Contact Details
p: +61 2 9514 3935
f: +61 2 9514 3400
Location
Faculty of Law
Cnr Quay St & Ultimo Road
Haymarket NSW 2007
Room# CM05C.03.15a
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Mailing Address
UTS:LAW
P.O. Box 123
Broadway NSW 2007
AUSTRALIA
Areas of Expertise
› Evidence
(especially photographic evidence)
› Crime and Criminology
› Indigenous People and the Law
Current Teaching
70717 Evidence
and Criminal Procedure
Academic Profile
Katherine is a legal scholar, criminologist and historian who joined the Law Faculty in 2008. Katherine researches crime and evidence, with a specific focus on photography, visual culture, and adversarial litigation. With a background in community legal centres, Katherine studies the relationship between social disadvantage and transgression.
Current Research Activities
Improving the Use of Photographic Identification Evidence in the Criminal Justice System.
'Facial mapping', 'Body mapping' and Expert Identification Evidence.
The Right to Silence.
Recent Publications
Book
Captive Images: Race, Crime, Photography, London, Routledge-Cavendish (GlassHouse Press), 2007.
Refereed Journal Articles
"Beseiged at Home: Jimmy Governor's Rampage", Public Space, vol 2, 2008
"Photographs and Labels: Against a criminology of innocence", Law Text Culture, vol 10, 2006.
"The spectre of crime: Photography, law and ethics", Social Semiotics, Vol 16.1, February 2006.
"Cannibals and Colonialism", Sydney Law Review, Vol 27, No 4, December 2005.
"On not speaking: The right to silence, the gagged trial judge and the spectre of child sexual abuse", Alternative Law Journal, Vol 30(1), February 2005.
"Being/Nothing: Native title and fantasy fulfilment", Indigenous Law Journal (Canada), Vol 3, Fall 2004.
"The Hooded Bandit: Aboriginality, Photography and Criminality in Smith v The Queen", Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Vol 3, No 3, March 2002.
Editor of Refereed Journals
Law Text Culture, volume 10, 2006. "The trouble with pictures", co-edited with Mehera San Roque.
Macquarie Law Journal, volume 6, 2006. "Customs in Common: Law, Culture, Memory", co-edited with Nicole Graham.
Review Essays
"Book Review: Framed: Women in Law and Film, by Orit Kamir", Australian Feminist Studies, Vol 22, No 54, 2007.
"Book Review: Law's Moving Image", Social & Legal Studies, Vol 15, December 2006, pp 607-609.
"Book Review: Murdering Holiness", by Jim Phillips and Rosemary Gartner, Australian Journal of Legal History, Vol 9, 2005, pp131-134.
"Bowling for Paranoid Nationalism - A review of Michael Moore's film Bowling for Columbine after reading Ghassan Hage's book Against Paranoid Nationalism", Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Vol 14, No 3, March 2003 (co-written with Tim Stephens).
The Hidden Gender of Law, by Regina Graycar and Jenny Morgan, Sydney Law Review, Vol 24, No 4, December 2002.
Opinion Pieces
"Looking and knowing: Juries and photographic evidence", Reform (Australian Law Reform Commission), Issue 90, Winter 2007.
"The Innocents': judgment in art, law and deviancy", OnLine Opinion, Thursday 13 October, 2005.
"Sexual assault victims deserve confidentiality" (co-written with Jill Hunter), Sydney Morning Herald, Friday May 13, 2005.
"Many shades of grey in white argument on black deaths", Sydney Morning Herald, Monday December 23, 2002.
"Hollywood's take on a good Aussie bloke", Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday, March 12, 2002.
Committee Membership and Involvement with Community-Based Organisations
Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney - Management Committee (2008 - present)
Redfern Legal Centre (1992-2002)
Intellectual Disability Rights Service (1996)
Macquarie Legal Centre (2005-2007)
Australian National Playwrights' Centre (2003)
Editorial Boards
Public Space
Campus Review
Alternative Law Journal (NSW convenor)