Academy Fellow

Complex support needs and Criminal Justice

Eileen Baldry initiated and is leading a new area of research in relation to people with disability in the criminal justice system and social justice outcomes with five related category 1 grants and eight related category 2 or 3 grants. These have entailed pioneering linking and merging disparate datasets to open new ways of understanding people’s pathways into the criminal justice system; developing critical disability/criminology theoretical perspectives to understand and explain these lifecourse pathways adding significant theoretical depth with compounding disadvantage theory; and developed new ways of costing these pathways. Reports and publications from these projects are highly cited in policy and legal reform body reports as well as in the scholarly literature. Eileen is in high demand to present to bureaucrats and parliamentarians as well as at scholarly and community conferences.

Social Justice and Indigenous Australians

With Aboriginal colleague, A/Professor Sue Green, Eileen Baldry led research into and development of a Decolonised Social Work approach to working in partnership with Aboriginal people and communities. She has led research and work examining Indigenous Australians with disability and Indigenous women in criminal justice systems with three related category 1 grants and four category 2 or 3 grants. These have resulted in unique invitations to partner with Indigenous communities and organisations to implement positive responses to these matters. Publications related to these are well cited. All this work has included building Indigenous research capacity with Indigenous researchers and PhD candidates consistently core members of the research teams. Eileen has supervised two Indigenous PhD candidates to completion and is supervising two more in these areas.

Housing, Homelessness and Criminal Justice

Since 1998 Eileen has led research projects and developed theory and policy regarding the relationship between post-release homelessness and recidivism with 2 category I grants and 4 category 2 and 3 grants. She has consistently been on Ministerial Housing and Homelessness Advisory and Evaluation Committees.

Professor Emerita of Criminology UNSW

AO; Member of the Royal Society of NSW 2017;  Fairfax 100 Women of Influence 2016; NSW Justice Medal (2009);

