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Professor Pat O’Malley

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Degrees

  • BA (Hons1) Monash
  • MA (Distinction) Victoria University of Wellington
  • PhD (London School of Economics)

Areas of Interest

  • Risk and Security
  • Social and criminological theory
  • Criminal Justice
  • Modern legal sanctions

Brief Biographical Detail

Most of Pat’s work over the past fifteen years has related to the development of risk as a technique for governing social and legal problems, and the key political, ethical and theoretical issues that this has given rise to.

With respect to criminal justice, his work has focused on the movement of crime prevention from the margins to the centre of government and police concerns, and on the use of risk assessment in determining sentences. In this respect Pat served on the Government of Victoria’s Crime Prevention Research Advisory Council. (2001-5) Included in this range of interests has been work dealing with drug harm minimisation approaches, which deploy statistical and other predictive techniques to reduce a broad array of harms, not only to the community but also to the drug users themselves. His analyses in this field were linked to service on two influential drug commissions in Victoria, the Premier’s Drug Advisory Council (1995-96) and the Drug Policy Expert Committee (2001-2).

More recently this work has broadened out to examine the development of risk in questions of security. A major ongoing project has traced the development of fire prevention in Britain and North America, and its relation to the formation of networks of expertise and agencies dedicated to the production of urban security. More recent work has also included research into airport security with the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority, and on relationships between terrorism and organized crime, and on the conditions under which terrorism declines, with Canada’s Integrated Threat Assessment Centre.

Current projects include a monograph on the relationship between risk and crime, which brings together both the movement toward risk in criminal justice, and the ways in which risk-taking has been made more salient in social and economic life and in criminal activity. A second monograph in preparation deals with the monetization of justice. In particular the focus is on the ways in which the use of fines, monetary damages and related penalties is being deployed in changing forms of control. These regulate flows of activity, and distributions of harm and compensation rather than focusing on individual wrongdoing. As well, Pat has recently completed a monograph in Spanish (translated with Maximo Sozzo) on risk, crime and neo-liberalism, and an edited collection on Gendered Risks with Kelly Hannah Moffatt.

Pat was appointed Lurcy Distinguished Lecturer at Amherst College in 1992; John Edwards Lecturer at the University of Toronto in 1996; and Centenary Lecturer at the Victoria University of Wellington in 1999. In 2000, he was awarded the American Society of Criminology’s Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck Award for contributions to international criminology, and in 2002 was appointed as Canada Research Chair in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Most recently he has been appointed as Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa.

Publications

Books and Monographs | Reports | Book Chapters | Refereed Journal Articles | Other Academic Publications

Books and Monographs

  • O’Malley P, Monetary Sanctions. A Critical Analysis. UK: Cavendish/Glasshouse Press (Forthcoming 2007)
  • O’Malley P, Crime and Risk. London: Sage (Under contract)
  • O’Malley P, Monetized Justice. Money and Legal Regulation in Control Societies. London: Routledge/Cavendish (Under contract)
  • Hannah-Moffatt, K & O'Malley, P (eds), Gendered Risks, Routledge-Cavendish: United Kingdom (2007)
  • O’Malley P, Riesgo, Justicia Penal y Neoliberalismo. (Translated by Maximo Sozzo) Buenos Aires: Ad Hoc Press. [University of Buenos Aires Press/University Nacional de Littoral] (2006)
  • O’Malley P,(Editor) Governing Risks, Aldershot: Ashgate (2006)
  • O’Malley P, Risk , Uncertainty and Government. London: Cavendish Press/Glasshouse (2004.)
  • O’Malley P, (Editor) Crime and the Risk Society, Aldershot: Dartmouth (1998)
  • O’Malley P and Sutton, A (Editors), Crime Prevention in Australia. Dilemmas of Policy and Theory. Sydney: Federation Press (1997)
  • O’Malley P, Law, Capitalism and Democracy. A Sociology of Australian Legal Order. London and Sydney: George Allen and Unwin. (1983)

