Pickering, S., 2011, Globalization and Borders: Death at the Global Frontier, Palgrave Macmillan, UK.

Pickering, S., 2010, Women, Borders and Violence: Current Issues in Asylum, Forced Migration, and Trafficking, Springer, New York, United States.

Segrave, M.T., Pickering, S.J., Milivojevic, S., 2009, Sex Trafficking: International Context and Response, Willan Publishing, Devon UK.

Pickering, S.J., McCulloch, J., Wright-Neville, D.P., 2008, Counter-Terrorism Policing: Community, Cohesion and Security, Springer, USA.

Pickering, S.J., Weber, L. (eds), 2006, Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control, Springer, Dordrecht The Netherlands.

Pickering, S.J., 2005, Refugees & State Crime, Federation Press, Annandale NSW Australia.

Pickering, S.J., Lambert, C. (eds), 2004, Global Issues, Women and Justice, The Sydney Institute of Criminology, Sydney NSW Australia.

Lambert, C., Pickering, S.J., Alder, C., 2003, Critical Chatter: Women and Human Rights in South East Asia, Carolina Academic Press, Durham USA.

Pickering, S.J., 2002, Women, Policing and Resistance in Northern Ireland, Beyond the Pale, Belfast Ireland.

Book Chapters

Pickering, S.J., Weber, L., 2013, Hardening the rule of law and Asylum Seekers: exporting risk and the judicial censure of state illegality, in State Crime and Resistance, eds Elizabeth Stanley, Jude McCulloch, Routledge, Milton Park, pp. 181-198.

McCulloch, J., Pickering, S.J., 2012, Introduction, in Borders and Crime: Pre-Crime, Mobility and Serious Harm in an age of globalization, eds Jude McCulloch, Sharon Pickering, Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom, pp. 1-14.

McCulloch, J., Pickering, S., 2010, Counter-terrorism: the law and policing of pre-emption, in Counter-Terrorism and Beyond: The Culture of Law and Justice After 9/11, eds Nicola McGarrity, Andrew Lynch and George Williams, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 13-29.

McCulloch, J., Pickering, S.J., 2009, The Violence of Refugee Incarceration, in The Violence of Incarceration, eds Phil Scraton and Jude McCulloch, Routledge, UK, pp. 225-243.

Pickering, S.J., 2009, Traveling into Criminology, in Critical Voices in Criminology, eds Chris Powell, Lexington Books, UK, pp. 53-66.

Pickering, S.J., 2008, The New Criminals: Refugees and Asylum Seekers, in The Critical Criminology Companion, eds Thalia Anthony and Chris Cunneen, Hawkins Press, Australia, pp. 169-179.

Pickering, S.J., 2008, The globalization of violence against refugees, in The Globalization of Political Violence: Globalization's Shadow, eds Richard Devetak and Christopher W Hughes, Routledge, UK, pp. 104-124.

Kneebone, S.Y., Pickering, S.J., 2007, Australia, Indonesia and the Pacific Plan, in New Regionalism and Asylum Seekers: Challenges Ahead, eds Susan Kneebone and Felicity Rawlings-Sanaei, Berghahn Books, United States, pp. 167-187.

Pickering, S.J., 2006, Border narratives: from talking security to performing borderlands, in Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control, eds Sharon Pickering and Leanne Weber, Springer, Dordrecht The Netherlands, pp. 45-62.

Pickering, S.J., Weber, L., 2006, Borders, mobility and technologies of control, in Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control, eds Sharon Pickering and Leanne Weber, Springer, Dordrecht The Netherlands, pp. 1-19.

Pickering, S.J., Weber, L., 2006, De-territorialising criminology, in Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control, eds Sharon Pickering and Leanne Weber, Springer, Dordrecht The Netherlands, pp. 207-212.

Pickering, S.J., Gard, M., 2004, Everybody's business: the privatisation of women's imprisonment, in Global Issues, Women and Justice, eds Sharon Pickering and Caroline Lambert, Sydney Institute of Criminology, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 259-280.

Pickering, S.J., 2004, Narrating women and asylum: hostile administrative-legal justice, in Global Issues, Women and Justice, eds Sharon Pickering and Caroline Lambert, Sydney Institute of Criminology, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 32-58.

Journal Articles

Fitz-Gibbon, K., Pickering, S.J., 2012, Homicide law reform in Victoria, Australia: From provocation to defensive homicide and beyond, British Journal Of Criminology [P], vol 52, issue 1, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 159-180.

