Mr Kerry Wimshurst

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Lecturer, Undergraduate Program Convenor, Griffith School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Mr Kerry Wimshurst

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Research expertise

  • Criminal justice history (social order and imprisonment)
  • Criminal justice education (disciplinary content and outcomes)
  • Youth justice (professional orientations)
  • Assessment and evaluation in higher education

Current teaching areas

  • Policies and structures of the criminal justice system
  • Youth justice
  • Crime and Society

Publications

  • Wimshurst, K & Allard, T (2008). Personal and institutional Characteristics of Student Failure. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education , 33 (6), 687-698.
  • Wimshurst, K & Allard, T (2007). Entering youth justice: Comparing the views of human services and criminology students. Australian Social Work , 60 (4), 436-449.
  • Wimshurst, K & Ransley, J (2007). Police education and the university sector: Contrasting models from the Australian experience. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 18 (1), 106-122.
  • Wimshurst, K & Allard, T (2007). Criminal justice education, employment destinations, and graduate satisfaction. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 40 (2), 218-235.
  • Wimshurst, K & Hayes, H (2006). Youth and Crime. In, A. Goldsmith, M. Israel and K. Daly (Eds) Crime and Justice: A Guide to Criminology, 3rd edition, Thomson Lawbook, Sydney, 113-134.
  • Wimshurst, K, Wortley, R, Bates, M & Allard, T (2006). The impact of institutional factors on student academic results: Implications for quality in universities. Higher Education Research and Development, 25 (2), 131-145.
  • Wimshurst, K, Marchetti, E & Allard, T (2004). The attitudes of criminal justice students to Australian Indigenous people: Does higher education influence student perceptions? Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 15 (2), 327-350.
  • Wimshurst, K (2002). Punishment, welfare and gender ordering in Queensland, 1920-1940. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 35 (3), 308-329.

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