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Monash teaching commitment
LAW5362 Regulatory methods SEM2/T3
LAW5310 Sentencing SEM2/T3
LAW4306 Sentencing and sanctions SUM/T1
Biography
Arie Freiberg is an Emeritus Professor at Monash University. He was Dean of the Faculty Law at Monash University between 2004 and 2012. Before this, he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne in 2003. He was appointed to the Foundation Chair of Criminology at the University of Melbourne in January 1991 where he served as Head of the Department of Criminology between January 1992 and June 2002. In 2013 he was appointed an Emeritus Professor of the University.
He graduated from the University of Melbourne with an honours degree in Law and a Diploma in Criminology in 1972 and holds a Master of Laws degree from Monash University. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Melbourne in 2001 and is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, the Australian Academy of Law and holds an Adjunct Faculty appointment in the Australia and New Zealand School of Government and is an Adjunct Professor with the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, Victoria University. Between 1996 and 1998, he was President of the Australian and New Zealand Society.
In 2009 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for his service to law, particularly in the fields of criminology and reform related to sentencing, legal education and academic leadership.
His particular areas of expertise are sentencing, non-adversarial justice and regulation. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School (2014) and Tel Aviv University (2008) and has served as a consultant to the Federal, Victorian, South Australian and Western Australian governments on sentencing matters as well as the Australian and South African Law Reform Commissions. In 2015 he consulted to the Royal Commission on Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Contexts on sentencing issues and in 2016 he was a consultant to the Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney-General on drug courts.
He has also consulted for a number of state government agencies and departments on regulatory reform.
In July 2004, he was appointed Chair of the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council. In February 2013 he was appointed Chair of the Tasmanian Sentencing Advisory Council. He is a member of the Council of the the Judicial College of Victoria. Between 2017 and June 2018 was a member of the Interim Advisory Board of the Victorian Environment Protection Authority. In 2020 he was appointed to the Agency Management Committee of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.
He has authored around 180 publications in areas such as sentencing, confiscation of proceeds of crime, tax compliance, corporate crime, juries, juvenile justice, sanctions, victimology, superannuation fraud, trust in criminal justice, commercial confidentiality in corrections, dangerous offenders, the role of emotion in criminal justice and public policy, drug courts, problem-oriented courts, non-adversarial justice, environment protection and regulatory theory.
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Please see my most recently published books:
- Victims and Plea Negotiations: Overlooked and Unimpressed, 2021, Palgrave Macmillian, (with Asher Flynn).
- Plea Negotiations: Pragmatic Justice in an Imperfect World, 2018, Palgrave Macmillian, (with Asher Flynn).
- Regulation in Australia, 2017, The Federation Press.
- Sentencing for Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Contexts, 2016, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (with Hugh Donnelly and Karen Gelb).
- Drug and Specialist Court Review, 2016, The Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney-General (with Jason Payne, Karen Gelb, Anthony Morgan and Toni Makkai).
Network
Projects
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Parole in crisis? Public opinion on the use of parole
Fitzgerald, R., Bartels, L., Cherney, A. & Freiberg, A.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
27/03/15 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
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Negotiating Guilty Pleas: An Empirical Analysis
Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) (Australia)
1/01/14 → 30/06/15
Project: Research
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Using jurors to gauge informed public opinion on sentencing
Freiberg, A., Davis, J. & Warner, C.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/06/13 → 1/06/15
Project: Research
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The Australasian Legal Scholarship Library: New content and sophistication for a world-leading legalscholarship repository and citator
Freiberg, A., Blakeney, M., Byrnes, A., Cane, P., Chan, J., Fitzgerald, B., Grantham, R., Greenleaf, G., Kenyon, A., McDonald, L., Mowbray, A., Rolph, D., Stuhmcke, A., Svantesson, D., Twomey, A. & Wells, A.
Australian Research Council (ARC), Monash University
1/01/13 → 31/12/13
Project: Research
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A3.2: Better Regulatory Frameworks for Water Sensitive Cities
Hodge, G., Campbell, C., Freiberg, A., Harris, E., Lane, R. & O'Connor, P.
Cooperative Research Centres Association (CRC)
1/08/12 → 30/06/16
Project: Research
Research output
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'Sentencing - and unrewarding and painful task': a review
Freiberg, A., 2021, The Changing Face of Criminology in Australia and New Zealand. Smith, R. G. (ed.). 1st ed. London UK: SAGE Publications Ltd, p. 122-130 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Other › peer-review
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Victims and Plea Negotiations: Overlooked and Unimpressed
Freiberg, A. & Flynn, A., 2021, 1st ed. Cham Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. 139 p. (Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology)Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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Institutional responses to the sentencing recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
Freiberg, A., 2020, In : Criminal Law Journal. 44, 2, p. 127-143 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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'Jalal's Law': driving the law in the wrong direction
Freiberg, A., 2020, In : International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. 9, 2, p. 152-169 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Plea negotiations: an Australian perspective
Freiberg, A. & Flynn, A., 2020, Handbook on Sentencing Policies and Practices in the 21st Century. Spohn, C. & Brennan, P. K. (eds.). 1st ed. New York NY USA: Routledge, p. 153-167 15 p. (The ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing Hanbook Series; vol. 4).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
Activities
- 1 Contribution to conference
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30 Year Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Faith Gordon (Organiser), Rosemary Sheehan (Invited speaker), Judge Amanda Chambers (Invited speaker), Magistrate Jennifer Bowles (Invited speaker), John Tobin (Keynote/plenary speaker), Liana Buchanan (Keynote/plenary speaker), Indi Clarke (Invited speaker), Robyn Oxley (Invited speaker), Arie Freiberg (Session chair), Felicity Gerry (Invited speaker), Faith Gordon (Invited speaker), Anoushka Jeronimus (Invited speaker) & Nyayoud Jice (Invited speaker)
20 Nov 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference