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Overview

Janet Chan is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia, where they contribute to academic research primarily in the social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including sociology and political science, political science and international relations, information systems, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and public administration.

Their research focuses on several topics within the broader field of social sciences, including crime patterns and interventions, policing practices and perceptions, cybercrime and law enforcement studies, public policy and administration research, intelligence, security, war strategy, privacy, security, and data protection, as well as crime, deviance, and social control.

Janet Chan has published research articles in a variety of academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Surveillance & Society
  • Criminology & Criminal Justice
  • Big Data & Society
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Clinical Oncology

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Rules in information sharing for security", 2020, published in Criminology & Criminal Justice
  • "Datafication and the practice of intelligence production", 2022, published in Big Data & Society
  • "Public Attitudes Towards Government Surveillance of Social Media in Australia", 2023, published in Surveillance & Society
  • "Is Big Data Challenging Criminology?", 2020, published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Long-term Results of Hypofractionated Radiotherapy With Intra-prostatic Boosts in Men With Intermediate- and High-risk Prostate Cancer: A Phase II Trial", 2024, published in Clinical Oncology

Janet Chan collaborates frequently with other researchers. Their notable coauthors include:

  • Lyria Bennett Moses
  • Carrie B. Sanders
  • Holly Blackmore
  • Sarah Logan

Their research outputs reflect a multidisciplinary approach, integrating aspects of law enforcement, security studies, data science, and public health. This diversity may highlight an interest in how social systems interact with technology, governance, and health outcomes.

Best Publications

  • Negotiating Control: A Study of News Sources

    Richard Victor Ericson;Patricia M. Baranek;Janet B. L. Chan

  • Changing Police Culture: Policing in a Multicultural Society

    Janet B. L. Chan

  • Changing Police Culture

    Janet B. L. Chan

  • Representing Order: Crime, Law, and Justice in the News Media

    Richard Victor Ericson;Patricia M. Baranek;Janet B. L. Chan

  • Fair Cop: Learning the Art of Policing

    Janet B.L. Chan;Christopher Devery;Sally Doran

  • The Technological Game:: How Information Technology is Transforming Police Practice

    Janet B.L. Chan

  • Algorithmic prediction in policing: assumptions, evaluation, and accountability

    Lyria Bennett Moses;Janet Chan

  • Governing police practice : limits of the new accountability

    Janet B. L. Chan

  • Is Big Data challenging criminology

    Janet Chan;Lyria Bennett Moses

  • Doing and undoing gender in policing

    Janet Chan;Sally Doran;Christina Marel

  • The Challenges of Doing Criminology in the Big Data Era: Towards a Digital and Data-driven Approach

    Gavin J. D. Smith;Lyria Bennett Moses;Janet Chan

  • Making sense of police reforms

    Janet Chan

  • Using Pierre Bourdieu's Framework for Understanding Police Culture

    Janet Chan

  • Negotiating the Field: New Observations on the Making of Police Officers:

    Janet Chan

  • Explaining Official Delinquency: a Spatial Study of Class, Conflict and Control

    John Hagan;A. R. Gillis;Janet Chan

  • Making Sense of Big Data for Security

    Janet Chan;Lyria Bennett Moses

  • POLICE STRESS AND OCCUPATIONAL CULTURE

    Janet Chan

  • The politics of police reform: Ten years after the Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Service

    Janet Chan;David Dixon

  • Governing police practice: limits of the new accountability

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  • Racial Profiling and Police Subculture

    Janet Chan

  • Decarceration and the economy of penal reform

    Andrew Scull;Janet B. L. Chan;Richard V. Ericson

  • Representing Order: Crime, Law, and Justice in the News Media.

    David L. Altheide;Richard V. Ericson;Patricia M. Baranek;Janet B. L. Chan

  • The Impact of Information Technology on Police Practices

    Janet Chan;David Brereton;Margot Legosz;Sally Doran

  • The new lateral surveillance and a culture of suspicion

    Janet Chan

  • Globalisation, Reflexivity and the Practice of Criminology

    Janet Chan

  • Conceptualising legal culture and lawyering stress

    Janet Chan

  • Just alternatives — part I: Trends and Issues in the Deinstitutionalization of Punishment1

    Janet Chan;George Zdenkowski

  • Just alternatives — Part II:

    Janet Chan;George Zdenkowski

  • Changing Police Culture: Policing in a Multicultural Society

    John P. Lea;Janet B. L. Chan

  • Policing in a Multicultural Society

    Janet B. L. Chan

Frequent Co-Authors

Leon Mann
Leon Mann University of Melbourne
Anthony N. Doob
Anthony N. Doob University of Toronto
David L. Altheide
David L. Altheide Arizona State University
John Hagan
John Hagan American Bar Foundation

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