Professor John Scott
Professor, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Qualifications
BA (Newcastle, NSW); BSocSci [Hons] Sociology and Anthropology (Newcastle, NSW); PhD Sociology and Anthropology (Newcastle); Graduate Certificate of Higher Education (New England)
Contact
| Email: | jscott6@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Arts (E11) 170 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2116 (or +61 2 6773 2116 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3748 |
Areas of Teaching
CRIM100 Understanding crime
SOCY344 Criminology and Justice Systems
CRIM104 The Australian Criminal Justice System
HSHM 332 Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS
Research interests
Sociology of crime and deviance, sociology of sex and sexuality, sociology of health and illness
Professional Appointments and Service
2010+ Chief Examiner, Society and Culture, NSW Board of Studies.
Golden Key International Honour Society (2007+) Member and UNE Chapter Co-Advisor.
2010+ Robb College, UNE, Member, Senior Common Room
Editorial Board (2010+) Rural Society
2009+: Member, New England Regional Advisory Council, NSW Community Relations Commission.
2008-2010: Chief Examiner, CAFS, NSW Board of Studies.
2007+: Associate Editor, Higher Education Research and Development. Routledge, London.
2005-2009: Co-Editor, Journal of Sociology , Sage Publications, London.
2004+ : Justice of the Peace [JP], New South Wales.
2002-2008: Examinations Committee Member, New South Wales Board of Studies.
Recent Books
Carl, J., Baker, S., Scott, J., Hillman, W., and G. Lawrence (2011) Think Sociology. Pearson, Sydney.
Barclay, E., Donnermeyer, J., Scott, J., and Hogg, R. (2007) Crime in Rural Australia. Federation Press, Sydney.
Scott, J. 2005 How Modern Governments Made Prostitution a Social Problem: Creating a Responsible Prostitute Population. Edwin Mellen Press, New York.
Scott, J. [with G. Hawkes] 2005 (eds) Perspectives in Human Sexuality. Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
Das, D. [Editor-in-Chief], Scott, J. [Associate Editor] et al. (2005) The World Police Encyclopedia, Volumes 1 & 2 . Routledge, New York.
Guest Journal Editor
Scott, J, Gowsett, G. and Minichiello, V. (2011) Men’s Health: Health Sociology Review, vol. 19, no. 4.
Recent Refereed Journal Publications
Scott, J., K. Carrington, A. McIntosh. (accepted) Established-outsider relations and fear of crime in a mining town. Sociologia Ruralis.
Scott, J. (2011, forthcoming) True blue crimes and other Aussie yarns [review essay]. Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies.
Hine, D, Bhullar, N., Marks, A., Kelly, P., BA, Scott, J. (2011) Comparing the Effectiveness of Education and Technology in Reducing Wood Smoke Pollution: A Field Experiment. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Scott, J. (2011) Governing prostitution: differentiating the bad from the bad. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, vol. 23, no 1.
Carrington, C., Young, A. & Scott, J. (2010) ‘Globalisation, Frontier Masculinities and Violence: Booze, Blokes and Brawls”, British Journal of Criminology. Available from http://eprints.qut.edu.au/29763/
Scott, J. & Biron, D. (2010) Wolf Creek, rurality and the Australian Gothic. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol. 24, no.2, pp.309-324.
Carrington, K and Scott, J. (2008) Masculinity, Rurality and Violence. British Journal of Criminology, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 641-666.
Scott, J. et al, (2006) Sex Outside the City: Sex Work in Rural and Regional NSW. In Rural Society , vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 151-167.
Scott, J., et al (2005) Understanding the New Context of the Male Sex Work Industry, Journal of Interpersonal Violence , vol. 20, no. 3, pp.320-343.
Scott, J. (2004) Reply to S. Egger and C. Harcourt [A Comment on John Scott, Prostitution and Public Health in New South Wales. Culture Health and Sexuality 2003; 5(3): 277-293
Scott, J. (2003) A Prostitute's Progress: Male Prostitution in Scientific Discourse, Social Semiotics, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 179-201.
