Professor Mark Israel

Adjunct Professor
Email:	mark.israel@flinders.edu.au
Qualfications:	SFHEA DPhil (Sociology) Oxon, MA (Law) Cantab, MPhil (Criminology) Cantab, Grad Cert Tertiary Education (Flinders), MEd Studies (Flinders)

Brief Biography

Mark has a degree in law from Cambridge and postgraduate qualifications in sociology, criminology and education from Oxford, Cambridge and Flinders respectively. Between 1988 and 1992, Mark lectured in the United Kingdom. He came to Flinders University in 1993. At the end of 2009, Mark was appointed Winthrop Professor of Law and Criminology in the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Australia.

In 2004, Mark won the Prime Minister's Award for Australian University Teacher of the Year. He also received the national award for teaching in the Law, Economics, Business and Related Studies category. He has been awarded an Associate Fellowship by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. Mark is looking at the development of university leadership in learning and teaching.

He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) in the United Kingdom, and is an External Examiner at the University of Hong Kong and an Academic Advisor to the City University of Hong Kong.

Recent Teaching

Mark teaches criminology within the Law, BA and BBSc programs. He would be very happy to hear from potential postgraduate research students (LLM, MA, PhD) who are looking for supervision.

Research Interests

He has published in the areas of: criminology (crime and the media, state violence, community corrections, victims), research ethics, higher education (teaching criminology and law), and racism (racial discrimination in recruitment, indigenous under-representation on juries, antisemitism).

His recent editorial roles have included being Associate Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, and Criminal Justice Ethics and Pacific Rim Editor for Critical Criminology: an International Journal. He is also a member of the Editorial Boards of Teaching Sociology, Enhancing Learning in the Social Sciences, Journal of Academic Ethics, Research Ethics Review and the Journal of Empirical Research on Human-Research Ethics.

In 1999 and 2000, he was the winner of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology's Young Scholar Award. In 2005, he received the Radzinowicz Memorial Prize from the British Journal of Criminology and, in 2006, the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the Critical Criminology Division of the American Society of Criminology. Mark's current research interests include: research ethics in criminology, socio-legal studies and, more generally, in social science; learning and teaching in criminology and law; social exclusion in the context of race and jury selection, and state and state-corporate crime.

Recent Publications

Mark is author of South African Political Exile in the United Kingdom published by Palgrave Macmillan (1999) and Ethics and the Governance of Criminological Research in Australia (NSW Government, 2004), co-author (with Iain Hay) of Research Ethics for Social Scientists: Between Ethical Conduct and Regulatory Compliance (Sage, 2006) and co-editor of Internfational Victimology (Australian Institute of Criminology, 1996), Criminal Justice in Diverse Communities (Federation, 2000), Crime and Justice in Australia (Lawbook Company, 2003), and Crime and Justice: a Guide to Criminology (Lawbook Company, 2006).

Selected Publications

Community Involvement

Mark is available to undertake consultancy in higher education, research ethics and criminology. He has acted as a consultant to various institutions and agencies, including the New South Wales and South Australian Governments, CSIRO and the National Health and Medical Research Council, and on educational matters to a range of universities and private Higher Education Providers in Australia, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. He is a member of the new SACE Board of South Australia.

Expertise for Community and Media Contact

Criminology, research ethics, higher education policy and practice.