Alison Gerard
'On the dangers of law without social context' Prof Leanne Weber, University of Canberra
This Social Sciences Week 2021 public lecture was hosted by the Canberra Law School & the Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society at the University of Canberra, and the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology.
Leanne Weber is Professor of Criminology in the Canberra Law School and a Research Associate at the Centre for Criminology, Oxford University. She researches policing and border control using criminological and human rights frameworks. Her books include the Elgar Handbook of Migration and Global Justice (with Claudia Tazreiter); Crime, Justice and Human Rights (with Elaine Fishwick and Marinella Marmo); Policing Non-Citizens (sole authored); and Globalization and Borders: Death at the Global Frontier (with Sharon Pickering), which was awarded the inaugural Christine M Alder Book Prize by the ANZ Society of Criminology.
