Rate My Professor Tyrone Kirchengast

Kirchengast's key publications include the books Victimology and Victim Rights: International Comparative Perspectives (2016), Victims and the Criminal Trial, which addresses victim participation across pre-trial processes, restorative interventions, jury trials, sentencing, appeals, parole, and compensation; The Victim in Criminal Law and Justice (2006), tracing victim development from feudal law; The Criminal Trial in Law and Discourse, analyzing competing justice discourses; and Criminal Law in Australia, co-authored with Lorraine Finlay. Prominent articles feature 'Deepfakes and image manipulation: criminalisation and control' (2020), 'Transforming crime victims’ rights: from myth to reality' (2020), 'The mixed and hybrid criminal courts of Brazil: Mainstreaming restoration, rehabilitation and community justice in a human rights context' (2020), 'Victim legal representation and the adversarial criminal trial' (2021), 'The Expressive Function of #VictimsLaw' (2021), 'The Scott Johnson Case: Prosecuting anti-homosexual violence in New South Wales' (2023), and 'Victimhood, truth and criminal justice failure in relation to anti-homosexual violence and killings in New South Wales' (2019). Previously, he was Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales and Associate Lecturer in the Division of Law at Macquarie University. Joining Sydney Law School in 2018 as Associate Professor, his contributions have advanced global understandings of victim rights and criminal justice reform.