Dr Jenny Wise

Associate Professor in Criminology - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Jenny Wise

Email: jwise7@une.edu.au

Biography

Jenny Wise is an Associate Professor in Criminology within the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) and the Secretary for the Centre for Rural Criminology at the University of New England. Her research focuses upon dark tourism, crime as a form of leisure, the social impacts of forensic science on the criminal justice system, and the role of the CSI Effect changing criminal justice practices. However, a love of pop culture sometimes diverts her research into new and interesting spaces. She teaches across a range of units in criminology, including understanding crime and serial killers.

Qualifications

BSocSci (Hons) Criminology (University of New South Wales); PhD in Criminology (University of New South Wales), Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (University of New England)

Teaching Areas

CRIM 100 Understanding Crime
CRIM333 Serial Killers: Panic or Intrigue?

Research Interests

  • Dark Tourism
  • Crime and popular culture
  • The use of forensic sciences within the criminal justice system
Grants

Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Dr Jenny Wise, Associate Professor David Roberts; Professor Martin Gibbs, Associate Professor Anthony Moore, Professor Christopher Lueg, Professor Michael Twidale, Professor Jon McCormack, Dr Richard Tuffin and Mr Scott Carlin. Australian Research Council Linkage Project LP220100118. Making Crime Pay: Manufacturing Heritage Experiences in a Digital Age.

Dr Jenny Wise (chief investigator), Dr Bridget Harris, Dr Ray Nickson, Associate Professor Bob Boughton and Adjunct Professor Jack Beetson. Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) Criminology Research Grant $50,640.38 "Reducing crime and incarceration rates in Aboriginal communities: What impact does the ‘Yes I Can’ Adult literacy program have on crime and incarceration rates in NSW Aboriginal communities?”

Publications

Books

Wise, J (forthcoming). Dark Tourism and Rural Crime: Crime and Punishment in Rural Australia, Bristol University Press.

Wise, J (2009). The New Scientific Eyewitness: The role of DNA profiling in shaping criminal justice, VDM Verlag, Germany.

Book chapters

Wise, J (2023). ‘Dark Tourism’, in A Harkness, J Peterson, M Bowden, C Pedersen and J F Donnermeyer (eds), Encyclopaedia of Rural Crime, Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Mulrooney, K and Wise, J (2023). ‘Penal Populism’ in A Harkness, J Peterson, M Bowden, C Pedersen and J F Donnermeyer (eds), Encyclopaedia of Rural Crime, Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Wise, J and McLean, L (2022). ‘The Separate Prison at Port Arthur: Transforming a Convict Site into a Memorial Museum with Digital Technology’ in V Walden (ed.), The Memorial Museum in the Digital Age, REFRAME: UK: 89-120. https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/the-memorial-museum-in-the-digital-age/

Wise, J  (2020). ‘Experts, Lay People and Forensics’, in W de Lint, & D Dalton (eds), Crime and Justice: A Guide to criminology, 6th Edition, Thomson Reuters.

Wise, J and McLean, L (2020). ‘Pack of Thieves: The visual representation of prisoners and convicts in dark tourist sites’ in M K Harmes, M A Harmes and B Harmes (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture, Palgrave Macmillan.

Wise J, Harris B, Nickson R, Boughton B and Beetson J (2019). ‘Impact of the ‘Yes, I Can!’ adult literacy campaign on interactions with the criminal justice system’, in M Phelan APM (ed), Crime & Justice Research 2019, Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.

Harris, B and Wise, J (2018). ‘Capturing Crime in the Antipodes and its Colonialist Cultural Representation’ In K Carrington, R Hogg, M Sozzo & J Scott (eds), Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South, Palgrave Macmillan: London.

Wise, J and Roberts, D A (2016), ‘Development of crime and the criminal justice system in Australia’ in A Harkness, D Baker & B Harris (eds) Locating Crime in Context and Place: Regional and Rural Perspectives. Sydney: Federation Press.

Wise, J and McGovern A (2012). ‘Crime Time: The rise of police programming on television’, in C Jones, E Barclay & R I Mawby (eds), The Problem of Pleasure: Leisure, Tourism and Crime, Routledge.

Journal Articles

Nolan, H, Wise, J, and McLean, L (2023). The Clothes Maketh the Cult: The Myth of the Cult and Pop Culture. M/C Journal, 26(1). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2971

Wise, J and McLean, L. (2023). ‘Experiencing Dark tourism’, Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies, 10 (August 2023): 45-68.

McLean, L and Wise, J (2022). ‘Charles Manson and his ‘Family’: “human monsters, human mutants”’ The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 11(1&2): 179-193.

Wise, J and Wise, N (2022). ‘Adapting fingerprints within the NSW Police Force: An historical examination of the geographical barriers and implications for rural and regional policing’, International Journal of Rural Criminology Special edition: Rural Policing in International Contexts, Vol. 7(1), pp. 46-69.

Wise, J and McLean, L (2022). ‘19 Crimes and mugshot branding’, Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture Vol. 22(1), pp. 131-154.

Wise, J and McLean, L (2021). ‘Making Light of Convicts: Branding ‘Bubbly’ with Offender Images’. M/C Journal, 24(1). Retrieved from https://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/2737

Oliveri V, Porter G, James P, Wise J and Davies C (2020). ‘Art Crime: Discussion on the Dancing Shiva Acquisition’, Journal of Criminological Research, Policy & Practice. Vol.6, No. 4, pp. 307-319. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCRPP-03-2020-0033

Mulrooney, K and Wise, J (2019). ‘Punitive attitudes across geographical areas: Exploring the rural/urban divide in Canada’, International Journal of Rural Criminology, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp.19-46. https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/88730/IJRC_Mulrooney-Wise_vol5-issue1_pp19-46.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Wise J, Harris B, Nickson R, Boughton B and Beetson J (2018). ‘Impact of the ‘Yes, I Can!’ adult literacy campaign on interactions with the criminal justice system’, Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, No. 562. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. https://aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi562

McGovern, A., Wise, J and Wise, N (2015). ‘‘When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die’: Concepts of justice in George R R Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire’, Media & Arts Law Review, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 109-123.

Weber, L, Wilson, A and Wise, J (2013). ‘Cops and Dobbers: A nodal cartography of onshore migration policing in New South Wales’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 32-50.

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, pp. 129-140.

Reports

Wise, J, Nickson, R, Harris, B, Boughton, B and Beetson, J (2018). Improving Aboriginal adult literacy rates: What impact does the ‘Yes I Can’ Adult literacy program have for reducing offending and improving interactions with the criminal justice system in NSW Aboriginal communities?, December 2018. Criminology Research Grant: CRG 06/15-16. Available at: http://crg.aic.gov.au/reports/1819/06-1516-FinalReport.pdf

Weber, L, Wilson, A, Wise, J and McGovern, A (2012). Policing Migration in Australia: An Examination of Onshore Migration Policing Networks, April 2012. Report of ARC Discovery Project DP0774554.

Conference Proceedings

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

Book Reviews

Wise, J (2016). [Book review]: Helena Machado and Barbara Prainsack, ‘Tracing technologies: Prisoners’ views in the era of CSI’. Ashgate: Farnham, 2012; Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 49(3) 459-460.

Wise, J (2010). [Book review] ‘Rape: Challenging Contemporary Thinking’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 188-191.

Theses

Wise, J 2009. The New Scientific Eyewitness: The role of DNA profiling in shaping criminal justice, PhD Thesis, University of New South Wales.

Wilson, J 2004. DNA possibilities changing the nature of sexual assault cases, Honours thesis, University of New South Wales.