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Associate Professor Vicki Sentas
LLB/BA (JCU),ÌýPhD (Monash),ÌýAdmitted to Supreme Court of NSWÌý
Dr Vicki Sentas joined the Faculty of LawÌýin July 2012 and is a senior lecturer. VickiÌýresearches processes of criminalisation and racialisation in law and policing.Ìý She teaches in criminal law, criminology and policing and coordinates theÌý, an experiential learning course, in partnership withÌý.
Her recent and current research projects examine: the effects of counter-terrorism practices on criminal justice and racialisedÌýpeoples; the criminalisation of armed conflicts, self-determination and diasporas through the use of security lists; police powers and their relationship to diverse forms of regulation including pre-emption and prosecution; police accountability and criminal justice reform.
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
ÌýResearch Supervision Award, ARC 2018
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Memberships and Boards
Editorial Board,ÌýÌý(2007-2022)
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Appearances beforeÌýParliamentary Committees (2018-):
- expert evidence to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security on the re-listing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party as a Terrorist Organisation (September 2018)
- expert evidence to the Law and Safety Committee, Legislative Assembly of NSW: Inquiry into the adequacy of youth diversionary programs in NSW (March 2018)
Submissions to Public Inquiries:
Ìý1995,ÌýÌýSeptember 2018.Ìý
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Redfern Legal Centre,Ìý, September 2017 (co-authored with Sophie Parker)
Campaign Against Criminalising Communities,ÌýSubmission to the Joint Committee for Human Rights on the Terrorist Asset-Freezing Etc. Bill (UK),ÌýOctober 2010.
Federation of Community Legal Centres (Vic.),ÌýSubmissionÌýto the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security,ÌýReview of the re-listing of Hamas’ Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Kurdistan Workers Party, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations under the Criminal Code Act 1995,October 2009 (co-authored with Marika Dias)
Federation of Community Legal Centres (Vic.),ÌýSubmissionÌýto the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, Review of the re-listing of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) as a Terrorist Organisation,May 2008 (co-authored with Marika Dias)
Federation of Community Legal Centres (Vic.),ÌýSubmissionÌýto the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, Review of the listing provisions of the Criminal Code Act 1995,February 2007 (co-authored with Marika Dias)
Federation of Community Legal Centres (Vic.),ÌýSubmissionÌýto the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, Review of the listing of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) as a Terrorist Organisation,ÌýJanuary 2006
‘Part III: Monitoring the Impact of Terrorism Laws on Muslim and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities’ (co-authored with Agnes Chong and Marika Dias) in, Combined Community Legal Centres’ Group (NSW) Inc. et al,ÌýAustralian NGO Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights,ÌýMarch 2006
Federation of Community Legal Centres (Vic.),Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee, Anti-Terrorism Bill (No. 2) 2005Ìý(Cth), November 2005(co-authored with Marika Dias)
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My Research Supervision
- M. McElhone, 'Policing the 'Arab Other' in New South Wales' (jointly with D.Dixon and M.Grewcock)
- T. Hopkins, 'Preventing Racial Profiling' (jointly with J.Chan)
- S. Dametto,' Is the countering of terrorism financing through legislation an effective way to prevent terrorism? ' (jointly with J. Hunter and N.McGarrity)
- F. Ramsay, 'Sovereign Pleasures and Prohibitions: Law and Law Breaking in the Prohibition Era in the United States of America (1919-1933), (jointly with B.Golder)
- A.ÌýSmith, working on techniques of offshore migration governance under the Security, Precarious Populations and the Neoliberal Age Scientia Project (jointly with B.Golder and D. McLoughlin)
- S.ÌýQadir, working on discourses of security and counter-terrorism in Pakistan under the Security, Precarious Populations and the Neoliberal Age Scientia Project (jointly with B.Golder and D.McLoughlin)
My Teaching
Crime and the Criminal Process
Police Powers Clinic