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Alison Young

Francine V Mcniff Chair In Criminology
Social and Political Sciences
graffiti
street art
young people
regulation
cultural criminology
culture
film and television
visual communication
art
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Alison Young

 
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Arts
 
Primary Interest
Public Space
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Alison Young's research groups

  • Melbourne Centre for Cities

    Designed to foster responsible and cosmopolitan city leadership, and the information it needs, in an interconnected and increasingly urbanised planet.

Projects

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Justice in the Streets? Responses to Public Homelessness and Public Dissent

2021 - 2024
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Transforming City Spaces: Street Art, Urban Cultures, Transnational Networks

The appearance of urban spaces has a dramatic impact upon the lives of the citizens who live in them. In comparing a range of local and inte..

2012 - 2017
Completed
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Urban images and the appearance of city spaces

This project will constitute the first study of street art as a new genre of cultural practice in city spaces. Street art is becoming an inc..

2008 - 2013
Completed

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Scholarly Works

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Small Things in Everyday Places: Homelessness, Dissent and Affordances in Public Space

Hristijan Popovski, Alison Young

Journal article  |  2022  |  BRITISH JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY

Abstract In ‘a world that has been built to accommodate only some’ (Ahmed 2019: 221), how do those engaging in publ..

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Perceptions of Safety Among Taxi and Rideshare Service Patrons: Gender, Safekeeping And Responsibilisation

Journal article  |  2022  |  International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy

Rideshare and taxi services may commonly be perceived as safer modes of travel, particularly in comparison to public transport, an..

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Law and Disorder: Sovereignty, Protest, Atmosphere

Alison Young

Journal article  |  2021  |  SOCIAL & LEGAL STUDIES

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The Limits of the City: Atmospheres of Lockdown

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Journal article  |  2021  |  British Journal of Criminology

Criminological engagement with urban environments has burgeoned, including investigations into the criminological sense of place a..

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‘Stay Safe, Stay Home’: Spatial Justice in the Pandemic City

Alison Young

Journal article  |  2021  |  Legalities

How does spatial justice take place within cities? To understand spatial justice within a city under lockdown, this article consid..

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Architecture as affective law enforcement: Theorising the Japanese Koban

Alison Young

Journal article  |  2021  |  CRIME MEDIA CULTURE

Criminology has long understood architecture to be both a problem, in that design might increase the pains of an individual’s expe..

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Sensory Reflections on a Japanese Prison

Alison Young, Yvonne Jewkes

Book Chapter  |  2021

Sensory. Reflections. on. a. Japanese. Prison. Yvonne. Jewkes. and. Alison. Young. Introduction. In this chapter, we provide a se..

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Locked-down city

Alison Young

Journal article  |  2020  |  CRIME MEDIA CULTURE

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Visible Homelessness in a “Liveable City”: Municipal Responses to Homelessness in Melbourne

James Petty, Alison Young

Journal article  |  2020  |  American Journal of Economics and Sociology

Despite considerable national and urban prosperity, significant numbers of Australians are homeless. How local governments engage ..

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Senses and the City in Lockdown

Alison Young

Book Chapter  |  2020

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Keyword Analysis

Criminology
Justice and the Law
Law in Context
Expanding Knowledge
Art History, Theory and Criticism
Communication
Sociology
Cultural Studies
Screen and Digital Media
Other Culture and Society

News

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Japan’s hidden landscape of violent crime

Alison Young

On 8 July, in the city of Nara, the former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, was shot dead while he was campaigning on behalf of the cou..

July 15, 2022
pursuit Article
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Getting to the (street) art of a year like no other

Alison Young

If there’s one thing everyone seems to agree on, it’s that 2020 was a nightmare of a year. This was the year of political crisis: not just ..

December 28, 2020
conversation Article
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From COVID anxiety to harassment, more needs to be done on safety in taxis and rideshare services

Bianca Fileborn, Alison Young, Elena Cama

The introduction of ridesharing services has transformed the way many of us travel. Alongside traditional taxis, app-based ridesharing serv..

November 12, 2020
conversation Article
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Begging ‘professionally’ doesn’t make their poverty and vulnerability any less legitimate

James Petty, Alison Young

Last week, Victoria Police arrested seven people who were alleged members of a professional begging “syndicate”. They were flown in from Ch..

July 9, 2019
conversation Article
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Carelessly linking crime to being homeless adds to the harmful stigma

Alison Young, James Petty

The news of Courtney Herron’s death has shocked Melburnians. While full details are yet to emerge, both she and the man charged with murder..

May 29, 2019
conversation Article
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The quest for the convivial city: how do ours fare?

James Petty, Alison Young

What comes to mind when you think of the word “convivial”? Likely, images of happiness, freedom, relaxation and ease: people interacting pl..

January 22, 2018
conversation Article
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Commodifying Banksy

Alison Young

Take a selection of artworks by the most famous illicit artist in the world, add a city that’s passionate about its street art and a dash o..

October 7, 2016
conversation Article
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Melbourne Now – the art of the contemporary city

Alison Young

The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne recently opened what may be its most ambitious exhibition: Melbourne Now, on display un..

December 5, 2013
conversation Article
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Banksy's New York City – inside 'a world made of art'

Alison Young

Street art is the name given to artworks placed in public, usually without permission – and Banksy is probably the most famous street artis..

November 7, 2013
conversation Article
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Do governments know what to do with street art?

Alison Young

Australia prides itself on its attractiveness to tourists, but for many, to the eternal frustration of Melbourne, visiting Australia is syn..

March 31, 2011
conversation Article

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2020

Medal Accepted and Issued

UoM Service Recognition 25 Year Bronze Medal
2016

Penny Pether Prize for best book in Law, Literature and the Humanities
1985

Economic and Social Research Council, U.K.
1998

Karl Loewenstein Fellow in Political Science and Jurisprudence, Amherst College

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Francine V Mcniff Chair In Criminology

Social and Political Sciences

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Cambridge

Master of Philosophy

University of Cambridge

Bachelor of Laws

The University of Edinburgh

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International Linkages

Amherst College

United States

New York University

United States

Birkbeck, University of London

United Kingdom

University of Oxford

United Kingdom