Reports

  • O’Malley P, (Drug Policy Expert Committee) Drugs. Meeting the Challenge Melbourne: Government Printer, 2000
  • O’Malley P, (Drug Policy Expert Committee) Drugs: Responding to the Issues, Engaging the Community. Melbourne: Government Printer, 2000
  • O’Malley P, (Premier’s Drug Advisory Council) Drugs in Our Community. Report of the Premier’s Drug Advisory Council. Melbourne: Government Printer, 1996
  • O’Malley P, Barker E and Coventry G, Diversion of Young Offenders from the Juvenile Justice System in Australia. An Annotated Bibliography. Melbourne: National Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, 1991
  • O’Malley P, Perceptions Of Crime, Fear Of Crime And Attitudes To Police In Victoria. Selected Findings From The Australian Bureau of Statistics 'Crime and Crime Prevention Survey'. Melbourne: National Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, 1991

Book Chapters

  • O’Malley P, ‘Governmental criminology’ in E. McLaughlin and T. Newburn (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Criminological Theory, Sage: London (Forthcoming)
  • O’Malley P, ‘Neo-Liberalism and Risk in Criminology’ in T Anthony & C Cunneen (eds) The Critical Criminology Companion Hawkins Press: Sydney (2008) 55-67
  • O’Malley P, ‘Governmentality and risk’ in J. Zinn (eds.) Social Theories of Risk and Uncertainty, Blackwell Publishing: Oxford (2008) Chapter 3
  • O’Malley, P, & Hutchinson, S, "A Genealogy of Fire Prevention" in G. Brannigan & G. Pavlich (eds) Governance and Regulation in Social Life: Essays in Honour of W.G. Carson, Routledge-Cavendish: London (2007) 145-163
  • O’Malley P, ‘Risk and criminology’. In G. Mythen and S. Walklate (eds.) Critical Reflections on Risk and Human Security: Towards a Holistic Approach. London: McGraw-Hill/Open University Press. Pp 43-59, 2006
  • O’Malley P, ‘Risk and restorative justice’ In I Aertson et al (Eds.) The Institutionalisation of Restorative Justice. Devon: Willan pp216-36, 2006
  • O’Malley P and Denton B, ‘Property crime as it relates to women drug dealers.’ In L. Alarid and P. Cromwell (eds). In Her Own Words. Women Offender’s Views on Crime and Victimization. Los Angeles: Roxbury pp203-13, 2005
  • O’Malley P, "Governing Risks" in A Sarat (ed) The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society. Oxford: Blackwell pp292-308, 2005
  • O’Malley P, “Missing the punitive turn? Canadian criminal justice 1955-2003” in J Pratt and D Brown et al. (eds) The New Punitiveness London: Sage pp201-217, 2005
  • O’Malley P, ‘The Globalisation of Risk? Distinguishing styles of neo-liberal criminal justice in Australia and the USA.’ in, T. Newburn and R. Sparks. (eds) Criminal Justice and Political Cultures. Devon: Willan Press pp30-48, 2004
  • O’Malley P, "Penal Policy and Contemporary Politics". In C. Sumner (ed) The Blackwell Companion to Criminology Oxford: Blackwell pp 183-95, 2004
  • O’Malley P, ‘Risk, Power and Crime Prevention’. In G. Hughes et. al. (eds) Criminological Perspectives. Essential Readings. London: Sage pp 449-465, 2003
  • O’Malley P, ‘Moral uncertainties. Contract law and distinctions between speculation, gambling and insurance.’ in R. Ericson (ed) Risk and Morality. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Pp231-257, 2003
  • O’Malley P, “Imagining Insurance. Risk, Thrift and Insurance in Britain" in T Baker and J Simon (eds) Embracing Risk. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pp97-115, 2002
