- Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Swinburne University of Technology
Dr Rachael Burgin is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Swinburne Law School in Melbourne. Australia. She was awarded her PhD in Criminology from Monash University in 2019. Her research explores the ways that affirmative consent has been adopted into law and translated into legal practice in rape trials across Australia. She's passionate about reforming rape law to better protect victim-survivors from re-traumatisation within criminal justice mechanisms, and to improve the preventative and educative functions of the law.
Experience
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2020–presentLecturer, Swinburne Law School
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2019–2019Senior Research Associate, Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety (ANROWS)
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2017–2018Research Associate, Monash University
Education
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2019Monash University, Doctor of Philosophy
Publications
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2019Women's Behavior as Implied Consent: Male "Reasonableness" in Australian Rape Law, Criminology and Criminal Justice
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2019Persistent Narratives of Force and Resistance: Affirmative Consent as Law Reform, British Journal of Criminology
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- Location: Melbourne, Australia
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