Speakers 2007
Mangai Natarajan
Can women police spearhead the movement
to bring justice for women? A global role for women police
Dr Mangai Natarajan is a professor in the Dept. of Sociology at John Jay
College of Criminal Justice in New York. She is an active policy-oriented
researcher who has published widely in three areas: drug trafficking;
women police and domestic violence. In her doctorate she compared the
work and ambitions of women officers in India and the United States and
ever since that first study she has continued to study the role of women
police in India. She has pulled this work together in a book titled Women
Policing in a Changing Society: Back Door to Equality, to be published
by Ashgate Publishing, UK. In 2005, she published an encyclopedia on "Women
Police" and she has just completed an encyclopedia on Domestic
Violence: The Five Big Questions, both for Ashgate Publishing,
UK. Her wider academic interests revolve around crime theories that promote
crime reduction policy thinking and her related areas of expertise include
social network analysis, crime mapping and crime analysis, problem oriented
policing and situational crime prevention. Dr. Natarajan is not only an
active researcher but is also a dedicated teacher. She teaches in the
undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. programs and is the founding coordinator
of the International Criminal Justice Major, one of the fast growing and
popular majors at John Jay. She recently published a text for use in the
major titled International Crime and Justice (McGraw-Hill, 2005), consisting
of 50 short chapters that she commissioned from international experts.
Dr. Natarajan presented papers at the second and fourth conferences of
the Australasian Council of Women and Policing. She also conducts workshops
periodically on problem oriented policing, domestic violence and dealing
with trafficking of women.
Christine Nixon
Ms Christine Nixon is the President of the Australasian Council of Women
and Policing. She has MBA (Harvard) Dip.Lab.Law (Sydney University) BA
(Macquarie University) Honorary Doctorate of Letters (Wollongong). She
joined the NSW Police in 1972 and on 23 April 2001 was appointed as the
Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police, an organisation of 12,800 staff
and an annual budget of $1.2 billion operating out of 550 work locations,
including 330 police stations, throughout the State. Ms Nixon is the Chair
of the Australian Police Professional Standards Council, Co-Chair of the
Australian Institute of Police Management and Sponsor of the Australasian
Police Multicultural Advisory Bureau.
Betsy Stanko
Leading change and changing belief:
Observations on the last 25 years in the policing of violence against
women
Professor Stanko has an honorary professorship in the UK Department of
Health and Social Care having previously worked at the university before
her move to the London Metropolitan Police. She has overlapping research
interests with other members of the department, contributes to the 'Violence
and Risk' research cluster and supervises PhD students within the department.
She is currently Senior Advisor for Strategic Analysis with the Metropolitan
Police. Her role is to analyse crime and public attitude information,
suggest ways of aligning strategic planning to take into account this
information to improve the delivery of policing in London. Professor Stanko
was previously Programme Director of the highly influential Economic and
Social Research Council's Programme on Violence. This internationally
recognised research programme contributed to government policy in the
areas of domestic violence, alcohol and violence, terrorism (punishment
beatings in Northern Ireland), violence against children and racist violence.
Managing 20 projects across the UK employing up to 85 staff, the VRP led
innovative and creative approaches to violence prevention across the UK.
Professor Stanko led the novel project on hate crime and domestic violence
for the Metropolitan Police. This most innovative project demonstrated
creative ways of using crime management information to map the impact
of specific hate crime across London. The project provided the seeds for
the risk assessment tool for domestic violence, now rolling out in the
Metropolitan Police and in selected forces throughout England and Wales.
The innovations of this project have been recognised by the Home Office
consultation paper (Safety and Justice 2003). Professor Stanko moved to
government to the British Prime Minister's Office of Public Services Reform
(Cabinet Office) in 2002. She was the principal advisor for criminal justice,
and led the OPSR end of the Home Office joint project on Citizen Focus
Policing. During this time, she also completed a scoping project on behalf
of the Police Standards Unit (Home Office) with the Big 6 banks on suspicious
financial activity.
