- Associate Professor, Criminology, Deakin University
Dr Clare Farmer is an Associate Professor of Criminology at Deakin University, in Australia. She is also a community member of Victoria’s Adult Parole Board. Her research examines procedural justice, police uses of power, and individual rights.
Education Summary:
PhD - Exploration of the 'balance' dichotomy in relation to individual rights and public protection
MSc - Legal & Criminological Psychology
MA - University of Oxford
BA (Hons) - University of Oxford
Experience
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2023–presentAssociate Professor, Criminology, Deakin University
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2020–2022Senior Lecturer, Criminology, Deakin University
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2016–2019Lecturer, Criminology, Deakin University
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2015–2015Casual Research Fellow, Centre for Regional Rural Law & Justice, Deakin University
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2011–2015Associate lecturer, Criminology, Deakin University
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2010–2011Research officer, Criminology, Deakin University
Education
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2016Deakin University, Australia, PhD
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2008University of Chester, UK, MSc - Legal & Criminological Psychology
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1995University of Oxford, UK, MA
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1991University of Oxford, UK, BA (Hons)
Publications
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2023Springer, Policing & Firearms: New Perspectives and Insights
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2022BMJ Open, Learning from alcohol (policy) reforms in the Northern Territory (LEARNT): protocol for a mixed-methods study examining the impacts of the banned drinker register
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2022Crime Prevention & Community Safety, Patron banning policy and practice in Queensland, Australia: key informant perspectives
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2022Sexuality Research & Social Policy, Heteronormative assumptions and expectations of sexual violence: language and inclusivity within sexual violence policy in Australian Universities
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2022Drug and Alcohol Review, Key informant perspectives on 3 am last drinks legislation in Queensland, Australia
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2022International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, A civilianised summary power to exclude: Perceptual deterrence, compliance and legitimacy
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2022European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, An Examination of Community Awareness and Understanding of Patron Banning Provisions in Western Australia: Implications for Policy Development and Success
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2022Policing & Society, Do patron bans act as a deterrent to future anti-social offending? An analysis of banning and offending data from Victoria, Australia
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2021International Journal of Human Rights, Do Police need guns? The nexus between routinely armed police and safety
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2021International Criminal Justice Review, Spatial Exclusion, Due Process, and the Civilianization of Punishment in Australia’s Night-time Economy: A Mapping Review of Patron Banning Policy, Practice, and Oversight
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2021Springer, Do police need guns? Policing and firearms: past, present and future
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2021Journal of Gender Studies, Family violence homicide in Australia: the effect of victim/offender gender on social media commentary
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2020Criminal Justice Policy Review, A Unique Power to Punish: An Examination of the Operation, Scrutiny, and Attendant Risks of Licensee Barring Provisions in Victoria, Australia
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2020International Criminal Justice Review, Spatial Exclusion, Due Process, and the Civilianization of Punishment in Australia’s Night-time Economy: A Mapping Review of Patron Banning Policy, Practice, and Oversight
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2020Violence and Gender, Primed and ready: does arming police increase safety? Preliminary findings
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2019International Journal of Crime, Justice & Social Democracy, Invisible powers to punish: licensee barring order provisions in Victoria and South Australia
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2019Drug and Alcohol Review, Should Australia's police-imposed public area banning powers be subject to independent oversight and review?
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2018SpringerBrief in Criminology, Discretionary police powers to punish: a case study of Victoria’s banning notice provisions
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2018Journal of Police & Criminal Psychology, Community awareness of patron banning in Australia: a brief report
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2018Criminology & Criminal Justice, The steady proliferation of Australia’s discretionary police-imposed patron banning powers: an unsubstantiated cycle of assertion and presumption
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2018Criminal Law Review, An empirical analysis of sentencing outcomes for assault offences in Victoria and the implications for the sentencing methodology
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2018Australian Law Journal, Sentencing inconsistencies: a case study
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2017Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Upholding whose right? Discretionary police powers to punish, collective 'pre-victimisation and the dilution of individual rights
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2017International Journal of Human Rights, The disparity between human rights policy and parliamentary practice in Australia : a Victorian case study
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2017Australian Bar Review, Inconsistencies in sentencing of theft offenders in Victoria: implications for the 'instinctive synthesis'
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2016Violence & Gender, Mental illness and gun violence: lessons for the United States from Australia and Britain
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2016Journal of Criminological Research, Policy & Practice, Victoria’s banning notice provisions: parliamentary, procedural and individual vulnerabilities
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2014Australian Journal of Human Rights, ‘Is a 24-hour ban such a bad thing?’ Police-imposed banning notices: compatible with human rights or a diminution of due process?
Grants and Contracts
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2020WA Police Patron Banning Evaluation Project
- Role:
- CI
- Funding Source:
- WA Police
Professional Memberships
- Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology
- Adult Parole Board, Victoria
Research Areas
- Causes And Prevention Of Crime (160201)
- Criminology (1602)
- Correctional Theory, Offender Treatment And Rehabilitation (160202)
- Courts And Sentencing (160203)
- Police Administration, Procedures And Practice (160205)
Contact Clare for
- General
- Media request
- Speaking request
- Consulting / Advising
- Research collaboration
- Research supervision
- Location: Geelong, Australia
- Website
- X (formerly Twitter): @DrClareFarmer1
- Article Feed
- ORCID
- Joined