Dr Ann-Claire Larsen
Senior Lecturer
| Telephone: | (61 8) 6304 5597 |
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| Mobile: | 0409 119 091 |
| Facsimile: | (61 8) 6304 5894 |
| Email: | a.larsen@ecu.edu.au |
| Campus: | Joondalup |
| Room: | JO2.214A |
Availability:
By appointment
Current teaching:
- International Human Rights; and
- Professional Ethics.
Background
Dr Ann-Claire Larsen is a sociologist with a keen interest in international human rights law. Her research interests focus on how services fail to meet the needs of the people they are set up to assist. In keeping with her research interests and expertise, Ann-Claire is keen to extend her network of industry partnerships to win grants and undertake industry-based research. This might take the form of investigating employee/management relations or how services impact on client populations.
Staff qualifications:
- BA;
- LLB (UWA);
- LLM (Murd);
- PhD (UWA)
Professional Memberships:
- Editorial Board Member - Journal of Politics & Law (since 2009).
- Editorial Advisory Board Member - Forum on Public Policy Oxford Round Table (since 2010).
Research
Research interests:
- A broad range of criminology and legal reform topics including human rights;
- Therapeutic jurisprudence;
- Sex worker issues
- Adverse Events in Health;
- Domestic violence.
Current research areas:
- Legal and ethical issues associated with hand-held computer systems;
- Ethical issues and police interviewing.
Recent research grants:
- Larsen, A with P. Milnes ‘The effects of incarceration on Indigenous people of the Wongatha lands in the eastern goldfields of Western Australia: Indigenous leaders’ perspectives’ ECU grant $4,336
- Larsen, A. Telehealth, e-health and e-medicine in Western Australia: legal and ethical issues associated with e-communication technologies in a community-based health service. $16,453, December 2006.
- Larsen, A. & I. Froyland ‘Prison Services: Public perceptions of services for women prisoners’ ECU New Researcher Grant $4,691, 2003.
Recent publications
Book chapters:
- Larsen, A. (2012) ‘Interview with Mr Robert Jennings from the Western Australia Corrective Services’ Book Chapter in ‘Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World’, Taylor and Francis Group LLC. Forthcoming.
- Larsen, A with M. Giles, A. Tram Le, M. Allen, C. Lees. and L. Bennett ‘The role of education and training in prison to work transitions’ in Susan Dawe (Ed) (2007) in ‘Vocational education and training for adult prisoners and offenders in Australia: Research readings’ . Published by the Australian Government, NCVER. ISBN: 978 1 921170 81 2 print; 978 1 921170 87 4 web.
Refereed journal articles:
- Larsen, A. (2012) Disembodied knowledge: law’s incapacity to provide justice for prostitutes in Western Australia. Outskirts Online Journal. Accepted May 2012.
- Larsen, A. and M. Crowley (2012) Virtue Ethics: analysing emotions in a police interview with a crime suspect. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. Accepted April 2012.
- Larsen, A. and P. Milnes (2011) ‘A Cautionary Note: therapeutic jurisprudence for Aboriginal offenders’. eLaw Journal: Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law (2011) 18(1) 1-27.
- Larsen, A. (2011) ‘Trappings of Technology: casting palliative care nursing as legal relations’ Nursing Inquiry accepted for publication 29 May 2011.
- Crowley, M. & A. Larsen (2010) ‘Morality and Police Conduct: a way forward for ethical policing’. Forum on Public Policy Vol 5, 1-17;
- Guggisberg, M., A. Larsen, C. Fisher, K. Spilsbury, R. Zilkens, & J. Semmens (2010) ‘Danger Signs: Ethnicity, relationship status and lethal threats associated with intimate partner violence’. Australian Journal of Gender and Law. Vol 1, 1-18;
- Larsen, A. with Marika Guggisberg (2009) ‘Police Officers, Women and Interpersonal Violence: giving primacy to social context’, Australian Journal of Gender and Law. Vol 1, 1-18;
- Larsen, A. (2008) ‘Punishment and rehabilitation in women’s prisons: views from the Western Australian Public’ to Sister-in-Law Journal. Vol 1, 14-36;
- Larsen, A. (2005) ‘In the public interest: autonomy and resistance to methods of standardising nurses’ advice and practices from a health call centre in Perth, Western Australia ‘ Nursing Inquiry 12: 135-143;
- Larsen, A (2004) ‘Mobilising international human rights norms to reduce violence against Australian indigenous women: a way ahead’. Australian Journal of Human Rights Vol 10(2) 195-218.
- Larsen, A., (2002) ‘Towards eliminating child labour: the power of the law’ Mots Pluriels 22, September http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP2202acl.html
- Tonts, M. and A. Larsen (2002) ‘Rural disadvantage in Australia: a human rights perspective’ Geography, 87(2), 132-141.
- Larsen, A. and A. Petersen (2001) ‘Rethinking responses to ‘domestic violence’ in Australian Indigenous communities’ The Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 23(2): 1-14.
- Larsen, A. (1999) 'Governing families with young children through discipline', Journal of Sociology, Nov., 35, No. 3: 279-296.
Conference papers:
- Attended seminar in November 2009 Melbourne on ‘Protecting and Promoting Women's Rights: A Seminar for Lawyers and Barristers on Using the Optional Protocol to the UN Women's Convention’;
- Larsen, A with M. Guggisberg ‘Examining female victim-dissatisfaction with police responses in the context of intimate partner violence’ Nov 2009. 21st Annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC) Perth November 2009;
- Larsen, A with J. Manville ‘The business of sex work: an attempt to regulate prostitution in Western Australia (2007-2008)’ Nov 2009. 21st Annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC) Perth, November 2009;
- Larsen, A Mobilising United Nations’ principles to promote Restorative Justice: a attempt to restore justice following improper conduct by police in Western Australia Paper presented at the ‘Building restorative justice in Europe. Cooperation between the public, policy makers, practitioners and researchers’ conference in 17-19 April 2008, Verona, Italy;
- Larsen, A. with L. Gabelich ‘Ethics Training at the WA Police Academy: The Right Way to Teach the Right Thing to Do’ paper presented at the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics at RMIT, Melbourne, June 2007. Refereed conference paper published Nov 2007;
- Larsen, A presented a paper entitled 'In the public interest: Autonomy and Resistance to Methods of Standardising Nurses' Advice and Practices from a Health Call Centre in Perth, Western Australia’. The Australian Sociological Association Conference held at UWA in December 2006;
- Larsen, A presented a paper with Julie Manville 'Human Rights or Protection: The West Australian Prostitution Control Bill 2002'. The Australian Sociological Association Conference held at UWA in December 2006;
- Larsen, A. ‘Mobilising international human rights norms to reduce violence against Australian indigenous women: a way ahead’. ANZSOC Wellington NZ 9th-11th Feb.(2005).