Marise Payne
Senator Marise Payne plays an active role in the Senate and is a member
of a range of Joint and Senate committees, including the Senate Legal
and Constitutional Affairs Committee; the Joint Standing Committee on
Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, where she is the Chair of the Human
Rights Sub-committee; the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee,
where she also serves as Chair; the Senate Privileges Committee; the Attorney-General,
Justice and Customs Government Members' Committee; and she is also Chair
of the Trade and Foreign Affairs Government Members' Committee. Marise
is also a member of several parliamentary associations; she is President
of the Parliamentary Association for UNICEF, and Co-Chairs the Parliamentary
Friends of Dementia, and the Parliamentary Breast Cancer Network, is Honorary
Secretary of the Parliamentary Group on Population and Development and
a member of the Parliamentary Group of Amnesty International. Outside
of parliament, Marise is Chair of the Sydney Airport Community Forum and
continues to work in the community on issues as diverse as human rights,
emerging technologies and the implications of our ageing population. Away
from politics, she is a committed fan of the NSW Waratahs and the St George/Illawarra
NRL team. She is an enthusiastic supporter of the arts in Australia, spends
as much time as she can in the Southern Highlands and she cooks and reads
crime novels for therapy!
Jacqueline Azzopardi
Dr Jacqueline Azzopardi has been the Director of the Institute of Forensic
Studies at the University of Malta for the past six years and has been
working at the Institute for the past ten years. She coordinates courses,
tutor and lecture in: policing, criminology, gender and crime, transnational
crime, hate crime, domestic violence and sex-related crimes. She holds
a first degree in Education, a postgraduate Diploma in Probation Services,
a Masters in Criminal Justice (obtained from Leicester University,
UK. Her Masters dissertation is called: Police Women in
Malta and was presented at the ANZSOC conference of 1998) and a
PhD (with Leicester University UK) which dealt with police culture
and covers areas such as: gender relations within the police force, and
police officers attitude towards domestic violence.
Angela Bancilhon
Senior Constable Angela Bancilhon is with the WA Police South West District
ANCOR Officer and is based in Bunbury, approximately 2 hours South of
Perth. Angela graduated from Curtin University in 1991 with a Business
Degree (Law and Marketing Double Major). After completing her degree she
spent two years travelling overseas, living in Japan where she taught
English and studied Japanese. Angela also spent eight months living in
Los Angeles, where she studied Theatre Arts. Angela tried a number of
careers and held positions in retail, hospitality, advertising had banking,
before pursuing a career in policing. She graduated from the WA Police
Academy in 1996 and has spent time in General Duties, Child Abuse Unit
City Detectives and the Alcohol and Drug Unit. Angela is currently studying
towards a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management at Edith
Cowan University. She lives with her husband, Frank, and their two sons,
aged three and four.
Simon Burchill
Since November 2005, Simon Burchill has been a Research Officer with the
Equity & Diversity Unit of the Queensland Police Service. During that
time he has contributed to the development of the QPS Mediator Training
Program, undertaken ongoing research into the reasons why police and staff
members leave the service, and written a report on the dearth of women
in operational leadership positions in the QPS. Simon has a Bachelor of
Education degree and prior to joining the QPS, worked as a teacher with
Education Queensland and Southbank Institute of Technology and an electronics
technician.
Ken Byrne
Changing Police Culture: Evaluating Gender
Bias In Applicants
Dr Byrne is a Clinical and Forensic Psychologist with thirty-five years
experience. He is the Director of the Australian Institute of Forensic
Psychology, which provides pre-employment psychological screening to a
wide variety of organisations concerned with public safety. Dr Byrne was
an instructor in the Police Prosecutors Course for Victoria Police for
many years. He also served as an instructor in the Video And Audio Taped
Evidence (VATE) program with Victoria Police. Dr Byrne has also directed
a number of research studies on the outcomes of police recruit selection
in Australia.
Sara Charlesworth
Dr Sara Charlesworth is a senior research fellow at RMIT University. She
has a background in social work, industrial relations and legal studies.
Saras research interests include gender equality in employment,
the workplace impact of industrial and anti-discrimination legislation;
and the intersection of work & family. Sara has recently completed
an ARC Linkage grant with Victoria Police investigating the constraints
and opportunities for quality part-time work in policing. Sara and her
colleague Kerri Whittenbury were nominated for the 2006 ACWAP Monash University
Criminology Excellence in Research on Improving Policing for Women Award.
Sara also holds an ARC Post-Doctoral Fellowship and is completing a project
around discourses of discrimination in the workplace.
