Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Sharon Pickering is a highly-regarded leader in Australia’s education sector. She is Dean of Arts at Monash University, building humanities and social sciences to create the next generation of leaders. She is also Professor of Criminology and a leading expert on Australian criminal justice and criminology and refugee law. She is regarded as a global expert on border crossings, migration and trafficking and is the founder of the Border Crossing Observatory, working with NGOs, government agencies and law enforcement. Previously she worked across South East Asia and Northern Ireland on counter-terrorism policing, human rights and women. She was the editor of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology.
She is an award-winning author, writing 16 books and over 60 articles and chapters and in 2012 won the Australian Human Rights Award for print and online media on human rights and asylum. She is a sought after speaker, regularly quoted in the media and in her downtime, can be found at the football supporting Geelong Cats.
Research interests
Professor Sharon Pickering researches irregular border crossing and has written in the areas of refugees and trafficking with a focus on gender and human rights. Sharon leads a series of Australian Research Council projects focusing on the intersections of security and migration, deportation, and police and community responses to Prejudice Motivated Crimes. She has worked extensively with government agencies and law enforcement and with local and international NGOs. She has previously worked in Northern Ireland, on counter-terrorism policing, and human rights and women in South East Asia. She is the immediate past editorAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. She has recently taken up five year Australian Research Council Fellowship on Border Policing: Gender, Human Rights and Security. Her books include Sex Work (with Maher and Gerard); Globalization and Borders: Deaths at the Global Frontier (with Weber), Borders and Crime (with McCulloch); Gender, Borders and Violence; Sex Trafficking (with Segrave and Milivojevic); Counter-Terrorism Policing (with McCulloch and Wright-Neville); Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control (with Weber); Refugees and State Crime; Critical Chatter: women and human rights in South East Asia (with Lambert and Alder); Global Issues, Women and Justice (with Lambert); Women, Policing and Resistance in Northern Ireland. She has a forthcoming edited collection (with McCulloch) on Borders and Crime and has begun work on editing the Routlege Handbook on Migration and Crime to be published in 2014.
Supervision interests
Professor Sharon Pickering current supervises doctoral and masters candidates in the criminological study of borders, crime and justice. These include studies in:
Sex trafficking
People Smuggling
Border control and law enforcement
Gender and irregular migration
Criminalisation of migration (with a focus on forced migration)
Borders
She particularly welcomes interdisciplinary research on the above and related fields.
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):
Research area keywords
- Borders
- Border Control
- Refugees
- Trafficking
- Smuggling
- Irregular Migration
- Migration Policing
- Gender
- Criminology
- Policing Law Enforcement
- Counter Terrorism
- Policing Transnational
- Policing Crime
- Transnational Crime
- Law Enforcement
Projects
- 11 Finished
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Community Safety Networks Project Evaluation
Wickes, R. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Forbes-Mewett, H. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Gordon, E. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Blaustein, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Benier, K. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Pickering, S. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Powell, R. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Hargreaves, K. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Keel, C. (Associate Investigator (AI)) & Helps, N. (Associate Investigator (AI))
28/02/18 → 31/10/19
Project: Research
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State of Evidence – Key Issues in Migration and Displacement
Pickering, S. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Powell, R. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Bieske, N. (Chief Investigator (CI))
15/12/16 → 14/04/17
Project: Research
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Women's decision making and information sharing in the course of irregular migration
Pickering, S., Bong, S. & Tazreiter, C.
Department of Home Affairs (Australia)
18/02/15 → 29/02/16
Project: Research
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Information consumption and decision making of irregular maritime arrivals
Pickering, S., Barry, J. A., Millie, J. & Tazreiter, C.
Department of Home Affairs (Australia)
11/02/14 → 14/02/15
Project: Research
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Criminal justice research in an era of mass mobility: a brief introduction
Bosworth, M., Franko, K. & Pickering, S., 2018, Criminal Justice Research in an Era of Mass Mobility. Fili, A., Jahnsen, S. & Powell, R. (eds.). 1st ed. Abingdon Oxon UK: Routledge, p. 1-12 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Other › peer-review
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Police perceptions of prejudice: how police awareness training influences the capacity of police to assess prejudiced motivated crime
Miles-Johnson, T., Mazerolle, L., Pickering, S. & Smith, P., 2018, In: Policing and Society. 28, 6, p. 730-745 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
18 Citations (Scopus) -
Police recruits and perceptions of trust in diverse groups
Miles-Johnson, T. & Pickering, S., 2018, In: Police Practice and Research: An International Journal. 19, 4, p. 311-328 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
33 Citations (Scopus) -
Punishment, globalization and migration control: ‘Get them the hell out of here’
Bosworth, M., Franko, K. & Pickering, S., 2018, In: Punishment & Society. 20, 1, p. 34-53 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access141 Citations (Scopus) -
Sex Trafficking and Modern Slavery: The Absence of Evidence
Segrave, M. T., Milivojevic, S. & Pickering, S., 2018, Oxford UK: Routledge. 211 p. (Sex Trafficking: International context and response)Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
8 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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Christine Alder Memorial Book Prize
Weber, L. (Recipient) & Pickering, S. J. (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Innovation and External Collaboration
Weber, L. (Recipient), Pickering, S. J. (Recipient) & Powell, R. J. (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
- 4 Contribution to conference
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Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Annual Conference 2015
Leanne Weber (Speaker) & Sharon Joy Pickering (Speaker)
24 Nov 2015 → 27 Nov 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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Crime, Justice and Social Democracy: International Conference 2013
Leanne Weber (Speaker) & Sharon Joy Pickering (Speaker)
2013Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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Borders of Punishment invitational roundtable, Centre for Criminological Research
Leanne Weber (Speaker) & Sharon Joy Pickering (Speaker)
2012 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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American Society of Criminology Annual Conference 2010
Leanne Weber (Session chair) & Sharon Joy Pickering (Session chair)
18 Nov 2010Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
Press/Media
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Exposing modern slavery - Episode 7: A Different Lens
Marie Segrave, Jean Allain, Jayashri Kulkarni, Sharon Pickering, Aderajew Teshome, Campbell Wilson, Heli Askola & Bodean Hedwards
8/05/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
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Documenting border-related refugee deaths in Australia
Marie Segrave, Leanne Weber & Sharon Pickering
7/12/17
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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If we care about asylum seekers, we must count deaths in detention
Sharon Joy Pickering & Leanne Weber
15/10/12
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Despite the rhetoric, tighter border controls increase deaths
Leanne Weber & Sharon Joy Pickering
16/08/11
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Border control no solution for global problem
Leanne Weber & Sharon Joy Pickering
20/12/10
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment