PHD Students
Zheng Chen  Thesis title: Measuring Police Subcultural Perceptions: A Study of Frontline Police Officers in China. |
Xue Fei Cao  Title of Thesis: A comparative study into counterterrorism policing strategies in China and Britain. It is a comparative study on counterterrorism policing strategies adopted in China and Britain. Both China and Britain are faced with terrorist threats from religious and ethno-separatist terrorist groups. In addition, both nations have adopted the Criminal Justice Model for dealing with terrorist threats within their domestic borders, meaning that police forces play an important role in counterterrorism tasks. The proposed research program will compare counterterrorism policing strategies adopted in China and Britain and draw lessons from the comparison, in order to facilitate developments of each country’s counterterrorism policing strategies. Thus, the research question is: What lessons can be drawn from a comparison of Chinese counterterrorism policing strategies and British ones? |
Jianjun Feng  Title of Thesis: What works in China: A comparative study of community based corrections in China and Australia. Crime prevention more and more depends on the integration of criminal justice and community and this is the trend globally. In line with this global trend, China’s criminal justice system has developed greatly over the past few decades. In recent times the legal system in China has made a significant shift from operating within a retributive model of justice to operating from a rehabilitative model. While community based corrections have been available in China for many years, they have been widely under used due to the retributive model of justice in operation. This is beginning to change and China is more and more looking to countries such as Australia to further develop and refine these programs. This research will evaluate the effectiveness of the current community based corrections available in Mainland China based on a comparative study of community based corrections in China and Australia in order to find out whether the model of community based corrections in Australia could help to improve the Chinese correctional system. |
Brett Shipton  My PhD uses the research specialisation of Phenomenography to examine the conceptions and approaches police educators in academy programs have towards their growth and development as teachers. Given there are a limited number of conceptions or approaches police educators have towards this issue, it is possible to map these into what is termed an outcome space, which highlights not only the variation between different conceptions and approaches but also the critical aspects that differentiate them. A final outcome space should then provide a framework for possible developmental activities that can assist police educators in developing beyond the limits of their current ideas about growth and development or in other words, it should allow them to see more of the forest beyond the trees that currently limit their vision. This should enable them to better understand and accept more innovative approaches to development focused upon moving people from traditional teacher centred approaches to learner centred approaches that promote more effective learning. |