Sue Christie
Sue works for NZ Police at their Police National Headquarters as HR Manager
Organisational and Employee Development. The focus of this role is to
develop leadership and management programmes which will ensure that NZ
Police have highly capable people at all ranks who are able to lead NZ
Police into the future. Sue is an experienced HR professional who has
worked in a wide range of HR activities in a number of organisations both
as a manager and as a consultant. She has also worked as union organiser
in Christchurch In her previous role she worked at the Ministry of Social
Development as General Manager Human Resources and she supported the development
of MSD to the stage where it is regarded as a benchmark for human resource
management in the state sector.
Rebecca Curran and Julianna Demetrius
The NSW Ombudsman's special report to Parliament - Domestic violence:
improving police practice - which was tabled in December. The report was
the result of comprehensive research and makes 44 recommendations, focusing
on three key areas: enhanced support for victims of domestic violence;
better cooperation between NSW Police and other agencies with key responsibilities,
especially the Department of Community Services and local courts; and
more effective frontline policing responses. Several of the recommendations
were picked in an announcement by the NSW Premier on domestic violence
policy.
Maria Degabriele and Vicki Hawes
Western Australia Office of Crime Prevention
Chrissy Esselink
Sergeant Christina Frances Esselink was sworn into the Queensland Police
Service in 1990. She has completed service in General Duties, Criminal
Investigation, Recruit Training and is currently performing duties as
a Shift Supervisor in the Toowoomba Watchhouse. Christina submitted a
paper to the 2003 CMC Inquiry into the Handling of sexual offences by
the criminal justice system and has been a guest speaker for a variety
of community groups such as Zonta, Probus, Rotary and the View clubs.
Barbara Etter
ACWAP
Leading by Example - Strategies for Success
Since 1996: Women Leading
Change
Barbara Etter is currently the Assistant Commissioner of Corruption Prevention
and Investigation with the Western Australia Police (WAPOL). She previously
headed up the Traffic and Operations, as well as the Professional Development,
portfolios. Prior to commencing with WAPOL in September 2004, she was
a Commander with the Northern Territory Police and the Director of the
Australasian Centre for Policing Research in Adelaide, on secondment,
from 1999 to 2004. Barbara holds a Pharmacy degree, an Honours law degree,
a Master of Business Administration in International Management and a
Master of Laws in Comparative Law. She is a Fellow of the Australian Institute
of Company Directors (FAICD), a Fellow of the Australasian College of
Biomedical Scientists (FACBS) and an Associate Fellow of the Australian
Institute of Management (AFAIM). She has been admitted as a barrister
and legal practitioner in NSW and the NT respectively. She is also an
Adjunct Associate Professor within the School of Law and Justice at Edith
Cowan University and has been a member of several Boards. She is currently
on the Board of the RSPCA and in October 2006, Barbara won the WA Telstra
Businesswoman of the Year, after having also won the Hudson Community
and Government category of the Award.
Jenny Fleming
Since 1996: The Police Unions
Professor Jenny is an active member of the Australasian Council of Women
and Policing and has been working with police organisations both in Australia
and the UK/ US for over 15 years. Jenny is a member of several other boards
including the Alcohol and Other Drugs Council Board of Australia, the
Australian Council of Women and Police, the Australian Crime Prevention
Council, and Crimestoppers Australia. Jenny was recently appointed academic
panel adviser to the Criminology Research Council at the Australian Institute
of Criminology in Canberra. Jenny’s research interests include police
management, police. Government relations, police-community partnerships
and organisational change. She has published widely both nationally and
internationally in these areas. Her recent book, (with Jennifer Wood),
Fighting Crime Together; The Challenge of Policing and Security Networks
was published in October 2006.
Maree Foelz
Great Expectations
Sergeant Maree Foelz is currently a member of the QPS Womens Advisory
Group (WAG) Network Executive, having represented the South East Region
as the WAG Network Coordinator since the inception of the Network in 1996
until October 2004. As a member of the WAG Network, Maree co-developed
the Proposed Implementation Plan for the Pilot Mentoring Program 1997.
This led to the implementation of a Service-wide Mentoring Program and
the Career Planning and Management Strategy, which remains a current strategy
for the QPS. Maree has presented papers at the Second Australasian Women
and Policing(ACWAP) Conference 1999, the 40th IAWP joint ACWAP Conference
in Canberra in 2002; and the 2005 ACWAP Conference in Darwin; the first
titled Improving the relationship between policing and women in
the community, the second titled Getting Connected In Logan
River Valley Police and Community Services coordinated Response
to Domestic Violence, and the third titled Workplace Conflict
Management Workshops.
