Professor Stephen Tomsen

• Qualifications
• Honours and Awards
• Selected Grants/Current Projects
• Selected Publications
• Contact Details

Stephen Tomsen is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He commenced at UWS in April, 2008; previously, he was the Assistant Dean/Research Training, Education and Arts at the University of Newcastle. Professor Tomsen has been a chief investigator on a variety of competitively funded research studies, and his published output includes six books and numerous refereed national and international articles and papers. Professor Tomsen’s areas of expertise include: Violent Crime; Hate Crime; Crime and Masculinities; Youth Crime, Drugs and Drinking; Access to Justice and Legal Services; Social Theory and Critical Ethnography.

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Qualifications

BA Honours 1 (Sociology/Legal Studies); PhD (Behavioural Sciences), Macquarie University, Australia

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Honours and Awards

2006, AHRB Research Centre in Law, Gender and Sexuality Fellowship, Universities of Keele, Kent and Westminster (UK)

1998, Inaugural winner of Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency, Kings College, University of London-Radzinowicz prize

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Selected Grants/Current Projects

ARC Discovery 2008-2010, ‘The City after Dark: the governance and lived experience of urban night-time culture’ (with Stevenson & Rowe).

• ARC Discovery 2003-2006, ‘Rethinking Social Intolerance: violence and safety at gay and lesbian events’ (with Mason & Markwell)
• Law Foundation of New South Wales/Victoria Law Institute/University of Newcastle 2000-2007, ‘Legal Citizenship/Legal Services’ (with Noone & Wright)
• New South Wales Attorney General’s Crime Prevention Division/New South Wales Health 2001-2002, ‘Young Men, Public Violence and Drinking’.
• Australian Criminology Research Council/Law Foundation of New South Wales 1996-1997, ‘Masculinity, Male Honour and Homicide Trials’.

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Selected Publications

Books

Tomsen, S. 2009, Violence, Prejudice and Sexuality, London & New York: Routledge Press.

Tomsen, S. (ed.) 2008, Crime, Criminal Justice and Masculinities: A Reader, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press.

Tomsen, S. and Noone, M. 2006, Lawyers, Conflict and Professional Change: Australian Lawyers and Legal Aid, Sydney: Federation Press.

Tomsen, S. and Donaldson, M. (eds) 2003, Male Trouble: Looking at Australian Masculinities, Melbourne: Pluto Press.

Tomsen, S. & Mason, G. (eds) 1997, Homophobic Violence, Sydney: Hawkins Press.

Tomsen, S., Cunneen, C. & Fraser, D. (eds) 1997, Faces of Hate: Hate Crime in Australia, Sydney: Hawkins Press.

Book Chapters

Tomsen, S. 2008, ‘Masculinity, Crime and Criminalisation’, in, Cunneen, C. & Anthony, T. (eds), The Critical Criminology Companion, Sydney: Federation Press.

Tomsen, S. 2008, ‘Introduction’, in, Tomsen, S. (ed.), Crime, Criminal Justice and Masculinities: A Reader, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press.

Tomsen, S. 2003, ‘Violence, Male Honour and Heterosexual Panic’, in, Tomsen, S. & Donaldson, M. (eds), Male Trouble: Looking at Australian Masculinities, Melbourne: Pluto Press, pp. 91-107.

Journal Articles

Tomsen, S. 2007-8, ‘Legal Services and Neo-Liberalism in an Unequal Legal Order’, Flinders Journal of Law Reform, 10(3): 609-620.

Tomsen, S. 2006, ‘Homophobic Violence, Cultural Essentialism and Shifting Sexual Identities’, Social and Legal Studies, 15(3): 389-407.

Tomsen, S. 2005, ‘“Boozers and Bouncers”: Masculine Conflict, Disengagement and the Contemporary Governance of Drinking-Related Violence and Disorder’, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 38(3): 283-297. [Reprinted in Tomsen, S. (ed.) 2008, Crime, Criminal Justice and Masculinities: A Reader, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press].

Tomsen, S. 2002, ‘Victims, Perpetrators and Fatal Scenarios: Research on Anti-Homosexual Homicides’, International Review of Victimology, 9(3): 253-272.

