Associate Professor Steve James

                                  
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Background

Steve James has a BA (Hons), MA, Dip Crim and PhD from the University of Melbourne. He has been lecturing in the Criminology Department since 1987. Between 2004 and 2007, he was Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies for the Faculty of Arts, while teaching later year subjects in the law enforcement and drugs areas in Criminology. enforcement.

Research

He has had long-standing research and policy interests in policing and law enforcement, and has conducted work in the areas of police unions, culture, personnel management, police-youth relations, and police crime prevention. He has also been involved in public housing crime prevention policy and practice.  In 1995 with Dr Adam Sutton he completed the first national evaluation of Australian drug law enforcement.

Subjects Taught in 2009

• 191-101 From Grafitti to Terrorism
• 191-222 Policing
• 191-435 Drugs and Justice

Recent research higher degree supervisions include

• Lorraine Beyer – PhD     (2004) Illicit Drug Trafficking
• Shane Mckenzie – PhD  (2006) Policing of Cyber Crime
• Caitlin Hughes – PhD     (2006) Comparative Illicit Drug Policy  
• Hoyoung Jung – MA       (2004) Police Ethics
• Tony Zalewski  - MA       (2005) Private Policing

Recent Publications:
           
Journal Articles

James, S.  (2005) The Policing of Right-Wing Violence in Australia, Police Practice and Research, 6: 103-119.

Book Chapters

James, S.  (2007) Police, in Galligan, B. and Roberts, W. (eds) The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, South Melbourne:  Oxford University Press. (403-406)

James, S. (2005) New Policing for a New Millennium? In D. Chappell and P. Wilson (eds) Issues in Australian Crime and Criminal Justice Chatswood NSW: LexisNexis: Butterworths. (77-100)

Canty, C., Sutton, A. and James, S. (2005) Strategies for Community-Based Drug Law Enforcement: From Prohibition to Harm Reduction, in T. Stockwell, P.J. Gruenewald,  J.W. Toumbourou and W. Loxley (eds) Preventing Harmful Substance Use: The Evidence Base for Policy and Practice. London: Wiley and Sons.  (225-236)