Scott, J. (2003) Prostitution and Public Health in New South Wales Culture, Health and Sexuality, vol. 5, no. 3, pp.277-293.
Scott, J. (2001) The Management of Venereal Disease in New South Wales , 1871-1916 Venereology, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 69-80.
Recent Book Chapters
Pereira, M. and J. Scott (2011) Inequalities of crime. In M. Marmo et al. (eds.) Crime and Justice: A Guide to Criminology. Thomson Rueters, Sydney.
Barclay, E., Donnermeyer, E. and Scott, J. (2010) Policing the Outback: Impacts of Isolation and Integration in an Australian Context, in Mawby, R. I. & Yarwood, R. (eds) Rural Policing, Willan: Cullumpton, UK.
Scott, J. and P. Jobes (2009) Community and Policing in Australia: Styles of Policing in Rural and Urban Communities among Officers in a Single Police Service. In M. Palmiotto and P. Unnithan (eds) Law Enforcement and Society. Cengage Learning: NY.
Scott, J. & R. Donovan. (2009) Encounters with comforting uncertainties: getting to know and understand unobtrusive methods. In J. Kottler and V. Minichiello (eds) Qualitative journeys: Student and mentor experiences with research. Sage: CA.
Scott, J. & P. Jobes (2007) Policing in Rural Australia: The country cop as law enforcer and local resident. In Barclay et al. Crime in Rural Australia, Federation Press, Sydney.
Barclay, E, Hogg, R & Scott, J. (2007) Young people and crime in rural communities. In Barclay et al. Crime in Rural Australia. Federation Press, Sydney.
Scott, J., Barclay, E and Hogg, R. (2007) There's crime out there, but not as we know it. In Barclay et al. Crime in Rural Australia. Federation Press, Sydney.
Scott, J. (2005) Children ask the damnedest questions!' Sex(uality) education as a social problem. In G. Hawkes & J. Scott (eds) Perspectives in Human Sexuality, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
Scott, J. (2005) A labour of love? Female and male sex work. In G. Hawkes & J. Scott (eds) Perspectives in Human Sexuality, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
Hawkes, G. & J. Scott. (2005) Sexuality and social theory. In G. Hawkes & J. Scott (eds) Perspectives in Human Sexuality, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
Hawkes, G. & J. Scott. (2005) Sex and society. In G. Hawkes & J. Scott (eds) Perspectives in Human Sexuality, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
Research Publications
Scott, J and R. Wickes. (2008) Criminology as Other: observations on the construction of a field. Nexus, Vol. 20, No. 1, March.
Scott, J. (2006) Institutionalization. In The Historical Encyclopedia of Prostitution (Three Volumes) , M. Ditmore (ed), Greenwood Publishing, Westport CT.
Scott, J. (2006) Penal Colonies. In The Historical Encyclopedia of Prostitution (Three Volumes), M. Ditmore (ed), Greenwood Publishing, Westport CT.
Scott, J. (2005) Micronesia. In The World Police Encyclopaedia. Das, D. et al. (eds.) Routledge , New York.
Scott, J., Sprogis, A. and Porteous, J. (1996) Beyond Silence: The General Practice Homeless and At-Risk Youth Project, Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health, Canberra.
Competitive Grants
Minichiello, V, Scott, J. et al. 2011-2013 Collaborative Research Network, Element Three: Sexuality. Identity and Mental health Impacts on Wellbeing and Inclusion. Australian Federal Government, Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, $4.8 million.
Sims, M., Scott, J., E, Barclay. 2010-2013. Evaluation of Indigenous Justice Programs AGD-0510 (Attorney General Department), Australian Federal Government. $210,000.00
Minichiello, V. and J. Scott. 2011-2013 ARC Discovery ‘Masculinity and commercial sex: Learning about men's sexualities in the male sex work encounter’ $275,000.00
ARC Linkage (with D. Hine). Combining Community Based Social Marketing and Technological Innovation to Combat Wood Smoke Pollution in Regional Australia $148,725 Total.
