Prof Rob White
Professor Rob White
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
Rob White has written over 170 peer reviewed articles, more than 180 book chapters, and authored and edited over 50 books (not including revised editions and translations) with leading publishers. He has obtained 27 grants for a total of more than AUS$2,500,000 and 18 consultancies for a total of more than AUS$550,000, from a wide variety of state departments, non-government organisations and local governments.
He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.
White’s devotion to social and ecological justice is evidenced by his pioneering efforts in green criminology, including the development of an eco-justice framework that incorporates environmental justice (humans), ecological justice (specific ecosystems) and species justice (non-human animals, and plants). This framework has been at the centre of his socio-legal analyses of biodiversity loss, climate change, ecocide, and other forms of environmental crime.
His contributions to juvenile justice, as well as his work on prisoner rehabilitation, have included conceptual elaboration and critique, advocacy of restorative interventions, and the development of and support for innovative projects, programs and strategies designed to address social inequalities, structural harms and victim/offender conundrums.
White has been a member of the Tasmanian Sentencing Advisory Council and Youth Justice Reform Expert Panel. He has undertaken evaluations of Brain Injury Association of Tasmania Criminal Justice Programs, the Just Time Prison Program in Tasmania, Smith Family School-Community Partnerships Project, Australian Red Cross Prison Peer Mentor Program, and the Salvation Army Co-Morbidity Training and Treatment Project.
Rob White was Director of the Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies for 10 years. He was also a degree monitor for Youth Development in Aotearoa/New Zealand for the New Zealand Qualifications Authority after previously serving as a Review Panel Member for NZ Accreditation.