Professor Janet Chan

Research Expertise
Professor Chan has a substantial track record of successful ARC grants and quality publications in social research. The distinctiveness of her work lies in its methodological and theoretical innovations. Her research on police culture is regarded as ground breaking in the sociology of occupations and organisations. Her expertise in the study of how information technology has impacted on police practices ('smart information use') is of special relevance to the Centre’s research program. Her research to date focuses on the sociology of creativity. Transactions between agents although innovative for the occasion are nevertheless directed by implicit institutional subtexts and narratives. The emergence of these two factors provides the experimental focus of investigations into the narrative reasoning that governs interactive relationships.

Qualifications
Master of Art (Painting) The University of New South Wales, 2004
Ph.D (Law/Criminology) The University of Sydney, 1990
Master of Arts (Criminology) University of Toronto, Canada, 1980
Master of Science (Applied Statistics) University of Toronto, Canada, 1973
Bachelor of Science (Applied Mathematics) University of Toronto, Canada, 1971

Current Appointment
2002- Professor and Head, The School of Social Science and Policy, The University of New South Wales.

Publications
Significant Publications (1999-2004)
Books and Monographs
1. Chan, J. with Devery, C., and Doran, S. Fair Cop: Learning the Art of Policing. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.
2. Chan, J., Brereton, D., Legosz, M., and Doran, S. e-Policing: The Impact of Information on Police Practices. Brisbane: Criminal Justice Commission, 2001.
Chapters in Books
3. Chan, J. "Police and New Technologies." Handbook of Policing. Ed. T. Newburn. Cullompton: Willan, 2003. 655-679.
4. Chan, J. "Backstage Punishment: Police Violence, Occupational Culture and Criminal Justice." Violence and Police Culture. Eds. T. Coady, S. James, S. Miller and M. O’Keefe. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000. 85-108.

Journal Articles
5. Chan, J. "Negotiating the Field: New Observations on the Making of Police Officers." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 34.2 (2001):114-132. [Lead article – also awarded the prize of best paper published in the Journal in the years 2000 and 2001]
6. Chan, J. "Governing Police Practice: Limits of the New Accountability." British Journal of Sociology 50.2 (1999): 249-268.

Career-best Publications
1. Chan, J. Changing Police Culture: Policing in a Multicultural Society. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
2. Chan, J. and Barnes, L. The Price of Justice? Lengthy Criminal Trials in Australia. Sydney: Hawkins Press, 1995.
3. Chan, J. Doing Less Time: Penal Reform in Crisis. Sydney: Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney, 1992.
4. Ericson, R., Baranek, P. and Chan, J. Representing Order: Crime, Law and Justice in the News Media. Toronto: University of Toronto Press / Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1991.