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Personal profile
Biography
Rebecca Wickes is an Associate 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. Dr Wickes’ research focusses on physical and demographic changes in urban communities and their influence on social relationships, inclusion and the concentration of social problems, in particular crime, social exclusion and public disorder.
She has published substantive works in Criminology, Journal for Research in Crime and Delinquency, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Social Foreces, Social Science Research, the Sociological Review and the Journal for Urban Affairs among others. Dr. Wickes is the Vice President of the Australia New Zealand Soceity of Criminology, the Associate Editor for the Australia New Zealand Journal of Criminology, a Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence in Life Course Research and is on the advisory board for Welcoming Cities.
Dr 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.
External positions
Associate Editor, Australia New Zealand Journal of Criminology
Vice President, Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology
Advisory Board Member, Welcoming Cities
Keywords
- Ecology of crime
- Criminological Theory
- Crime prevention
- Community resilience
- Quantitative methods
Network
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Projects 2013 2021
For the Provision of Baseline Study for Safe and Fair Programme
Segrave, M. T., Powell, R., Hedwards, B. D. & Wickes, R. L.
International Labour Organization
7/02/19 → 30/06/19
Project: Research
Provision of research on violence against women migrant workers in ASEAN: Scoping Study and Baseline
Segrave, M. T., Powell, R., True, J. M., Wickes, R. L., Hedwards, B. D. & McCulloch, J.
10/01/19 → 30/06/19
Project: Research
Provision of research on violence against women migrant workers in ASEAN: Scoping Study and Baseline
Segrave, M. T., Powell, R., True, J. M., Wickes, R. L., Hedwards, B. D. & McCulloch, J.
10/01/19 → 30/06/19
Project: Research
20-Minute Neighbourhoods Pilot Program - Stage 2
Grodach, C. W., Kamruzzaman, M. & Wickes, R. L.
1/01/19 → 30/08/19
Project: Research
Community Safety Networks Project Evaluation
Wickes, R. L., Forbes-Mewett, H. M., Gordon, E., Blaustein, J. B., Benier, K. J., Pickering, S. J., Powell, R., Hargreaves, K., Keel, C. & Helps, N.
28/02/18 → 31/10/19
Project: Research
Research Output 2006 2019
Neighbourhood social conduits and resident social cohesion
Wickes, R., Zahnow, R., Corcoran, J. & Hipp, J. R., 2019, In : Urban Studies. 56, 1, p. 226-248 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
A sense of belonging in Australia: examining settlement experiences for Chinese and Indian migrants. Final report to the Scanlon Foundation.
Wickes, R. L., Forbes-Mewett, H. M., Markus, A. B. & Keel, C. J., Jan 2018Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned Report › Other
International students in Australia: A review of the literature. Final report to the Scanlon Foundation
Forbes-Mewett, H. M., Wickes, R. L., Markus, A. B. & Nguyen, K. T., 10 Jan 2018, 75 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned Report › Other
Neighbourhood land use features, collective efficacy and local civic actions
Corcoran, J., Zahnow, R., Wickes, R. & Hipp, J., 1 Aug 2018, In : Urban Studies. 55, 11, p. 2372-2390 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Problems, perceptions and actions: An interdependent process for generating informal social control
Hipp, J. R. & Wickes, R. L., 5 Apr 2018, In : Social Science Research. 73, p. 107-125 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Activities 2018 2018
- 4 Contribution to conference
Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Annual Conference 2018
Leanne Weber (Organiser), Rebecca Leigh Wickes (Invited speaker), Jarrett Blume Blaustein (Invited speaker), Kathryn Jayne Benier (Invited speaker), Sara Leanne Maher (Invited speaker), Diana Johns (Invited speaker)5 Dec 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
11th Liveable Cities Conference 2018
Rebecca Wickes (Keynote/plenary speaker)17 Jul 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
'Informal social control and crime prevention: Do the actions of ordinary citizens prevent crime?
Rebecca Wickes (Keynote/plenary speaker)6 Jun 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
'Safer communities' at the Future of Policing symposium
Rebecca Wickes (Invited speaker)23 Aug 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
Press / Media
'I'm black … I'm seen as a threat': Crime and panic on the streets of Melbourne
6/11/18
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
Media coverage of African offenders 'skewed', warns Melbourne chief judge
5/11/18
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Fact check: Offending among African Australians has not been examined systematically or quantitatively
16/10/18
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Fact check: Do Sudanese people account for only 1 per cent of crimes committed in Victoria?
5/09/18
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Crime statistics in Victoria can be trusted: Audit
5/09/18
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment