People – PhD Scholars

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L-R: Peter Grabosky (CEPS Deputy Director), Russell Brewer (CEPS PhD scholar), Julie Ayling (CEPS Associate Investigator), Lennon Chang (CEPS PhD scholar), Nigel Phair (Superintendent, Australian Federal Police), August 2008.

Mr Russell Brewer
Thesis title: Maritime security and the governance of partnerships.
Supervisor: Peter Grabosky.

Russell Brewer is a PhD candidate at The Australian National University and an Adjunct Research Associate in the School of Law at Flinders University. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Criminology) with honours from Flinders University. Russell emigrated from Canada to Australia in early 2005 and during the ensuing years, held a number of teaching and research-related positions at Flinders University. In 2008, he moved to Canberra to pursue further postgraduate study at the ANU’s newly-established ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security.

Russell’s doctoral research examines current law enforcement responses to transnational organised crime on the waterfront. More specifically, his research investigates the governmental use of private sector 'partnerships' as a means of enhancing public policy, regulatory and law enforcement capacity. As such, this work explores the manner in which state actors (e.g. Customs, police and transport regulators) and non-state actors (e.g. port authorities, private security, stevedores and unions) come together to identify and respond to unlawful activities occurring at maritime ports.

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Mr Lennon Yao-Chung Chang
Thesis title: High-tech crime across the Taiwan-China Strait.
Supervisor: Peter Grabosky.

Lennon Yao-Chung Chang received his MA at the Graduate School of Criminology, National Taipei University, and a Bachelor of Law at National Taipei University, Taiwan. His Masters thesis focused on the victims’ and repeated victims’ characteristics and opportunities of rotating credit association fraud (rotating credit association is a kind of traditional underground economic system in Chinese society). From 2005 to 2007, Lennon worked as a project manager and legal researcher in the Science and Technology Law Center, Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan. His research was focusing on the legal issues of information security, cybercrime, data protection, privacy, freedom of information, data retention, and telecommunication etc., especially on cybercrime and information security. He also conducted research about juvenile delinquency, focusing on the aspect of dropout students, as well as on the topics of victimisation, insurance fraud, etc. Supervised by Professor Peter Grabosky, Lennon is now pursuing his PhD, investigating the hi-tech crime problems across the Taiwan-China Strait.

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Ms Robyn Holder
Thesis title: Procedural justice in the criminal justice system for victims of violent crime.
Supervisor: Peter Grabosky.

Robyn Holder has been working in the justice field for nearly 20 years in the UK and Australia and – as a consequence – is just about crazy enough to contemplate PhD study as a single parent working full time. She is an independent statutory advocate under the ACT Victims of Crime Act 1994, is chair of Victim Support Australasia, and coordinates the ACT Family Violence Intervention Program. Prior to this, Robyn worked in the crime and violence prevention field in the UK. Her Masters project at the University of London examined aspects of British Imperial Native Policy. All of this has generated an interest in system change, and how individual and social ideas and administrative procedure interact to influence systems and system change. Robyn's PhD research will explore the extent to which satisfaction for victims-of-violence-offences with criminal justice intervention is linked to their expectations and experience of procedural fairness in how their case is dealt with by justice authorities. The research will compare the justice experiences of victims of domestic and family violence, with those victims of stronger violence.

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Ms Jacqueline Joudo
Thesis title: The immigration-crime nexus: implications for social cohesion.
Supervisor: Peter Grabosky.

Jacqueline Joudo's research will examine the crime-immigration nexus with a focus on how this is shaped by the experiences of immigrants with the criminal justice system, their attitudes towards the system and the broader social perceptions of immigrants as criminals. The research will examine how this impacts on settlement, particularly in relation to willingness to engage in the criminal justice system, and social cohesion. Jacqueline currently works as a Research Analyst at the Australian Institute of Criminology.

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Mr Chenda Keo
Thesis title: Human commodity: A study of Cambodian human traffickers’ activities and perspectives.
Supervisor: Rod Broadhurst.

Chenda Keo's research explores the extent to which human trafficking is embedded within organised crime activities in Cambodia as well as the Great Mekong Sub-region. The study will examine the typology of trafficking activity, and assess whether existing legal, economic and policing structures within Cambodia contribute to the phenomena.

Chenda's featured publications include Keo, C. 2006, 'Life After Reintegration: Situation of Child Trafficking Survivors,' International Organization for Migration (IOM) – Cambodia, Parts 1 and 2, published in Khmer (52 pages) and English (33 pages).

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Ms Nina Leijon
Thesis title: Symbolic regulation and the sex offender
Supervisor: Peter Grabosky.

Nina Leijon is investigating aspects of criminal justice policy related to sex offending. She holds an LLB in Law and Social Sciences from Orebro University, Sweden, and an MA in Chaos and Complexity Theory from University of Western Sydney. Her research interests include criminal justice policy, international law ⁄ international relations and crime, and complexity theory approaches to criminal justice. Nina has previously contributed to the Nexus Policing project in collaboration with Victoria Police.

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Mr Stanislaw Leszczynski
Thesis title: Facilitation of money laundering by the “Gatekeepers” using complex trusts and derivatives.
Supervisor: Peter Grabosky.

The main focus of Staszek Leszczynski's research interest is to explore how derivatives, mostly options and futures and other complex financial instruments, can be utilised to launder money (and enhance tax evasion), and the role played by the stockbrokers, accountants and lawyers in facilitating this process. He is also interested in exploring how the recent rapid development of internet-based technologies can aid in money laundering and tax evasion schemes. Encompassed in his PhD research will be an analysis of how the use of a web of complex offshore and onshore-based entities (mostly trusts and foundations to impede investigations) produces clean funds at the end of the laundering process.

Stan is a forensic accountant and specialises in researching and investigating complex financial crimes. He has over 20 years of professional experience that includes a law enforcement agency, and also the positions of CFO and CEO in listed companies and a financial institution. He has delivered a number of presentations regarding issues of money laundering and its investigation, to AUSTRAC, AFP, ATO, ACS and at a conference hosted by Interpol and the UNODC. Stan holds a Master in Forensic Accounting (with distinction) degree from the University of Wollongong and a Master of Commerce degree in accounting from the University of NSW. He also holds a BA degree with a major in psychology/statistics awarded by Macquarie University. Stan is CPA qualified, and is also a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). In addition, he has completed Certificate IV and a Diplomain in Government Fraud Control Investigation.

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Ms Jade Lindley
Thesis title: Transnational crime in the Pacific and Caribbean Islands.
Supervisor: Peter Grabosky.

Jade Lindley holds a Bachelor of Criminology and Legal Studies from Murdoch University and a Master of Criminal Justice from the University of Western Australia. In March 2008 Jade commenced a PhD researching the vulnerabilities to trafficking in persons in the Pacific region. In her project she aims to understand the inter-relationships between a lack of rule of law and the occurrence of trafficking. Jade currently works as a Research Analyst at the Australian Institute of Criminology and previously held an internship at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

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Ms Beverley Loke
Thesis title: An inquiry into how power and responsibility interact in periods of geopolitical power shifts. (To be confirmed)
Supervisor: William Tow.

Beverley Loke commenced her doctoral studies in the Department of International Relations at The Australian National University in 2009 with the support of an Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship and an ANU PhD Scholarship. She previously completed her MA in International Relations at The Australian National University as a Hedley Bull Scholar and an Endeavour Asia Award recipient, and also holds a BA (First Class Honours) in Political Science from the University of Melbourne.

Her research interests include international relations theory, security studies, international ethics and the international relations of the Asia-Pacific. She is particularly fascinated with the rise of China in a primarily US-led international order and hopes, in her thesis, to examine how power and responsibility interact in periods of geopolitical power shifts.

Beverley has published in the Melbourne Journal of Politics and RSIS Commentaries, and has forthcoming publications in the Australian Journal of International Affairs (co-authored) and Asian Security. She was previously a research analyst at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore and an intern at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS-Asia). She was also a panelist at the Third Oceanic Conference on International Studies at the University of Queensland in 2008.

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Mr Jason Payne
Thesis title: Drugs, crime and criminal careers.
Supervisor: Peter Grabosky.

Jason Payne's PhD project focuses on drugs, crime and criminal careers. He currently works as a Research Analyst at the Australian Institute of Criminology.

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