Leanne Weber

Leanne Weber is an Adjunct Professor in Criminology in the Canberra Law School. She researches policing and border control using critical and human rights frameworks. She has held six major research grants from the Australian Research Council as either Lead Investigator, CI or sole CI and has produced or co-produced 11 academic books, including Globalization and Borders: Death at the Global Frontier, 2011 (Palgrave, with Sharon Pickering), which was awarded the inaugural Christine M Alder Book Prize by the ANZ Society of Criminology and Place, Race and Politics: The Anatomy of a Law and Order Crisis (Emerald, with Blaustein, Benier, Wickes and Johns) which won the prize in 2023. Her current ARC project is Analysing interactions within the criminal deportation system (DP210100931). She is a member of the ANZSOC Borders group at Border Criminologies.