  • O’Malley P, Drugs, Risks and Freedoms' in G Hughes and E. McLaughlen (eds) Crime Prevention and Community Safety: New Directions Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 2002
  • O’Malley P, ‘Genealogy, Rationalisation and Resistance in ‘Advanced Liberalism’” In G. Pavlich and G. Wickham (eds) Rethinking Law, Society and Governance: Foucault's Bequest. Oxford: Hart pp14-26, 2000
  • O’Malley P, ‘Risk, crime and Prudentialism revisited' In K Stenson and R Sullivan (eds) Crime, Risk and Justice: The Politics of Crime Control in Liberal Democracies. London: Willan pp89-103, 2000
  • O’Malley P, ‘Risk Societies and the Government of Crime.’ In M. Brown and J. Pratt (eds) Dangerousness, Risk and Modern Society. London: Routledge, 2000
  • O’Malley P, “Consuming Risks. Harm Minimisation and the Government of ‘Drug Users’. ” In Russell Smandych (ed) Governable Places. Readings in Governmentality and Crime Control. (Advances in Criminology Series) Aldershot: Dartmouth,1999
  • O’Malley P, “Introduction: Crime and the Risk Society:” In Pat O’Malley (ed) Crime and the Risk Society. Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1998
  • O’Malley P, "The politics of crime prevention". In Pat O'Malley and Adam Sutton (eds) Crime Prevention in Australia. Sydney: Federation Press, 1997
  • O’Malley P and Sutton A, "Introduction". In Pat O'Malley and Adam Sutton (eds) Crime Prevention in Australia. Sydney: Federation Press, 1997
  • O’Malley P and Mugford S, "Crime, Excitement and Modernity". In G. Barak (ed) Varieties of Criminology. Readings from a Dynamic Discipline. New York: Praeger, 1994
  • O’Malley P, "Neo-liberal crime control. Political agendas and the future of crime prevention in Australia". In D. Chappell and P. Wilson (eds) The Australian Criminal Justice System. The Mid 1990s. (4th edition). Sydney: Butterworths, 1994
  • O’Malley P, "Law-Making in Canada. Capitalism and Legislation in a Democratic State." in R. Hinch (ed) Readings in Critical Criminology. Toronto: Prentice Hall, 1993
  • O’Malley P, "Burglary, private policing and individual responsibility." In P. Moir and H. Eijkman (eds.) Policing Australia. Old Issues, New Perspectives, Sydney: MacMillan, 1992
  • O’Malley P, "The place of crime in popular history". In Burgmann, V. and J. Lee (eds.) Australian since the British Invasion: A People's History. Volume 3 Culture and its Keepers. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books and Melbourne: McPhee Gribble, 1988
  • O’Malley P, "Class Formation and the Freedom of the Colonial Press. New South Wales 1800-1950". In C, Tomlins, I Duncanson (eds), Law and History in Australia - La Trobe University Press: Melbourne, 1985
  • O’Malley P, "The Class Production of Crime, Banditry and Class strategies in England and Australia". In S, Spitzer (ed), Research in Law and Sociology Vol.3 - JAI Press: New York, 1980
  • O’Malley P, "Theories of Structure Versus Casual Determination: Accounting for Legislative Change in Capitalist Societies". In R, Tomasic (ed), Legislation and Society in Australia, 50-65 - George Allen and Unwin: UK, 1980
  • O’Malley P, "Australian Immigration Policies and the Migrant Dirty Worker Syndrome". In R, Birrell, C, Hay (eds), The Immigration Issue in Australia, La Trobe University Press: Melbourne, 1978
  • O’Malley P, "The Influence of Cultural Factors on Maori Crime Rates". In S.D, Webb, J.P, Collette (eds), New Zealand Society: Contemporary Perspectives, John Wiley: Sydney, 1973

