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Personal profile
Biography
Rebecca Wickes is Professor in Criminology and the Director for the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre at the School of Social Sciences, Monash University. She is the lead investigator of the Australian Community Capacity Study, a multi-million, multisite, longitudinal study of place. Professor Wickes’ research focuses on community resilience to both subtle population changes and acute shocks (including natural and anthropogenic disasters). She is particularly interested in how physical and demographic changes in urban communities influence social relationships, perceptions of safety and the concentration of social problems, in particular crime, social exclusion and public disorder. She also examines how increasing immigration and diversity in urban and regional contexts are experienced by those who are settling and those who are settled.
She has published substantive works in Criminology, Journal for Research in Crime and Delinquency, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Social Forces, Social Science Research, Ethnic and Racial Studies and the Journal for Urban Affairs among others. Professor Wickes is the Associate Editor for the Australia New Zealand Journal of Criminology, an international editor for Urban Studies and is on the editorial committee for IMISCOE. She is a board member for IMISCOE and is on the advisory board for Welcoming Cities. Professor Wickes was awarded the ANZSOC New Scholar of the Year Prize and received an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award from 2012 through to 2015.
She has supervised numerous honours and PhD students to completion and received the Monash Postgraduate Supervisor Award in 2019.
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):
External positions
Associate Editor, Australia New Zealand Journal of Criminology
Vice President, Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology
Advisory Board Member, Welcoming Cities
Research area keywords
- Ecology of crime
- Criminological Theory
- Crime prevention
- Community resilience
- Quantitative methods
Network
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Migrant and Refugee Women’s Attitudes, Experiences and Responses to Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Segrave, M., Tan, S., Wickes, R., Keel, C. & Ashraf, S.
4/03/22 → 3/06/24
Project: Research
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Monash Intercultural Lab-Scanlon Foundation Research Institute Summer School
Forgasz, R., Wilson, R., Normand-Marconnet, N., Van der Kamp, M., Garcia Ochoa, G., Manns, H., Moreira dos Anjos Santos, L., Volcic, Z. & Wickes, R.
1/01/21 → 30/06/23
Project: Other
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Everyday guardianship: A space time approach to crime prevention
Wickes, R., Corcoran, J. J., Reynald, D. & Browning, C.
31/10/20 → 30/10/23
Project: Research
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Evaluation of Social and Economic Inclusion Program Services
Wickes, R., Powell, R., Forbes-Mewett, H., Wilkinson, J., Walsh, L. & Cooke, F. L.
30/08/19 → 30/06/22
Project: Research
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Research output
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Co-designing and scaling effective COVID-19 communication strategies for young people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in Victoria
Wickes, R., Ratnam, C., Varghese, D., Olivier, P., Powell, R., Skouteris, H., Smith, L., Forbes-Mewett, H., Bartindale, T. & Hegarty, K., 2021, Melbourne Vic Australia: Victorian Government - Department of Families, Fairness and Housing.Research output: Book/Report › Other Report › Other
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Ethnic diversity, social identity, and social withdrawal: investigating Putnam’s constrict thesis
Wickes, R., Hipp, J. R. & Laughland-Booy, J., 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: The Sociological Quarterly. 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Neighbourhood places, collective efficacy and crime: A longitudinal perspective
Zahnow, R., Corcoran, J., Kimpton, A. & Wickes, R., 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Urban Studies. 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Outlaw motorcycle gangs and neighbourhood crime
Lakeman, L., Benier, K. & Wickes, R., 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Current Issues in Criminal Justice. 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Regional migration and the local multicultural imaginary: the uneasy governance of cultural difference in regional Australia
Forbes-Mewett, H., Hegarty, K. & Wickes, R., 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus)
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Victorian AOD Service Providers’ Conference
Rebecca Wickes (Keynote/plenary speaker)
22 Nov 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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2019 Victorian Transcultural Mental Health Forum: 'Doing it Differently - Putting 'community' at the centre of mental health practice'
Rebecca Wickes (Keynote/plenary speaker)
1 Aug 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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Department of Justice and Community Safety (VIC) (External organisation)
Rebecca Wickes (Member)
27 Nov 2019Activity: Industry, Government and Philanthropy Engagement and Partnerships › Membership of an advisory panel/policy group/ board
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'Safer communities' at the Future of Policing symposium
Rebecca Wickes (Invited speaker)
23 Aug 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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'Informal social control and crime prevention: Do the actions of ordinary citizens prevent crime?
Rebecca Wickes (Keynote/plenary speaker)
6 Jun 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
Press / Media
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Un-neighbourly? Fear of crime among older people points to social isolation
Rebecca Wickes, Barbara Barbosa Neves & Narelle Warren
19/08/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Raising age of criminal responsibility from 12 to 14 ‘unacceptable’ but ‘better than nothing’
15/04/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Does where you live affect how safe you feel?
20/07/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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The strange tale of the cigarette lighter that spread coronavirus around a city
6/07/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Australia thought the virus was under control. It found a vulnerable spot.
5/07/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment