Lorana Bartels

Criminology Research Council Research Fellow

Contact details
Tel: (02) 6260 9247
Fax: (02) 6260 9218
lorana.bartels@aic.gov.au

Education/qualifications

• BA (University of New South Wales)
• LLB (University of New South Wales)
• LLM (University of New South Wales)
• Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (College of Law)
• PhD (University of Tasmania)
• Admitted as a legal practitioner in the Supreme Court of NSW
• Professional German-English translator, National Accreditation Authority of Translators and Interpreters

Selected employment

• 2009- Senior Research Officer, College of Law, Australian National University (part-time, concurrent appointment)
• 2007- CRC Research Fellow/Research Analyst/Senior Research Analyst, Australian Institute of Criminology
• 2006-2007 Tutor in Law, University of Tasmania
• 2004-2005 Legal Research Officer, NSW Public Defenders Office
• 2002-2004 Policy Officer, Criminal Law Review Division, NSW Attorney-General's Department
• 2000-2002 Research Lawyer, NSW Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions

Current areas of specialisation/expertise

• Sentencing law
• Legal research
• Penal policy
• Specialty courts

AIC publications

• Bartels L 2010. Emerging issues in domestic/family violence research. Research in Practice no.10.
• Bartels L 2010. Indigenous women’s offending: A literature review. Research and Public Policy report no. 107.
• Bartels L 2010. Unexplained wealth laws in Australia. Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice paper no. 395. Canberra.
• Bartels L 2010. The operation of confiscation schemes in Australia, Technical and Background Paper no. 36. Canberra.
• Bartels L 2010. The status of laws on outlaw motorcycle gangs in Australia. Research in Practice no. 2. 2nd ed. Canberra.
• Bartels L 2009. The challenges of mainstreaming specialty courts. Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice no. 383. Canberra
• Bartels L 2009. Suspended sentences in Tasmania: Key research findings. Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice no. 377. Canberra
• Bartels L 2009. The status of laws on outlaw motorcycle gangs in Australia. Research in Practice No 2. Canberra

Other publications

• Bartels L. An examination of the arguments for and against suspended sentences. Flinders Journal of Law Reform. In press.
• Bartels L & Otlowski M 2010. A right to die? A review of euthanasia and the law. Journal of Law and Medicine 17: 532-555
• Bartels L 2009. To suspend or not to suspend - A qualitative analysis of sentencing decisions in the Supreme Court of Tasmania. University of Tasmania Law Review 28: 23-62
• Bartels L 2009. Sword or butter knife? A breach analysis of suspended sentences in Tasmania. Current Issues in Criminal Justice 21: 219-241
• Bartels L 2009. Mainstreaming specialty courts: issues and challenges in Segrave M (ed), Australia and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2009 Conference Proceedings. Melbourne 31-40.
• Bartels L 2009. Suspended sentences - A judicial perspective. Queensland University of Technology Law and Justice Journal 9: 44-63
• Lulham R, Weatherburn D & Bartels L 2009. The recidivism of offenders given suspended sentences: A comparison with full-time imprisonment. Crime and Justice Bulletin no. 136. Sydney: NSW Bureau of Crime and Justice Statistics
• Bartels L 2009. The weight of the Sword of Damocles: A reconviction analysis of suspended sentences in Tasmania. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 42: 72-101
• Weatherburn D and Bartels L 2008. The recidivism of offenders given suspended sentences in New South Wales, Australia. British Journal of Criminology 48: 667-683
• Bartels L 2007. The use of suspended sentences in Australia: Unsheathing the Sword of Damocles. Criminal Law Journal 31: 113-132

Presentations

• Bartels L. Emerging issues in domestic violence research, presented at the 4th Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference. Sydney, July 2009.
• Bartels L. Confiscation and unexplained wealth laws in Australia, presented at the NSW Crime Commission, Sydney, May 2010 (invited speaker).
• Bartels L. Overview of the 2010 Sentencing Conference, presented at the Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra, March 2010.
• Bartels L. The challenges of mainstreaming specialty courts, presented at the 3rd Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference, Melbourne, July 2009.
• Bartels L. Criminology Research Council overview, presented at the South Australian Department of Justice, Adelaide, June 2009.
• Bartels L. Using the Commonwealth Sentencing Database, presented at the Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra, April 2009.
• Bartels L. Legal research skills workshop, presented at the Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra, March 2009.
• Bartels L. A breach analysis of suspended sentences, presented at the 21st Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference, Canberra, November 2008.
• Bartels L. What examiners look for in a research thesis, presented at the 2nd Postgraduate Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference, Canberra, November 2008 (with Dr Rebecca Wickes).
• Bartels L. Keynote address, presented at the 2nd Postgraduate Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference, Canberra, November 2008.
• Bartels L. The use and utility of suspended sentences in Tasmania, presented at the Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra, October 2008.
• Bartels L. Research on the judiciary's view of suspended sentences, presented at the National Judicial College of Australia/ANU College of Law Sentencing Conference, Canberra, February 2008.
• Bartels L. Suspended sentences in Tasmania, presented at the Disciplines and Punishments: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Crime and Justice Conference, Sydney, July 2007.
• Bartels L. The use of suspended sentences in Tasmania, presented at the University of Tasmania Graduate Research at the Faculty of Law Symposium, Hobart, September 2006.

Committees/Memberships

• Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Committee of Management (ANZSOC), Early Career Researcher/Postgraduate Representative
• ANZSOC, Student Paper Prize judge