Dr Meredith Rossner
Qualifications
BA in Sociology and English, University of Pennyslvania
MA in Sociology, University of Pennyslvania
PhD in Sociology and Criminology, University of Pennyslvania
Biography
Meredith Rossner joined the Justice Research Group on the Bankstown campus as a Research Fellow in October 2009. Dr Rossner received her PhD in Sociology and Criminology from the University of Pennsylvania. She has conducted original research on the emotional dynamics and crime reduction potential of face-to-face restorative justice meetings with offenders and victims of serious crime. More broadly, she is interested in how people think about, talk about, and create 'justice' in our society.
Research areas
Dr Rossner's research interests include restorative justice, criminology theory, social interactions, and the sociology of emotions. At the Justice Research Group Dr Rossner is involved in research on the emotional and ritual dynamics of justice processes, with a particular focus on juries. Using data from the ARC funded Juries and Interactive Visual Evidence (JIVE) research project, she will explore how jurors co-produce narratives of justice.
Dr Rossner is also a part of the ARC Discovery project on the role of democratic deliberation and deference to authority in juries; and she will be involved in a research project on court safety and security which is examining the social-psychological implications of people moving through court spaces.
Selected publications
Rossner, M. and Tait, D.(2011 forthcoming). 'Contested Emotions: Adversarial Rituals in Non adversarial Justice Procedures.' Monash University Law Review.
Rossner, M. (2011). 'Emotions and Interaction Ritual: A Micro-Analysis of Restorative Justice.' British Journal of Criminology 51: 95-119.
Rossner, M. (2011). 'Reintegrative Ritual: Restorative Justice and Micro-Sociology'. In Strang, H., Karstedt, S., and Loader, I. (eds), Emotions, Crime and Justice. Onati International Series on Law and Society, Oxford, UK: Hart Publications.
Delahunty, J., Rossner, M. & Tait D. (2010).‘Simulation and dissimulation in jury research: Credibility in a live mock trial,’ in Bartels, L. and Richards, K. (eds), Qualitative Criminology: Stories from the Field, Sydney: Federation Press.
Rossner, M. (2008). “Healing Victims and Offenders and Reducing Crime: A Critical Assessment of Restorative Justice Practice and Theory.” Sociology Compass. 2(6): 1734-1749.
Sherman, L., Strang, H., Woods, D., Rossner, M., Angel, C., Barnes, G., Bennett, S., and Inkpen, N., (2005). “Effects of Face to Face Restorative Justice on Victims of Crime in Four Randomized, Controlled Trials. Journal of Experimental Criminology. 1:367-395.
Manuscripts under review
Rossner, M., Delahunty, J., & Tait, D. ‘Students as mock-jurors: Measuring the impact of enhanced video technology on remote witness testimony.’
Rossner, M and Tait, D. ‘Jury deliberation as an interaction ritual: a microsociological analysis of a jury process.’
Recent Conference Presentations
2011, ‘How Jurors talk about Science.” Meeting of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists, Manly, Australia.
2010, ‘Jury Deliberation and Common Sense.’ Meeting of the Australian New Zealand Society of Criminology, Alice Springs, Australia.
2010 (with D. Tait), ‘Developing a Common Story: Co-Production of a Jury Narrative,’ Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, Ga, USA.
2010, (with E. Nankani) ‘Examining safety and security incidents across jurisdictions: a preliminary analysis,’ Third Annual Justice Environments Conference, Sydney, Australia
2009, ‘Emotional Justice: An Investigation of the Microdynamics of Restorative Justice Conferencing,’ Meeting of the Australian New Zealand Society of Criminology, Perth, Australia.
2009, ‘Interactions, Rituals, and Emotional Transformation Through Restorative Justice,’ Restorative Justice Symposium, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
2008, ‘Restorative Justice and Reoffending,’ Meeting of the American Society of Criminology. St. Louis, MO.
2007, ‘Short and Long Term Effects of Restorative Justice Conferences: Understanding how Ritual Works,’ Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, New York.
2006. ‘Conditions of a Successful Interaction: An Analysis of the Micro-Sociological Aspects of Court and Conferencing,’ Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada.
