Associate Professor Vicki Sentas
LLB/BA (JCU),听PhD (Monash),听Admitted to Supreme Court of NSW听
Dr Vicki Sentas joined the Faculty of Law听in July 2012 and is a senior lecturer. Vicki听researches processes of criminalisation and racialisation in law and policing.听 She teaches in criminal law, criminology and policing and coordinates the听, an experiential learning course, in partnership with听.
Her recent and current research projects examine: the effects of counter-terrorism practices on criminal justice and racialised听peoples; the criminalisation of armed conflicts, self-determination and diasporas through the use of security lists; police powers and their relationship to diverse forms of regulation including pre-emption and prosecution; police accountability and criminal justice reform.
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
听Research Supervision Award, ARC 2018
听
听
听
听
Memberships and Boards
Editorial Board,听听(2007-2022)
听
Appearances before听Parliamentary Committees (2018-):
- expert evidence to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security on the re-listing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party as a Terrorist Organisation (September 2018)
- expert evidence to the Law and Safety Committee, Legislative Assembly of NSW: Inquiry into the adequacy of youth diversionary programs in NSW (March 2018)
Submissions to Public Inquiries:
听1995,听听September 2018.听
, January 2018.
Redfern Legal Centre,听, September 2017 (co-authored with Sophie Parker)
Campaign Against Criminalising Communities,听Submission to the Joint Committee for Human Rights on the Terrorist Asset-Freezing Etc. Bill (UK),听October 2010.
Federation of Community Legal Centres (Vic.),听Submission听to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security,听Review of the re-listing of Hamas鈥 Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Kurdistan Workers Party, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations under the Criminal Code Act 1995,October 2009 (co-authored with Marika Dias)
Federation of Community Legal Centres (Vic.),听Submission听to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, Review of the re-listing of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) as a Terrorist Organisation,May 2008 (co-authored with Marika Dias)
Federation of Community Legal Centres (Vic.),听Submission听to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, Review of the listing provisions of the Criminal Code Act 1995,February 2007 (co-authored with Marika Dias)
Federation of Community Legal Centres (Vic.),听Submission听to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, Review of the listing of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) as a Terrorist Organisation,听January 2006
鈥Part III: Monitoring the Impact of Terrorism Laws on Muslim and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities鈥 (co-authored with Agnes Chong and Marika Dias) in, Combined Community Legal Centres鈥 Group (NSW) Inc. et al,听Australian NGO Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights,听March 2006
Federation of Community Legal Centres (Vic.),Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee, Anti-Terrorism Bill (No. 2) 2005听(Cth), November 2005(co-authored with Marika Dias)
听
My Research Supervision
- M. McElhone, 'Policing the 'Arab Other' in New South Wales' (jointly with D.Dixon and M.Grewcock)
- T. Hopkins, 'Preventing Racial Profiling' (jointly with J.Chan)
- S. Dametto,' Is the countering of terrorism financing through legislation an effective way to prevent terrorism? ' (jointly with J. Hunter and N.McGarrity)
- F. Ramsay, 'Sovereign Pleasures and Prohibitions: Law and Law Breaking in the Prohibition Era in the United States of America (1919-1933), (jointly with B.Golder)
- A.听Smith, working on techniques of offshore migration governance under the Security, Precarious Populations and the Neoliberal Age Scientia Project (jointly with B.Golder and D. McLoughlin)
- S.听Qadir, working on discourses of security and counter-terrorism in Pakistan under the Security, Precarious Populations and the Neoliberal Age Scientia Project (jointly with B.Golder and D.McLoughlin)
My Teaching
Crime and the Criminal Process
Police Powers Clinic