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Dr

Claire Spivakovsky

Senior Lecturer In Criminology
racial inequality in the criminal justice system
Inclusive Education
imprisonment of racialised populations
Restrictive Practices
race and risk thinking
Group Homes
NDIS
Violence Against People with Disability
Ableism
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Dr

Claire Spivakovsky

 
Division
Arts
 
Primary Interest
Disability
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Dr

Claire Spivakovsky

 

Claire Spivakovsky is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology. Claire has worked in academia, the community sector, and the government sector, developing a range of social and criminal justice projects which advocated for the rights and needs of marginalized populations.Claire’s research expertise extends across the broad fields of punishment, imprisonment, detention and social control and she specialises in issues relating to disability and law and race and crime.

Claire’s work looks beyond the repeatedly documented over-representation of racialised and disabled bodies in the criminal justice system to consider how the criminal law is but one of the tools by which these populations are being contained and controlled at this time. Claire’s research follows this interest across a wide spectrum of topics, from the inclusive education of children with disability, to the everyday practices of disability group homes, the development of specialist mental health court procedures in the criminal justice system, and the imprisonment of racialised minorities.

Projects

Displaying the 2 most recent projects by Claire Spivakovsky.

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Ndis And Criminal Justice: Scoping Review And Rapid Evidence Assessment

2019 - 2019
Completed
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Literature Review And Interjurisdictional Analysis Concerning Young People With A Disability In Youth Justice In Victoria

2019 - 2019
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

2

Research Contracts

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 22 most recent scholarly works by Claire Spivakovsky.

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Criminalized Vietnamese women, 'problem gambling' and experiential rifts: Towards a criminology of diversity

R-Coo Tran, Claire Spivakovsky

Journal article  |  2019  |  Theoretical Criminology

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The NDIS, Criminal Justice and People with Intellectual Disability: An assessment of current evidence

Claire Spivakovsky

Report  |  2019

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Institutional violence against people with disability: recent legal and political developments

J Cadwallader, C Spivakovsky, L Steele, D Wadiwel

Journal article  |  2018  |  Current Issues in Criminal Justice -Sydney-

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The Impossibilities of Bearing Witness to the Institutional Violence of Coercive Interventions in the Disability Sector

C Spivakovsky

Book Chapter  |  2018

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Critical Perspectives on Coercive Interventions: Law, Medicine and Society

Claire Spivakovsky, Kate Seear, Adrian Carter

Book  |  2018

Topics addressed in this volume include: compulsory treatment and involuntary detention orders in civil mental health and disabili..

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Coercive interventions in law and medicine: Setting the scene

Claire Spivakovsky, Kate Seear, Adrian Carter

Book Chapter  |  2018

interventions. in. law. and. medicine. Setting. the. scene. Claire Spivakovsky, Kate Seear and Adrian Carter The law can have a m..

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A disability aware approach to torture prevention? Australian OPCAT ratification and improved protections for people with disability

M Lea, F Beaupert, N Bevan, D Celermajer, P Gooding, R Minty, E Phillips, C Spivakovsky, L Steele, DJ Wadiwel, PJ Weller

Journal article  |  2018  |  Australian Journal of Human Rights

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Governing freedom through risk: Locating the group home in the archipelago of confinement and control

C Spivakovsky

Journal article  |  2017  |  Punishment & Society

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The maelstrom of punishment, mental illness, intellectual disability and cognitive impairment

M Segrave, C Spivakovsky, A Eriksson

Journal article  |  2017  |  Punishment & Society

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Making the abject: problem-solving courts, addiction, mental illness and impairment

C Spivakovsky, K Seear

Journal article  |  2017  |  Continuum

The advent of ‘problem-solving courts’ (e.g. drug courts, mental health courts) is claimed by some to represent a significant shif..

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Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada ed. by Liat Ben-Moshe, Chris Chapman, and Allison C. Carey

Claire Spivakovsky

Journal article  |  2017  |  African American Review

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Human Rights and the Governance of Cognitive Impairment

C Spivakovsky

Book Chapter  |  2016

19 Human rights and the governance of cognitive impairment and mental illness Claire Spivakovsky Introduction During the 1970s an..

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Researching the prison

Y Jewkes, S Wright

Book Chapter  |  2016

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From punishment to protection: Containing and controlling the lives of people with disabilities in human rights

Claire Spivakovsky

Journal article  |  2014  |  Punishment & Society

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Making risk and dangerousness intelligible in intellectual disability

C Spivakovsky

Journal article  |  2014  |  Griffith Law Review

In the wake of deinstitutionalisation, a range of punitive, restrictive and coercive measures for controlling the lives of people ..

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Racialized correctional governance: The mutual constructions of race and criminal justice

C Spivakovsky

Book  |  2013

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Positioning the Offender in a Restorative Framework: Potential Dialogues and Forced Conversations

Claire Spivakovsky

Book Chapter  |  2013

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The need for flexible and adaptive research in an environment of diverse barriers to accessing data

C Spivakovsky

Journal article  |  2011  |  Canadian journal of law and society

There is concern among socio-legal scholars about the relationship that has formed between scholarly research and public policy. P..

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The Construction of the Racially Different Indigenous Offender

C Spivakovsky

Conference Proceedings  |  2009

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Approaching Responsivity: the Victorian Department of Justice and Indigenous Offenders

C Spivakovsky

Journal article  |  2008  |  Flinders Journal of Law Reform

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Negotiations of Space: The Indigenous prisoner and discourse

C Spivakovsky

Journal article  |  2007  |  EnterText

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Theoretical Passages and Boundaries: The Indigenous subject, colonialism and governmentality

C Spivakovsky

Conference Proceedings  |  2006

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Law
Community Service (excl. Work)
Criminology
Public Health and Health Services
Sociology
Justice and the Law
Other Law, Politics and Community Services

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2015

Faculty of Arts Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher

Monash University
2014

Faculty of Arts Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning

Monash University
2009

Deakin University Commendation for Excellence in Teaching

Deakin University
2009

Faculty of Arts Dean’s Award for Excellence in Student Evaluations

Deakin University

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Senior Lecturer In Criminology

Social And Political Sciences

Education

Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice

Monash University

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Arts (Honours)

University of Melbourne

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