Mark Finnane

Mark Finnane is ARC Australian Professorial Fellow and a Professor of History at Griffith University, in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS). He has published widely on the history of criminal justice, especially policing, in both Australia and Ireland.

His most recent book is J V Barry: A Life (2007), a study of the judge, civil libertarian, historian and criminologist Sir John Barry. With Heather Douglas he has recently completedIndigenous Crimes and White Sovereignty After Empire, a study of Australian Aboriginal experience of criminal jurisdiction, to be published in 2012 by Palgrave Macmillan.