Associate ProfessorGarner Clancey

BA (Macquarie) MCrim (Hons) PhD (Sydney)

Dr Garner Clancey is an Associate Professor in Criminology, joining the University of Sydney Law School in 2011. Prior to this, Garner worked in criminal justice agencies (including Juvenile Justice NSW and the NSW Police Force) between 1992-2002 and worked as a crime prevention consultant between 2002-2010. Garner taught crime prevention, policing, juvenile justice, security and criminology courses at five other Australian universities between 2000 and 2011. Garner's work focuses on the intersection between research, policy and practice.

Currently, Garner is working to develop a whole-of-university approach to justice and crime issues. Garner works closely with industry partners and colleagues from across the University of Sydney to tackle various practical and systemic challenges impacting the criminal justice system. This work has resulted in the establishment of the University of Sydney Justice Collaboration, and publications such as Youth Crime, Youth Justice and Children's Courts in NSW and A whole-of-university response to youth justice: Reflections on a university-youth justice partnership | Australian Institute of Criminology (amongst others).

Garner is a member of various research centres including the Sydney Institute of Criminology, the Matilda Centre, the Technology Addiction Team (Brain and Mind Centre), and an affiliate of the Wellbeing Health and Youth Centre of Research Excellence in Adolescent Health.