Associate Professor Adam Sutton

• Associate Professor

• APC Coordinator

• Deputy Head

A/P Sutton is on leave in 2008

B.A. Hons (Sydney), Ph.D. (U.N.S.W.)

Phone: +61 3 8344 6586
Email: adamcs@ unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 433A, John Medley Building, Parkville Campus

Adam Sutton has a BA (Hons) in Anthropology from Sydney University and a PhD in Sociology from the University of New South Wales. His research and teaching interests are criminology and crime policy, crime prevention, drug law enforcement and white-collar crime, and he has published in each of these fields. Dr Sutton, who has been with the Department of Criminology since 1992, was previously Director of South Australia's Office of Crime Statistics (from 1982 to 1989) and Director of Crime Prevention and Criminology (from 1990 to 1991).

Since the mid-1990s he has published a number of reports and articles on Australian drug law enforcement - much of this work undertaken in collaboration with Dr Steve James. In 1985 Dr Sutton co-edited (with Dr Peter Grabosky) Stains on a White Collar (Sydney, the Federation Press): a collection on corporate crime and harm in Australia. In 1997, he and Professor Pat O'Malley co-edited Crime Prevention in Australia (also published by the Federation Press). Most recently, Adam Sutton has been working with Dr Fiona Haines, on issues relating to corporate crime and regulation and the future of criminology, and has been part of a team that reviewed South Australia's Cannabis Expiation Notice scheme.

Subjects Taught:

• 191-003 Crime Policy: A Sociological Approach (with Fiona Haines)
• 191-417 Corporate and White Collar Crime(with Fiona Haines)
• 191-421 Contemporary Crime Prevention
• 191-434 Victims (with Fiona Haines)

GRANTS AND CONSULTANCIES

ARC Discovery Grant “Never again? The nature and effectiveness of Australian regulatory responses to terrorism, the Esso Longford Explosion and the collapse of HIH Insurance.” 3 Years, (2005-7) , $210,000,  2 Chief Investigators.

ARC Discovery Grant “Fairness and Equity for Victims of Crime”,  3 Years (2006-8),  $140,000, 3 Chief Investigators and 2 Partner Investigators

ARC Discovery Grant “Risk Based Approaches to Australian Criminal Justice”,  3 Years (2001-2003), $97,000, 1 Chief Investigator (Note, this grant originally to Prof Pat O’Malley. Transferred to Sutton when O’Malley moved to Canada)

ARC Linkage Grant “Assessment and Redevelopment of the Community Safety Officer Role in Victoria”, 2 Years and six months, $160,000, 2 Chief Investigators and 1 Partner Investigator

Criminology Research Council (CRC) Grant: “Public CCTV in Australia: A Comparative Study of Establishment and Operation”, 6 months, $36,000, 2 Chief Investigators

Curtin University of Technology (Consultancy to undertake part of a research grant): “Study of policy attitudes and practices in relation to Western Australian Cannabis Law Reforms”,  1 year, $23,404, 1 Chief Investigator

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed articles

Cherney, A. and Sutton, A. (2006 – forthcoming) “Crime Prevention in Australia: Beyond ‘What Works?’”, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology

Sutton, A. and Hawks, D. (2005) “The Cannabis Infringement Notice Scheme in Western Australia: a review of policy, police and judicial perspectives”, Drug and Alcohol Review, Vol 24, Issue 4, pp. 331-336

Sutton, A. and Wilson, D. (2004) “Open-Space CCTV in Australia: Politics of Expansion and Resistance”, Surveillance and Society (Electronic journal), Vol 2, Issue 2/3

Wilson, D. and Sutton, A. (2004) “Watched-Over or Over-Watched: Open Street CCTV in Australia”, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Vol 37, No 2, pp. 211-230

Wilson, D. and Sutton, A. (2003) “Open-Street CCTV in Australia”, Tends and Issues Report 271, Canberra, Australian Institute of Criminology

