Rate My Professor Amanda Porter

Associate Professor Amanda Porter, a Yuin scholar of Brinja Yuin and settler (Greek, English) descent, holds the position of Associate Professor in Criminology and Criminal Law within the School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Melbourne. She also serves as Senior Fellow (Indigenous Programs) at the Indigenous Law and Justice Hub, Melbourne Law School, and Chief Investigator and Law & Justice Co-Theme Lead at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures, University of Melbourne. Porter completed her PhD at the University of Sydney in 2009 and earned a BA/LLB (Hons 1) from the same university. Her academic career includes prior roles such as senior researcher at Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology Sydney.

Porter's research focuses on decolonizing policing, Indigenous patrols, counter-policing and safety, Indigenous peoples and criminal justice in Australia, Aboriginal sovereignty, crime and criminology, policing settler colonial societies, decolonizing justice, non-state policing, legal pluralism, mundane governance of crime, representations of subaltern resistance to police brutality, white feminism and carceral industries, policing and public safety, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander violence prevention, crime rates in rural Indigenous communities, racial profiling, Australian criminology, coronial inquests into Aboriginal deaths in custody, fines enforcement, missing and murdered Aboriginal women and children, settler colonial law, and the prison industrial complex. Key publications include 'Decolonizing policing: Indigenous patrols, counter-policing and safety' (Theoretical Criminology, 2016), co-authored 'Indigenous peoples and criminal justice in Australia' (Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, 2017), 'Aboriginal sovereignty, ‘crime’ and criminology' (Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 2019), 'Policing settler colonial societies' (Australian Policing, 2020, with C. Cunneen), and as co-editor of The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice (Routledge, 2023). She authored When Cops Are Criminals: The Criminal Foundations of Australian Policing (Scribe, 2024). Porter's scholarship impacts understandings of policing, justice, and sovereignty in settler colonial contexts, advancing decolonial perspectives in criminology.