Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Qualificaitons
LLB/Comm;MA;PhD
Memberships
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences
Overview
Emeritus Professor McCulloch was the inaugural Director of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre (2016-2020). She has degrees in Law and Commerce from Melbourne University and a Masters and a PhD in Criminology, also from Melbourne University. Her early research investigated the growing integration of war and crime, police and the military and security and crime control and the implications of this for justice. Her book Blue Army: Paramilitary Policing in Australia (2001) considered the contemporary rise and normalisation of paramilitary policing. Her subsequent research and scholarship continue to focus on this topic, particularly in the context of counter terrorism, post 9/11. Her recent research considers a temporal shift from post crime to pre-crime. Her book Pre-Crime: Preemption, Precaution and the Future (with Dean Wilson) is the first indepth investigation of pre-crime. Recent research projects focus on family violence including risk, women's security and the connections between family violence and terrorism. Her 2017 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (with Maher, Fitizgibbon and Walklate) is titled Securing Women's Safety: Preventing Intimate Partner Homicide.
Industry Experience.
Prior to completing her PhD, Professor McCulloch worked in a women’s refuge and for many years subsequently as a legal practitioner specialising in policing, gendered crimes and social justice.
As a community lawyer she worked as a duty lawyer on the family violence list; wrote, researched and contributed to many policy papers and submissions to government on aspects of law and law reform; was a media spokesperson on a broad range of law, access to justice and social justice issues; the Chair of Victoria Legal Aid grant review panel and; provided legal advice, assistance and representation to clients. In addition to this Professor McCulloch authored significant legal education materials including Victoria Legal Aids’ booklet on Sexual Assault and the Law.
Professor McCulloch was on the Minister for Women and the Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence Taskforce for the prevention of family violence. Along with colleagues from the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre she has been contracted by the Department of Health and Human Services, Family Safety Victoria and Victoria Police to implement recommendations of the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence (2016) .
Professor McCulloch was Chief Investigator on two Linkage grants with Victoria Police on counter-terrorism policing and hate crime.
Recent Research Projects.
Professor McCulloch was lead Chief Investigator (with four others) on a Department of Human and Health Services contract to conduct a comprehensive review of the Victorian Family Violence Common Risk Assessment and Management Framework. During the course of this review,conducted over 10 weeks, more than 1,100 people were consulted from more than 125 organisations across Victoria. The innovation and success of this project was recognised by the 2016 Dean’s Award for research impact and the project's nomination for a B/HERT best community engagement award and being shortlisted for the CHASS distinctive work prize.
Professor McCulloch has been lead investigator on three other projects implementing recommendations made by the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence. These include revision of the Men's Behaviour Change Program minimum standards, the evaluation of the family violence information sharing scheme, and an evaluation of the police use of digitally recorded evidence in chief in family violence matters.
Recognition for Research Impact.
2017 The Review of the Victorian Common Risk Assessment and Risk Management Framework Shorlisted for the CHASS distinctive work prize.
2016 Dean’s award for research impact - Strengthening Victoria’s Integrated Family Violence System (McCulloch, J, Maher, J, Fitz-Gibbon, K, Segrave, M, and Roffee, J).
2005 Griffith University Prize for Research Improving Policing for Women – Presented by the Australasian Society for Women and Policing for ‘Brute Force: The Need for Affirmative Action in Victorian Police’
Career Overview
- As inaugural Professor of Criminology at Monash, guided the discipline over a decade from being a new and emerging presence to one of the largest and most successful disciplines in the social sciences, within the university and internationally. Monash Criminology was raked 5, 'well above world standard' in the most recent Excellence in Research Australia assessment round.
- Inaugural Director of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre, which leads a national and international progam of family violence research.
- Head of the School of Social Sciences at Monash (2011-2013).
- Held six category 1 grants, including lead Investigator on three ARC Discovery grants.
- Authored or edited 11 books and three special editions of journals.
- Keynote speaker at various prestigious international conferences on women and incarceration, counter terrorism policing, risk and social justice, and femicide.
- Invited plenary speaker at numerous discipline and industry conferences.
- Published widely in popular and practitioner magazines and journals.
- Frequent contributor to media in opinion pieces and as an expert commentator on crime, gender and social justice issues.
- Published in the discipline's leading journals, including the British Journal of Criminology, Theoretical Criminology and Punishment and Society.
- Journal articles and chapters reproduced in collections of the discipline's most influential contributions.
- Supervised 20 post graduate students to completion.