Leigh Gassner, Tania Farha, Rachael Green and Rhonda
Cumberland
Victoria Police and Family Violence Coordination Office, Department for
Victorian Communities
Andrea Heath
Andrea Heath has worked in various roles supporting Tasmanian communities
for over 22 years in both the public and non-government sectors. Andrea
worked as a Police Officer with Tasmania Police for 12 years. She has
worked with the Tasmanian Child Accident Prevention Foundation (Kidsafe
Tasmania), the Drug Education Network and undertaken contract work for
Community Youth Justice within the Department of Health and Human Services.
In 2003 Andrea returned to the Department of Police and Emergency Management
in Tasmania as an unsworn member to undertake a research project on community
safety. Since completing that project, Andrea has worked in the Business
Projects Unit managing projects for the Department. In February 2007,
Andrea was appointed Assistant Director (Operations and Resources), for
the Tasmanian State Emergency Service.
Janet Hope
Inspector Janet Hope has been with the New Zealand Police for 27 years
and is currently working as the Rodney Area Commander where she is responsible
for six stations at Orewa, Whangaparäoa, Kumeu, Helensville, Wellsford
and Warkworth and two single-officer stations at Mangawhai and Mahurangi.
She has worked in management roles in the Auckland and Bay of Plenty Districts
and at the Northern Communications Centre based in Grey Lynn as well as
a wide range of operational roles in general duties branch. Janet was
awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal in recognition of her
work on the Police planning team for the 1990 Commonwealth Games in a
logistics and staffing role. In October 2004 Janet was Highly Commended
as a Most Outstanding Female Leader by the Australasian Women in Policing
and was awarded a Queens Service Medal in the 2005 New Year honours.
Leonie Jacques
Missing Persons
Leonie is the Coordinator of theNational Missing Persons Coordination
Centre (NMPCC) in the Australian Federal Police. She has a Bachelor of
Social Work (Honours) and was a Fellow Churchill in 2002 when she studied
the international social policy response and provision of services for
the families, friends and significant others of people who are missing.
Her previous position was the Manager of the Families and Friends of Missing
Persons Unit in the NSW Attorney General's Department and she has a number
of published papers on missing persons.
Paul Jevtovic
On Criminal Siliences:
Gender Based Violence in Timor Leste
Assistant Commissioner Paul Jevtovic APM, National Manager, International
Deployment Group commenced his career with the Australian Federal Police
in 1982 in Melbourne and has worked in arange of investigative fields
including, narcotics, organised crime and fraud, Internal Security, the
Management of Serious Crime Project Team and community policing (Fraud
Squad) in the ACT. In 1996 was appointed the Legal Attaché (Police
Liaison) with the Australian Embassy in the Philippines and in 1998 was
promoted to the position of Coordinator North Queensland (Cairns, Townsville
and Thursday Island). In 2001, he was appointed the AFPs Director
Operations for Queensland and Northern Territory and in August 2003 was
appointed to the position of General Manager Northern Region (Qld &
Darwin) and later the Manager of the Brisbane Office. In January 2005,
Paul moved back to Canberra and undertook the role of Manager Border until
April 2005 when he was promoted to Assistant Commissioner, National Manager,
International Deployment Group (IDG) responsible for all of the AFPs
off shore capacity building and deployments. He is also responsible for
the delivery of the recently announced IDG Futures Strategy and is the
mentor of the AFPs Sydney office.
Jan Jordan
Fighting crime; forging alliances:
police responses to rape victims
Dr Jan Jordan is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Criminology, within
the School of Social and Cultural Studies, Victoria University of Wellington,
New Zealand. She teaches courses primarily related to issues of gender
and crime; policing; and sexual violence. She is a regular contributor
to police sexual assault training courses, and in 2004 published a book
- The Word of a Woman? Police, Rape and Belief - based on her analysis
of New Zealand police sexual assault investigations.
