Fiona Haines

Dr Fiona Haines completed her BA (Hons) and PhD at the University of Melbourne.

Experience

Dr Haines is a Criminologist and Associate Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences. She is placed within the discipline of Criminology. Her expertise lies in the areas of globalisation, regulatory theory and regulatory reform with a particular interest in occupational health and safety.

She has published extensively in the area including a book, Corporate Regulation: Beyond “punish or persuade”, published by Clarendon Press in 1997. This book, which used company responses to industrial deaths as a basis to critique regulatory theory and practice, formed the basis for subsequent research into regulatory reform. Her work on the impact of globalisation on occupational health and safety reform has been published as a monograph, Globalization and Regulatory Character: Regulatory Reform after the Kader Toy Factory Fire, published by Ashgate in 2005.

Research Interests

Dr Haines’ current research program has involved analysis of multiple forms of risk in occupational health and safety, finance and security, and analysed their translation into a regulatory regime and their implementation by key sites. This work has involved analysing reforms emanating from the collapse of one of Australia’s largest insurers (HIH), terrorist related events affecting Australians and a major gas explosion at Longford in Victoria and traced their impact on both regulation and the control of risk by ports, airports and major hazard facilities in Australia. This work has been published in a number of academic journals and she is currently completing a book on the project entitled The Paradox of Regulation: What regulation can achieve and what it cannot to be published by Edward Elgar in 2011.

Her future research plans involve taking the research findings on state based regulation and the challenge of globalisation to develop an enhanced understanding of how best to give effect to significant regulatory challenge of developing sustainable economic activity. This research is aimed at understanding optimal regulatory regimes that can promote sustainable economic activity, and is sustainable three ways: socially, environmentally and economically. One strand of this research involves research with Dr Kate MacDonald into the problems associated with making Trans National Corporations (TNCs) accountable for their human rights abuses. Fiona Haines is co-editor (with Professors Colin Scott (Law) University College Dublin and Nancy Reichman (Sociology) University of Denver) of the leading international journal in regulation Law & Policy.

Haines, F. (2011) "Addressing the Risk, Reading the Landscape: The Role of Agency in Regulation", Regulation & Governance 5:1:118-144

Haines, F. (in press) "Facing the Compliance Challenge: Hercules, Houdini or the Charge of the Light Brigade?" in Christine Parker and Vibeke Lehmann, Nielsen (Eds.) Explaining Compliance, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Haines , F. (2011) The Paradox of Regulation: What Regulation Can Achieve and What It Cannot, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar (forthcoming).

Haines , F. and Platania-Phung, C. (2010) “Thoughts, feelings, action: survey of Victorian managers of major hazard facilities”, Journal of Occupational Health and Safety (Australia and New Zealand) 26:1:47-62.

Haines , F. (2009) “Regulatory Failures and Regulatory Solutions: A Characteristic Analysis of the Aftermath of Disaster” Law & Social Inquiry 34:1: 31-60.

Haines , F. (2009) “Vanquishing the Enemy or Civilizing the Neighbour? Controlling risks from hazardous industries” Social and Legal Studies 18:3:1-19.

White, R. and Haines, F. (2008) Crime and Criminology: An Introduction Sydney, Oxford University Press, fourth edition, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.

Haines, F., Sutton, A. and Platania-Phung C. (2008) ‘It's all about risk isn't it? Science, politics and public opinion in regulatory reform’, Flinders Journal of Law Reform, 10:3: 435-453 available at http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1837

Beaton-Wells, C. and Haines, F. (2009) “Making Cartel Conduct Criminal: A Case Study of Ambiguity in Controlling Business Conduct”, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 42:2: 218-243.

Haines , F. and Reichman, N. (2008) “The Problem that is Global Warming: An introduction” Law & Policy, 30:4: 385-393.

Haines , F. Reichman, N. and Scott, C. (2008) “Problematizing Legitimacy and Authority in Law & Policy” Law & Policy 30:1:1-11.

Haines, F. (2007), Crime and Regulation, International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology (Series Editors Gerald Mars and David Nelken), Dartmouth, Ashgate.

Haines, F. (2005), Globalization and Regulatory Character: Regulatory Reform after the Kader Toy Factory Fire, Ashgate/Dartmouth. Part of the "Advances in Criminology" Series, edited by David Nelken.

Haines, F. and Hall, A. (2004), ‘The law and order debate in occupational health and Safety, Journal of Occupational Health and Safety: Australia and New Zealand, 20:3:263-273.

Haines, F. and Gurney, D. (2003), ‘The shadows of the law: contemporary approaches to regulation and the problem of regulatory conflict’, Law and Policy, 25:4:353-380.

Haines, F. (2003), ‘Regulatory reform in light of regulatory character: assessing industrial safety change in the aftermath of the Kader toy factory fire in Bangkok, Thailand’, Social and Legal Studies, 12:4:461-487.

Haines, F. and Sutton, A. (2003), ‘The engineer's dilemma: sociological perspectives on the juridification of regulation’, Crime, Law and Social Change, 39:1-22.

Haines, F. (2000), ‘Towards understanding globalization and control of corporate harm: a preliminary criminological analysis’", Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 12:2:166-80.

Haines, F. and Sutton, A. (2000), ‘Criminology as religion: profane thoughts about sacred values’, British Journal of Criminology, 40:146-162.