FEATURED AUTHOR

Carolyn McKay

Lecturer in Law
University of Sydney Law School

Dr Carolyn McKay is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Sydney Law School. Her research examines the impacts of technologies on criminal procedure and access to justice. Carolyn teaches Criminal Law and Civil & Criminal Procedure and in 2020 she will present a new unit Digital Criminology: Technologies and Crime.

Subjects: Art & Visual Culture, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Law, Research Methods

Biography

Dr Carolyn McKay is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Sydney Law School. Her research examines the impacts of communication technologies on prisoners’ court appearance and access to justice. Carolyn’s research interests include technologies in justice, prisons and prisoners, visual criminology, surveillance, policing and interdisciplinary research methodologies. At Sydney Law School Carolyn teaches Criminal Law and Civil & Criminal Procedure. Over the years she has taught other courses including The Legal Profession, Legal Research, Research Methodologies and Professional Practice at the University of Sydney, University of Newcastle and Hunter Institute and acted as a research assistant on numerous projects and publications. In 2013, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Spain. Carolyn has previously consulted on anti-dumping trade disputes and indirect taxation in both Sydney and Tokyo and worked in digital media.

Education

PhD, University of Sydney

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

Criminal Law, Procedure, The Legal Profession (professional ethics), Legal Research

Personal Interests

Digital media and visual arts http://www.carolynmckay.com/

Websites

Carolyn McKay

Books

Featured Title

Policing Hate Crime: Mason - 1st Edition book cover

Articles

Book Review: "In crime’s archive: The cultural afterlife of evidence." (2019): 1-3.

Published: May 28, 2019 by Current Issues in Criminal Justice
Authors: McKay, Carolyn.
Subjects: Criminology and Criminal Justice, Law, Art & Visual Culture

Book review of Professor Katherine Biber's "In crime’s archive: The cultural afterlife of evidence."

"Digital Access to Justice from Prison: Is There a Right to Technology?."

Published: May 28, 2019 by Criminal Law Journal
Authors: McKay, Carolyn.
Subjects: Criminology and Criminal Justice, Law

"Digital Access to Justice from Prison: Is There a Right to Technology?", 2018, 42:5, Crim LJ, 303.

Video Links from Prison: Permeability and the Carceral World

Published: Feb 12, 2017 by International Journal for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy
Authors: Carolyn McKay
Subjects: Criminology and Criminal Justice

In this paper, I draw on fieldwork interviews with prisoners to understand their subjective and sensorial experiences of using video links as a portal to the outside world. These interviews raised many issues including audio permeability and the soundtrack of incarceration.

Model Prison

Published: Feb 01, 2017 by The Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research
Authors: Carolyn McKay
Subjects: Criminology and Criminal Justice, Art & Visual Culture

In this paper, the author reflects on her involvement in a curated visual art exhibition premised on the concept of ‘doing time’. Extrapolating from her doctoral research into the use of audio visual links to prisoners with remote courtrooms for their legal proceedings, the author created an audio video installation to explore the possibilities of virtual imprisonment.