Asquith, Nicole L

University of Tasmania

Australia

Nicole L Asquith is the Professor of Policing and Emergency Management and Director of the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies at the University of Tasmania. In addition to her academic work, Nicole is the Secretary of the Australian Hate Crime Network, the Co-Convenor of the NSW LGBTIQ Domestic and Family Violence Interagency, and along with Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron, the Co-Director of the Vulnerability, Resilience and Policing Research Consortium. Nicole has worked with and for policing organisations for over 20 years, primarily in relation to the preparedness of police for managing complex interpersonal violence, including institutional responses to hate crime. She is the co-editor of Policing Encounters with Vulnerability (2017), and Policing Vulnerability (2012), author of Text and Context of Malediction (2008), and Critical Policing Studies (2021, forthcoming), and co-author of Crime and Criminology (6e, 2017), and Policing Practices and Vulnerable People (2021).