Roberta Julian
Roberta Julian (PhD) is Associate Professor and Director of the Tasmanian
Institute of Law Enforcement Studies at the University of Tasmania and
Immediate Past President of The Australian Sociological Association. A/Prof
Julian has an international reputation in migrant and refugee studies,
with a particular interest in refugee women, and a track record in applied
social research. She has been Chief Investigator for a series of projects
that examined knowledge and awareness of forensic science among police
in Tasmania, South Australia, and Victoria; evaluations of youth diversion
programs; and is involved in conducting the first Australian trial of
an innovative alcohol misuse prevention approach known as Social
Norms. In 2004 she was awarded a three-year Australian Research
Council (ARC) Linkage Grant to examine issues surrounding community policing
and refugee settlement in Tasmania. She is supervising Barbara Stewarts
doctoral research.
Kerry Lofdahl
Interviewing Indigenous Women and Children
as Victims of Crime in Rural and Remote Areas of Queensland
Kerry Lofdahl is a Plain Clothes Senior Constable in the Mount Isa Child
Protection and Investigation Unit of the Queensland Police Service. She
joined the QPS in January, 2000 and has worked in a number of Indigenous
communities in Cape York. Her policing focus has been the under-reporting
of systemic child abuse in aboriginal communities and the challenges faced
for aboriginal women and children when dealing with the judicial system
in Queensland. She also has a strong welfare interest for other police
officers, understanding how arduous and challenging the environment can
be for police officers in rural and remote areas and has served at the
Secretary to the Queensland Police Union (QPU) Mount Isa Branch and was
elected the QPU Mount Isa Branch President in August 2006. Kerry has almost
completed her Master of Business (HR major) and has a Postgraduate Diploma
in Management, and a Bachelor of Business (HR) and Diploma of Public Safety
(Policing).
Linley Lord
Linley is the Director of the Master of Leadership and Management Program
and the Coordinator of Futures and Foresight Studies program at the Graduate
School of Business, Curtin. Linley teaches organizational behaviour, futures
and foresight studies and scenario planning as well as giving guest lectures
in a number of other post graduate units around organizational change,
women in leadership and futures methodologies. Her research interests
include strategy and scenario planning, leadership, organizational language,
gender issues, equal opportunity and organizational change. Linley is
currently completing her Doctor of Business Administration research in
the area of gender and leadership.
Linda Mayberry
Colonel Linda B. Mayberry, (ret.) is Executive Director of the US Rural
Domestic Preparedness Consortium (RDPC). The RDPC was established through
Congressional legislation and by the US Department of Homeland Security
as the national hub for rural communities and emergency responders to
assist in the implementation of national homeland security strategies
to prevent, respond to and recover from domestic terrorist attacks, major
disasters and other emergencies. The RDPC is housed within the Justice
and Safety Center at Eastern Kentucky University. Mrs. Mayberry is a career
police officer retiring from the Kentucky State Police following twenty
four years of service. During which time she held the distinction of being
the first female to command a state police post and the first to serve
in a staff position. A variety of board and committee memberships have
included the International Associations of Chiefs of Police Highway
Safety Committee and the State and Provincial Retired Officers Association.
She co-chairs the International Association of Women Police International
Scholarship Committee. She has served on the Kentucky Emergency Management
Commission Board, the Kentucky Law Enforcement Issues Committee and the
Kentucky Office of Homeland Security Training Consortium. She is a graduate
of Leadership Kentucky. Mrs. Mayberry is a co-founder of the Kentucky
Women in Law Enforcement Network (KWLEN) and currently serves as president
of the organization. She routinely serves as a speaker and presenter on
issues related to her experiences. Mrs. Mayberry holds a MPA in Human
Resource Management from Kentucky State University and a BS in Police
Administration from Eastern Kentucky University.
Jude McCulloch
Prior to working in universities, Associate Professor Jude McCulloch worked
as a lawyer for 16 years. Her practices as a lawyer involved providing
legal services to disadvantaged members of the community, running test
cases, involvement in law reform, and developing legal policy at all levels.
Jude has researched and published on topics including, police shootings,
crime and the media, women and policing, family violence, policing dissent,
paramilitary policing, counter-terrorism, globalization and the 'war on
terror'. Associate Professor McCulloch is currently part of a four person
research team investigating Community Policing and Culturally Diverse
Communities as part of an Australian Research Council Linkage grant with
the Victoria Police. Jude is also leading a team of researchers funded
through the Australian Research Council Discovery grant program investigating
legislation and measures relating to the Suppression of Financing of Terrorism.
