Dr Marie Segrave - Researcher Profile

Marie Segrave

Address

School of Political & Social Inquiry
Faculty of Arts, Clayton

Contact Details

Tel: +61 3 990 52986

Email: Marie.Segrave@monash.edu


Biography

Assumptions challenged in crime, justice and migration research

Dr Marie Segrave’s work into human trafficking, labour exploitation, women prisoners and policing challenges the status quo. As a critical criminologist, she identifies and tests the assumptions that drive legislation and policy in Australia and internationally. For example, while many people assume migrant workers arriving from Asia want permanent settlement in Australia, Marie’s research shows this is not necessarily the case. And believing that criminal convictions are the key measure of police success ignores the important work they do with crime victims.

Marie’s aim in challenging preconceived notions, prevalent within our legal system, is to help create more effective policies that have better outcomes for individuals and for society in general.

She says most government policy on human trafficking and migrant workers is based on assumptions about what individuals want and need when migrating for work. Her research shows many people from the Asia-Pacific region often move in a circular way. Therefore, efforts to prevent migrant workers staying long term could be misdirected.

Tracking the dynamic between migration patterns, personal safety and national security is the subject of Marie’s Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery project. With Professor Sharon Pickering, Dr Leanne Weber and Dr Claudia Tazreiter, Marie is mapping the movements and experiences of people working in Australia on temporary visas as they travel between their homeland and communities in Australia. The project focuses on migrants from China, Tonga, Indonesia and Samoa.

The project will improve understanding of migration drivers and the impact of existing policies, Marie says. “It will help us understand how policy influences the risks individuals are willing to take to earn money, the opportunities it affords and the potential for exploitation.” 


Another of Marie’s projects, working with Victoria Police, is revealing the true nature of police work in their interaction with crime victims. Funded through an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant, it details police experiences with crime victims – a significant but largely unheralded aspect of their work.

It is the first time such information has been gathered, achieved through unprecedented access to police via hundreds of interviews. The project report, to be launched in 2011, will contain specific recommendations regarding police practice. It could also shift the ways ‘successful’ police work is measured to include community relations along with investigation outcomes.

Marie works in the emerging field of ‘critical’ criminology. This questions the structures of the established criminal justice system and examines the implications of the system for people who have the least power within those structures.

As a feminist critical criminologist, Marie is no stranger to research that tests the underlying assumptions people hold – including her own. “One of the most important things about doing this kind of work is you are constantly being challenged yourself,” she says.

Marie’s recent research, with Dr Bree Carlton, into women’s post-prison survival rates challenged her preconceptions. A project designed to focus on women who had died and those who had survived, their research after the women’s release found that survival and non-survival categories were not clear-cut. “Rather, many women had come close to death at least once so we realised we weren’t dealing with two separate groups, which was pretty challenging,” she says. That research, along with an evaluation undertaken for Melbourne City Mission, found that safe and secure ongoing housing is key to maintaining stability in women’s lives.

Marie’s research interests will be enhanced through her 2011 Oxford University Visiting Fellowship. At Oxford and other UK universities, there are several critical scholars undertaking important research. It is hoped that building networks will lead to future international collaborations between Monash and Oxford.

Keywords

human trafficking, temporary migration, labour exploitation and temporary migration, policing and victims of crime, women and imprisonment

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 2008
BACHELOR ARTS (HONOURS)
Institution: Melbourne University
Year awarded: 2002

Publications

Books

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

Book Chapters

Milivojevic, S., Segrave, M., 2012, Evaluating responses to human trafficking: A review of international, regional and national counter-trafficking mechanisms, in Human Trafficking: Exploring the International Nature, Concerns, and Complexities, eds John Winterdyk, Benjamin Perrin and Philip Reichel, CRC Press, United States of America, pp. 233-263.

Segrave, M., Milivojevic, S., 2010, Responses to sex trafficking: gender, borders and 'home', in Trafficking and Human Rights: European and Asia-Pacific Perspectives, eds Leslie Holmes, Edward Elgar Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 37-55.

Segrave, M., 2006, Sexual assult in Australia: best practices, in Sexual Violence: theory and praxis, eds MajaMamula and Nera Komaric, zenska soba, Belgrade, pp. 126-138.

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.

Wilson, D., Segrave, M., 2011, Police-based victim services: Australian and international models, Policing [P], vol 34, issue 3, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, pp. 479-496.

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., Milivojevic, S., 2010, Auditing the Australian response to trafficking, Current Issues in Criminal Justice [P], vol 22, issue 1, July 2010, University of Sydney, Law School. Institute of Criminology, Sydney, Australia, pp. 63-81.

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.

Segrave, M.T., 2009, Human Trafficking and Human Rights, Australian Journal of Human Rights [P], vol 14, issue 2, LexisNexis Butterworths, Australia, pp. 71-94.

Segrave, M.T., 2009, Order at the border: The repatriation of victims of trafficking, Women's Studies International Forum [P], vol 32, issue 4, Pergamon, UK, pp. 251-260.

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.

Segrave, M.T., Milivojevic, S., 2005, Sex trafficking - a new agenda, Social Alternatives, vol 24, issue 2, University of Queensland, Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 11-16.

Segrave, M., 2004, Surely something is better than nothing? the Australian response to the trafficking of women into sexual servitude in Australia, Current Issues in Criminal Justice [P], vol 16, issue 1, University of Sydney, Australia, pp. 85-92.

Segrave, M.T., 2004, Surely something is better than nothing?: the Australian response to the trafficking of women into sexual servitude in Australia, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, vol 16, issue 1, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 85-92.

Conference Proceedings

Segrave, M.T., 2009, Illegal labour & labour exploitation in regional Australia, 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. 205-214.

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.

Segrave, M.T., 2008, Trafficking in persons as labour exploitation, Proceedings of the 2nd Australian & New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference, 19-20 June 2008, The Crime and Justice research Network, University of New South Wales, Australia, pp. 322-340.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).
Supervisors:
Segrave, M (Main), Pickering, S (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:
Applicability of International and Thai National Laws on Migration along Borders of Laos & Thailand.
Supervisors:
Pickering, S (Main), Segrave, M (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Bu mo gchig Kyang yod ma red: The criminalization of female Tibetan Refugees in Asia's borderlands.
Supervisors:
Pickering, S (Main), Segrave, M (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Sex work, migration and women?s agency.
Supervisors:
Pickering, S (Main), Segrave, M (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Youth Migration, Identity and Security: An Australian case study.
Supervisors:
Pickering, S (Main), Segrave, M (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:
Jordan, L.
Program of Study:
Seeking place: young people, homelessness and violence. (PHD) 2011.
Supervisors:
Pickering, S (Main), Segrave, M (Associate).