Staff Information

Julie Ayling is a Research Associate in the Regulatory Institutions Network and an Associate Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS). She holds degrees in arts and law with first class honours from Macquarie University and a Master of International Law degree from the ANU. She is admitted as a barrister and solicitor in the ACT and a solicitor in NSW. Coming late to academia, she was for many years a senior lawyer in the Australian Public Service, working on issues of international law and communications law, and specializing in the development of legislation and the provision of legal advice. She joined RegNet in 2003 as a Research Officer, and became a Research Associate in 2006.

Professional Activities

Since joining RegNet, I have researched areas as diverse as illicit synthetic drugs and the resourcing of police organisations. My wider interests include policing, criminalization, transnational crime, and the global diffusion of criminal justice law and policies. From my most recent project on exchange relationships between police and ‘outsiders’ – businesses, community groups, other public agencies, and individuals –by which police enhance their resources, has come a book, Lengthening the Arm of the Law (co-authored with Professor Peter Grabosky and Professor Clifford Shearing), that will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. My current CEPS work is on Illicit Organisations, a project that examines gangs, organised crime and terrorist groups and aims to generate insights about the characteristics, rise and decline of these organisations, and the recruitment and desistance of their members. For the moment I am focusing on gangs and, in particular, the characteristics that enable some of them to survive hostile environments and even to evolve into more serious criminal organisations.

Selected Publications

Books

J. Ayling, P, Grabosky and C. Shearing Lengthening the Arm of the Law: Enhancing Police Resources in the 21 st Century (forthcoming 2009, New York: Cambridge University Press).

Book Chapters

J. Ayling “Contractualism”, in J. Fleming and A. Wakefield (eds.) Sage Dictionary of Policing (forthcoming 2009).

J. Ayling, P. Grabosky and C. Shearing (2006) “Harnessing Resources for Networked Policing” in J. Fleming and J. Wood (eds.) Fighting Crime Together: The Challenges of Policing & Security Networks , Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, pp.60-86.

Articles

J. Ayling and C. Shearing (2008) “Taking care of business: Police as commercial security vendors”, Criminology and Criminal Justice 8(1): 27-50.

J. Ayling (2007/2008) “Contractualism and Policing in the Public Interest”, Flinders Journal of Law Reform 10(3): 341-355. Available at http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/law/FJLR/contents_v10e.php.

J. Ayling (2007) “Force Multiplier: People as a policing resource”, International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice 31(1) Spring: 73-100.

P. Grabosky and J. Ayling (2007) “Ambiguous Exchanges and the Police”, International Journal of the Sociology of Law, 35(1): 18-28.

J. Ayling and P. Grabosky (2006) “Policing by Command: Enhancing Law Enforcement Capacity Through Coercion”, Law and Policy 28(4): 420-443.

J. Ayling and P. Grabosky (2006) “When Police Go Shopping”, Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 29(4): 665-690 (received Outstanding Paper Award in Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2007). .

J. Ayling (2005) “Conscription in the War on Drugs: Recent reforms to the U.S. drug certification process”, International Journal of Drug Policy 16: 376-383.