Glenn Dawes is Associate Dean of Research for the Faculty of Arts Education and Social Sciences. He teaches sociology and criminology. In addition he conducts research in the areas of youth studies with an emphasis on young people and the criminal justice system.

Glenn's research interests are closely linked to his work in North Queensland communities in areas such as school disengagement among young people, young people and crime on the Townsville Strand, Youth and hooning in North Queensland, young people and car theft in Queensland, the reintegration of Indigenous recidivist offenders post-release and Sudanese people and their interactions with the criminal justice system.  He is the author of a book entitled “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Subcultures and Education” and has published in academic journals.

Teaching

• SY1001: Australian Society: An Introduction to Sociology (Level 1; TSV)
• SY2005: Qualitative Research (Level 2; CNS & TSV)
• SY2019: Youth, Identity and Popular Culture (Level 2; TSV)

Interests

Research

• young people reintegration from detention
• Sudanese youth and crime
• Indigenous youth and educational disengagement
• young people hooning and car culture
• youth and graffitti
• culturally and linguistically diverse people and homelessness

Experience

• 2013 to present - Associate Dean Research, JCU (Faculty Arts Education, Townsville campus)
• 2012 to present - Research Advisor, Protection Juvenile Justice (Phnom Penh Cambodia)
• 2010 to 2011 - Chief Investigator, Australian Institute Criminology (Canberra)

Research Disciplines

• Criminology (4402)
• Sociology (4410)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• culture and society (1399)

Awards

• 2010 - Faculty Citation for Teaching and Learning

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Journal Articles

• Broadfield K, Dawes G and Chong M (2021) Necropolitics and the violence of Indigenous incarceration. Decolonising Criminology and Justice, 3 (1). pp. 5-26
• Casson D, Guteridge K and Dawes G (2019) Reflections on a successful sustainable partnership between police and researchers: responding to violent assaults against police in North Queensland. James Cook University Law Review, 25. pp. 107-117
• Dawes G and Davidson A (2019) A framework for developing justice reinvestment plans for crime prevention and offender rehabilitation in Australia’s remote indigenous communities. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 58 (6). pp. 520-543
• Dawes G, Davidson A, Walden E and Isaacs S (2017) Keeping on Country: understanding and responding to crime and recidivism in remote Indigenous communities. Australian Psychologist, 52 (4). pp. 306-315
• Dawes G (2016) Young Cambodians as victims of institutional violence in the criminal justice system. Asian Journal of Criminology, 11 (1). pp. 33-46
• Bozkurt V, Tartanoglu S and Dawes G (2015) Masculinity and violence: sex roles and violence endorsement among university students. Procedia: social and behavioral sciences, 205. pp. 254-260
• Dawes G, Coventry G, Moston S and Palmer D (2014) Sudanese Australians and crime: police and community perspectives. Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, 477.
• Dawes G (2013) Sudanese "Lost Boys" and their interactions with the criminal justice system in Queensland Australia. International Journal of Social Inquiry, 6 (1). pp. 73-89
• Dawes G (2011) The challenges of reintegrating Indigenous youth after their release from detention. Journal of Youth Studies, 14 (6). pp. 693-707

Books

• Palmer D, Coventry G, Dawes G and Moston S (2020) Crime, Criminalisation and Refugees: the case of Sudanese Australians. Springer Briefs in Criminology. Springer, Singapore

Book Chapters

• Dawes G and Broadfield K (2021) Risking a New Underclass: young Australians, broken transitions and the pandemic. In: The Societal Impacts of Covid-19: a transnational perspective. Istanbul University Press, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 17-28

Conference Papers

• Dawes G and Coventry G (2012) A time to be heard: Sudanese Australian voices about criminal and social justice matters. Proceedings of the 5th Annual Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference. 7-8 July 2011, Cairns, QLD, Australia

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 29+ research outputs authored by A/Prof Glenn Dawes from 2000 onwards.

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• Post-Release Community Reintegration: A Study of How Ex-Prisoners Experienced Post-Incarceration Community Reintegration in Southwestern Nigeria (PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)
• Black lives matter: The violence of Indigenous incarceration (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)

Completed

• Housing the homeless: housing crisis and caravan parks – a Bourdieusian perspective (2021, PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)
• Indigenous knowledge and governance in protected areas in Australia and Sweden (2017, PhD , Secondary Advisor)