Dr Leanne Weber - Researcher Profile

Biography

Leanne Weber is a Senior Research Fellow specializing in migration policing. She has studied and worked at the Institute of Criminology in Cambridge and the Human Rights Centre at Essex University; held research contracts at the Centre for Criminological Research at Oxford University; and taught criminology at the University of Western Sydney and The University of New South Wales. She is the holder of a Larkins Fellowship.

Keywords

Borders, Policing, Human Rights, Minorities

Qualifications

PhD in CRIMINOLOGY

Institution: Cambridge University, UK

Year awarded: 2006

M.A. in THEORY AND PRACTICE OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Institution: University of Essex

Year awarded: 1998

M.Phil (Criminology)

Institution: Cambridge University, UK

Year awarded: 1993

Publications

Books

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

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

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.

Weber, L., 2012, Criminal justice and human rights, in Crime and Justice: A Guide to Criminology, eds Marinella Marmo, Willem De Lint and Darren Palmer, Lawbook Co, NSW, Australia, pp. 631-656.

Weber, L., 2012, Policing a world in motion, in Borders and Crime: Pre-crime, Mobility and Serious Harm in an Age of Globalization, eds Jude McCulloch, Sharon Pickering, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Hampshire, UK, pp. 35-53.

Weber, L., Lee, M., 2008, Preventing indeterminate threats: fear, terror and the politics of preemption, in Fear of Crime: Critical Voices in an Age of Anxiety, eds Murray Lee and Stephen Farrall, Routledge-Cavendish, United Kingdom, pp. 59-81.

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.

Weber, L., 2006, The shifting frontiers of migration control, in Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control, eds Sharon Pickering and Leanne Weber, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 21-44.

Journal Articles

Weber, L., 2011, 'It sounds like they shouldn't be here': immigration checks on the streets of Sydney, Policing and Society: An international journal of research & policy [P], vol 21, issue 4, Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 456-467.

Bowling, B., Weber, L., 2011, Stop and search in global context: an overview, Policing and Society: An international journal of research & policy [P], vol 21, issue 4, Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 480-488.

Weber, L., 2010, Knowing-and-yet-not-knowing about European border deaths, Australian Journal of Human Rights [P], vol 15, issue 2, Australian Human Rights Centre, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 35-58.

Wilson, D.J., Weber, L., 2008, Surveillance, Risk and Preemption on the Australian Border, Surveillance & Society, vol 5, issue 2, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Global Urban Research Unit, UK, pp. 124-141.

Weber, L., Bowling, B., 2008, Valiant beggars and global vagabonds: Select, eject, immobilize, Theoretical Criminology [P], vol 12, issue 3, Sage Publications Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 355-375.

Weber, L., 2007, Policing the virtual border: punitive preemption in Australian offshore migration control, Social Justice [P], vol 34, issue 2, Global Options, United States, pp. 77-93.

Weber, L., 2005, The detention of asylum seekers as a crime of obedience, Critical Criminology [P], vol 13, issue 1, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 89-109.

Grants

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:

Exploring the experience of security in the Australian Vietnamese community: practical implications for policing.

Investigators:

Weber, L, Meredith, D

Funding:

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

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

With Child and Without A Home: Pregnant Refugees and Border Patrol.

Supervisors:

Pickering, S (Main), Weber, L (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Gerard, A.

Program of Study:

The securitisation of migration and refugee women. (PHD) 2012.

Supervisors:

Pickering, S (Main), Mcculloch, J (Associate), Weber, L (Associate).

Student:

Vecchio, F.

Program of Study:

(Un)wanted people in Hong Kong: how global cities force migrants to cope with illegality. (PHD) 2012.

Supervisors:

Pickering, S (Main), Arunachalam, D (Associate), Weber, L (Associate).