Professor Cunneen has an international reputation as a leading criminologist specialising in Indigenous people and the law, juvenile justice, restorative justice, policing, prison issues and human rights.

Chris has participated with a number of Australian Royal Commissions and Inquiries (including the Stolen Generations Inquiry, the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and the National Inquiry into Racist Violence), and with the federal Australian Human Rights Commission. He taught criminology at Sydney Law School (1990-2005) where he was appointed as Professor in 2004. He was also the Director of the Institute of Criminology (1999-2005) at the University of Sydney.

Professor Cunneen has held research positions with the Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales (UNSW), and the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. Between 2006 and 2010 he was the NewSouth Global Chair in Criminology at UNSW and continues as a Conjoint Professor at UNSW Law Faculty.

Interests

Research

• criminology
• social science and law
• Australian prisons and the growth in imprisonment
• juvenile justice
• restorative justice
• the relationship of Indigenous people to dominant legal systems both in Australia and internationally
• human rights and social justice.

Research Disciplines

• Law (1801)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Justice and the Law (9404)

Memberships

• The American Society of Criminology
• The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology
• The Indian Association for Australian Studies
• Editorial Board, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology
• Member of the New South Wales Attorney-Generals’ Taskforce on Sexual Assault in Aboriginal Communities (2002-2006)
• Editorial Board, Youth Studies
• Editorial Board, Crime Media Culture
• Editorial Board, The Australian Indigenous Law Review
• Chairperson of the NSW Juvenile Justice Advisory Council (2000-2007)
• Editorial Board, Current Issues in Criminal Justice

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Journal Articles

• Cunneen C, Goldson B and Russell S (in press) Human rights and youth justice reform in England and Wales: a systemic analysis. Criminology and Criminal Justice, pp. 1-26
• Brown D, Cunneen C and Russell S (2017) 'It's all about the Benjamins': infringement notices and young people in New South Wales. Alternative Law Journal, 42 (4). pp. 253-260
• Cunneen C, Rowe S and Tauri J (2017) Fracturing the colonial paradigm: Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies. Méthod(e)s: African Review of Social Sciences Methodology, 2 (1-2). pp. 62-78
• Cunneen C, Goldson B and Russell S (2016) Juvenile justice, young people and human rights in Australia. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 28 (2). pp. 173-189
• Cunneen C (2016) Surveillance, stigma, removal: indigenous child welfare and juvenile justice in the age of neoliberalism. Australian Indigenous Law Review, 19 (1). pp. 32-45

Books

• Brown D, Cunneen C, Schwartz M, Stubbs J and Young C (2016) Justice Reinvestment: winding back imprisonment. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, USA
• Cunneen C and Tauri J (2016) Indigenous criminology. New Horizons in Criminology. Policy Press, Bristol, UK

Book Chapters

• Allison F, Cunneen C and Schwartz M (2017) The civil and family law needs of Indigenous people 40 years after Sackville: findings of the Indigenous Legal Needs Project. In: Law and Poverty in Australia: 40 years after the Poverty Commission. Federation Press, Annandale, NSW, Australia, pp. 231-248
• Cunneen C (2017) Police violence: the case of Indigenous Australians. In: The Wiley Handbook on Violence and Aggression. John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, NJ, USA
• Cunneen C and Tauri J (2017) Indigenous criminology. In: The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 306-310
• Cunneen C and Porter A (2017) Indigenous peoples and criminal justice in Australia. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, Crime and Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 667-682
• Cunneen C (2017) Visual power and sovereignty: Indigenous art and colonialism. In: The Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 376-388

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Current

• Access to Justice; Racial Discrimination Law and Indigenous Australians. (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM)
• A Critical Analysis of the Needs of Female Survivors of Sexual Violence and their Experiences with Transitional Justice - the Case of Rwandan Gacaca. (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM)
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People and Consumer Law (PhD , Primary Advisor)

Completed

• Special measures and racial discrimination: a study of the Cape York welfare reform (2017, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Human rights and Australian extractive industries in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region: a case study of Rio Tinto's adherence to the construct of corporate social responsibility (2013, Masters , Primary Advisor)

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• Rafferty, J. (2017) Needs and experiences of Rwandan women who raised a case at a gacaca court about sexual violence committed against them during the genocide in Rwanda. James Cook University

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