ACU Researcher

Dr Shannon Dodd

Senior Lecturer - Criminology & Criminal Justice
Faculty of Law and Business, Thomas More Law School

Areas of expertise: parole; corrections; mixed-methods research

Phone: +61 7 3623 7294

Email: Shannon.Dodd@acu.edu.au

Location: ACU Brisbane Campus

HDR Supervisor accreditation status: HDR Supervisor (Provisional)

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7537-5171

ORCID link: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7537-5171

Shannon Dodd is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the Thomas More Law School. Shannon's research focuses on issues in Australia's correctional system, including the use of technology like body-worn cameras by custodial officers in prison, people with disability in prisons, public support and gender differences in this support for the release of offenders on parole, and the increasingly punitive trajectory being taken in Australia with respect to offenders on bail and parole. She also focuses on the affective dimensions of public views, exploring how different emotions and mechanisms of emotion management may impact public views of criminal justice issues. Her research has also focused on the impact of enhanced compassion in judicial sentencing remarks on public punitiveness and criminal justice spending preferences.

In 2022, Shannon was awarded funding from the Queensland Government to design, deliver, and evaluate an intervention aimed at young people who steal cars to joyride.

In 2023, Shannon was the recipient of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology's 'Early Career Award' for her work about the experience of imprisonment for people with disability. She was also part of a team awarded the Australian Political Studies Association Siobhan O'Sullivan Prize for Policy Studies Research in 2023 for their work on the provision of the National Disability Insurance Scheme in prisons.

Shannon's research has been published both in Australia and internationally, in journals including the British Journal of Criminology, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, and the Criminal Law Journal.

Before her academic career, Shannon was a solicitor in private practice.

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• Dodd, S. & Morgan, M. (2023). "They are kids, they're making bad choices, but they are not bad kids": Motivations and Deterrents for Joyriding amongst Australian Youth. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth 28(1), 733-746. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2023.2282725

• Dodd, S., Antrobus, E., & Sydes, M. (2023). Body-worn camera activation in prisons: Understanding correctional officers' decision-making and use of discretion. Security Journal. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41284-023-00380-7

• Dodd, S., Doyle, C., Dickinson, H., Buick, F., & Yates, S. (2022). The forgotten prisoners: Exploring the impact of imprisonment on people with disability in Australia. Criminology and Criminal Justice. https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958221120895

• Yates, S., Dodd, S., Doyle, C., Buick, F., & Dickinson, H. (2022). Where specialist and mainstream service systems collide: The National Disability Insurance Scheme in prisons. Australian Journal of Public Administration 81(4), 611-628. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12555

• Hopkins, A., Dodd, S., Nolan, M., & Bartels, L. (2022). At the heart of sentencing: Exploring whether more compassionate delivery of sentencing remarks increases public concern for people who offend. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2022.2040398

• Fitzgerald, R., Freiberg, A., Dodd, S., & Bartels, L. (2022). Building Public Confidence in Parole Boards: Findings from a Four-Country Study. British Journal of Criminology 62, 1395-1413. htps://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azab097

• Dodd, S., Antrobus, E., & Sydes, M. (2020). Cameras in corrections: Exploring the views of correctional officers on the introduction of body-worn cameras in prisons. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 47(9), 1190-1208.

• Dodd, S. (2018) The punitive woman? Gender differences in public attitudes toward parole among an Australian sample. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 62(10), 3006-3022.

Projects

• 2022-2023. Deterring Drivers: An initiative to reduce car theft and joyriding by young people in Townsville (AUD $81,716.80). Funded by the Department of Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs.

• 2019. Evaluation of the Borallon Training and Correctional Centre (AUD $123,154.90). Funded by Queensland Corrective Services.

• 2018 - 2019. Cameras in corrections: Exploring the experiences and attitudes of custodial officers on the use of body-worn cameras in prisons (AUD $27,500). Funded by Queensland Corrective Services.

Awards

• 2023 - Australian & New Zealand Society of Criminology's Early Career Award

• 2023 - Australian Political Studies Association Siobhan O'Sullivan Prize for Policy Studies Research

• 2014 - John Braithwaite Prize for Criminology (University of Queensland)

Appointments and Affiliations

• Member - Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology