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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 and the Australian Academy of Law. 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 inaugural Chair of the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council and served until October 2022. Between 2013 and 2021 he was 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 Board of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency and between 2021 and 2025 he was a member of Energy Safe Victoria's Future Trends Advisory Committee.
He has authored around 190 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, regulatory theory and trauma-informed regulation.
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Please see my most recently published books:
- Regulation in Australia, 2nd ed. Federation Press, 2025, 1-848.
- Parole on Probation: Parole Decision-making, Public Opinion and Public Confidence, Palgrave Macmillan 2023 (with Robin Fitzgerald, Shannon Dodd and Lorana Bartels).
- 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).
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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Parole in crisis? Public opinion on the use of parole
Fitzgerald, R. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Bartels, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Cherney, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Freiberg, A. (Chief Investigator (CI))
Australian Research Council (ARC)
27/03/15 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
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Negotiating Guilty Pleas: An Empirical Analysis
Flynn, A. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)) & Freiberg, A. (Chief Investigator (CI))
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. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Davis, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Warner, C. (Chief Investigator (CI))
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. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Blakeney, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Byrnes, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Cane, P. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Chan, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Fitzgerald, B. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Grantham, R. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Greenleaf, G. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Kenyon, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), McDonald, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Mowbray, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Rolph, D. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Stuhmcke, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Svantesson, D. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Twomey, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Wells, A. (Chief Investigator (CI))
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. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Campbell, C. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Freiberg, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Harris, E. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Lane, R. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & O'Connor, P. (Chief Investigator (CI))
Cooperative Research Australia Inc (CRA)
1/08/12 → 30/06/16
Project: Research
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Beyond the dreaming spires: Julian V Roberts as scholar and policy entrepreneur
Freiberg, A., 2025, Sentencing, Public Opinion, and Criminal Justice: Essays in Honour of Julian V Roberts. Manikis, M. & Watson, G. (eds.). 1st ed. Oxford UK: Oxford University Press, p. 211-226 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Other › peer-review
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Michael Tonry: escaping American parochialism, championing comparative research and reform
Freiberg, A., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Criminal Law Forum. 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
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Reflections on 50 years of sentencing reform: the good, the bad and the future
Freiberg, A., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Alternative Law Journal. 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
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An inspector calls: trauma-informed regulation
Freiberg, A., 2024, In: Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. 31, 1, p. 15-30 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Due process or due proceeds? Confiscation and related AML laws in and beyond Australia
Ivory, R., Dale, G. & Freiberg, A., Oct 2024, In: University of Western Australia Law Review. 52, 1, p. 1-8 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
Open Access
Activities
- 1 Contribution to conference
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30 Year Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Gordon, F. (Organiser), Sheehan, R. (Invited speaker), Chambers, J. A. (Invited speaker), Bowles, M. J. (Invited speaker), Tobin, J. (Keynote/plenary speaker), Buchanan, L. (Keynote/plenary speaker), Clarke, I. (Invited speaker), Oxley, R. (Invited speaker), Freiberg, A. (Session chair), Gerry, F. (Invited speaker), Gordon, F. (Invited speaker), Jeronimus, A. (Invited speaker) & Jice, N. (Invited speaker)
20 Nov 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference