Anna Corbo Crehan
Lecturer, School of Policing Studies
Research Fellow, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics
PhD, BA (Hons) Melb
Anna Corbo Crehan
Bio
Anna Corbo Crehan is a philosopher who has been with CSU on a full-time basis since 1999. Her particular interests are in applied philosophy and ethics. Prior to working with CSU Anna worked at the University of Melbourne in one of the applied philosophy centres which were merged into the current Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, an ARC Special Research Centre. Her PhD was on Compensatory Justice and Aboriginal Land Claims, work which she is now applying more broadly to the issues of the Stolen Generations and stolen wages.
Teaching
- PPP252 Ethical Values and Leadership
- JST325 Accountability and Policing
- JST346 Criminal Investigations in Culturally and Ethnically Diverse Societies
- JST491 Ethical Issues in Investigation
- PPP501 Strategic Issues in Policing a Diverse Society
- Post-graduate supervision
Research
- Indigenous issues
- police ethics (particularly the making of discretionary decisions and interactions with vulnerable people)
- the concept of professional distance (from the broader perspective of professional ethics)
- ethical issues which arise from counterterrorism measures
- teaching ethics to professionals
Recent publications
‘Understanding and Managing Professional Distance in Policing’ in The Handbook of Police Administration, James Ruiz (ed.), Taylor and Francis, New York (forthcoming)
‘The Ethical Limits of Trust in the Research Context’ [with C. Jennett], Proceedings of the Inaugural RIPPLE QRIP Conference 2003, (ed. G. Whiteford), 2004, CSU, Bathurst.
‘Professional distance – defining it, maintaining it, managing it’, Journal for Women and Policing (December, 2001)
‘Mabo-style Claims to the Radio Spectrum’, Proceedings of the 2nd Australian Institute of Computer Ethics Conference (AICE2000), Post-Conference Proceedings, Canberra, Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology,1, J. Weckert, Ed. Australian Computer Society
‘Compensating for Historical Injustices – Three Important Issues’, Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics (vol. 1, no. 2, 1999; pp. 2-13)
‘The Stolen Generations: Some Principles of Compensation’, Professional Ethics (vol. 7, nos. 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 1999; pp. 49-65)
