Professor Meredith Rossner

Professor Meredith Rossner
Deputy Director, Research School of Social Sciences

Phone: +61 2 6125 0787

Meredith Rossner is Professor of Criminology at the Centre for Social Research & Methods at the ANU. Previously she was Associate Professor of Criminology at the London School of Economics. She holds a PhD in Criminology and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the role of emotions, rituals, the built environment, and technology in justice practices. This includes work on the emotional dynamics of restorative justice conferences between victims and offenders for serious crime, research on the micro-level dynamics of jury deliberation, the role of courtroom design on access to justice and the presumption of innocence, and the use of video technology in courts.