Penny Green is an Australian

criminologist Criminology (from Latin , 'accusation', and Ancient Greek , ''-logia'', from λόγος ''logos'', 'word, reason') is the interdisciplinary study of crime and deviant behaviour. Criminology is a multidisciplinary field in both the behaviou ...

. She has been a Professor of Law and Globalisation and Head of the Department of Law at

Queen Mary University of London Queen Mary University of London (QMUL, or informally QM, and formerly Queen Mary and Westfield College) is a public university, public research university in Mile End, East London, England. It is a member institution of the federal University ...

since September 2014.

Biography

Green studied psychology, anthropology and sociology at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public university, public research university and member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton, A ...

. She graduated in 1979. She went to the UK and obtained her doctorate in Criminology at

Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a List of cities in the United Kingdom, city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is the county town of Cambridgeshire and is located on the River Cam, north of London. As of the 2021 Unit ...

. Before being appointed as Professor at Queen Mary University of London she was Professor of Law and Criminology at

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public university, public research university in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV ...

and worked at the

University of Southampton The University of Southampton (abbreviated as ''Soton'' in post-nominal letters) is a public university, public research university in Southampton, England. Southampton is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universit ...

University of Westminster The University of Westminster is a public university, public university based in London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1838 as the Royal Polytechnic Institution, it was the first Polytechnic (United Kingdom), polytechnic to open in London. The Po ...

, and the

London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), established in 1895, is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London. The school specialises in the social sciences. Founded ...

. Green is the founder of the

International State Crime Initiative The International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) is a community of scholars working to expose, document, explain, and resist state crime. As an interdisciplinary forum for research, reportage and debate, ISCI aims to combine rigorous academic rese ...

. In March 2016, she was shortlisted as replacement for Makarim Wibisono as

United Nations special rapporteur Special rapporteur (or independent expert) is the title given to independent human rights experts whose expertise is called upon by the United Nations (UN) to report or advise on human rights from a thematic or country-specific perspective. De ...

on the situation of

human rights in the Palestinian territories The state of human rights in the West Bank and Gaza Strip is determined by Palestinian as well as Israeli policies, which affect Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories both directly and indirectly, through their influence over th ...

occupied since 1967, along with

Michael Lynk Stanley Michael Lynk (born 1952) is a Canadian legal academic. He is currently an associate professor at the University of Western Ontario. From 2016 to 2022 he was the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Terr ...

was appointed to this role.

Publications

* * * * State Crime (2005) Special Issue:

The British Journal of Criminology ''The British Journal of Criminology'' is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed criminology and law journal focusing on British and international criminology. It is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies a ...

, 2005, Vo. 45, No. 4
pp 434–445
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Journals and book chapters

* "Understanding State Crime", (2016) with Tony Ward, Oxford Handbook of Criminology Oxford: OUP * "Evicting Palestine" (2016), with Amelia Smith, in State Crime Journal Special Issue: Palestine, Palestinians and Israeli State Crime (eds Green, P. and Shalhoub-Kervorkian, N.) Vol. 5, No.1 * "Law, the State and the Dialectics of State Crime" (2016) in Critical Criminology, Vol. 24, No. 2 * "Civil Society And State Crime: Repression, Resistance And Transition in Burma and Tunisia" (2014) with Ward, T. in Chambliss, W. J. and Moloney, C. J. (eds.) State Crime: Critical Concepts in Criminology, New York: Routledge * "Enclosing the Commons: Predatory capital and forced evictions in Papua New Guinea and Burma" (2014), with Lasslett, K. and Sherwood, A. in * * "Islamophobia: Burma’s Racist Fault-line" in Race and Class October–December 2013; 55 * * "State Crime: A Dialectical View" (2012) (with T. Ward) in M. Maguire, R. Morgan, and Reiner, R.(eds) The Oxford Handbook of Criminology * "States, Crime and Violence" in (2010) Sistema Penal & Violência, Porto Alegre, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 1–14, jul./dez * "Civil Society, Resistance and State Crime" (2012) in L. Stanley and J. McCulloch State Crime and Resistance London: Sage * "State-Building and the Logic of Violence in Iraq" (2009) (with T. Ward) Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention * "The Transformation of Violence in Iraq" (with T. Ward) British Journal of Criminology (2009) 49(5): 609-627.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Penny Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Academics of King's College London Australian criminologists Australian women academics Australian academics Australian women criminologists Academics of Queen Mary University of London

Biography

Publications

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