Rate My Professor Jaimie Zander

Jaimie Zander is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law and Criminology at Murdoch University. She completed her BA (Hons) in Psychology in 1998, PhD in Forensic Psychology in 2006, and Graduate Diploma in Tertiary Education in 2007, all at Murdoch University. Throughout her career at Murdoch University, she has taught in the interdisciplinary domain of psychology and law, focusing on social, psychological, and biological causes of behavior. She encourages students to critically analyze the criminal justice system. Zander coordinates units such as White Collar and Corporate Crime and contributes to the Bachelor of Criminology program. Her teaching employs innovative methods, including a current project using blended learning to flip a research methods course.

Zander's research interests include child abuse, child neglect, child homicide, restorative justice, victim forgiveness, attitudes toward Indigenous Australians, ethnicity and attributions for offending, and criminogenic needs. Her expertise spans social theory, qualitative social research, and quantitative social research. Selected key publications are 'Restoration or Renovation? Evaluating Restorative Justice Outcomes' (2005, Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, with Guy Hall), ''Forgiveness is a present to yourself as well': An intrapersonal model of forgiveness in victims of violent crime' (2013, International Review of Victimology, with Courtney Field and Guy Hall), 'Dionysius's brutal sense of entitlement: Plato's contribution to criminogenic needs' (2008), 'Ethnicity, Attributions for Offending Behaviour, and Judgements of Responsibility and Severity of Sentence' (2008, with Iain Walker and Anne Pedersen), 'Attitudes toward Indigenous Australians: The role of empathy and guilt' (2004), and 'Child Maltreatment' (2008). She has supervised numerous honours and PhD theses, including works on forgiveness and revenge in crime victims, social media's impact on Australian courts, theoretical understandings of contract cheating, disproportionate restraint use in prisons, and gendered perspectives of aggression.