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Journal Articles and Book Chapters since 2020

Cunneen, C.  (2025) The War in Gaza and Genocide of Palestinian People: Why Should Criminologists Be Engaged, Decolonization of Criminology and Justice, vol 7, no 2, December 2025, pp 9-46

Cunneen, C.  (2025). Police reformism and the challenges of decolonialism and abolitionism. In N. Asquith, J. Rodgers, J. Oliver, G. Cordner, A. Dwyer & R. Ahmed (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of Critical Policing Studies, Routledge, pp. 353-364.

Tauri, J. & Cunneen, C. (2024). Critical Indigenous Criminology in Practice and Praxis. Journal of Global Indigeneity, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.54760/001c.122471

Vegh Weiss, V. & Cunneen, C. (2023) Can truth commissions overcome the legacies and contemporary effects of colonialism? The International Journal of Restorative Justice, 7 (1), pp 43-64.

Cunneen, C.  (2023) Settler Colonial States and Transitional Justice, in Douglas, L., Hinton, A. & J. Meierhenrich (eds) Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice, Oxford University Press.

Cunneen, C. (2023) Decoloniality, Abolitionism, and the Disruption of Penal Power,  Aliverti, A., Carvalho, H., Chamberlen, A. & M. Sozzo (eds) Decolonizing the Criminal Question: Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Problems, Oxford University Press. pp. 19-35.

Cunneen, C. (2023) State Terror, Resistance, and Community Solidarity: Dismantling the Police, in Cunneen, C., Deckert, A., Porter, A., Tauri, J. & Webb, R. (eds.) The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice, Routledge. pp. 213-223.

Allison, F. & Cunneen, C. (2023) Rethinking Access to Justice for Indigenous Peoples, in Newman, D. and Gordon, F. (eds) Access to Justice in Rural Communities, Hart Publishing. pp.71-84.

Allison, F. & Cunneen, C. (2022) Coroners Courts and Death Investigations, and Longman, C. & Whittaker, A. , Chasing Professionalism – The Practitioner Roles in Responding to First Nations Deaths in Custody, in Camilleri, M. & Harkness, A. (eds.) Australian Courts, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 247-264.

Cunneen, C. (2022). Decolonizing Comparative Criminology, in David Nelken & Claire Hamilton, (eds), Research Handbook of Comparative Criminal Justice, Edward Elgar Publishing. pp.332-346, ISBN 9781839106378

Russell, S., Beaufils, J. & Cunneen, C. (2022). Rehabilitation and Beyond in Settler Colonial Australia: Current and Future Directions in Policy and Practice, in M. Vanstone & Priestley, P. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Rehabilitation in Criminal Justice, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 33-52. ISBN 9783031143748

Cunneen, C. (2021). Cartographies of Place, Harkness, A. & White, R. (eds.) Crossroads of Rural Crime, Emerald Publishing Limited. pp. 31-44. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80043-644-220211003

Cunneen, C.  (2021) ‘A Disbelief in Colonial Penality: Settler Colonialism and Abolitionism’ in Coyle, M. & Scott, D. (eds) The Routledge International Handbook of Penal Abolitionism, Routledge. ISBN 9781138354098, pp.269-279.

Porter, A. and Cunneen, C. (2021) ‘Policing Settler Colonial Societies’ in Birch, P., Kennedy, M. & Kruger, E. (eds) Australian Policing: Critical Issues in 21st Century Police Practice, Routledge. ISBN 9780367464677, pp 397-412.

Cunneen, C.  (2021) ‘Juvenile Justice’ in Castan, M. & Gerber, P. (eds) Contemporary Perspective on Human Rights Law in Australia, Vol 2, Thomson Reuters. ISBN 9780455243580, pp.169-194.

Cunneen, C. & Russell, S. (2020) ‘Vilification, Vigilantism and Violence: Troubling Social Media in Australia’,in Kim Weinert, Karen Crawley & Kieran Tranter, (eds) Law, Lawyers and Justice Through Australian Lenses. Routledge. ISBN 9780367210458, pp. 82-105.

Cunneen, C. (2020) ‘Youth Justice and Racialization: Comparative Reflections’, Theoretical Criminology, Vol 24(3) pp.521-539. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480619889039

Cunneen, C., Russell, S., Schwartz, M. & Porter, A. (2020) ‘Principles in Diversion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Young People from the Criminal Jurisdiction’, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Online at https://doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2020.1813386

Cunneen, C. & Porter, A. (2020) ‘Settler Colonial Law and the Prison Industrial Complex’, in Rodas, A., Simpson, M., Rawlinson, P., Kramer, R., Ryan, E., Taylor, E., Walters, R., Beckley, A., Cunneen, C., Gore, A., Porter, A., Poynting, S. & Russell, E. (eds.) Crime, Deviance and Society. An Introduction to Sociological Criminology, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108430302. pp. 149-180.

Bargaille, D., Cunneen, C., Marchetti, E., Tauri, J. & Wilson, M. (2020) ‘Developing Ethical Standards in Criminology and Criminal Justice Research: A Focus on Indigenous Australian Peoples’, in L. George, J. Tauri & L. Te Ata o Tu McDonald (eds.) Indigenous Research Ethics. Claiming Research Sovereignty Beyond Deficit and the Colonial Legacy, Emerald Books. ISBN 97817876906, pp 41-52.