Anastasia Powell

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Associate Professor, Criminology and Justice Studies, RMIT University Profile Articles Activity

Dr Anastasia Powell is Associate Professor in Criminology & Justice Studies at RMIT University, specialising in policy responses, legal reform and primary prevention of sexual and family violence against women. Anastasia has published widely in these fields, including four books, and has contributed to policy specific research on violence against women for the Victorian State and Australian Commonwealth Governments. Most recently Dr Powell was a recipient of a prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) exploring citizen participation in responses to crime and justice via social media, which reflects her recent research at the intersections of gender-based violence, technology, justice and digital culture. From 2013-2015, Dr Powell has been working as a Chief Investigator on an ARC Discovery Project (with Dr Nicola Henry), titled Technology-facilitated sexual violence and harassment: violence against women in cyberspace and the implications for legislative and policy reform. The project examined the ways in which technologies (including mobile phones, video recordings, online spaces, social media) are being used in connection with sexual violence and harassment against women. Currently, Dr Powell is also working on an Australian Research Council funded project with colleagues from La Trobe (Dr Nicola Henry) and Monash Universities (Dr Asher Flynn) on an in depth study of image based sexual abuse (so-called 'revenge pornography').

• 2013present Lecturer, Justice and Legal Studies, RMIT University
• 20162018 Senior research fellow, RMIT University
• 20082012 Lecturer, Sociology, La Trobe University

• 2008  The University of Melbourne, PhD (Criminology)

• 2017 Sex, Violence and Justice in a Digital Era [co-authored with Dr Nicola Henry], Palgrave Macmillan
• 2017 Digital Criminology: Crime and Justice in Digital Society [co-authored with Dr Robin Cameron and Dr Gregory Stratton], Routledge
• 2016 Policing Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence Against Adult Victims: Police and Service Sector Perspectives [co-authored with Dr Nicola Henry], Policing & Society
• 2016 Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence: A Literature Review of Empirical Research [co-authored with Dr Nicola Henry], Trauma, Violence & Abuse
• 2016 'I think it's rape and I think he would be found not guilty': Focus group perceptions of (un)reasonable belief in consent in rape law' [co-authored], Social & Legal Studies
• 2016 Written Response Interview Protocols: An innovative approach to confidential reporting and victim interviewing in sexual assault investigations [co-authored with Dr Georgina Heydon], Policing & Society
• 2016 Sexual Violence in the Digital Age: The Scope and Limits of Criminal Law [co-authored with Dr Nicola Henry], Social & Legal Studies
• 2015 Seeking Rape Justice: Formal and informal responses to sexual violence through technosocial counterpublics, Theoretical Criminology
• 2015 Improving the Law Reform Process: Opportunities for Empirical Qualitative Research? [co-authored], Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology
• 2015 Reforming the Legal Definition of Rape in Victoria: What Do Stakeholders Think? [co-authored], QUT Law Review
• 2015 Embodied Harms: Gender, Shame and Technology-facilitated Sexual Violence in Cyberspace [co-authored with Dr Nicola Henry], Violence Against Women
• 2015 Rape Justice: Beyond the Criminal Law, Palgrave Macmillan
• 2014 Preventing Sexual Violence: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Overcoming a Rape Culture, Palgrave Macmillan
• 2014 Blurred Lines? Responding to 'Sexting' and Gender-based Violence Among Young People [co-authored with Dr Nicola Henry], Children Australia
• 2013 Meanings of 'Sex' and 'Consent': the Impact of Rape Law Reform in Victoria, Australia [co-authored with Dr Nicola Henry, Dr Asher Flynn and Dr Emma Henderson], Griffith Law Review
• 2011 Domestic Violence: Australian Public Policy [co-authored with Dr Suellen Murray], Australian Scholarly Publishing
• 2010 Configuring Consent: Emerging Technologies, Unauthorised Images and Sexual Assault, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology
• 2010 Sex Power and Consent: Youth Culture and the Unwritten Rules, Cambridge University Press
• 2009 'What's the Problem?' Australian Public Policy Constructions of Domestic and Family Violence, [co-authored with Dr Suellen Murray], Violence Against Women
• 2008 Children and Domestic Violence: Constructing a Policy Problem in Australia and New Zealand, [co-authored with Dr Suellen Murray], Social & Legal Studies
• 2008 Amor Fati? Gender Habitus and Young People's Negotiation of (Hetero)Sexual Consent, Journal of Sociology
• 2007 For the Sake of the Children: Children, domestic violence and public policy, [co-authored with Dr Suellen Murray], Children Australia
• 2007 Youth 'at risk'? Young people, sexual health and consent, Youth Studies Australia

• 2016 Crime and Justice by Social Media Role: DECRA Fellow Funding Source: Australian Research Council
• 2016 Responding to Revenge Pornography: The Scope, Nature and Impact of Australian Criminal Laws Role: Co-Investigator Funding Source: Criminology Research Advisory Council, Australian Institute of Criminology
• 2013 Technology Facilitated Sexual Violence and Harassment: Violence Against Women in Cyberspace Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Australian Research Council

• Causes And Prevention Of Crime (160201)
• Crime Policy (160504)
• Gender Specific Studies (169901)
• Sociology And Social Studies Of Science And Technology (160808)

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