Andrew John Goldsmith

Current Positions: Executive Director, Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention Professor of Law (University of Wollongong) Adjunct Professor of Law and Criminal Justice (Flinders University, Adelaide)

Biography:

LLB (Adelaide); MA Social Theory (Monash); MA Criminology, SJD (Toronto), LLM, LLD (London, LSE); Barrister and Solicitor, Supreme Court of South Australia and Supreme Court of Victoria, Practitioner of the High Court of Australia.

He has held academic posts at Flinders University, Monash University and the Australian National University, as well as at University of Warwick and Brunel University, United Kingdom. He has held visiting professorial posts at the Nathanson Centre for the Study of Organised Crime and Corruption, York University, and the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Canada, and been a visiting scholar at University of British Columbia, Canada and Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.

Research Interests:

Andrew’s main research interests are in transnational policing, rule of law reform, and counter-terrorism. He has also written extensively on matters of police governance, accountability, and corruption. His most recent book was Crafting Transnational Policing: Police Capacity-building and Global Policing Reform (edited, with James Sheptycki), published by Hart Publishing, UK (2007) within the Onati Socio-Legal Studies series.  He is also co-editor of and major contributor to Goldsmith, Israel and Daly, Crime and Justice: A Guide to Criminology (Thomson, Sydney). He is currently completing an Australia Research Council Linkage Grant, Policing the Neighbourhood, which is examining Australian overseas policing missions in the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, and Timor-Leste.  This study consisted in part of interviews with more than 120 Australian police peacekeepers and capacity-builders. In addition to a series of articles in refereed journals, a monograph from the research is being completed in 2009 for Clarendon Series in Criminology, Oxford University Press.

Recent Publications:

• “’It wasn’t like normal policing’:  Voices of Australian Police Peacekeepers in Operation Serene, Timor-Leste”  Policing and Society (2009), 1-14
• “International Police Missions as Reverse Capacity-Building: Experiences of Australian Police Personnel” [with V Harris] Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice  (2009) 3 (1),  50-58
• “Out of Step: Multilateral Police Missions, Culture and Nation-building in Timor-Leste” [with V Harris] Conflict, Security and Development (2009, forthcoming),
• “Engendering Transnational Policing:  Experiences of Australian Women in International Policing Operations “   [with V Harris]  International Peacekeeping (2009, forthcoming)
• “The Governance of Terror: Precautionary Logic and Counterterrorist Law Reform after September 11”  (2008) Law & Policy, 30, 141-167
• “Preparation for Terrorism: Catastrophic Risk and Precautionary Criminal Law” in A Lynch, E Macdonald, and G Williams (ed.), Law and Liberty in the War on Terror (Federation Press, 2007), 59-74
• “Transnational Police-Building: Critical Lessons from Timor-Leste and Solomon Islands”, Third World Quarterly, 28 (6), 1091-1109 (2007) (with Sinclair Dinnen)

Professional Activities:

Andrew was the Law and Justice member of the Humanities and Creative Arts Panel of the Australian Research Council (ARC) from 1998 until 2001. He has previously served as managing editor of Legal Education Review and Flinders Journal of Law Reform. He is on the board of various academic journals, including Policing and Society, Law in Context, Crime and Criminal Justice, and International Criminal Justice Review.  He is a member of the Australasian Policing Forum, a joint initiative of the Australian Institute of Police Management (AIPM) and the Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS).  Until 2008, he served on the Professional Standards and Criminal Law Committees of the Law Society of South Australia.

Consultancies:

Andrew has undertaken consultancies with the Open Society Justice Initiative, UNDP, the Victorian Ombudsman, the Australian Federal Police, and the Attorney-General’s Department (South Australia) on matters of police reform, police capacity-building, witness protection, and serious repeat offending.

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