Associate Professor David Baker is Head, Criminal Justice, School of Applied Media and Social Sciences, at Monash University Gippsland. Formerly at Monash University, he was a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice and Criminology and a Lecturer in the Department of Police and Justice Studies. Prior to Monash appointment, he was a Training Instructor at the Victoria Police Academy for five years.

David’s main areas of research are public order policing and police use of force. His most significant contribution is a single-authored book, Batons and Blockades: Policing Industrial Disputes in Australasia, Circa, 2005. David has researched and published numerous interdisciplinary articles and chapters in relation to police history, the policing of protests, police use of force, comparative international policing, the strategic role of the Australian Federal Police, South Pacific policing, police unionism, criminal justice, labour history, industrial relations and politics. He was a member of the International Policing Research Consortium on the Police Use of Force whose findings were published in a special edition of Crime, Law and Social Control (2009). He is a Chief Investigator for the ARC Linkage grant research on the “Impact of Incarceration on Children’s Care”.

Research projects:
• Impact of Incarceration on Children’s Care
• Integrity Systems

Publications (2009-2011):

Chapters in books
2011 “Interview with Commissioner Mal Hyde: South Australia’s Long-serving and Reformist Police Commissioner”. In D. Das & O. Marenin, Trends in Policing: Interviews with Police Leaders Across the Globe, Boca Raton (FL): Taylor & Francis, pp.1-22.
 

2010 “An Exploration of Police Use of Firearms in Australia” in J. Kuhns and J. Knutsson, Police Use of Force: A Global perspective (Global Crime and Justice series) Santa Barbara (CA): Praeger Publishers, pp.141-151.

2010 “Tonga: Crime and Punishment”, Crime and Punishment around the World, Vol.3, General editor, Graeme Newman, ABC-CLIO LLC, Santa Barbara, CA.

2009 “'Bloody Sunday' in review: an analysis of the confused policing of the 1919 Fremantle waterfront”, in Bobbie Oliver (ed) Labour History in the New Century, Black Swan Press, Perth WA Australia, pp. 51-62.

Peer-Refereed Journal Articles
2011 "A Case Study of Policing Responses to Camps for Climate Action: Variations, Perplexities and Challenges for Policing”, International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 35(2): 141-166.

2011 (with SA Commissioner Mal Hyde) “Police have customers too: an exploratory study of South Australia Police’s service delivery”, Police, Practice & Research: an International Journal, Vol.12, no.2, pp.148- 162.

2010 “Switch off Hazelwood: Policing, Protest and a ‘Polluting Dinosaur’“ Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 22(1): 45-62.

2009a “Police Confirmation of Use of Force in Australia: ‘To be or not to be?’ Crime, Law and Social Change. Special edition, “Police Talk about the Use of Force: A Comparative International Perspective.” DOI 10.1007/s10611-008-9180-y

2009b Waddington, P. Birbeck, C., Baker, D. et al “Researching the Use of Force: The Background to the International Project”, Crime, Law and Social Change. Special edition, “Police Talk about the Use of Force: A Comparative International Perspective.” DOI 10.1007/s10611-008-9177-6

2009c Waddington, P. Birbeck, C., Baker, D. et al, “Singing the Same Tune? International continuities and discontinuities in how police talk about using force”, Crime, Law and Social Change. Special edition, “Police Talk about the Use of Force: A Comparative International Perspective.” DOI 10.1007/s10611-008-9176-7
 

Link to publications: www.monash.edu.au/research/profiles/profile.html?sid=1276.