Dr Kelly Richards

Contact details:

Tel: (02) 6260 9243
Fax: (02) 6260 9201

Academic qualifications

BA (Criminology), University of Western Sydney
B Soc Sci (Hons 1st class), University of Western Sydney
Ph.D. (Criminology), University of Western Sydney
GradCert Science (Applied Statistics), Swinburne University (currently enrolled)

Selected employment

Feb 2011 - current	Acting Senior Research Analyst, Australian Institute of Criminology
Jan 2008 - Feb 2011	Research Analyst, Australian Institute of Criminology
Jan-Dec 2006	Lecturer/Course Convenor/Research Assistant, Faculty of Law, Sydney University
Aug 2002 - Dec 2006	Tutor/Lecturer/Course Convener/Research Assistant, School of Social Sciences, University of Western Sydney, School of Law, University of Western Sydney

Awards

2010	ACT Government Office for Women Audrey Fagan Churchill Fellow
2002-2006	Australian Postgraduate Award (scholarship)
2001	University of Western Sydney medal
1997	University of Western Sydney entry level scholarship

Current areas of specialisation/expertise

Restorative justice
Juveniles’ contact with the criminal justice system
Juveniles in detention
Circles of Support and Accountability (reintegration of child sex offenders)
Qualitative methods

Major projects

The Australian Businesses Assessment of Computer User Security (ABACUS) survey
Juveniles in detention Australia
Juveniles' contact with the criminal justice system
Measuring juvenile recidivism

Publications

Refereed journal articles

Richards, K. (in press) Restorative justice and ‘empowerment’: Producing and governing active subjects through ‘empowering’ restorative practices. Critical Criminology: An International Journal: http://www.springerlink.com/content/w853163357j37578/
Richards, K. (in press) Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice: Children’s exposure to domestic violence in Australia. Canberra: AIC
Richards, K. (in press) Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice: Trends in juvenile detention in Australia. Canberra: AIC
Richards, K. 2011 Contemporary comment: Is it time for Australia to adopt Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA)? Current Issues in Criminal Justice 22(3): 345-352
Richards, K. 2011 Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 409: What makes juvenile offenders different from adult offenders? Canberra: AIC
Richards, K. 2010 Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 398: Police-referred restorative justice for juveniles in Australia. Canberra: AIC
Richards, K. and Davis, B. (2010) Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 399: Computer security incidents against Australian businesses: Predictors of victimisation. Canberra: AIC
Richards, K. 2009 Rewriting and reclaiming history: An analysis of the emergence of restorative justice in Western criminal justice systems. International Journal of Restorative Justice 5(1): http://www.crjcs.org/index.asp
Richards, K. 2009 Taking victims seriously? The role of victims’ rights movements in the emergence of restorative justice Current Issues in Criminal Justice 21(2): 302-320
Richards, K. 2009 Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no.380: Child complainants and the court process in Australia. Canberra: AIC
Richards, K. 2005 Unlikely friends? Oprah Winfrey and restorative justice. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 38 (3): 381-399

Books and book chapters

Bartels, L. and Richards, K. (eds) 2011 Qualitative criminology: Stories from the field, Sydney: Hawkins Press
Richards, K. 2011 Negotiating power and access and being called ‘kid’: Interviewing elites in criminological research. In Bartels, L. and K. Richards (eds) Qualitative criminology: Stories from the field, Sydney: Hawkins Press: 68-79
Richards, K. and Bartels, L. (2011) The story behind the stories: Qualitative criminology research in Australia. In Bartels, L. and Richards, K. (eds) Qualitative criminology: Stories from the field, Sydney: Hawkins Press: 1-10
Gaffey, J., Possamai-Inesedy, A. and Richards, K. (eds) (2005) The chameleon and the quilt: A cross-disciplinary exploration in the social sciences. Milperra: University of Western Sydney
Richards, K. 2005 Cause and effect? Failings of the contemporary penal system and the emergence of restorative justice. In Gaffey, J., Possamai-Inesedy, A. and Richards, K. (eds) The chameleon and the quilt: A cross-disciplinary exploration in the social sciences. Milperra: University of Western Sydney: 44-54