• Reeve, R., Martin, C., McCausland, R., Pawson, H. & Baldry, E. 2024 Evaluating the impact of public housing after prison for a sex offence. Housing Studies https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2024.2307585
•  Baldry, E. with Lee, D. 2024 Disability, Limits of the Law and Pathways to Prison in MacDonald, S. & Peacock, D. (eds) Routledge Handbook of Disability, Crime and Justice, Routledge.
• Snoyman, P., Cama, E., Baldry,, E. & Treloar, C. 2024 Older Prisoners in NSW, Australia Ch 14 in Hosoi, Bunri, Pratt.(eds) 2024 Crime, punishment, and the elderly : Japan and beyond Routledge NY
• Stubbs, J., Russell. S, Baldry, E., Brown, D., Cunneen, C., & Schwartz, M. 2023 Rethinking Community Sanctions: Social Justice and Penal Control. Emerald, UK.
• Marshall AD, Schroeder SE, Lafferty L, Drysdale K, Baldry E, Stoove M, Dietze P, Higgs P, Treloar, C. 2023 Perceived access to opioid agonist treatment in prison among people with a history of injection drug use: A qualitative study. Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1h3UVAUkM2XPzH
• McCausland, R. & Baldry, E. 2023 Who Does Australia Lock Up? The Social Determinants of Justice. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy doi: 10.5204/ijcjsd.2504 https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view/2504
• Whitten, T., Cale, J, Nathan, S., Williams, M., Baldry, E., Ferry, M., Hayen, A. (2022) Influence of a residential drug and alcohol program on young people's criminal conviction trajectories. Journal of Criminal Justice https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2022.102026  
• Lafferty L, Schroeder S, Marshall AD, Drysdale K, Higgs P, Stoove M, Baldry E, Dietze P, Treloar C. (2022) Trust and service engagement among people who inject drugs after release from prison. International Journal of Drug Policy. (Accepted 23 Nov 2022; DRUGPO-D-22-492R2)
• Bajracharya, A., Shrestha, K.K, Zwi, A.B, Baldry, E. (2022) Reframing Gendered Disaster: Lessons from Nepal's Indigenous women, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Volume 83 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.10342
• Ollerton J, Giles M, Baldry E, Cale J. 2022 The Efficacy of Outsourced Employment Services for Adults Exiting Australian prisons. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X221102840
• Schroeder SE , Drysdale K, Lafferty L, Baldry E, Marshall AD, Higgs P, Dietze P, Mark Stoove M, Treloar C 2022 It’s a Revolving Door: Ego depletion among prisoners with injecting drug use histories as a barrier to post-release success International Journal of Drug Policy 101 (2022) 103571 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103571
• 8.    Rowe, S, Dowse, L, Baker, M & Baldry, E (2022): Policing disability: alliance building, police divestment and community investment, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 34(2) 171-187 DOI 10.1080/10345329.2022.2029084
• McCausland, R., Spencer, W., MacGillivray, P., Robinson, V., Hickey, V., & McEntyre, E. 2021 CommUNIty-Led Development: a partnership to realize Aboriginal Elders’ vision for change. Community Development online https://doi.org/10.1080/15575330.2021.1923044
• Goldson, B., Cunneen, C., Russell, S., Brown, D., Baldry, E., Schwartz, M., & Briggs, D. 2021 Youth Justice and Penality in Comparative Context. Abington UK, Routledge.
• Baldry, E 2018 ‘Rights of Persons with Disability not to be Criminalised’ in E. Stanley Human Rights and Incarceration: Critical Explorations. Pp53-77. Palgrave MacMillan.
• McCausland, R., McEntyre, E & Baldry, E. 2018 ‘Institutions of Default and Management: Aboriginal Women with Mental and Cognitive Disability in Prison’ Ch8 in Alice Mills and Kathleen Kendall (eds) Mental Health in Prisons Palgrave Macmillan pp185-210. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319940892?wt_mc=Internal.Event.1.SEM.ChapterAuthorCongrat
• Cale, J., Day, A., Casey, S., Bright, D., Wodak, J., Giles, M., & Baldry, E. 2018 Australian prison vocational education and training and returns to custody among male and female ex-prisoners: a cross jurisdictional study, ANZ Journal of Criminology online DOI: 10.1177/00048658187794186.
• Baldry E, Briggs, DB, Goldson, B, & Russell, S. 2017 ‘Cruel and unusual punishment’: an inter-jurisdictional study of the criminalisation of young people with complex support needs. Journal of Youth Studies 21(5): 636-652 https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PnYENCDFZ54PaBfwyKSH/full
• Baldry, E. 2017 ‘People with multiple and complex support needs, disadvantage and criminal justice systems: 40 years after the Sackville Report’ in B. Edgeworth, A. Durbach & V Sentas (eds) Law and Poverty: 40 years after the Sackville Report. Federation Press
• McCausland, R & Baldry, E. 2017 I feel like I failed him by ringing the police: Criminalising Disability in Australia, Punishment and Society 19(3): 290-309
• Baldry, E., Carlton, B. & Cunneen, C. (2015) ‘Abolitionism and the paradox of penal reform in Australia: colonialism, context, cultures and cooption’, Social Justice Vol 41 (3):168-89
• Baldry E (2014) ‘Disability at the Margins: the limits of the law’, Griffith Law Review Vol 23 (3):370-388 DOI: 10.1080/10383441.2014.1000218
• Baldry E & Cunneen C (2014) ‘Imprisoned Indigenous women and the shadow of colonial patriarchy’, ANZ Journal of Criminology 47:276-298 doi:10.1177/0004865813503351 (Best ANZSOC article 2014)
• Cunneen, C., Baldry, E., Brown, D., Brown, M., Schwartz, M. and A. Steel 2013 Penal culture and hyperincarceration: the revival of the prison, Aldershot: Ashgate. pp1-255; reprinted 2016 by Routledge, Taylor & Francis