Helen McDermott
Since 1996: The Australasian Council
of Women and Policing
Helen McDermott is the Vice President of the Australasian Council of Women
and Policing and was the Council’s inaugural Secretary. Helen was
a policy advisor with the Australian Federal Police until 1999, working
in operational, inter-governmental and ministerial areas. She was also
a national official with the Australian Federal Police Association representing
police and staff members at both the local and national levels. Helen
has also been one of the principal organisers for the Australasian Women
and Policing series of conferences, and most recently managed the 2005
Improving Policing for Women in the Asia Pacific Region. She has written
many articles and presented key papers on feminism, police unions, policing
and human rights. Helen’s paid work is providing policy advice on
women’s policy issues arising from the work of APEC forums.
Ann McEvoy
Older And Wiser: The
Journey For Women In Policing
Detective Superintendent Ann McEvoy has been in policing since 1974 and
with the AFP since 1979. The first trimester of her career involved obtaining
experience in all facets of community policing. During the second trimester
she served in the national and international policing sphere including
a posting as liaison officer in Bangkok. Her more recent career focus
has been on integrity investigations and the provision of support services
for staff raising issues of unethical and corrupt behaviour, and as Coordinator
of worklife diversity teams which address issues relating to the AFPs
culture and work environment. As a reflection of her commitment to policing
and diversity issues Ann is also a member of the Gay and Lesbian Liaison
Officer network (GLLO), has presented at a number of conferences including
the First Australasian Women Police Conference in 1996, and received the
Australian Police Service Medal in 2000. Ann was the 2004 recipient of
the Australasian Council of Women and Policings Most Outstanding
Female Administrator Award for turning the rhetoric about equity and flexible
work practices into practice. For the last two years, as the Officer in
Charge of the Crime Prevention Portfolio ACT Policing she has been responsible
for building partnerships and alliances with the diverse sectors of government
and the private sector to introduce strategies to support a safer Canberra
community. She is currently managing a national project to consider the
feasibility of in vehicle data recording technology to enhance AFP service
delivery.
Kim McKay
Superintendent Kim McKay, Commander Manly Local Area Command, NSW Police
Superintendent McKay’s background is in the investigation and management
of major crime. After joining the New South Wales Police Force in 1980
she quickly moved into criminal investigation and ultimately the Adult
Sexual Assault Squad, CIB where she specialised in investigating serial
sex offenders. From there she was transferred to the Homicide Squad, North
Region. During her time here she arrested a serial child sex offender
operating on the Lower North Shore, referred to as ‘Spiderman’
who was responsible for eleven sexual assaults. He received a twenty year
sentenced and subsequently died of AIDS in gaol. She was also an investigator
on the North Shore Murder Task Force, the investigation into the serial
homicides of elderly women, and a member of the ‘Oak’ Taskforce
investigating the murder of Dr Victor Chang. Previously she has relieved
as Chief of Staff to the Commissioner and been the Commander of the Gangs
Squad. Prior to this she was the Commander of the Child Protection and
Sex Crimes Squad. This Squad has 172 staff in 22 locations around the
state. They investigate serial sexual assault, as well as complex protracted
matters involving paedophiles. The Child Protection Register monitors
the management of all Registered Sex Offenders and with the assistance
of investigators proactively targets high-risk recidivist offenders. The
Child Exploitation Internet Unit investigates paedophiles using the Internet
to commit sex crimes.
Abby McLeod
Dr Abby McLeod is a postdoctoral fellow at The Australian National University.
Her primary research interests are the cultural impediments to police
reform in the Pacific and women's legal issues in Papua New Guinea. In
2006 the Australasian Council of Women and Policing awarded Abby the Monash
University Criminology Excellence in Research on Improving Policing for
Women Award.
Valli Mendez
Ms Mendez is the co-ordinator of Melbourne-based NGO Project Respect,
has been working in the community sector for nine years. She previously
worked as a drama and dance teacher in secondary schools. Her strong interest
in community arts led her to the study of community development. She worked
for three years at the East Timor Human Rights Centre in Melbourne documenting
human rights violations in East Timor, and has been a part of Project
Respect since 2002.
Currently, Valli is working with the Brunswick Women's Theatre to develop
a two year theatre project as a means of community education on issues
around prostitution and trafficking. She is also involved with developing
a business plan for a future "community enterprise" project
that would offer trafficked women the opportunity to learn small business
skills. Valli has secured a three-funding agreement with the Victorian
State Government for Project Respect to offer emergency accommodation
to trafficked women who are ineligible for Federal Government support.