Maher, J.M., Pickering, S.J., Gerard, A.F., 2012, Privileging work not sex: Flexibility and employment in the sexual services industry, Sociological Review [E], vol 60, issue 4, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford United Kingdom, pp. 654-675.

Gerard, A.F., Pickering, S.J., 2012, The crime and punishment of Somali women's extra legal arrival in Malta, British Journal of Criminology [E], vol 52, issue 3, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 514-533.

McCulloch, J., Pickering, S., 2011, Counter-terrorism law; Preventing terrorism and pre-empting the future, Precedent [P], vol 1, Australian Lawyers Alliance, Sydney, Australia, pp. 4-9.

Pickering, S., McCulloch, J., 2010, The Haneef case and counter-terrorism policing in Australia, Policing and Society: An international journal of research & policy [P], vol 20, issue 1, March 2010, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 21-38.

McCulloch, J., Pickering, S.J., 2009, Pre-crime and counter-terrorism, British Journal Of Criminology [P], vol 49, issue 5, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 628-645.

Pickering, S.J., McCulloch, J., Wright-Neville, D.P., 2008, Counter-terrorism policing: Towards social cohesion, Crime, Law and Social Change: an interdisciplinary journal, vol 50, issue 1-2, Springer Netherlands, Netherlands, pp. 91-109.

MacDonald, T.C., McCulloch, J., Pickering, S.J., 2008, Critical Reflections on 2020 and Beyond, Australian Feminist Law Journal, vol 28, issue 1, Socio-Legal Research Centre, Griffith University, Australia, pp. 207-214.

Milivojevic, S., Pickering, S.J., 2008, Football and Sex: the 2006 FiFA World Cup and sex trafficking, TEMIDA: Journal on Victimisation, Human Rights and Gender, vol 11, issue 2, Viktimolosko drustvo Srbije i "Prometej", Beograd Serbia, pp. 21-47.

Pickering, S.J., 2007, Transnational Crime and Refugee Protection, Social Justice, vol 34, issue 2, Global Options, United States, pp. 47-61.

Pickering, S.J., 2005, Crimes of the state: the persecution and protection of refugees, Critical Criminology, vol 13, issue 2, Springer-Verlag, Dordrecht The Netherlands, pp. 141-163.

Maher, J., Segrave, M.T., Pickering, S.J., McCulloch, J., 2005, Honouring white masculinity: culture, terror, provocation and the law, The Australian Feminist Law Journal, vol 23, Socio-Legal Research Centre, Griffith University, Nathan Qld Australia, pp. 147-164.

Pickering, S.J., McCulloch, J., 2005, Social research and diversity: what can it teach us?, Australian Mosaic, vol 10, issue 2, Federation of Ethnic Communities Council of Australia, Curtin ACT Australia, pp. 33-35.

McCulloch, J., Pickering, S.J., 2005, Suppressing the financing of terrorism, The British Journal of Criminology, vol 45, issue 4, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 470-486.

Pickering, S.J., 2004, Border terror: policing, forced migration and terrorism, Global Change, Peace & Security, vol 16, issue 3, Carfax Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 211-226.

Wilson, D.J., Third, A., Pickering, S.J., 2004, Media, secrecy and Guantanamo Bay, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, vol 16, issue 1, Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 79-84.

McCulloch, J., Pickering, S.J., Wright-Neville, D.P., 2004, Suppressing the financing of terrorism, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, vol 16, issue 1, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 71-78.

Pickering, S.J., 2004, The production of sovereignty and the rise of transversal policing: people-smuggling and federal policing, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, vol 37, issue 3, Australian Academic Press Pty Ltd, http://www.australianacademicpress.com.au, pp. 362-379.

Maher, J., McCulloch, J., Pickering, S.J., 2004, '[W]here women face the judgement of their sisters': Review of Helen Garner, (2004) Joe Cinque's Consolation: a true story of death, grief and the law, PanMacmillan, Sydney, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, vol 16, issue 2, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 233-240.

Pickering, S.J., Third, A., 2003, Castrating conflict: gender(ed) terrorists and terrorism domesticated, Social Alternatives, vol 22, issue 2, University of Queensland, St Lucia Qld Australia, pp. 8-15.

Pickering, S.J., 2003, Women and the police in Northern Ireland: '... no police thank you', Irish Journal of Feminist Studies, vol 5, issue 1 and 2, Cork University Press, Ireland, pp. 34-54.