Refereed Journal Articles

  • O’Malley, P, & Hutchinson, S, ‘Converging Corporatisation? Police Management, Police Unionism and the Transfer of Business Principles’ (2007) 8(2) Police Practice and Research: An International Journal 159-174
  • O'Malley, P, ‘Experimentos en gobierno. Anal'ticas gubernamentales y conocimiento estratégico del riesgo. (Experiments in Risk and Criminal Justice)’ (2007) 8(5) Revista Argentina de Sociolog'a 151-171
  • O’Malley P and Hutchinson S, ‘Reinventing prevention. Why did “crime prevention” develop so late? (2007) 47(3) British Journal of Criminology 373-389
  • Hutchinson, S & O’Malley, P, ‘Crime-Terror Nexus?: Thinking on Some of the Links Between Terrorism and Criminality ’ (2007) 30(12) Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 1095-1107
  • O’Malley P, Rose N and Valverde M, ‘Governmentality’. Annual Review of Law and Social Science. 2:83-104, 2006
  • O’Malley P, Mondialisation et justice criminelle: Du défaitisme a l’optimism’ Deviance et Société 30:323-338, 2006
  • O’Malley P, ‘Risk, ethics and airport security’ Canadian Journal of Criminology 48: 413-21, 2006
  • O’Malley P, ‘The uncertain promise of risk.’ The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 37: 323-43, 2004 also 2006 Reprinted in B. Goold and L. Zedner (eds.) Crime and Security. Aldershot: Ashdown
  • O’Malley P and Valverde M ‘Pleasure, Freedom and Drugs. The Uses of “Pleasure” in Liberal Governance of Drug and Alcohol Consumption’. Sociology 38:25-42, 2004
  • O’Malley P, ‘Governable catastrophes’ Economy and Society 32:275-79, 2003
  • O’Malley P, The Globalisation of Risk? Distinguishing styles of neo-liberal criminal justice in Australia and the USA.’ Criminal Justice. 2:205-222, 2002 also 2004 Reprinted in ’ T. Newburn and R. Sparks. (eds) Criminal Justice and Political Cultures. Devon: Willan Press pp30-48
  • O’Malley P and Denton B) ‘Property Crime and Women Drug Dealers in Australia.’ Journal of Drug Issues 13(2) 2001
  • O’Malley P, Discontinuity, Government and Risk.’ Theoretical Criminology. 5: 83-92, 2001
  • O’Malley P, 'Criminologies of Catastrophe? Understanding Criminal Justice on the Edge of the New Millennium.' The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology (Special Millennium Number) 33:153-167, 2000
  • O’Malley P, “Uncertain Subjects. Risk, Liberalism and Contract” Economy and Society 29: 460-484, 2000
  • O’Malley P, “Configurations of Risk.” Economy and Society 29:457-59, 2000
  • O’Malley P, “Volatile and Contradictory Punishment” Theoretical Criminology 3:175-196, 1999
  • O’Malley P, “Governmentality and the Risk Society” Economy and Society 28:138-148, 1999
  • O’Malley P, “Imagining Insurance. Risk, Thrift and Industrial Life Insurance” Connecticut Insurance Law Journal 5; 675-705, 1999
  • O’Malley P, and Denton B, “Gender, Trust and Business: Women Drug Dealers in the Illicit Economy” British Journal of Criminology 39: 513-530, 1999
  • O’Malley P, “Social Justice After the 'death of the Social'”, Social Justice 26: 92-100, 1998
  • O’Malley P, Weir L and Shearing C, “Governmentality, Criticism, Politics” Economy and Society 26:501-517, 1997
  • O’Malley P, “Policing, Politics and Postmodernity” Social and Legal Studies 6: 363-381, 1997 and 2004 Reprinted in In T. Newburn (ed.) Policing: Key Readings. London: Sage
  • O’Malley P, "Indigenous Governance" Economy and Society 25: 310-3261998 Reprinted in B. Hindess and M. Dean (eds.) Governing Australia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996
  • O’Malley P and Palmer D, "Post Keynesian Policing" Economy and Society 25: 137-155, 1996
  • O’Malley P, “Post Social Criminologies. The Impact of Contemporary Politics on Criminological Theory and Practice.” Current Issues in Criminal Justice 8: 1-13, 1996
  • O’Malley P and Laster K "Sensitive New Age Laws? The Rediscovery of Emotionality in Law" International Journal of the Sociology of Law 24: 21-40, 1996
  • O’Malley P, "Gentle Genocide. Governing Aboriginal People in Central Australia 1930-1960" Social Justice. 21:46-65, 1995
  • O’Malley P, "Regulating Enterprise Culture". Canadian Journal of Law and Society. 9:205-215, 1994
  • O’Malley P, "Governing at a Distance? Dilemmas of Cross-Cultural Intervention in the Management of Substance Abuse." International Journal of Drug Policy 5:136-141, 1994
  • O’Malley P, "Responsibility and Crime Prevention" Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. 27:21-25, 1994