Moses Montesh
Policing in South Africa: a case of
affirmative action and employment equity in the South African Police Service
Moses Montesh joined the South African Police in 1993. Between 1994 and
2000, he studied part time and he obtained a Diploma, BA POL, BA POL (HONS)
and a Masters in Public Administration. In 1998, he was transferred to
the police Training Head Office where he presented management training
to police offi cials from Captain to Senior Superintendent. In 2000 he
was promoted to the rank of a Captain and moved to Crime Prevention Division.
In October 2001, the leadership of Police and Prison Civil Rights Union
(POPCRU) negotiated with the police management for his secondment to the
union on full time basis as a labour relations officer. At the beginning
of 2004 he joined the University of South Africa as a Senior Lecturer
in Policing. He is busy with his PHD in Policing and will be graduating
in September 2007
Sally Moyle
Sally Moyle has been the Gender Adviser for AusAID, Australia's aid agency,
since August 2006. In this role she provides advice and technical assistance
across Australia's development program to ensure that women's interests,
rights and perspectives are considered in all development work as much
as men's. Before this, Sally was the Director of the Sex Discrimination
Unit in the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, from December
1997. The most recent project of the unit was the Striking the Balance
project on women, men, work and family which Sally helped to initiate.
Sally has also been a team leader at the Australian Law Reform Commission
and a senior investigator at the Office of the New South Wales Ombudsman,
as well as a lawyer and academic.
Juani O'Reilly
On Criminal Silences:
Gender Based Violence in Timor Leste
Juani O'Reilly is a Federal Agent with the Australian Federal Police.
She joined the AFP in 1981 and has worked in a number of operational areas
within ACT Policing. Juani completed graduate studies in Primary Health
Care (Addiction Studies) at Flinders University, which led Juani to develop
the position of Drug and Alcohol Coordinator. In this position she was
presented with a number of awards in recognition of her significant achievement
in the reduction of alcohol and other drug related harm. Juani was the
inaugural Federal Agent in residence at the Australian National University's
Research School of Social Science and bore primary responsibility for
managing the 'Governance of Illicit Synthetic Drugs' research project.
Juani is currently attached to 'Policing the Neighbourhood' research project
which is exploring Australian Peacekeeping, Capacity building and development
in Timor Leste, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.
Sandra Scicluna
Dr Sandra Scicluna has been lecturing and co-ordinating course for the
Institute of Forensic Studies, University of Malta, for these last nine
years. She presently holds the post of lecturer. Her PhD thesis focused
on prison history and the development of punishment in Malta. She delivers
lectures on corrections, organised crime, substance abuse and research.
She holds a first degree in Psychology (her dissertation dealt with Children
with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties) and a Masters degree obtained
from Leicester University UK. Sandras Masters dissertation
dealt with the Need and Management of a Correctional Day Centre in Malta.
Barbara Stewart
Barbara Stewart (B.A.Hons) is a PhD candidate with the Tasmanian Institute
of Law Enforcement Studies at the University of Tasmania. She completed
her Honours degree in 2003 researching the influence of police culture
on policewomen. She is continuing her interest in the area of policewomen,
researching the effects of socialisation on policewomen's choice of a
career in a male dominated workplace.
Caroline Taylor
Dr Caroline Taylor is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the University
of Ballarat. She is author of 'Court licensed abuse' ( and 'Surviving
the Legal System: a handbook for Adult and Child Sexual Assault Survivors
and Their Supporters' and many other journal articles, book chapters and
reports. She currently leads two Australian Research Council Grants examining
aspects of police response and investigation of adult sexual offences.
Caroline was awarded (as co-winner) the 2000-2001 Jean Martin Award, a
biennial award for the best PhD in social sciences from an Australian
university. In 2006, she received a High Commendation from Human Rights
and Equal Opportunity Commission for her work in the area of sexual violence
and commitment to the human rights of children and women, and was included
in the 2007 edition of the Who's Who of Australian Women.
Natalie Taylor
Dr Natalie Taylor is a Senior Research Analyst with the Australian Institute
of Criminology and Manager of the AIC's Justice and Crime Analysis Program.
