Alison Young is interested in issues arising at the intersection of law, crime and culture. She is the author of Street Art World (2016), Street Art, Public City (2014), Judging the Image (2005), Imagining Crime (1996), Street/ Studio (2010) and The Scene of Violence (2010), as well as numerous articles in scholarly journals. She holds a Visiting professorship at the Law School, City University London and has been a Visiting Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and at Amherst College, and a Visiting Research Fellow at McGill University, London University, New York University and Hong Kong University.
Experience
2005–present
Professor, University of Melbourne
1998–2005
Associate Professor, University of Melbourne
1995–1998
Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne
1990–1995
Lecturer, University of Lancaster
1989–1990
Lecturer, University of Manchster
1988–1989
Lecturer, University of East Anglia
Education
1988
University of Cambridge, PhD
1985
University of Cambridge, M.Phil
1984
University of Edinburgh, LL.B (Hons)
Publications
2010
Street/Studio: the Place of Street Art in Melbourne, Thames & Hudson
2010
The Scene of Violence: Cinema, Crime, Affect, Routledge-Cavendish
Grants and Contracts
2008
Urban Images and the Appearance of City Spaces
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
Australian Research Council
2001
Crimes of the Sign: the Legality of Graffiti in the Contemporary City
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
Australian Research Council
Honours
Karl Loewenstein Fellow in Jurisprudence, Amherst College, 1998, 2000; winner of the Penny Pether Prize for Law, Literature and the Humanities 2015