Associate Professor Fiona Haines

BA (hons) Melb. PhD (Criminology) (Melb.)
Phone: +61 3 8344 6563
Email: fsh@ unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 421, John Medley Building, Parkville Campus

Fiona Haines (BA (Hons), Ph.D) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology. She has a BA (Hons) and PhD from the University of Melbourne. Her PhD won the 1996 Chancellor’s Prize for excellence (Arts and Social Sciences). She teaches in the area of corporate and white collar crime, regulation and compliance as well as the sociology of crime and deviance.

Dr Haines research interests and published work (including Globalization and Regulatory Character Ashgate, 2005) and Corporate Regulation: Beyond Punish or Persuade, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1997) encompasses a diverse range of corporate harms, disparate regulatory regimes and regulatory contexts: from workplace safety, product safety (including product liability insurance), industrial disasters and anticompetitive conduct. Her current work extends into the tensions between regulatory regimes, the regulation of insurance and the emerging area of security regulation at seaports, airports and major hazard facilities. The increasing importance of global rules to regulatory strategies of government has also seen her undertake research into the impact of globalization on regulatory reform through research in Thailand and most recently a pilot study in Cambodia.

Dr Haines has advised government in the area of regulation and regulatory policies. She has worked with and range of government agencies including: Department of Justice (Victoria) Civil Law Policy, Primary Industries and Resources ( South Australia) (PIRSA), National Road and Transport Commission and the Victorian Taxi Directorate. As a result of her research and consultancy work, she is called on to address government and professional conferences and seminars in a wide range of areas, most recently for the Victorian Law Reform Commission and the Victorian Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission. She is currently a member of the Victorian Government Advisory Committee for the Equal Opportunity Act review, chaired by the former Victorian Public Advocate, Julian Gardiner. She is also a member of the Victorian Government Firearms Consultative Committee.

Research
Dr Haines research interests include:

• Corporate and white collar crime
• Globalization and corporate conduct, including environmental harm and occupational safety and health.
• Comparative risk regulation (esp. Southeast Asia)
• Risk and society
• Counter-terrorism, security.
• Cartel behaviour

Dr Haines co-edits the international journal Law & Policy with Professors Nancy Reichman (University of Denver) and Colin Scott (University College Dublin). She is on the editorial boards of Law and Society Review and Regulation and Governance and the advisory board of the "Law, Science & Society" Book Series: University College of London Press. 

Subjects Taught:

• Regulation, Compliance and Crime
• Crimes of the Powerful (with Adam Sutton)
• Victims (with Adam Sutton)
• Society and the Problem of Order

Supervision

• Globalization and Risk (especially related to safety and environment)
• Corporate and White Collar Crime
• Regulation
• Security, counterterrorism and the politics of the state
• Comparative criminology
• Sociology of law

Recent Publications - 2004-2008

Books

Haines, F. (Ed.) 2007  Crime and Regulation, Dartmouth, Ashgate.

Haines, F. (2005) Globalization and Regulatory Character: Regulatory reform after the Kader Toy Factory Fire Ashgate/Dartmouth. Part of the “Advances in Criminology” Series, edited by David Nelken.

Journal Articles

Haines, Dr. Fiona (2006) Regulatory failures and regulatory solutions: a characteristic analysis of meta-regulation. In Proceedings Annual Meeting, Law and Society Association, Baltimore, MD. Available for download from: http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00004200/

Haines, F. Sutton, A. and Platania-Phung, C. (2008) “It’s All about Risk isn’t it? Science, Politics and Public Opinion in Regulatory Reform”, Flinders Journal of Law Reform (forthcoming)

Haines, F. and Hall, A. (2004) “The Law and Order Debate in Occupational Health and Safety” Journal of Occupational Health and Safety: Australia and New Zealand, 20:3:263-273 (with Andy Hall).

Book Chapters

Haines, F. and Sutton, A. (2007) “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.

Haines, F. (2007) “Crime? What Crime? Tales of the Collapse of HIH”, in H. Pontell and G. Geis (eds) International Handbook of White-Collar Crime, Springer, Part IX Case Studies, Chapter 2.

Haines, F. and Lewis, C. (2004) “Kader, Compensation and Justice: The need for a comprehensive analysis”, in S. Pickering and C. Lambert (eds), Global Issues: Women and Justice, Institute of Criminology (Sydney).

