Shannon Dodd

Shannon Dodd is a Lecturer in Criminology in the Thomas More Law School, Australian Catholic University. Her research focuses on issues in Australia’s correctional system, including the use of technology like body-worn cameras by correctional officers, 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. Recently, her research has focused on the impact of enhanced compassion in judicial sentencing remarks on public punitiveness and criminal justice spending preferences.