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.