  • O’Malley P, "Containing our Excitement. The Limits to Discipline in Commodity-Based Societies" Studies in Law, Politics and Society. 13:159 – 186, 1993
  • O’Malley P, "Aboriginal Criminalization and Colonialism in Australia." The Critical Criminologist 5 (4):9-22, 1993
  • O’Malley P and Coventry G "Victoria's 'Day in Prison Scheme'. An Evaluation and Critique." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. 26:171-183, 1993
  • O’Malley P, "Risk, Power and Crime Prevention" Economy and Society. 21: 252-275, 1992 then 1996 revised and reprinted as "Risk and Responsibility", in A. Osborne, T Barry and N Rose (eds)]] Foucault and Political Reason. London: UCL Press/Chicago: University of Chicago Press
    1998 Reprinted in O’Malley P (ed) Crime and the Risk Society. Aldershot: Dartmouth
    2003. Reprinted in G. Hughes et. al. (eds)     Criminological Perspectives. Essential Readings. London: Sage
    2004 Reprinted in translation as "Riesgo, poder y prevención del delito", Delito y Sociedad.13: 79-102.
  • O’Malley P and Mugford S "The demand for intoxicating commodities: Implications for the War on Drugs". Social Justice 18: 49-75, 1991 and 1995 Reprinted in Nigel South (ed) Drugs, Crime and Criminal Justice Aldershot: Dartmouth
  • O’Malley P and Mugford S, "Moral technologies. The political agenda of random drug testing". Social Justice 18: 122-145, 1991
  • O’Malley P and Mugford S, "Deficit theories and heroin use" Crime, Law and Social Change 15: 19-36, 1991
  • O’Malley P, "Legal networks and domestic security" Studies in Law, Politics and Society volume 11: 165-184, 1991 and 1998 Reprinted in O’Malley P (ed) Crime and the Risk Society. Aldershot: Dartmouth
  • O’Malley P, Peace, trade and treaties." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology 26:170-186, 1990
  • O’Malley P, and Mugford S, "Policies unfit for heroin?" International Journal of Drug Policy 2:16-22, 1990
  • O’Malley P, and Carson W.G "The institutional foundations of contemporary Australian criminology." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology 25:333-355, 1989
  • O’Malley P, "The Discipline of Violence. International Violence and the Regulation of Naval Warfare." Sociology 22:253-270, 1988
  • O’Malley P, “Law Making in Canada: Capitalism and Legislation in a Democratic State”. Canadian Journal of Law and Society 3:53-85, 1988 and 1993 Reprinted in R. Hinch (ed) Readings in Critical Criminology. Toronto: Prentice Hall
  • O’Malley P, "The Purpose of Knowledge. Pragmatism and the Praxis of Marxist Criminology." Contemporary Crises 12:65-80, 1988
  • O’Malley P, "Regulation, pseudo-regulation and counter-regulation. The operations of the Australian Press Council". Media, Culture and Society 9:77-95, 1987
  • O’Malley P, "Regulating contradictions. The Australian Press Council and the dispersal of social control". Law and Society Review 21:83-108, 1987
  • O’Malley P, "Marxist theory and Marxist criminology". Crime and Social Justice 29:70-87. 1997 Reprinted in Lynch, M. (Ed) Readings in Radical Criminology, Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1997
  • O’Malley P, "The illegal sector of capital. A theoretical examination of organizing crime". Contemporary Crises 9:81-92, 1985
  • O’Malley P, "Class formation and the freedom of the colonial press in New South Wales" Media, Culture and Society 7:427-444, 1985
  • O’Malley P, "Trends in the sociology of Australian legal order". Journal of Law and Society 11:91-103, 1984
  • O’Malley P, "Technocratic justice in Australia". Law in Context 2:31-49, 1984
  • O’Malley P and Freiberg A, "State intervention and the civil offense". Law and Society Review 18:373-394, 1984
  • O’Malley P, "Historical practice and the production of Marxist legal theory". Crime and Social Justice 18:53-61, 1982
  • O’Malley P, "The invisible censor: Civil law and the state delegation of press control 1890-1952". Media, Culture and Society 4:323-338, 1982
  • O’Malley P, "The suppression of social banditry. Train robbery in US border states and bushrangers in Australia 1865-1905". Crime and Social Justice 16:32-39, 1981
  • O’Malley P, "Capital accumulation and press freedom 1800-1950". Media, Culture and Society 3:71-84, 1981
  • O’Malley P, "From feudal honour to bourgeois reputation. Ideology, law and the rise of industrial capitalism". Sociology 15:79-93, 1981
  • O’Malley P, "Accomplishing law: Structure and negotiation in legislative process". British Journal of Law and Society 7:22-35, 1980