She received her PhD in Psychology from the Australian National University
in 2000. Prior to her appointment at the AIC in 2001, Natalie was a part
time Associate Lecturer at the Australian National University and then
a post doctoral fellow in the Research School of Social Sciences at the
ANU. Natalie's primary fields of research at the AIC currently relate
to sexual assault, domestic and family violence and juvenile justice.
She recently completed a report investigating community attitudes to violence
against women in Victoria and has overseen a research project investigating
criminal justice responses to sexual violence in diverse communities.
She has published a number of articles on crime and victimisation both
in AIC publications and refereed journals.
Therese Walsh
Inspector Therese Walsh works in the Crime Prevention and Neighbourhood
Watch State Coordination Office of the Victoria Police. She has an Associate
Diploma in Recreational Leadership, a Graduate Certificate in Police Management,
a Diploma in Frontline Management, and a Masters in Education (Research).
Carolyn Worth
Carolyn Worth trained as a social worker in the late 1970's. She worked
in residential care and the Family Court of Australia before becoming
the Manager of the South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault in 1992.
Fifteen years later she is still working in the sexual assault and family
violence fields having come full circle from the early 1970s and
the Women Against Rape and Women's Liberation Halfway House Collective.
Training Workshops
Susan Harwood
Dr Susan Harwood devised and delivered the Australasian Council of Women
and Policing highly successful Women Leading Change project. In 2004 both
Susan and her colleague Dr Joan Eveline were awarded the Councils
Griffith University prize for Excellence in Research on Improving Policing
for Women. Susan has worked with the Western Australia Police in their
Redressing the gendered workplace culture of policing project
including the establishment of the Leadership Development for Women
Program at the WA Police Academy.
Alan A. Malinchak
Alan Malinchak honorably served in the U.S. Navy (1969 - 1973); attended
The University of Michigan (B.G.S. with Distinction, 1975), The Florida
State University (M.S., Criminology, 1977); The Rutgers University (A.B.D.,
Criminal Justice, 1984) and is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at Northcentral
University (Business Administration, 2007). Mr. Malinchak's academic career
included being a tenured Associate Professor, St. Thomas Aquinas College
(1979-1984), as well as Adjunct Professor at The University of Virginia
(1992 - 1995) and George Mason University (2002 - 2005). Mr. Malinchak
has numerous publications including Crime and Gerontology, Prentice-Hall,
1980. In 1984, Mr. Malinchak was appointed a Special Agent of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and during his career held several investigative
and leadership positions, retiring in 2004 as the Chief of the FBI's Leadership
Development Institute. Mr. Malinchak began his corporate career as the
Director of Professional Development and Training for Gray Hawk Systems
and in January 2006 joined ManTech International Corporation and currently
serves as the Chief Learning Officer and Vice President of ManTech University.
In October 2006, Mr. Malinchak was recognized by Chief Learning Officer
Magazine and received the Gold Award for Achievement Impact for a corporate
university.
Mangai Natarajan
Dr Mangai Natarajan is a professor in the Dept. of Sociology at John Jay
College of Criminal Justice in New York. She is an active policy-oriented
researcher who has published widely in three areas: drug trafficking;
women police and domestic violence. In her doctorate she compared the
work and ambitions of women officers in India and the United States and
ever since that first study she has continued to study the role of women
police in India. She has pulled this work together in a book titled Women
Policing in a Changing Society: Back Door to Equality, to be published
by Ashgate Publishing, UK. In 2005, she published an encyclopedia on Women
Police and she has just completed an encyclopedia on Domestic
Violence: The Five Big Questions, both for Ashgate Publishing,
UK. Her wider academic interests revolve around crime theories that promote
crime reduction policy thinking and her related areas of expertise include
social network analysis, crime mapping and crime analysis, problem oriented
policing and situational crime prevention. Dr. Natarajan is not only an
active researcher but is also a dedicated teacher. She teaches in the
undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. programs and is the founding coordinator
of the International Criminal Justice Major, one of the fast growing and
popular majors at John Jay. She recently published a text for use in the
major titled International Crime and Justice (McGraw-Hill, 2005), consisting
of 50 short chapters that she commissioned from international experts.
Dr. Natarajan presented papers at the second and fourth conferences of
the Australasian Council of Women and Policing. She also conducts workshops
periodically on problem oriented policing, domestic violence and dealing
with trafficking of women.