Penny Green is an Australian
criminologist
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. She has been a Professor of Law and Globalisation and Head of the Department of Law at
Queen Mary University of London
, mottoeng = With united powers
, established = 1785 – The London Hospital Medical College1843 – St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College1882 – Westfield College1887 – East London College/Queen Mary College
, type = Public researc ...
since September 2014.
Biography
Green studied psychology, anthropology and sociology at the
Australian National University
The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies an ...
. She graduated in 1979. She went to the UK and obtained her doctorate in Criminology at
Cambridge
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.
Before being appointed as Professor at Queen Mary University of London she was Professor of Law and Criminology at
King's College London and worked at the
University of Southampton
, mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour
, type = Public research university
, established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...
,
University of Westminster
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, and the
London School of Economics
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. Green is the founder of the
International State Crime Initiative.
In March 2016, she was shortlisted as replacement for
Makarim Wibisono
Makarim Wibisono is an Indonesian diplomat and the former Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories.
Early life
Wibisono has a masters in International Political Economy from Ohio State University afte ...
as
United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of
human rights in the Palestinian territories
Human rights in the State of Palestine refers to the human rights record in the West Bank and Gaza.
Status of freedom, political rights and civil liberties
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occupied since 1967, along with
Michael Lynk.
Michael Lynk was appointed to this role.
Publications
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* State Crime (2005) Special Issue:
The British Journal of Criminology
''The British Journal of Criminology'' is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed criminology and law journal focusing on British and international criminology. It is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studi ...
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Journals and book chapters
* "Understanding State Crime", (2016) with Tony Ward, Oxford Handbook of Criminology Oxford: OUP
* "Evicting Palestine" (2016), with Amelia Smith, in State Crime Journal Special Issue: Palestine, Palestinians and Israeli State Crime (eds Green, P. and Shalhoub-Kervorkian,N.) Vol. 5, No.1
* "Law, the State and the Dialectics of State Crime" (2016) in Critical Criminology, Vol. 24, No. 2
* "Civil Society And State Crime: Repression, Resistance And Transition in Burma and Tunisia" (2014) with Ward, T. in Chambliss, W. J. and Moloney, C. J. (eds.) State Crime: Critical Concepts in Criminology, New York: Routledge
* "Enclosing the Commons: Predatory capital and forced evictions in Papua New Guinea and Burma" (2014), with Lasslett, K. and Sherwood, A. in
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* "Islamophobia: Burma’s Racist Fault-line" in Race and Class October–December 2013; 55
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* "State Crime: A Dialectical View" (2012) (with T. Ward) in M. Maguire, R. Morgan, and Reiner, R.(eds) The Oxford Handbook of Criminology
* "States, Crime and Violence" in (2010) Sistema Penal & Violência, Porto Alegre, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 1-14, jul./dez
* "Civil Society, Resistance and State Crime" (2012) in L. Stanley and J. McCulloch State Crime and Resistance London: Sage
* "State-Building and the Logic of Violence in Iraq" (2009) (with T. Ward) Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention
* "The Transformation of Violence in Iraq" (with T. Ward) British Journal of Criminology (2009) 49(5): 609-627.
See also
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State-corporate crime
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Academics of King's College London
Australian criminologists
Australian women academics
Australian academics
Australian women criminologists
Academics of Queen Mary University of London