2008+ ARC Discovery Grant, Safeguarding rural Australia: Addressing Violence and Masculinity in Rural Settings (With K. Carrington and R. Hogg) $277,000.00.
2007+ Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation. What Makes a Resilient Rural Community (with Davies et al.)
Consultancies
Southern New England (Armidale, Guyra, Uralla, Walcha) Social and Community Plan (2009)
Moree Plains Shire Social Plan (2009)
Scott, J & Reavell, H. R. (2007-2010) Evaluationof Youth of the Streets, Walgett. Dept of Families, Housing, Services and Indigenous Affairs
Scott, J. et al. (2006), Tamworth Regional Council Social Plan. (PDF document)
Scott, J., (2002), Social Impact Statement: Transitional Group Hoome at RMB 515, Goonoo Goonoo Road, Tamworth Freedom Pastoral Care Limited (submitted to Tamworth City Council July 2002).
Recent Published Conference Proceedings
Scott, J. 2009. Governing Prostitution: Differentiating the Bad from the Bad. Risk, Resilience and Beyond: TASA Crime and Governance Thematic Group Symposium 2009. September: Stamford Plaza, Brisbane.
Scott, J. (2008) Sex Work and Health in a Rural Context. Results of a qualitative study undertaken in NSW. in Re-imagining Sociology; the Annual Conference of TASA 12-15 Dec. University of Melbourne, Melbourne.
Ragusa , A. & Scott, J. (2005) For Sale? Sex in the Country: The Benefits of Sex Work as an Occupational Choice in NSW. In TASA 2005 Conference Proceedings . University of Tasmania, 5-8 December.
Corrigan, P., J. Scott et al. (eds.) (2003) New Times, New Worlds, New Ideas: Today and Tomorrow, The Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association, University of New England Armidale.
Recent Conference Papers
Scott, J. (2011) Restorative justice and the governance of social disorder amongst rural youth. Panel, Social Justice, Governance and Ethics. Crime, Social Justice and Democracy: An International Conference, QUT, Brisbane, 26-28 Sept.
Scott, J. (2011) Established-outsider relation and fear of crime in a country mining town. Economies and Insecurities of Crime and Justice. British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Northumbria, July 3-6.
Scott, J. (2010) Fit-in or fuck-off (FIFO): Established-outsider relation and fear of crime in a country town. Social Causes, Private Lives: The Australian Sociological Association Conference 2010. Dec. 6-9. Macquarie University, Sydney.
Minichiello, V. and J. Scott (2010) Male sex industry: state of affairs. Australasian Sexual Health Conference, Sydney, October.
Scott, J. (2010) Workshop: In-depth interviewing vs focus groups. 11th Advances in Qualitative Methods Conference, Vancouver, October.
SCOTT, J. (2009) Sex industry policy in NSW: A critial overview of recent legislative changes. 51st Annual Western Social Science Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 15-18 April.
Carrington, C. and Scott, J. (2008) Research Masculinity, Violence and Rurality. XV World Congress of the International Society for Criminology, Barcelona, 20-25 July.
Scott, J. (2007) Understanding Sex Work in Rural Context. Sex Work: Regulating the Many Faces of Sexual Labour Symposium, Research Centre in Gender, Law and Sexuality (AHRC), Keele University, 17 October.
Scott, J. (2007) Rural Macculinities and Violence, Keele University, School Criminology Seminar, October, 2007.
Scott, J. (2007) Rural Sex Work: Socio-legal Issues, Seminar, Manchester University, School of Law, October, 2007.
Carrington, C. and Scott, J. (2006) Masculinity, risk and the architecture of rural life. Sociology for a Mobile World. The Australian Sociological Association Conference, UWA, Perth, 4-7 Dec.
Scott, J. (2006) Out of sight, out of mind: The organisation and regulation of rural prostitution. Crime in Rural Communities: The Impact, the Causes, the Prevention, UNE, 30 Nov. 1 Dec.