Research area keywords
- Counter-terrorism
- family violence
- Law Enforcement
- Community Law
- Social Reform
- Law Reform
- Social Justice
- Social History
- Policing
- Counter Terrorism
- Transnational Policing
- Crime
- Transnational Crime
- Social and Legal Reform
- History of Law
- Financing
- Civil Rights
Network
Projects
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Specialist Support Research Program
Maher, J., McCulloch, J., Segrave, M., Weber, L., Fitz-Gibbon, K., Muir, C. & McKernan, H.
Police Department (Vic) (trading as Victoria Police) (Victoria)
14/03/19 → 13/03/21
Project: Research
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Taskforce - Evaluation of the early intervention for family violence (U-Turn)
Meyer, S., Fitz-Gibbon, K. & McCulloch, J.
Taskforce Community Agency Inc
29/02/20 → 28/02/21
Project: Research
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DFAT COALAR grant for Brazil-Australia Partnership on Preventing Domestic and Gender-based Violence
McCulloch, J. & de A vila, T. P.
1/11/19 → 30/12/19
Project: Research
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Evaluation Services for the Review of the Fast Tracking Initiative in the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria
Meyer, S., McCulloch, J., Maher, J., Bartlett, T., O'Brien, K., Vakhitova, Z., Fitz-Gibbon, K., McGowan, J. & Thomas, K.
Court Services Victoria (Victoria)
13/05/19 → 15/11/19
Project: Research
Research output
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Justice perspectives of women with disability: An Australian story
McCulloch, J., Maher, J., Walklate, S., McGowan, J. & Fitz-Gibbon, K., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : International Review of Victimology. p. 1-15 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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The views of Australian judicial officers on domestic and family violence perpetrator interventions
Fitz-Gibbon, K., Maher, J., Thomas, K., McGowan, J., McCulloch, J., Burley, J. & Pfitzner, N., 9 Jun 2020, Sydney NSW Australia: Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety (ANROWS). 110 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other Report › Other
Open AccessFile -
Criminology, gender and security in the Australian context: Making women’s lives matter
Walklate, S., McCulloch, J., Fitz-Gibbon, K. & Maher, J. M., 2019, In : Theoretical Criminology. 23, 1, p. 60-77 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
13 Citations (Scopus) -
Lone wolf terrorism through a gendered lens: men turning violent or violent men behaving violently?
McCulloch, J., Walklate, S., Maher, J., Fitz-Gibbon, K. & McGowan, J., 26 Jul 2019, In : Critical Criminology. 27, p. 437-450 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
5 Citations (Scopus) -
Penal power and border control: Which thesis? Sovereignty, governmentality, or the pre-emptive state?
Weber, L. & McCulloch, J., 2019, In : Punishment & Society. 21, 4, p. 496-514 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
5 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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Dean's Award for Excellence in Research Impact and Engagement
McCulloch, Jude (Recipient), Maher, JaneMaree (Recipient), Fitz-Gibbon, Kate (Recipient), Segrave, Marie (Recipient) & James Andrew Roffee (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Special Minister of State’s Expert Perpetrator Committee
Jude McCulloch (Invited speaker)
17 Aug 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to workshop, seminar, course
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Submission in response to the Parliamentary inquiry into a better family law system to support and protect those affected by family violence
Kate Fitz-Gibbon (Fellow), JaneMaree Maher (Fellow), Jude McCulloch (Fellow), Marie Segrave (Fellow) & Sandra Walklate (Fellow)
2017Activity: External Academic Engagement › Submissions to industry or govt committees, commissions and inquiries
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Victorian Minister for Prevention of Family Violence’s Taskforce (Event)
Jude McCulloch (Member)
2016 → …Activity: Industry, Government and Philanthropy Engagement and Partnerships › Membership of an advisory panel/policy group/ board
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Current Issue in Criminal Justice (Publisher)
Jude McCulloch (Peer reviewer)
1 Jan 2006Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
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Feminist Review (Publisher)
Jude McCulloch (Peer reviewer)
1 Jan 2006Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
Press / Media
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COVID-19 and domestic violence
Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Jude McCulloch, JaneMaree Maher, Silke Meyer & Marie Segrave
26/05/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs, Podcasts and Social Media › Podcasts
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The link between lone attacks and violence against women hides in plain sight
Jude McCulloch, JaneMaree Maher, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Sandra Walklate & Jasmine McGowan
17/08/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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New body for complaints against police in Victoria is a good move, with some caveats
Leanne Weber, Judith McCulloch & Tamar Hopkins
13/09/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Victorian government should be wary of introducing a stand-alone offence of non-fatal strangulation
Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Judith McCulloch, Jane Maree Maher & Sandra Lyn Walklate
3/08/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research