Chris Cunneen

Professor Chris Cunneen is the NewSouth Global Chair in Criminology in the Faculty of Law of the University of New South Wales.

Until 2005, Professor Cunneen was the director for the Institute of Criminology at the University of Sydney, a position held since 1995. He has been teaching criminology at the University of Sydney Law School since 1990. Previously he held research positions with the Indigenous Law Centre at the University of New South Wales and the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research.

Professor Cunneen is the chairperson of the Juvenile Justice Advisory Council which advises the minister on juvenile justice matters. He is a member of the Attorney-Generals Taskforce on Child Sexual Assault in Aboriginal Communities. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Australian Indigenous Law Reporter (since 1997), Current Issues in Criminal Justice (since 1991) and Youth Justice (since 2005). He is also a series editor of the Institute of Criminology Monograph Series.