Fiona Haines
Associate Professor Fiona Haines
School of Social and Political Sciences
The Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne
T +61 3 8344 9448; F +61 3 9349 4259
f.haines@unimelb.edu.au
Associate Professor Fiona Haines is considered one of the leading scholars in the area of regulatory theory and regulatory reform. She has published extensively in the area including a book in the prestigious Oxford Series in Socio-Legal studies in 1997. This book, which used company responses to industrial deaths as a basis to critique regulatory theory, formed the basis subsequent research into regulatory reform following the Mistral Fan Fires in the early 1990s.
Associate Professor Haines also completed, with Professor Ken Polk and Dr Santina Perrone, an analysis of four years of industrial deaths in Victoria from 1987-1990. Most recently, she has been working on two related projects: first, an analysis of the impact of globalisation on regulatory reform, examining the aftermath of the Kader Toy Factory fire in Bangkok Thailand. This work has been published as a monograph Globalization and Regulatory Character: regulatory reform after the Kader Toy Factory Fire by Ashgate as part of the Advances in Criminology Series edited by Professor David Nelken; in the international journal Social & Legal Studies (a special edition on regulation where Associate Professor Haines worked as a co-editor), as well as in chapter form (with Cate Lewis) in an edited collection where the gender dimensions of that disaster and its aftermath were explored.
The second project is a comprehensive analysis of multiple forms of risk, their translation into a regulatory regime and their implementation by key sites. This ARC funded project with Associate Professor Adam Sutton has analysed reforms emanating from the collapse of HIH, terrorist related events and the Longford Gas explosion and traced their impact on the control of risk by ports, airports and major hazard facilities.
The case study of the HIH collapse has been published in the International Handbook of White Collar Crime (published by Springer and edited by Professors Gil Geis and Henry Pontell) and theoretical work published in February 2007 in a collection Crime Control: Governance and Regulation in Social Life edited by Professors George Pavlich and Gus Brannigan and published by Routledge/Cavendish Press and in a forthcoming article in Flinders Journal of Law Reform.
This research has provided a solid understanding of the ways in which perceptions of risk and harm are translated through the political process and is critical to the Cartel Project.
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A selection of relevant publications by Associate Professor Haines includes:
- Making Cartel Conduct Criminal: A Case Study of Ambiguity in Controlling Business Conduct (2009) 42(2) Australia and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 218 (with Caron Beaton-Wells)
- Regulatory Failures and Regulatory Solutions: A Characteristic Analysis of the Aftermath of Disaster (2009) 34(1) Law & Social Inquiry 31-60
- The Law and Order Debate in Occupational Health and Safety Fiona Haines and Andy hall (2004) 20(3) Journal of Occupational Health and Safety: Australia and New Zealand 263-273
- Regulatory Reform in Light of Regulatory Character: Assessing Industrial Safety Change in the Aftermath of the Kader Toy Factory Fire in Bangkok, Thailand (2003) 12(4) Social & Legal Studies 461-487
- The Shadows of the Law: Contemporary Approaches to Regulation and the Problem of Regulatory Conflict Fiona Haines and David Gurney (2003) 25(4) Law and Policy 353-380
- The Engineer's Dilemma: Sociological Perspectives on the Juridification of Regulation Fiona Haines and Adam Sutton (2003) 39 Crime, Law and Social Change 1-22
- Towards Understanding Globalization and Control of Corporate Harm: A Preliminary Criminological Analysis (2000) 12(2) Current Issues in Criminal Justice 166-180