Doctor Michael Kennedy

Dr Michael Kennedy

Lecturer, Peace and Development Studies

• Biography 
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise 
• Grants / Current Projects 
• Selected Publications 
• Memberships and Engagement 
• Contact Details

Biography

Dr Michael Kennedy is the Head of UWS Bachelor of Policing programme. He is the author of The Police: Means, Ends and the Rule of Law, which is   Marxist-Gramscian challenge of class, agency, corruption and reform in   ‘progressive’ analyses of policing.

Between 1978 and 1996 Michael was a detective in the New South Wales Police. During this time Michael worked as a detective at the Bureau of Crime Intelligence, Organised Crime Squad, Major Crime Squad and the NSW State Crime Commission. Michael has also worked in partnership with the Brigade de répression du Proxénétisme and the Brigade du protection des Mineurs in Paris.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Michael's research interests are Ethics, Police Professionaisation, Policing Education, the Politics of Policing.

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Grants / Current Projects

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• Part of a successful collaborate team effort in negotiating a grant from NSW Police Counter Terrorist Unit to UWS Centre for Educational Research re bullying in schools.
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• Partnership grant re Effects of the NSW Police Counter-Radicalisation Community Engagement Model.
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• Part of a successful collaborate team effort between Bachelor of Policing and colleagues from Forensic Science in lobbying NSW Police executive to secure funding re the establishment of a forensic science centre at   Hawkesbury campus.
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• Project with the School of Social Sciences, NSW Police and Islamic Studies Centre re ‘Pathways to radicalism’.
   

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Selected Publications

Journals

Kennedy, M. (2010) The Overlook. Civil Liberty, (opens in a new window) Issue 221 pp.14 -17.

Kennedy, M. (2010) The Rule of Law. Or Rule by Fear. Civil Liberty, Issue 220 pp.12 -14.

Kennedy, M. (2009) The Unvarnished Truth. Civil Liberty, (opens in a new window) Issue 219 pp.20 - 21.

Kennedy, M. (2009) Civil Liberties and Civil Behaviour. Civil Liberty, (opens in a new window) Issue 217 June. pp.8 -20.

Kennedy, M. (2009) The Dysfunctional Family. Civil Liberty, (opens in a new window) Issue 216 March. pp. 18 -20.

Books

Kennedy, M. (2008) The Police: Means, Ends and the Rule of Law. (opens in a new window) VDM Publishing. Saarbrücken.

Kennedy, M. (2001) Sydney’s Lebanese Community: A Soft Target for Policing. Lebanese-American University, Beirut.

Book Chapters

Kennedy, M. (2001) Systems Bullying (The Police). In: McCarthy, P., Rylance, J., Bennett, R. and Zimmermann, H., (Eds.) Bullying, (opens in a new window) 2nd edn. pp. 34-43. Federation Press: Sydney

Kennedy, M. (2000) Arabic Speaking Young People, the Police and the   Media. In: Collins, J. and Poynting, S., (Eds.) The Other Sydney, pp.   79-105. Common Ground: Melbourne

Other

Kennedy, M. and McQueen, K. (2005) The Policed, The Police, Zero Tolerance, The Rule Makers and the Alternative: Neo Liberalism and the Birth of a New Aristocracy. (opens in a new window) Shelter NSW: Sydney.

Kennedy, M. McQueen, K. (2007) Assisting the Police to do their job? Liberal - Progressives and the Hegemonic Construction of Police Corruption in New South Wales. International Police Executive Symposium. (opens in a new window) Working Paper No.5, March.  

Kennedy, M. (2001) Zero Tolerance Policing and Arabic Speaking Young People, NSW Council for Civil Liberties (opens in a new window) NSW Council for Civil Liberties: Sydney.

Kennedy, M (2003) Commonwealth Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs - Crime in the Community, (opens in a new window) 26 February. Commonwealth of Australia.

Kennedy, M (2005) Un amende honourable. PAUWS (University of Western Sydney Post Graduate Association) Newsletter 9 March, p.12.

Kennedy, M. (2005) The Police: A Culture Of Corruption or The Duplicity Of Hegemony, Australian Institute of Criminology: Canberra.

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Memberships and Engagement

NSW Police Counter Terrorism advisory committee.
NSW Police Education committee.

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