Non-Refereed Journal Articles

  • O’Malley P, Hutchinson, S, ‘How Terrorism Declines?’ (2007) Trends in Terrorism
  • O’Malley P, Hutchinson, S, ‘Actual and Potential links Between Terrorism and Crime’ Trends in Terrorism. (2006) 5, pp1-14
  • O’Malley P, Hunt, A, ‘Does Sociology Need to be Disciplined? A Response to Curtis and Weir’, Society / Societe. (2002)

Other Academic Publications

  • O’Malley P, ‘Converging Corporatisation? Police management, police unionism, and the transfer of business principles.’ Law, Economic Incentives and Public Service Culture. Working Paper 05/129 Centre for Market and Public Organisation. University of Bristol, 2005
  • O’Malley P, “Harm minimisation and the Government of ‘Drug Users’ ”. New Forms of Governance: Theory, Practice and Research. Proceedings of the International Conference. (ed M.Valverde) University of Toronto, 1997
  • O’Malley P, "'Empowerment', Aboriginal culture and crime prevention. Managing petrol sniffing in remote desert communities." Proceedings of the Conference on Rethinking Policies for Young People: Toward a National Strategy (Ed. S. Cook). Melbourne : Melbourne University and National Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, 1994
  • O’Malley P and Palmer D, "Policing and youth crime prevention. New policies of public responsibility". Rethinking Policies for Young People: Toward a National Strategy (Ed. S. Cook). Melbourne : Melbourne University and National Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, 1994
  • O’Malley P, "Risk, regulation and rationality". Radically Rethinking Regulation Workshop Report (ed M. Valverde) Toronto: Centre of Criminology. University of Toronto, 1994
  • O’Malley P and Coventry G, "Evaluation of youth crime prevention. National application of an impact and process design." In Evaluation: Making it Work. (Proceedings of the Australasian Evaluation Society International Conference) Volume 1. Melbourne: Australasian Evaluation Society, 1992
  • O’Malley P, "Private violence, state formation and naval policy". Proceedings of the 1987 Conference of the Canadian Law and Society Association. York, Ontario: Yull Publications, 1987