Leanne Weber

Personal profile

Biography

Leanne Weber is Associate Professor of Criminology, Director of the Border Crossing Observatory and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She researches border control, policing and migration policing using criminological and human rights frameworks. Earlier in her career Leanne studied and worked at the Institute of Criminology in Cambridge and the Human Rights Centre at Essex University, held a research post at the Centre for Criminological Research at Oxford University, and taught policing at the University of Western Sydney and criminology at the University of New South Wales. Prior to her current position she was the holder of a Larkins Fellowship awarded by Monash University. Her books include The Routledge International Handbook on Criminology and Human Rights, 2017 (with Elaine Fishwick and Marinella Marmo), Policing Non-Citizens, 2013 (Routledge), Stop and Search: Police Power in Global Context, 2013 (Routledge, with Ben Bowling) and Globalization and Borders: Death at the Global Frontier, 2011 (Palgrave, with Sharon Pickering) which won the inaugural Christine M Alder Book Prize awarded by the ANZ Society of Criminology.

Research area keywords

Borders
Policing
Human Rights
Minorities

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Projects

2 Active
4 Finished

Specialist Support Research Program

Maher, J., McCulloch, J., Segrave, M., Weber, L., Fitz-Gibbon, K., Muir, C. & McKernan, H.

Victoria Police

14/03/19 → 13/03/21

Project: Research

Globalisation and the policing of internal borders

Weber, L.

Australian Research Council (ARC), Monash University

1/10/14 → 30/09/20

Project: Research

Exporting Risk: The Australian Deportation Project

Pickering, S., Grewcock, M., Segrave, M. & Weber, L.

Australian Research Council (ARC), University of New South Wales

1/03/11 → 23/11/16

Project: Research

Fluid Security in the Asia Pacific

Pickering, S., Segrave, M., Tazreiter, C. & Weber, L.

Australian Research Council (ARC), University of New South Wales

4/01/10 → 30/06/14

Project: Research

Exploring the experience of security in the Australian Vietnamese community: practical implications for policing.

Weber, L. & Meredith, D.

Australian Research Council (ARC)

1/01/07 → 31/12/11

Project: Research

Research Output

26 Chapter (Book)
25 Article
6 Edited Book
6 Short Review
9 More

Beyond deportation: researching the control of outward mobility using a space of flows logic

Weber, L., Book Mohn, S., Vecchio, F. & Fili, A., 2020, In : Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs. 20, 1, p. 65-84 20 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Open Access

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1 Citation (Scopus)

Crime, Pre-crime and Sub-crime: Deportation of ‘Risky Non-citizens’ as ‘Enemy Crimmigration’

Weber, L. & Powell, R., 2020, Criminal Justice, Risk and the Revolt against Uncertainty. Pratt, J. & Anderson, J. (eds.). Cham Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 245-272 28 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review