Haines, F. and Gurney, D. (2004) “Regulatory Conflict and Regulatory Compliance: the problems and Possibilities of Generic Models of Regulation” in Johnstone, R. and Sarre, R. (eds) Regulation, Enforcement and Compliance, Canberra, Australian Institute of Criminology, available at http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/rpp/57/05_sec1.html accessed 28th September 2007 (with D. Gurney).

Conference and working papers

Haines, F. (2007) “Global warming and the regulatory challenge” invited presentation to Reg Net, Australian National University, December 5th.
Haines, F. (2007) “Can we regulate our way out of global warming?” public address, Melbourne Law School, December 4th.

Haines, F. (2007) “Regulation and global warming” paper presented to the Australian and New Zealand Law and Society Association annual conference, November 26th to 27th, University of Melbourne.

Haines, F. (2007) “Understanding regulation: implications for the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (VEOHRC)” invited presentation to the VEOHRC, Melbourne September 11th.

Haines, F. (2007) “Vanquishing the Enemy or Civilizing the Neighbour? Controlling the risks from hazardous industries” paper presented to the Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law conference Humboldt University of Berlin, July 25-28.

Haines, F, Sutton A. and Platania Phung, C. (2007) “It’s all about risk isn’t it? Understanding the nexus of science, politics and public pressure in regulatory reform” paper presented to the Occupational Health and Safety Consortium, National Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Research, ANU, Canberra, February 6-8.

Haines, F. (2006) “OHS: Local problems and international challenges” invited keynote address to the Comcare Conference Compliance, Performance and Beyond, Rydges Lakeside, Canberra October 18-19th

Haines, F. (2006) “Reducing Terror and Calming Fear: What can regulation offer” invited public address, at the Seminar “Protecting Human Rights in an Age of Terrorism” invited address hosted by Human Rights Forum and the University of Melbourne, Village Roadshow Theatrette, Public Library, Melbourne, August 22nd 2006.

Haines, F. (2006) “Safety, Security Politics and Fact: Shaping the regulatory solution” Paper presented to the American Law and Society Meeting, Baltimore, July 6-9th

Haines, F. (2006) “Thinking through the regulatory solution” invited address, seminar presented to the Victorian Law Reform Commission, Melbourne, June 14th.

Haines, F. (2006) “ “Safety, Security Politics and Fact” paper presented to the Occupational Health and Safety Consortium, National Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Research, ANU, Canberra, February 16-17 available as working paper 46 National Research Centre for OHS regulation , available from http://www.ohs.anu.edu.au/publications/pdf/wp%2046%20-%20Haines.pdf accessed 25 May 2006.

Haines, F. , Sutton, A. and Platania-Phung, C(2006 )“Fending off catastrophe: risk management and public assurance in Australian society.” Presented at the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, Hobart, February 8.

Haines, F and Sutton, A. (2005)“The Importance of Being Ambiguous: Kit Carson and White-collar Crime” paper presented to the 18th Annual Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference, University of Wellington, Wellington New Zealand, February 9-11.

Haines, F. (2005) “Globalization and Regulatory Character: Regulatory reform after the Kader Toy Factory Fire” Paper presented to the American Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Marriott Resort, Las Vegas, June 2-5.

Haines, F. (2005) “Globalization and Regulatory Character: Regulatory reform after the Kader Toy Factory Fire” Paper presented to Monash Law School, August 16th.

Haines, F. (2005) “Safety, Security and the Problem of the Virtual Bureaucracy” invited address presented to the Ballarat Regional Occupational Safety and Health Group, Ballarat Town Hall, October 20th .

Haines, F. (2004) “The law and order debate in Occupational Health and Safety” paper presented to the Occupational Health and Safety Consortium, National Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Research, ANU, Canberra, February 11-12.

Haines, F. (2004) “Corporate Manslaughter: a critical weapon to combat death at work?” paper presented to Industrial and Corporate Manslaughter Seminar, hosted by School of International Business at the University of South Australia, March 12.

Haines, F. (2004) “Meta-regulation and competing risks: how are priorities set” paper presented to the Annual Governance Network and Regulatory Institutions Network Conference, Australian National University, Coombs Extension, December 6-8

Haines, F. (2004) “Criminalizaton, Meta-regulation and Competing Risks: how dreams become nightmares” Invited address to the National Symposium “International Brainstorm: The Regulatory State of Tomorrow” of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada, SmartTape Centre for Regulatory Innovation. Sutton Place Hotel, Toronto, December 13-14. Available at http://www.ipac.ca/files/RegulatoryState.pdf  accessed March 13, 2006.