Dr. Peta Malins
Senior Lecturer
Details
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College: School of GUSS
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Department: School of GUSS
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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peta.malins@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Dr Peta Malins (she/they) is Program Manager of the Bachelor of Legal and Dispute Studies and a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Justice Studies.
Peta is a critical, poststructural researcher who explores the embodied effects and affects of crime and justice interventions, with a particular focus on drug use, policing, prison abolition, transformative justice, gender and sexuality. They have an interest in the intersections between theory and practice, and the complex connections between bodies, cultural representations and urban space in enactments of power and harm. They are currently working on research projects regarding drug-detection dog operations, festival peer-based harm reduction, family violence policing, and school-based drug education.
Peta has worked previously at the City of Melbourne (City Safety / Drug Policy), the Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health and Society, and the FootPatrol outreach Needle and Syringe Program. They have also volunteered with the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS) and the DanceWize peer education harm reduction program. They are a member of Harm Reduction Victoria, Unharm! and Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP).
Peta is a critical, poststructural researcher who explores the embodied effects and affects of crime and justice interventions, with a particular focus on drug use, policing, prison abolition, transformative justice, gender and sexuality. They have an interest in the intersections between theory and practice, and the complex connections between bodies, cultural representations and urban space in enactments of power and harm. They are currently working on research projects regarding drug-detection dog operations, festival peer-based harm reduction, family violence policing, and school-based drug education.
Peta has worked previously at the City of Melbourne (City Safety / Drug Policy), the Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health and Society, and the FootPatrol outreach Needle and Syringe Program. They have also volunteered with the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS) and the DanceWize peer education harm reduction program. They are a member of Harm Reduction Victoria, Unharm! and Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP).
Research fields
- 4402 Criminology
- 4206 Public health
- 450521 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander politics
- 4405 Gender studies
- 440213 Race/ethnicity and crime
- 480406 Law reform
- 4410 Sociology
- 500321 Social and political philosophy
UN sustainable development goals
- 10 Reduced Inequalities
Teaching interests
Peta manages the Bachelor of Legal and Dispute Studies (LDS) Program and teaches Sociology of Law, Contemporary Criminology, Deviance Control and Conflict, and Sociology of Drug Use.
Research interests
Critical drug studies (drug use, drug policy, drug education, drug policing), Policing, Abolition and Transformative Justice, Queer theory, Human-animal connections, Postcolonial criminology, Critical Race theory ,and Post-structural philosophy (especially the work of Michele Foucault, Judith Butler, and Gilles Deleuze).
