Katherine has extensive experience working in the criminal justice system. She has worked in roles focused on child protection and child exploitation, youth justice, police intelligence, crime policy and research, victim support, and corrections. She is currently a member of the Parole Board of South Australia and has interviewed hundreds of people who have offended, including life-sentenced prisoners. She is an award-winning and internationally recognised teacher who joined Flinders Criminology in 2022. She has a professional interest in victimology, trauma-informed practice, sentencing, and violence against women and children. Her book, “Trauma-Informed Criminal Justice” was published by Springer in 2024.

She is a Senior Fellow, Advance HE, whose comprehensive understanding and effective practice provides a basis from which she leads and influences the learning and teaching practices of others. 

Jeremy has a passion for social justice and for teaching which he brings to his role as a lecturer in criminology at Flinders University. In 2012, Jeremy initiated and produced a series of public exhibitions of art from the South Australian adult prison system until 2019. During this time Jeremy also worked at the Department for Correctional Services where he developed policy and helped initiate and facilitate several creative projects across different prison and community sites. These involved engaging artists with people in prison, and using art to engage people in prison with the broader community. Art can be an effective and powerful medium for participation and communication between those on the inside and those on the outside. Art, and education alike, are both important forces for individual and social change.

With a passion for harm reduction and social justice, Andrew specialises in research on alcohol and other drug (AOD) use and its relationship with drug policy, and the experiences of young people.  His broader research interests and expertise include rural criminology, academic integrity (incl. contract cheating, AI), as well as the criminological challenges for victims in the criminal justice system. Andrew has published in leading international journals in each of these areas.

Andrew is an experienced and passionate teacher, who seeks to inspire students to take an active role in their own learning by harnessing their strengths, interests, and curiosity, and supporting them to build knowledge, confidence, and transferrable skills to achieve excellence within and beyond the criminal justice sector. 

Andrew also has experience working in the criminal justice system (at the South Australian Attorney-General's Department), and has completed research evaluations for various organisations, including The Salvation Army, Victim Support Service (SA), and the National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction.

Simone was admitted to practise as a barrister and solicitor in the Supreme Court of South Australia in 2004. Her research interests include serious youth offending, repeat incarceration and the prison. She began her legal career at the District Court of South Australia as a Judges Associate and has gone on to work as a Criminal Defence Solicitor with the Legal Services Commission of SA and also in private practise. Simone joined the law school in 2009 as Project Officer on the ARC funded project,Generativity in young male (ex)prisoners: Caring for self, other and future with and beyond prison. This research forms the basis of the book Young Offenders: Crime, Prison & Beyond (Halsey and Deegan, 2015) which was awaded the Australian and New Zealand Society for Criminology (ANZSOC) Margaret Alder Book Prize for it's outstanding contribution to Criminology (2017/2018).

Simone's doctorate, The Lives and Adjustment Patterns of Juvenile Lifers (2019) investigated opportunities for life-sentenced juveniles to cope, adjust and mature in prison environments and was awarded the Flinders University Vice Chancellors Medal for Doctoral Thesis Excellence (2020). In 2021, Simone was also awarded the ANZSOC New Scholar Prize for the best publication in Criminology for her work with families of juvenile homicide offenders. Until recently, Simone was also the Principal Advocate for all South Australian children and young people detained in training centres with the South Australian Office of the Guardian for Children and Young People.

Tahlia is an Associate Lecturer in Criminology (Teaching Specialist). Her research interests broadly focus on young people and cybercrime. Tahlia’s doctorate explored adolescent learnt skills and experiences within online environments intended for adult users (e.g., dating apps) to better understand and mitigate potential risks and harms to young people.

Tahlia was previously admitted to practise as a barrister and solicitor in the Supreme Court of South Australia in 2017 and the High Court of Australia in 2019. She has experience as both a litigation and commercial lawyer. Tahlia continues to practise law at the Flinders Legal Centre, which provides free legal advice and services to the community.

Zoe is an Associate Lecturer in Criminology (Teaching Specialist) and a part-time PhD candidate in the discipline of Gender Studies. Zoe’s doctoral research focuses on abortion decriminalisation, the discourses that operate to exceptionalise abortion-seekers, and the intersection of neoliberal rationality with discussions of decriminalisation. Zoe is also broadly interested in media and political discourses of deviancy and how we frame deviant bodies, particularly the bodies of women and gender-diverse people.

Zoe has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours), where she majored in Gender Studies and Social Analysis. She has been teaching in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences since 2021 and joined the Criminology team in late-2024. Zoe is also a member of the South Australian Abortion Action Coalition.

Tessa is a lecturer in criminology, with a professional background in social work spanning over eight years in youth services, primarily in the youth homelessness sector. During this time, she worked closely with criminalised young people, supporting them as they navigated systemic injustices and inequities. These experiences inspired her return to studies, where she completed a PhD that employed co-design and narrative methods to explore the everyday lives and lived experiences of criminalised young people. Her PhD challenged dominant silencing approaches by prioritising young people's agency and amplifying their voices in shaping the direction of the research. It critically examined the violences produced by dominant discourses of race, class, and gender, as well as the violences inherent in the broader carceral society and the formal carceral system. In 2022, Tessa was awarded the Catherine Helen Spence Memorial scholarship which enabled her to work with her research participants to co-produce an exhibition communicating their stories to a wider audience.

Tessa has tutored and lectured across a range of social work topics and has contributed to numerous research projects on issues including Aboriginal governance, housing and homelessness, and transitions for young people leaving guardianship care.

Rachel has two decades of experience within the criminal justice system, with a career spanning various roles and sectors. Initially starting as a social worker, supporting young people at risk of homelessness, particularly those escaping family and domestic violence. She then transitioned to a career with the South Australia Police (SAPOL), serving as a sworn police officer. Throughout her time with SAPOL, Rachel gained extensive experience in criminal investigations and prosecution, ultimately specialising as an in-court prosecutor in the Family and Domestic Violence Unit.

Her most recent industry experience was as a Senior Social Worker with the Department for Child Protection. In this role, she investigated child abuse notifications, with an emphasis on early intervention and preventative strategies for families involved with the child protection system.

Rachel is pursuing a PhD titled "Australian Police Responses to Children’s Harmful Sexual Behaviours." Her research explores police knowledge, responses, influences on police discretion, and current diversionary options available for children engaged in harmful sexual behaviour. She is also a member of the Australian Centre for Child Protection Advisory Board, serving as the HDR representative.