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Dr Murray Lee

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Degrees and Qualifications

  • BA Newc, BA Honours (first class) UWS, PhD UWS

Courses Taught

  • Criminology
  • Risk, Fear and Insecurity
  • Environmental Criminology

Areas of Research Interest

  • Fear of Crime
  • Crime and Social Isolation
  • Criminological Theory
  • Rural Violence
  • The Criminalisation of Drug Use

Biographical Information

Murray Lee is a Director of the Sydney institute of Criminology and a Senior Lecturer in Criminology. He is the author of Inventing Fear of Crime: Criminology and the Politics of Anxiety and co-author of Fear of Crime: Critical Voices in and Age of Anxiety. His current research interests involve the spatial distribution and dynamics of crime and criminalisation in South Western Sydney, crime and social isolation, and fear of crime.

Publications and Conference Papers

Books

Unpublished Thesis

  • Lee, M. (2001) Fear of Crime and Governance, University of Western Sydney, Unpublished Doctoral Thesis.

Book Chapters

  • Farrall, S. and Lee, M. (2008) ‘Critical Voices in and Age of Anxiety: A Reintroduction to Fear of Crime’ in M. Lee and S. Farrall (eds) Fear of Crime: Critical Voices in the age of Anxiety, Routledge-Cavendish
  • Lee, M and Farrall, S. (2008) ‘Critical Voices in and Age of Anxiety: ending with the identification of where to begin…’ in M. Lee and S. Farrall (eds) Fear of Crime: Critical Voices in the age of Anxiety, Routledge-Cavendish
  • Lee, M. (2008) ‘The Enumeration of Anxiety: Power, Knowledge and Fear of Crime’ in M. Lee and S. Farrall (eds) Fear of Crime: Critical Voices in the age of Anxiety, Routledge-Cavendish
  • Weber, L. and Lee, M (2008) ‘Preventing Indeterminant Threats: Fear, Terror, and the Politics of Preemption’ in M. Lee and S. Farrall (eds) Fear of Crime: Critical Voices in the age of Anxiety, Routledge-Cavendish
  • Lee, M. (2007) “The Blame Game: Struggles Over the Representation of ‘The Macquarie Fields Riots’” in S. Poynting and G. Morgan (eds) Outrageous! Moral Panics in Australia, ACYS Publishing, Hobart.
  • Lee, M. (2007) 'Fear, Law and Order and Politics: Tales of Two Rural Towns', in E. Barklay, J. Scott, J. Donnermeyer and R. Hogg (eds) Crime in Rural Australia: Integrating Theory, Research and Practice, Federation press, Sydney.
  • Lee, M. (2004) ‘Governing Fear of Crime’, in Hil, R. and Tait, G. (eds) Hard Lessons: Reflections on Crime Control and Governance in Late Modernity, Ashgate, London.
  • Lee, M. (1997) ‘Governance and Criminality’ in Johnson, A. Lee, M. Schlunke, K. and Sheaves, F. eds. Off The Sheep's Back: New Humanities, School of Humanities, UWS Hawkesbury, Richmond NSW. pp 160.

Journals and other Refereed Publications

  • Lee, M, ‘Framing Dissent at Macquarie Fields’ (2007) 19(2) Current Issues in Criminal Justice 211-218
  • Lee, M, ‘The Fear of Crime Debates: Questions of Power and Governance’, published in Curtis, B, Matthewman, S & McIntosh, T (eds), TASA & SAANZ Joint conference Proceeding - Public Sociologies: Lessons and Trans-Tasman Comparisons, University of Auckland, (2007)
  • Lee, M, 'Public Dissent and Governmental Neglect: Isolating and Excluding Macquarie Fields' (2006) 18(1) Current Issues In Criminal Justice
  • McGovern, A. and Lee, M, ‘Mediating Cops: News-Making and the NSW Police Media Unit’, TASA refereed Full Paper Conference proceedings 2006, Perth, (2006)
  • Lee, M, 'Fields of Fire': Crime Dissent and Social Isolation in South-Western Sydney, TASA refereed Full Paper Conference proceedings 2005 (2005)
  • Possamai, A. and Lee, M, ‘New Religious Movements and the Fear of Crime’ (2004) The Journal of Contemporary Religion.
  • Lee, M, 'Locating "Fear of Crime": Safety Talk in a South Western Sydney Context', TASA Refereed Full Paper Conference Proceedings 2004 (2004)
  • Lee, M. and Herborn, P, ‘The Role of Place Management in Crime Prevention: Some Reflections on Governmentality and Government Strategy' (2003) 15(1) Current Issues in Criminal Justice
  • Lee, M, ‘The Genesis of Fear of Crime’ (2001) Theoretical Criminology, London, Sage.
  • Byrne-Armstrong, H. Carmody, M. Hodge, R. Hogg, R and Lee, M, ‘The Risk of Naming Violence: An Unpleasant Encounter Between Legal Culture and Feminist Criminology, (1999) 13 The Australian Feminist Law Journal 13-37
  • Lee, M, ‘The Fear of Crime and Self Governance : Towards a Genealogy’ (1999) 32(3) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 227-246
  • Lee, M, ‘Fear of Crime and Governance’ (1999) 5 Food for Thought: New Directions in Sociology, School of Sociology, University of NSW 175-181
  • Lee. M, ‘Governance and Criminality: The 1995 New South Wales Election Campaign and Law and order' (1996) 8(2) Current Issues in Criminal Justice 152-162

Book Reviews

  • Lee, M (2002) ‘The Exclusive Society’ by Jock Young, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology.
  • Lee, M (2000) ‘Black Body’ by R. Mohanram, Sociology.
  • Lee, M. (1998) ‘Governing the dangerous’ by John Pratt, Current Issues in Criminal Justice.

Video Production

  • Carrington, K. & Lee, M (1997) Crime, Rurality & Violence

Conference and Seminar Papers

  • ‘Mediating Cops: News-Making and the NSW Police Media Unit’, TASA Conference December 2006, University of Western Australia, Perth.
  • The Roots of Riots: Understanding the Causes of Youth Crime and Community Disturbances (22nd July 2005), Australian Social Policy Conference, Sydney NSW.
  • Governing "Fear of Crime" (18th May 2005), Criminology School Seminar, Keele University, UK.
  • The Changing Face of Crime in Sydney?: Mean streets or Lost Suburbs (28 April 2005) The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW.
  • Crime and Social Isolation: Beyond Moral Panics and Bad Parents (14 April 2005) Social Policy in the City Address, Sydney NSW.