Haines, F and Sutton, A (2003) “The Engineer’s Dilemma: A Sociological Perspective  on Juridification and Regulation”, Crime, Law and Social Change, Vol 39, pp 1-22

Sutton, A. and Cherney, A. (2002) “Prevention without Politics? The Cyclical Progress of Crime Prevention in an Australian State”, Criminal Justice, Vol 3, No 3, pp 325-344

Canty, C.,  Sutton, A. and James, S. (2001) “Models of Community-Based Drug Law Enforcement”, Police Practice and Research, Vol 2, pp 171-187

White, R. and Sutton, A. (2001) “Social Planning for Mall Redevelopment: an Australian Case-Study”,  Local Environment, Vol 6, No 1, pp 65-80

Book Chapters

Haines, F and Sutton, A (2006) “The Importance of Being Ambiguous: Theorizing White-collar Crime” in A Brannigan and G. Pavlich (Eds.) Critical Studies in Crime Control: Governance and Regulation in Social Life (Essays in Honour of W.G. (Kit) Carson, Routledge/ Cavendish (forthcoming).

Canty, C., Sutton, A. and James, S. (2005) “Strategies for Community-Based Drug Law Enforcement: From Prohibition to Harm Reduction”, in T. Stockwell, P Gruenewald, J Toumbourou and W. Loxley (Eds.) Preventing Harmful Substance Abuse: The Evidence Base for Policy and Practice, New York, John Wiley, pp. 225-236

A Cherney and A. Sutton (2003) “Crime Prevention and Crime Reduction”, in A. Goldsmith, M. Israel and K. Daly (Eds) Crime and Justice: an Australian Textbook on Criminology (2nd Edition), Sydney, LBC Publishing,  Chapter 17, pp. 331-350 (new edition 2006)

Haines, F and Sutton, A (2003)      “Corporate and White Collar Crime”, in Andrew Goldsmith, Mark Israel and Kathleen Daly (eds), Crime and Justice: An Australian Textbook on Criminology  (2nd edition), LBC publishing, Chapter 8, pp148-158 (new edition 2006).

Other Publications: Book Reviews, Monographs, Non Refereed Journals, Working Papers and Research Reports

Sutton, A. and Hawks, D. (2005) Review of Policy Maker, Police and Judicial Perspectives on the Western Australian Cannabis Infringement Notice Scheme, Perth, National Drug Research Institute, (35 pages)

Lenton, S. Chanteloup, F., Fetherstone, J, Sutton, A., Hawks, D., Barratt, M. and Farringdon, F. (2005) An Evaluation of the Impact of Changes to Cannabis Laws in WA – Summary of Year 1 Findings, Perth, National Drug Research Institute (35 pages)

Haines, F and Sutton, A (2003) “How to Avoid Drowning in a Sea of Regulations” Engineering World, June/ July pp. 34-40.

Sutton, A. and Wilson, D. (2002) “Open Street CCTV in Australia: Reviewing a Surveillance Revolution”, UniNews, University of Melbourne, July 14-28

Sutton, A. (2002) A Review of Police and Judicial Attitudes Regarding Proposed Changes to Cannabis Laws in Western Australia (interim report), Perth, Curtin University National Drug Research Institute.

Wilson, D and Sutton, A.  (2002) Open Street CCTV in Australia: A Comparative Study of Establishment and Operation, Report on Criminology Research Council Grant 26/01-02, Melbourne, Department of Criminology, 124 pages.

Canty, C., Acres, J., Loxley, W. Sutton, A., James, S., Lenton,. S., Midford, R. and Boots, K. (2001) Evaluation of a community-based drug law enforcement model for intersectoral harm reduction,  Payneham, South Australia:  Australasian Centre for Policing Research,   on behalf of the National Community Based Approach to Drug Law Enforcement Board of Control.  208p.

A. Sutton (2001) “Skase is Dead! Long Live Ray Williams?”, Arts Alumni Newsletter (University of Melbourne), 21-28 October