Mark Finnane

Mark Finnane FAHA FASSA is Professor of History at Griffith University, where he has worked since 1984. He has published widely on the history of criminal justice, policing, punishment, and criminal law in both Australia and Ireland. His books include Police and government: Histories of Policing in Australia (1994), Punishment in Australian Society (1997), When Police Unionise (2002), JV Barry: a life (2007) and (co-authored with Heather Douglas) Indigenous Crime and Settler Law: White Sovereignty after Empire (2012). With the support of an ARC Laureate Fellowship (2013-18) he established the Prosecution Project, hosted at the Griffith Criminology Institute, a historical database of criminal prosecutions in Australian higher courts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.