Pat O'Malley
- Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology,
- Professorial Research Fellow, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney,
- Professorial Fellow, Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology (From 1 September 2013)
Biography.
Pat O’Malley is Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Liverpool and since 2006 Professorial Research Fellow in Law at the University of Sydney. From September 2013 he will be Professorial Fellow in the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool Previously he was Canada Research Chair in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Ottawa (2002-06). From 1992-2002 he was Professor of Law, Director of the National Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (1990-92), and Deputy Dean Faculty of Law and Management (1996-2001) at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He has occupied distinguished lecturing appointments at universities in Germany, the United States, Canada, Argentina, Chile, England, Northern Ireland and New Zealand.
Professor O’Malley’s principal fields of research have been in criminology and socio-legal studies, with a focus on risk as a technology for governing social and legal problems. This has included research on terrorism and crime prevention, insurance and insurance law, the law of accidents and public health approaches to governing illicit drug use. Currently funded research is focusing on the development and operation of fire protection as a field of urban security, the emergence of resilience as a governmental response to high uncertainty in military and related fields, and the risk-related use of money sanctions in civil and criminal justice. He has published 10 books, over 150 articles in international journals and chapters in handbooks and edited collections, many of which have been reprinted, and his work translated into 5 languages. He has been appointed to a number of government commissions and committees including the Government of Victoria’s ‘Premiers’ Drug Advisory Council’, the ‘Drug Policy Expert Committee’; and the ‘Crime Prevention Research Advisory Committee’.
Qualifications.
- PhD, Sociology, London University (London School of Economics and Political Science) 1976.
- MA (With Distinction), Sociology. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 1973.
- BA (Honours), First Class Honours. Monash University, Melbourne, 1969.
Honours and Awards.
- ‘The Radzinowicz Memorial Prize’ British Journal of Criminology. (For the article that year which ‘has made the greatest contribution to the development of criminology’), 2011.
- Thorsten Sellin and Sheldon and Eleanor Gleuck Award. (‘For outstanding contributions to international criminology’) American Society of Criminology, 2000.
Professional Activities.
Professional Societies
- Member, British Society of Criminology
- Member Law and Society Association (US).
- Member, Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology
- Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
Current Editorships/Editorial Boards.
Co-editor
- Monograph series Co-editor. Institute of Criminology. University of Sydney
Associate Editor
- Theoretical Criminology
Editorial Advisory Board Member
- Current Issues in Criminal Justice.
- Economy and Society
- Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Resilience. International Policies, Practices and Discourses
Organization of conferences/workshops (Recent)
- ‘Surveillance and/in Everyday Life: Monitoring Pasts, Presents & Futures’ University of Sydney, February 20-21, 2012 (Co-convener)
- ‘Biosecurity, Resilience and Government International Workshop. The University of Sydney November, 2011 (Co-convener)
- Knowledge brokers and knowledge formats’, Green College, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 23-24 September 2011 (Co-convener)
Service to the profession.
- Reviewer for funding bodies.
- Australian Research Council. 'expert assessor of international standing'.
- Social Science and Humanities Research Council ‘international expert assessor’(Canada)
- Economic and Social Science Research Council (UK)
- National Science Foundation (US)
- Deputy Director, Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney
Research interests
- Resilience and ‘post-risk’ strategies
- Urban fire protection
- Justice technologies in traffic safety
- Money sanctions and risk-based government
- Neoliberalism and risk in criminal justice
Selected Publications
- O’Malley, P.; Crime and Risk. London and New York, Sage 2010.
- O’Malley, P.; The Currency of Justice. Fines and Damages in Consumer Society. London, Routledge, 2009.
- O’Malley, P.; Riesgo, Justicia Penal y Neoliberalismo. Buenos Aires, Ad Hoc Press, 2006.
- O’Malley, P.; Risk , Uncertainty and Government. London: Cavendish Press, 2004.
- O’Malley, P.; ‘Monetary Sanctions’ in: J. Simon and R. Sparks (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Punishment and Society, pp. 276-301, 2012.
- O’Malley, P. ; ‘Governmental criminology’ in E. McLaughlin and T. Newburn (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Criminological Theory. London, Sage, pp. 319-336, 2011.
- O’Malley, P.; ’The currency of freedom.’ Social and Legal Studies 2011, Vol.20 (4), pp. 546-556.
- O’Malley, P.; ‘Politicizing the case for Fines’ Crime and Public Policy, 2011, Vol.10 (4), pp. 547-553.
- O’Malley, P.; ‘Resilient subjects. Uncertainty, warfare and resilience.’ Economy and Society , 2010, Vol. 39 (4), pp. 488-509.
- O’Malley, P.; ‘Simulated Justice. Risk, Money and Telemetric Policing.’ British Journal of Criminology, 2010, Vol. 50 (6), pp. 795-807.
- Bougen, P. and O’Malley, P.; ‘Bureaucracy, imagination and US domestic security policy’. Security Journal 2009 Vol. 22 (1) pp. 101-118.
- O’Malley, P.; ‘Theorizing fines’. Punishment and Society, 2009, Vol. 11 (1) pp. 67-83.
- O’Malley, P.; ‘Experiments in risk and criminal justice’. Theoretical Criminology, 2007, Vol. 12 (3) pp. 451-470.
- O’Malley, P. and Hutchinson, S.; ‘Reinventing prevention. Why did “crime prevention” develop so late? British Journal of Criminology, 2007, Vol. 47 (4) pp. 439-454