Asher Flynn

Asher’s research utilises a socio-legal framework to understand, critique and transform legal policy and practice, with a particular focus on gendered and technology-facilitated violence, including serious social and legal problems like image-based abuse and AI-facilitated abuse. Informed by national and international context, her research is particularly interested in how people access and negotiate justice in a world increasingly dominated by social media, artificial intelligence and digital technology. Asher has published widely in the field of technology-facilitated violence and abuse, as well as in the broader, related areas of sexual violence, access to justice, plea negotiations and legal reform.

Keywords
- Technology-facilitated abuse (including online harrassment)
- Image-based abuse ("revenge pornography")
- AI-Facilitated Abuse ("deep fakes)
- Digital crime
- Gendered violence
- Rape and sexual violence
- Access to Justice
- Plea Negotiations