Dr Craig Osmond

Dr Craig Osmond

Lecturer, Criminology and Policing

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• Biography
• Qualifications
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
• Grants / Current Projects
• Selected Publications

Biography

I have taught in sociology at Macquarie and University of New South Wales. After completing a PhD that conducted a genealogy of contemporary child protection regimes of government, I was appointed to my current position as a lecturer in Criminology.

Qualifications

B.SocSci(Hons) (UNE), GDipEd (UNSW), PhD (Macquarie)

Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

The governance of child abuse and juvenile crime; Space, culture and crime; Queer sexualities; Post-structural theories, in particular Foucault, and Deleuze and Guattari.

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Grants / Current Projects

Office of Pro-Vice Chancellor Learning and Teaching, University of Western Sydney, 2006-2008, Action Research Project: Assessment-Focused Units in the Social Sciences, Project leader.

Internal Research Grant, Early Career Research Grant, University of Western Sydney, 2007-2008 Rurality, Masculinity and Queer Sexualities.

Currently working on a critical evaluation of youth anti-social behaviour initiatives.

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Selected Publications

Books
Osmond, C. (2009) Governing child abuse: A critical history of the disciplining of families. (opens in a new window)  Saarbrucken: Lambert Academic Publishing.

Articles in refereed journals
Osmond, C. (2010) ‘Passion’s re-territorializations: Mapping the mixed semiotics of unsafe homo passional assemblages’ Social Semiotics (opens in a new window) 20 (5): 493-516

Osmond, C. (2010) ‘Anti-social behaviour and its surveillant assemblage’, Surveillance and Society,  (opens in a new window) 7(3) Special Issue on surveillance and childhood.

Osmond, C. (2008) Sensing new possibilities for homo passional assemblages, Rhizomes,  (opens in a new window) Winter 17

Noble, G. & Osmond, C. (1981) Holocaust and sentiments, Media Information Australia  (opens in a new window) 20: 3-8.

Noble, G. & Osmond, C. (1981) ‘Holocaust’ in Australia, International Journal of Political Education 4: 139-150.

Manuals
Osmond, C. (1991) ‘The impact of homophobic violence on lesbian and gay communities’, in NSW Anti-Violence Project, The lesbian and gay anti-violence resource manual. Sydney: NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby.

Reports
Sanson-Fisher, R., Redmond, S. & Osmond, C (1986) An evaluation of drink-driver rehabilitation programs in Australia and New Zealand, Canberra: Department of Transport.

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