Nicole Asquith Email & Phone Number

Nicole L. Asquith is the Professor of Policing at the University of Tasmania. She has worked with policing organisations for over 20 years to develop better victim services, and policing processes for vulnerable victims and offenders. In addition to her work with Australian and UK policing services on hate crime, she is currently working with criminal justice stakeholders on strategies for reducing victim and offender vulnerability, and rural policing. Her current research investigates:* the policing of vulnerability and diversity* motivated hate crime* intrafamilial hate crime* individual and social costs of fear of prejudice * small town policing* the criminal careers of sexuality and gender diverse offendersHer work has been published in a range of edited collections and journal articles, which can be reviewed at https://www.utas.edu.au/profiles/staff/tiles/nicole-asquithShe is the (co-)author of: * Text and Context of Malediction* Crime and Criminology 6e (with Rob White and Janine Haines)* Policing Practices and Vulnerable PeopleShe is also the co-editor of* Routledge International Handbook of Critical Policing Studies (2025) * Policing Vulnerability (2012) Federation Press (with Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron)* Policing Encounters with Vulnerability (2017) Palgrave (with Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron & Karl Roberts)* Vulnerability and the Criminal Justice System (2016), special edition of the Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice (with Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron & Karl Roberts)

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  School Of Population Health, University Of Melbourne

  Forensic Linguistics