Dr Megan McElhone

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Overview
Overview
Biography
Dr Megan McElhone joined the Department of Criminology as a Lecturer in 2020. Megan primarily researches racialised policing.
Prior to joining the Department, Megan completed her PhD in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). Her thesis examined the New South Wales Police Force’s targeted and sustained policing of ‘Middle Eastern’ communities in Sydney between 1998 and 2018.
Megan has also worked on several research projects at the University of New South Wales, Sydney Law School (University of Sydney), and at the Australian Human Rights Commission. These projects variously concerned the unlawful use of police strip search powers, miscarriages of justice and wrongful convictions, and workplace sexual harassment.
She has also taught modules on policing, criminal justice, and criminological theory at the University of New South Wales.
Web profiles
Administrative responsibilities
- Programme Director BSc Criminology & Criminal Justice (jointly with Dr Aviah Day)
ORCID
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Research
Research
Research interests
- The logics, methods and scope of proactive, intelligence-led, and pre-emptive policing
- The work of ‘specialist’ police squads
- Race, racism, racialisation, resistance, and refusal
Research projects
Making 'Middle Eastern Crime'
Section 60 'suspicionless' stops and searches
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
Megan welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students who are interested in undertaking research in any of her areas of research interest.
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Race, Crime and Justice (LACN014S7)
- Policing, Race and Justice (LACN025S7)
- Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice (LADD059S7)
- Understanding Crime (LALA146S4)
- MPhil/PhD Research Methods (LALA228Z7)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- McElhone, Megan (2017) 'Now They're Extraordinary Powers': firearms prohibition orders and warrantless search powers in New South Wales. Current Issues in Criminal Justice 28 (3), pp. 329-337. ISSN 1034-5329.
Book Section
- McElhone, Megan (2019) Portrayals of Middle Eastern background communities as criminal in Australian popular media. In: Akrivos, D. and Antoniou, A.K. (eds.) Crime, Deviance and Popular Culture: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture. Palgrave Macmillian. pp. 289-314. ISBN 9783030049119.