Crime Over Time

Robyn Lincoln is Assistant Professor in Criminology at Bond University, Queensland, Australia. She is co-author of Jean Lee: The Last Woman Hanged in Australia, Justice in the Deep North and Crime on my Mind. In addition to university teaching and research, Robyn has experience in academic publishing as Senior Editor at Aboriginal Studies Press and Managing Editor of several scholarly journals. Her research centres on issues of Indigenous crime and justice and the new field of forensic criminology, including miscarriages of justice and the naming and shaming of youth involved in criminal proceedings.

Shirleene Robinson is Assistant Professor of History at Bond University, Queensland, Australia. She is the author of Something like Slavery? Queensland’s Aboriginal Child Workers, 1842–1945, the co-author of Speaking Out: Stopping Homophobic and Transphobic Abuse in Queensland and the editor of Homophobia: An Australian History. She has previously taught at the University of Queensland, where she gained her PhD, and the University of Wales (Lampeter). Her research interests include histories of crime and punishment, race and gender, and sexuality. She is currently working on a project on HIV/AIDS and community formation in Australia’s past.