Skip navigation to main content

You are here: UNE Home / Staff / Jenny Wise

Dr Jenny Wise

Jenny Wise

Lecturer in Criminology, School of Behavioural and Cognitive and Social Sciences

Qualifications

BSocSci (Hons) Criminology (University of New South Wales); PhD in Criminology (University of New South Wales)

Contact

Email:
Room: Arts (E11) 146
Phone: 02 6773 4286 (or +61 2 6773 4286 overseas)
Fax: 02 6773 3748

Areas of Teaching

CRIM100 Understanding Crime
CRIM304 Forensic Science and Criminal Justice
CRIM324 Prisons and Punishment
SOCY354/554 The Sociology of Youth and Delinquency

Research interests

  • The use of forensic sciences within the criminal justice system
  • Sexual assault law reform
  • Human Rights
  • Policing

Publications

  • Wise, J and McGovern A 2012. ‘Crime Time: The rise of police programming on television’, in C Jones, E Barclay & R I Mawby, The Problem of Pleasure: Leisure, Tourism and Crime, Routledge.
  • Wise, J 2011. ‘Experts, Lay People and Forensics’, Crime and Justice: A Guide to criminology, 4th Edition, Thomson Reuters.
  • Wise, J 2011. 'Hollywood Profiling: The impact of the CSI Effect on the use of forensic science in New South Wales', Expert evidence Conference, Canberra, 12-13 February 2011, http://law.anu.edu.au/coast/events/expert/evidence.htm
  • Wise, J 2010. 'Providing the CSI Treatment: Criminal Justice Practitioners and the CSI Effect', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Vol. 21. No. 3, pp. 383-400.
  • Wise, J 2010. 'Getting behind closed doors: The process of conducting research in a criminal justice system', Current Narratives, Vol. 2.
  • Wise, J 2010. ‘Rape: Challenging Contemporary Thinking’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 188-191.
  • Wise, J 2009. The New Scientific Eyewitness: The Role of DNA profiling in shaping criminal justice. VDM Verlag, Germany.
  • Wise, J ‘DNA possibilities changing the nature of sexual assault cases', Honours Thesis, University of New South Wales

 

Conference papers:

  • 'Hollywood Profiling: The impact of the CSI Effect on the use of forensic science in New South Wales', Expert evidence Conference, Canberra, 12-13 February 2011, http://law.anu.edu.au/coast/events/expert/evidence.htm
  • ‘Getting behind closed doors: The process of conducting research in a criminal justice setting’, 2nd Australasian Narrative Inquiry Conference: Embracing Multiple Dimensions, Armidale, July 2009.
  • 'Bringing Police Investigations out of the Dark Ages: DNA Evidence and the Thames Valley Police', British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Cardiff, June-July 2009.
  • ‘'We want DNA from this, that and everything': The desire to have DNA evidence in all criminal cases', The 21st Annual ANZSOC Conference, Canberra Convention Centre, Canberra, November 2008.
  • ‘The misrepresentations of DNA technology in CSI type programs', Disciplines and Punishments: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Crime and Justice, University of New South Wales, July 2007.
  • ‘DNA technology in the criminal justice system', Criminal Justice Research Network Seminar, University of New South Wales, August 2007.
  •  ‘DNA technology ‘transforming' policing', The 20th Annual ANZSOC Conference, Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, September 2007.
  • ‘Does DNA evidence enlighten or blind people, in the 21st Century?' The 14th World Congress of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, August 2005.