Scott, J. (2006) [Invited workshop presentation] JOS Review Process. Postgraduate Workshop - Sociology for a Mobile World. The Australian Sociological Association Conference, UWA, Perth, 4-7 Dec.
Scott, J. (2006) [Invited workshop presentation] Publishing: Getting started. Postgraduate Workshop - Sociology for a Mobile World. The Australian Sociological Association Conference, UWA, Perth, 4-7 Dec.
Scott, J. (2006) [Invited Workshop Presentation] Publishing: Getting Started. University of Western Sydney, Penrith Campus, Social Science.
Scott, J. (2005) Sex Work in Rural and Regional NSW. TASA 2005 Conference Proceedings. University of Tasmania, 5-8 December.
Other
Scott, J. (2011) True crime makes us look for our own evil. Opinion and Analysis, Newcastle Herald, Wednesday, Sept 10.
Scott, J. (2011) Gun crime fascinates in life and on the screen. Opinion and Analysis, Newcastle Herald, Wednesday, April 13. P. 11
Campbell, S. and J. Scott (2010) Process of conducting qualitative research. Nurse Researcher, vol. 18, no. 2, pp.4-7.
Carrington, K., McIntosh, A. and Scott, J. (2009), Submission to Senate Inquiry into Suicide, 20 November, No. 62. www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/clac_ctte/suicide/submissions/sublist.htm (33%)
Scott, J. (2008) Frances, R. 2007. Selling Sex: A Hidden History of Prostitution. UNDSW Press: Sydney. In Journal of Australian Colonial History.
Scott, J. (2008) Roach Anleu 2006, Deviance Conformity and Control, Pearson, in The Journal of Sociology Vol 44, No 1, 108-110.
Prizes, Honours and Awards
2009: UNE Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Performance and Service.
2009: UNE Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Achievements in Interdisciplanary Innovation.
2007: AHRC Research Centre in Gender Sexuality and Law Visiting Fellow (Keele University)
2007: Carrick National Citation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning.
2006: UNE, Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence, Sole Recipient in Individual Category.
2002: Inaugural First Prize, Best Up-and-Coming Researcher, Journal of Culture, Health and Sexuality, Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London.
Select Key Institutional Governance
Acting Head: School of Science and Technology (April-July 2011)
Acting Head: School of Arts (2010-2011)
Coordinator: Bachelor of Criminology (2008-2010)
Coordinator: Bachelor of Arts, BA (Hons), Graduate Diploma in Humanities, Graduate Certificate in Arts (2005-2010)
Coordinator: Master of Arts (Coursework) (2006-2007)
Deputy Director: UNE Centre for Applied Research in Social Science (2005-2009)
UNE Faculty of Arts and Sciences Teaching and Learning Committee (2007-2010)
Member, UNE Human Research Ethics Committee (2007-2009)
Convener: Discipline of Sociology and Criminology (2004-2005; 2010)
Member of Societies and Professional Bodies
The Australian Sociological Association
Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology
Society and Culture Association (NSW)
Select Media Interviews
ABC Radio National, Bush Telegraph, Youth Violence on Rise in Country Areas (25/3/10) http://www.abc.net.au/rural/telegraph/content/2010/s2855846.htm
Jopson, D. (20.2.10) Outback gothic, where the vision is not so splendid. Sydney Morning Herald, Weekend Edition. http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/film/outback-gothic-where-the-vision-is-not-so-splendid/2010/02/19/1266082354400.html
Radio Television Hong Kong, Radio Three (25/1/2010). Why men go for prostitutes? http://programme.rthk.org.hk/channel/radio/programme.php?d=2010-01-25&name=backchat&p=514&e=103178&m=episode
Elliot, T (18/6/09) Who will hear you scream? Misfits who go nuts in the bush. Sydney Morning Herald.
Lewis, D. 2005 The other kind of country women’s club. The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 December.
O’Keefe, B. 2005 Mobiles service a bush clientele. The Australian [Higher Education Supplement], 30 November, p.40