Dr Danielle Tyson

• Lecturer

• Convenor of Lunchtime Talks

Email: dtyson@ unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 8344 9454

Dr Danielle Tyson holds a B.A. (Hons) degree in Legal Studies from La Trobe University and a PhD in Criminology from The University of Melbourne. Her teaching and research areas include the intersection of law and literature, domestic homicide, sexual violence, feminist criminology, feminist legal theory and theories of representation. Her current research interests lie with the intersection of law, crime and masculinity; theories of the trauma of injurious speech; and homicide law reform.

In 2003, Danielle contributed to open forum discussions and debates about homicide law reform. This culminated in her making a submission to the Victorian Law Reform Commission (VLRC) on whether to abolish the use of the controversial provocation defence in cases of homicide, which was cited by the VLRC in its Defences to Homicide: Final Report (October, 2004).

In late 2005, Danielle was awarded Faculty Small Grant/Seeding funding to conduct a pilot study of the impact of changing social attitudes towards men who kill their female partners on the investigation and prosecution of cases of domestic homicide.

Prior to her appointment at The University of Melbourne, Danielle was a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Applied Social Sciences at Brighton University, England. Danielle has also worked as a research assistant on various projects, one of which involved data collection and analysis for the Victorian Law Reform Commission's reference on Sexual Assault (see the VLRC's Sexual Offences: Final Report, August 2004).

Danielle has published in a number of academic journals and has attended and presented conference papers on her research both in Australia and overseas. Danielle has been a member of the editorial board of The Australian Feminist Law Journal since 1997.

Subjects taught:

• 191-422 Women, Gender and Crime
• 191-438 Criminal Fictions

Recent Publications and Papers:

2006

Tyson, D (in press) The Death of a Defence: Reflections on Provocations Afterlife, Referred full written paper in proceedings of PASSAGES: law, aesthetics, politics, 13-14 July 2006, Melbourne, Australia.

2003

Tyson, D. PhD Abstract, ‘Trials of the Voice’, The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law: Forensic Linguistics, Vol. 10(1), 163-66.

‘Reflections on the Link between the Masculinity of Men and Male Violence in light of the Biographical Turn Within Criminology’, British Society of Criminology, Centre for Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Wales, Bangor, Wales (24-26 June 2003)

‘Rethinking Provocation Law Reform: Bringing Law into Relationship with Literature’, Socio-Legal Studies Association, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, England (14-16 April 2003)

2002

‘Trials of the Voice: Constructions of Sexual Difference within Criminological and Legal Discourse’, School of Applied Social Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Brighton, (27 November, 2002)

'Trials of the Voice', Unpublished PhD thesis, Department of Criminology, University of Melbourne.

2001

‘Imaging the Subject of Insult in the Provocation Defence’, Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law of the International Sociological Association, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (4-7 July, 2001)

‘Asking For It: An Anatomy of Provocation’, Cultural Encounters with Law, School of English, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia (30 March, 2001)

‘Reading Difference Differently’, The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (21-23 February, 2001)

2000

‘Tracing the Remains of the Emotional Subject of Law’, Law and Literature Association of Australia, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (7-9 July, 2000)

1999

Tyson, D. ‘“Asking For It”: An Anatomy of Provocation’, The Australian Feminist Law Journal, Vol. 13(2), September, 66-86.

1997

Tyson, D. ‘Angry Men, Feminist Practice and the Role of the Support Worker’, The Australian Feminist Law Journal, Vol 9(2), September, 159-71.

Tyson, D. ‘Interrogating the Scene of Gang Rape and Murder in the Film Blackrock: A Crime of the Imagination?’, Protocol: journal of law and social justice, Vol 1(2), October, 35-45.