Methven, Elyse

University of Technology Sydney

Elyse Methven is a Lecturer in law at the University of Technology Sydney where she teaches Criminal Law and Procedure and Criminal Sentencing Law. Her areas of expertise include language and the law and criminal justice. She completed her PhD in 2017 on offensive language crimes. Her current research is on the operation of police discretion with respect to infringement notices, the regulation of offensive language, and the intersection of criminal and administrative powers.

Contributions

• A Little Respect: Swearing, Police and Criminal Justice Discourse

  Articles

  Vol. 7 No. 3 (2018)

• Life in the Shadow Carceral State: Surveillance and Control of Refugees in Australia

  Special Issue: State Violence - Practices and Responses

  Vol. 9 No. 4 (2020)