Fiona Haines
Associate Professor Fiona Haines
School of Social and Political Sciences
The Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne
T +61 3 8344 9448; F +61 3 9349 4259
f.haines@unimelb.edu.au
Associate Professor Fiona Haines is considered one of the leading scholars in the area of regulatory theory and regulatory reform. She has published extensively in the area including a book in the prestigious Oxford Series in Socio-Legal studies in 1997. This book, which used company responses to industrial deaths as a basis to critique regulatory theory, formed the basis for subsequent research into regulatory reform following the Mistral Fan Fires in the early 1990s.
Associate Professor Haines also completed, with Professor Ken Polk and Dr Santina Perrone, an analysis of four years of industrial deaths in Victoria from 1987-1990. Most recently, she has been working on two related projects: first, an analysis of the impact of globalisation on regulatory reform, examining the aftermath of the Kader Toy Factory fire in Bangkok Thailand. This work has been published as a monograph Globalization and Regulatory Character: regulatory reform after the Kader Toy Factory Fire by Ashgate as part of the Advances in Criminology Series edited by Professor David Nelken; in the international journal Social & Legal Studies (a special edition on regulation where Associate Professor Haines worked as a co-editor), as well as in chapter form (with Cate Lewis) in an edited collection where the gender dimensions of that disaster and its aftermath were explored.
The second project is a comprehensive analysis of multiple forms of risk, their translation into a regulatory regime and their implementation by key sites. This ARC funded project with Associate Professor Adam Sutton has analysed reforms emanating from the collapse of HIH, terrorist related events and the Longford Gas explosion and traced their impact on the control of risk by ports, airports and major hazard facilities.
The case study of the HIH collapse has been published in the International Handbook of White Collar Crime (published by Springer and edited by Professors Gil Geis and Henry Pontell) and theoretical work published in February 2007 in a collection Crime Control: Governance and Regulation in Social Life edited by Professors George Pavlich and Gus Brannigan and published by Routledge/Cavendish Press and in a forthcoming article in Flinders Journal of Law Reform.
This research has provided a solid understanding of the ways in which perceptions of risk and harm are translated through the political process and is critical to the Cartel Project.
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A selection of relevant publications by Associate Professor Haines includes:
- C Beaton-Wells and F Haines, 'The Australian Conversion: How the Case for Cartel Criminalisation Was Made' (2010) 1(4) New Journal of European Criminal Law 500. Copyright Intersentia 2011. You can link to New Journal of European Criminal Law here.
- The Paradox of Regulation: What Regulation Can Achieve and What It Cannot, Cheltnam, Edward Elgar (2011)(forthcoming)
- Thoughts, Feelings, Action: Survey of Victorian Managers of Major Hazard Facilities, Journal of Occupational Health and Safety (Australia and New Zealand), 2010, 26:1:47-62, Fiona Haines and Chris Platania-Phung
- Exploring the Parameters of Systemic Risk Through the Climate Crisis and Financial Meltdown, refereed conference paper for the The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) conference, 1-4 December 2009. Australian National University
- Collaboration in Regulation: Solving Problems and Understanding Possibilities, invited paper to the colloquium on Regulation, Governance and the Sociological Citizen held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 22-23 January 2009
- Addressing the Risk, Reading the Landscape: the Role of Agency in Regulation, paper presented to annual meeting of the Law and Society Association, Denver Colorado, 26-31 May 2009
- Risk and the Politics of Regulation, RegNet Seminar, Australian National University, 21 April 2009
- Regulatory Failures and Regulatory Solutions: A Characteristic Analysis of the Aftermath of Disaster Law & Social Inquiry, 2009, 34:1: 31-60
- Vanquishing the Enemy or Civilizing the Neighbour? Controlling Risks from Hazardous Industries, 2009, Social and Legal Studies 18:3:1-19
- Making Cartel Conduct Criminal: A Case Study of Ambiguity in Controlling Business Conduct (2009) 42(2) Australia and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 218 (with Caron Beaton-Wells)
- Regulatory Failures and Regulatory Solutions: A Characteristic Analysis of the Aftermath of Disaster (2009) 34(1) Law & Social Inquiry 31-60
- Regulation, Red Tape and the War on Terror: Exploring the Regulatory Aftermath of September 11th, in Deirdre Howard-Wagner (ed), 'W(h)ither Human Rights?'. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand 2008
- It's All about Risk isn't it? Science, Politics and Public Opinion in Regulatory Reform, 2008, Flinders Journal of Law Reform, 10:3: 435-453, Fiona Haines and Chris Platania-Phung
- Problematizing Legitimacy and Authority in Law & Policy, 2008, Law & Policy 30:1:1-11, Haines, F. Reichman, N. and Scott, C
- The Problem that is Global Warming: An introduction, 2008, Law & Policy, 30:4: 385-393, Haines, F. and Reichman, N
- Global Warming: Can We Regulate Our Way Out?" paper presented to the joint US and Canadian Law and Society Associations joint meeting, 29 May-1 June 2008
- Who Are We Trying To Impress? Regulatory Audiences and Regulatory Impact, paper presented to the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Annual Conference, 26-28 November 2008, National Convention Centre Canberra
- Thinking Through the Regulatory Solution (Again), Invited Seminar to the Victorian Law Reform Commission, 18 November 2008
- The Lure of the Market in Tackling Global Warming, refereed conference paper presented to the annual conference of the Australian Sociological Association Conference University of Melbourne, 2-5 December 2008
- Introduction, in F Haines (Ed) Crime and Regulation in the International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology (Series Editors Gerald Mars and David Nelken), 2007, Dartmouth, Ashgate
- Crime? What Crime? Tales of the Collapse of HIH, in H. Pontell and G. Geis (eds) International Handbook of White-Collar Crime, 2007, Springer, Part IX Case Studies, Chapter 2
- Crime and Regulation, in the International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology (Series Editors Gerald Mars and David Nelken), 2007, Dartmouth, Ashgate
- The Importance of Being Ambiguous: Theorizing White-collar Crime, in A Brannigan and G. Pavlich (Eds.) Critical Studies in Crime Control: Governance and Regulation in Social Life (Essays in Honour of W.G. (Kit) Carson, 2007, Routledge/ Cavendish, Fiona Haines and Adam Sutton
- Criminalization, Meta-Regulation and Competing Risks: How dreams become nightmares, in Dreaming of the Regulatory Village; Speaking of the Regulatory State (Edited by Michael McConkey and Patrice Dutil), 2006, Toronto, The Institute of Public Administration of Canada
- Safety, Security, Politics and Fact: Shaping the Regulatory Solution: working paper 46 National Research Centre for OHS Regulation, 2006
- The Law and Order Debate in Occupational Health and Safety, Fiona Haines and Andy Hall (2004) 20(3) Journal of Occupational Health and Safety: Australia and New Zealand 263-273
- Regulatory Reform in Light of Regulatory Character: Assessing Industrial Safety Change in the Aftermath of the Kader Toy Factory Fire in Bangkok, Thailand (2003) 12(4) Social & Legal Studies 461-487
- The Shadows of the Law: Contemporary Approaches to Regulation and the Problem of Regulatory Conflict Fiona Haines and David Gurney (2003) 25(4) Law and Policy 353-380
- The Engineer's Dilemma: Sociological Perspectives on the Juridification of Regulation Fiona Haines and Adam Sutton (2003) 39 Crime, Law and Social Change 1-22
- Towards Understanding Globalization and Control of Corporate Harm: A Preliminary Criminological Analysis (2000) 12(2) Current Issues in Criminal Justice 166-180