Prof W.G. (Kit) Carson

• Honorary Professorial Research Fellow

M.A. (Oxford), Dip. Crim. (Cambridge) LL.D (Edinburgh)
Phone: 56 821 303 or 0418 512574.

Kit Carson is former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Auckland and before that he was successively Professor of Legal Studies, Dean of Social Sciences and then Deputy Vice-Chancellor of La Trobe University. He is an Emeritus Professor of that university. Professor Carson is Chair of the Higher Education Advisory Committee for Victoria. He was formerly Chair of the Crime Prevention Research Advisory Council in Victoria and is currently a member of the Victorian Community Council on Crime and Violence. He has researched in the fields of white-collar crime, policing, disaster management and occupational health and safety. More recently he has produced papers on the principles of evidence- based policy, whole of government approaches and communalism. In the latter context he recently published a critique of contemporary uses of community and social capital within criminology and in social policy more generally. He has been extensively involved in the writing of the Victorian Implementation Review of the Recommendations from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

Professor Carson’s influence on research in the field of criminology is the subject of a festschrift being published later in 2006.

Recent Publications, Reports etc.

Whole of Government and Crime Prevention for Victoria (2003), Department of Justice, Victoria, www.crimeprevention.vic.gov.au/knowledgebank
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Evidence Based Crime Prevention for Victoria (2003), Department of Justice Victoria, www.crimeprevention.vic.gov.au/knowledgebank
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Communalism in Crime Prevention for Victoria (2003), Department of Justice, Victoria , www.crimeprevention.vic.gov.au
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Engaging the Community. Paper presented to the Attorney General's Justice Statement Conference: Agenda for Change (2003).
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Guidelines for New and Overseas Universities Operating as Recognised Universities or Offering Courses in Victoria : Discussion Paper and Proposed Guidelines (2003). Published in abbreviated and amended form by the Victorian Department of Education and Training.

'Community, Cohesive Capital and Caution' (2004). Plenary Address to Victorian Council of Social Services.
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'Is Communalism Dead? Reflections on the Present and Future Practice of Crime Prevention: Part One' (2004), Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 37 (1), 1-21.

'Is Communalism Dead? Reflections on the Present and Future Practice of Crime Prevention'(2004), Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 37 (2), 192- 210.