Criminologists in the Media (PDF)

Mark A Wood is a Lecturer in Criminology at Deakin University. Most of Mark's research falls within the sphere of digital criminology and examines how digital technologies shape the way crimes and social harms are enacted, perceived, understood, and responded to. His first book, Antisocial Media: Crime-watching in the Internet Age, was published in 2017.

Imogen Richards is a Lecturer in Criminology at Deakin University and a research fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. Imogen researches in the areas of social, news, and alternative forms of online media. She also writes on the political economy of (counter-)terrorism and the performance of security in response to social crisis. Her first book, Neoliberalism and Neo-jihadism: Propaganda and Finance in Al Qaeda and Islamic State, was published in 2020.

Mary Iliadis is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Deakin University and Co-convenor of the Deakin Research on Violence Against Women Hub. Mary's research adopts a socio-legal framework to explore, critique and impact the rights and treatment of victims of sexual violence in criminal justice systems. Mary's research is international in scope and examines the rights and protections afforded to victims in policy and practice across England and Wales, Ireland, and Australia. More broadly, Mary researches prosecutorial discretion and explores how access to justice is negotiated for victims in criminal trials.