Tomsen, S. 2001, ‘Service beyond Self-Interest? Australian Lawyers, Legal Aid and Professionalism’, The International Journal of the Legal Profession, 8(3): 251-273.

Tomsen, S. & Mason, G. 2001, ‘Engendering Homophobia: Violence, Sexuality and Gender Conformity’, Journal of Sociology, 37(3): 265-287.

Tomsen, S. 1998, ‘Violence and Male Honour’, Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, 3(2): 44-57.

Tomsen, S. 1997, ‘A Top Night: Social Protest, Masculinity and the Culture of Drinking Violence’, The British Journal of Criminology, 37(1): 90-103. [Reprinted in: Stanko, E. (ed.) 2002, Violence, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, pp 90-102].

Tomsen, S. 1997, ‘Youth Violence and the Limits of Moral Panic’, Youth Studies Australia, 16(1): 25-30.

Tomsen, S. 1996, ‘Ruling Men: Comments on Masculinity and Juvenile Justice’, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 29(2): 191-195.

Tomsen, S. 1994, ‘Hatred, Murder and Male Honour’, Criminology Australia, 6(2): 2-7.

Tomsen, S. 1993, ‘The Political Contradictions of Policing and Countering Anti-Gay Violence in New South Wales’, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 5(2): 209-215.

Tomsen, S. & Homel. R. 1992, ‘Public Drinking and Violence’, Journal of Drug Issues, 22(3): 679-697.

Tomsen, S. 1992, ‘Professionalism and State Engagement: Lawyers and Legal Aid Policy in Australia in the 1970s and the 1980s’, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 28(3): 307-329.

Tomsen, S. ‘Violence, Public Drinking and Public Policy’, Current Affairs Bulletin, 68(7): 22-27.

Conference Papers

Tomsen, S. 2001, ‘Hate Crimes and Masculinity: New Crimes, New Responses and Some Familiar Patterns’, 4th National Outlook Symposium on Crime in Australia, Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.

Tomsen, S. 1996, ‘Homicides: Activism, Victims and Law and Order’, in, Sumner, C., Israel, M., O’Connell, M. & Sarre, R. (eds), International Victimology: Selected Papers from the Eighth International Symposium on Victimology, Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. Pp: 87-90.

Tomsen, S. & Homel, R. 1993, ‘Hot Spots for Violence: the Environment of Pubs and Clubs’, in, Strang, H. & Gerull, S. (eds), Homicide: Patterns, Prevention and Control, Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, pp. 53-66.

Reports

Tomsen, S. & Markwell, K. 2007, When the Glitter Settles: Safety and Hostility at and around Gay and Lesbian Public Events. Report to Australian Research Council.

Tomsen, S. 2005, Masculinity and Public Drinking Violence in the Newcastle/Hunter. Final Report to NSW Attorney-General’s Crime Prevention Division /NSW Health.

Tomsen, S. 2002, Hatred, Murder and Male Honour: Anti-Homosexual Killings in New South Wales (Research and Public Policy Series No. 43), Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.

Tomsen, S. 2003, Boozers and Bouncers: Masculinity and Public Drinking Violence in the Newcastle/Hunter. Report to NSW Attorney-General’s Crime Prevention Division /NSW Health.

Tomsen, S. 1996, Anti-Homosexual Killings in New South Wales: Victimisation and the Legal Response. Report to Australian Criminology Research Council.

Tomsen, S. & Homel, R. 1991, ‘The Problem of Violence in Licensed Premises: The Sydney Study’, in, Stockwell T., Lang E. & Rydon, P. (eds) The Licensed Drinking Environment: Current Research in Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne: National Centre for Research into the Prevention of Drug Abuse, pp. 33-40.

Tomsen, S., Homel, R. & Thommeny, J. 1990, ‘The Causes of Public Violence: Situational and Other Factors in Drinking-Related Assaults’, in, Chappell, D., Grobosky, P. and Strang, H. (eds), Australian Violence: Contemporary Perspectives, Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, pp. 177-194

Tomsen, S. & Homel, R. 1990, Situational Factors in Alcohol-Related Public Assaults. Report to National Committee on Violence/ National Drug Offensive.

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