Research reports

Richards, K. (in press) Technical and Background Paper no.44: Measuring juvenile recidivism in Australia. Canberra: AIC
Richards, K., Rosevear, L. and Gilbert R. (2011) Indigenous Justice Clearinghouse Brief no. 10: Promising interventions for reducing Indigenous juvenile offending. Sydney: NSW Department of Justice and Attorney-General http://www.indigenousjustice.gov.au/briefs/brief010.pdf
Richards, K. 2011 The potential of Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA) to reduce child sexual abuse in Australia. Canberra: Winston Churchill Memorial Trust http://www.churchilltrust.com.au/site_media/fellows/Richards_Kelly_2010.pdf
Richards, K. and Lyneham, M. (2010) AIC monitoring reports 12: Juveniles in detention in Australia, 1981-2008. Canberra: AIC
Richards, K. 2009 AIC monitoring reports 07: Juveniles’ contact with the criminal justice system in Australia. Canberra: AIC
Richards, K. 2009 Research and public policy series no. 102: The Australian Business Assessment of Computer User Security (ABACUS): A national survey. Canberra: AIC

Theses

Richards, K. 2007 ‘Rewriting history’: Towards a genealogy of ‘restorative justice’ Unpublished PhD thesis, Penrith: University of Western Sydney
Richards, K. 2001 Expert status on their own lives: Women and Pornography Unpublished Honours thesis, Richmond: University of Western Sydney

Refereed conference proceedings

Richards, K. 2009 Returning to the practices of our ancestors? Reconsidering Indigenous justice and the emergence of restorative practices. In Segrave, M. (ed) Australian and New Zealand critical criminology conference proceedings 2009: Conference proceedings. Melbourne: Monash University http://arts.monash.edu.au/criminology/c3-conference-proceedings/anz-critical-criminology-conference-2009-proceedings.pdf
Richards, K. 2006 Not directly to blame? Considering the role of parental responsibility in the emergence of restorative practices for juveniles. In Tie, W., S. Jülich and V. Walters (eds) New frontiers in restorative justice. Auckland: Massey University: 117-136
Richards, K. 2003 What’s Oprah Winfrey got to do with it? The rise and rise of restorative justice Refereed conference proceedings from the annual conference of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Armidale: TASA

Conference papers

Richards, K. (forthcoming 2011) Keynote address: Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA): An innovative measure for protecting Australia’s children? Children: A resource most precious conference, Perth, November
Richards, K. 2011 Trends in juvenile detention in Australia, 1981 - 2008. Bimberi Review Forum, Canberra, March
Richards, K. 2011 Circles of Support and Accountability: Lessons from the USA, Canada and the UK. Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, Canberra, March
Richards, K. 2011 Circles of Support and Accountability: Lessons from the USA, Canada and the UK. Australian Institute of Criminology Occasional Seminar, Canberra, March
Richards, K. 2011 What makes juvenile offenders different from adult offenders? Young people, rick and resilience: The challenges of drugs and alcohol conference, Melbourne, March
Richards, K. 2010 Measuring juvenile recidivism in Australia: Challenges and ways forward. Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology conference, Alice Springs, September
Richards, K. 2010 Trends in juvenile detention in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology conference, Sydney, July
Lyneham, M. and Richards, K. (2010) A snapshot of young people in the Australian Capital Territory. Crime Prevention Forum, Australian Capital Territory Department of Justice and Community Safety, Canberra, May
Richards, K. 2009 Negotiating power and access and being called ‘kid’: Conducting qualitative interviews in criminological research. Regulatory Institutions Network lunchtime seminar, Australian National University, Canberra, October
Richards, K., Dearden, J. and Tomison, A. (2009) Child homicide victims in Australia: An overview. Children and the Law conference, Prato, Italy, September
Richards, K. 2009 Promise or practice? The past, present and future of restorative justice for Indigenous juveniles. Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology conference, Melbourne, July
Richards, K. 2009 The Australian Business Assessment of Computer User Security (ABACUS): A national survey. Australian Federal Police High Tech Crime conference, Sydney, June
Richards, K. 2009 Restorative justice in Australia: An overview. Australian Institute of Criminology address to delegation from Tai Pei University, Canberra, February
Richards, K. 2009 Juvenile justice in Australia: An overview. Australian Institute of Criminology address to delegation of Swedish Parliamentarians, Canberra, January
Richards, K. 2008 Cyber crimes against Australian businesses: A national survey. Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology conference, Canberra, November
Richards, K. 2006 Negotiating power and access and being called ‘kid’: Interviewing elites in criminological research. University of Western Sydney Postgraduate Colloquium, Campbelltown, November
Richards, K. 2005 Not directly to blame? Considering the role of parental responsibility in the emergence of restorative justice. Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology conference, Wellington, New Zealand, February

Committees/memberships

ACT representative, Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC)
Member, UN Women Canberra
Program Visitor, Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet), Australian National University