Pickering, S.J., Lambert, C., 2002, Deterrence: Australia's refugee policy, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, vol 14, issue 1, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 65-86.

Pickering, S.J., O'Kane, M.E., 2002, Policing, exile and gender in states' borderlands, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, vol 14, issue 1, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 106-110.

Pickering, S.J., 2001, Common sense and original deviancy: news discourses and asylum seekers in Australia, Journal of Refugee Studies, vol 14, issue 2, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 169-186.

Pickering, S.J., 2001, Engendering resistance: women and policing in Northern Ireland, Policing & Society, vol 11, issue 3-4, Routledge, UK, pp. 337-358.

Pickering, S.J., 2001, Undermining the sanitized account: violence and emotionality in the field in Northern Ireland, British Journal of Criminology, vol 41, issue 3, Oxford University Press, Oxford England, pp. 485-501.

Conference Proceedings

Maher, J., Pickering, S.J., 2009, Sex work, regulation and social noise, The Future of Sociology, 1 December 2009 to 4 December 2009, TASA (The Australian Sociological Association), Canberra, Australia, pp. 1-11.

Pickering, S.J., 2008, Counter-terrorism policing and culturally diverse communities, Counter-Terrorism International Conference 2007, 15-16 October 2007, Victoria Police and Monash University, Australia, pp. 8-11.

Pickering, S.J., Wonders, N., Danner, M., Weaver, D., 2004, Globalisation and criminal justice: an interactive collaborative approach to global learning, ED-MEDIA 2004: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, 21 June 2004 to 26 June 2004, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, Norfolk USA, pp. 4821-4826.

Pickering, S.J., 2003, Gender persecution: a response to the UNHCR guidelines, Stemming the Tide or Keeping the Balance - The Role of the Judiciary: IARLJ Conference 2002, 22 October 2002 to 25 October 2002, New Zealand Association for Comparative Law and the Revue Juridique Polynesienne, Wellington New Zealand, pp. 347-358.

Other

Pickering, S.J., Wright-Neville, D.P., McCulloch, J., Lentini, P., 2007, Counter-Terrorism Policing and Culturally Diverse Communities, Monash University, Australia, pp. 1-125.

Bouma, G.D., Pickering, S.J., Halafoff, A., Dellal, H., 2007, Managing the Impact of Global Crisis Events on Community Relations in Multicultural Australia, Sch of Political & Social Inquiry Monash Uni and the Australian Multicultural Foundation, Australia, pp. 1-116.

Bouma, G.D., Pickering, S.J., Halafoff, A., Dellal, H., 2007, Managing the Impact of Global Crisis Events on Community Relations in Multicultural Australia: Part I (Background Report) and Part II (Community Relations Toolkit) for Victoria, Sch of Political & Social Inquiry Monash University and the Australian Multicultural Foundation, Australia.

Grants

Title:

Combating the financing of terrorism: enhancing security or compromising civil rights and democracy?.

Investigators:

McCulloch, J, McQueen, R, Pickering, S, Tham, J, Wright-Neville, D

Funding:

(2005 - 2009). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Title:

Counter-terrorism policing for culturally diverse communities.

Investigators:

Pickering, S, Wright-Neville, D, McCulloch, J, Lentini, P, Nixon, C, Augoustakis, S, Kelly, B, Crisp, A, Pettitt, A

Funding:

(2004 - 2008). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2004 - 2008). Victoria Police.

(2006 - 2010). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Title:

Exporting Risk: The Australian Deportation Project.

Investigators:

Pickering, S, Grewcock, M, Weber, L, Segrave, M

Funding:

(2011 - 2015). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2011 - 2015). University of New South Wales.

Title:

Fluid Security in the Asia Pacific.

Investigators:

Pickering, S, Tazreiter, C, Segrave, M, Weber, L

Funding:

(2010 - 2014). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2010 - 2014). University of New South Wales.

Title:

Policing the border: security, human rights and gender.

Investigators:

Pickering, S

Funding:

(2010 - 2014). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2010 - 2014). Monash University.

(2012 - 2016). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Title:

Targeted Crime: Policing and Social Inclusion.

Investigators:

Pickering, S, Mason, G, McCulloch, J, Maher, J, Mazerolle, L, Wickes, R, Pope, J, Dickinson, A, Sargent, L, Ballek, D

Funding:

(2011 - 2015). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2011 - 2015). Victoria Police.