Born: 01-Aug-39
Citizenship: Australian
Education B.A. 1962 (Major in Political Science) University of Tasmania
LL.B. 1962 (First Class Honours) University oF Tasmania
Ph.D. 1965 (Law and Criminology) University of Cambridge
Principal Professional Positions
1995 Visiting Fellow, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy (ICCT ,RCJP), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
1994 - 1995 Research Fellow, United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICR1), Rome, Italy.
1990 - Deputy President, Federal Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AA T) Sydney, Australia. Full time AAT responsibilities since 1996.
1990 - Adjunct Professor, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser lJnivcrsity.
1987 - 1994 Director, Australian Institute of Criminology (AlC), Canberra.
1990 - Professor, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, C~U1ada. Chair of School 1982- 1984.
1978 -1979 Commissioner, Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC), Sydney, Australia. Commissioner in Charge of Reference on Sentencing. Responsible for preparation of ALRC 15 (1980) Sentencing of Federa1 Offenders. (Canberra: AGPS). Also involved in work on Aboriginal Customary Law and Child \Welfare Law References.
1977 - 1978 Visiting Professor, Department of Legal Studies, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1977 Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science', Department of PoliticalScience, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
1974 - l977 Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Washington,Seattle, Washington, USA.
1973 - 1977 Director, La\v and Justice Study Center, Battelle Memorial Institute, Human Affairs Research Centers, Seattle, Washington, USA.
1971-1973 Associate Professor,School of Criminal Justice, Statce University of New York at Albany.
1969 – 1970 Visiting Harkness Fellow, School of Criminal Justice', State University of New York at Albany. Visiting Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, New York, USA
1968 - 1971 Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
1965 - 1967 Lecturer in Law, Univcrsity of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
1963-1965 Tutor in Criminology and. Criminal Law at St Catherinc's College and New Hall, University of Cambridge, England.
1962 - 1965 British Commonwealth Scholar undertaking post-graduate study in law and criminology at the University of Cambridge.
Attached to St Catherine's College and conducted research at Cambridge in the field of burglary and allied offences.
1962 Tutor in Criminal Law, University of Tasmania and Legal Practitioner, Hobart,Tasmania.
1961 Judge's Associate, Supreme Court of Tasmania
1960 - 1962 Tutor in Political Science, University of Tasmania.
1959 - 1961 Articled law Clerk.
Other Professional Positions, Appointments and Experience
1998- Co-ordinator (AAT) , telecommunications interception and listening device warrant function.
Invited Speaker, International Transport Workers' Federation Women's Conference, Ncw Delhi, Indja (Violence in the Transport Workplace).
Invited Speaker, Commonwealth Secretariat Oxford Conference on International Co-operation on Criminal Matters, Christ Church, Oxford (Interception of Communications and the Right to Privacy).
Co-convenor and Speaker, Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney Public Seminaron Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberties.
Member, Commonwealth Secretariat Working Group on Access to Justice Program, Marlborough House, London.
Member, Executive Committee, NSW Chapter, Lawyers Encouraging Alternative Dispute Resolution (LEADR).
Testified, Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee, Inquiry into Migration Legislation Amendment (Strengthing of Provisions Relating to Character and Conduct) Bill 1997.
1997-1998 Member, ALRC Adrninistrative Review Working Group, Adversarial System of Litigation Review Reference.
1997 Invited Speaker, UN International Conference on Global Drugs Law, New Delhi, India (Harmonization and Drug Law Reform).
Consultant, International Labour Office, Geneva, Switzerland, Conditions of Work Branch, Violence in theWorkplace Project.
Testified, Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, Joint Standing Committee on Migration, Deportation of Non-Citizen Criminals
1996 Consultant,Commonwealth Secretariat Regional Workshop on Administrative Law. Asia., Wcstern Samoa.
1995 Faculty Member, Course on Crime and Criminal Justice In the Mediterranean .Area, University of Malta, Valencia, Malta,
Adviser, UN Experts Group Meeting on Social Welfare Strategies for Preventing Abuse of Alcohol and other Licit Substanccs and Juvenile Delinquency among Indigenous and Aboriginal People, New York
Invited Lecturer, School of La\v, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Member, UNICRl Delegation to the Ninth UN Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (Cairo, Egypt)
Invited Lecturer, Ministry of Health, (National Commission all AIDS), training courses (3) for public health professionals working in Italian prisons (R0me, Italy)
1994-1995 Consultant, Children's Rights Research and Advocacy Project. Community Law Centre. University of the Western Cape South Africa
1994 Member Commomwealth Observer Group iI1 South Africa (COOSA) to monitor ejections. Appointment by Commonwealth Secretary-General
1992-93 Co-Chair, Chair Commol1\vealth Observer Mission to South Africa (COMSA), established pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution 772 (August 1992). Appointment by Commonwealth Secretary General. Responsibility for COMSA Reports (1993) Violence in South Africa Phase I: October 1992 - January 1993; phase 11 February - May 1993. (London: Commonwealth Secretariat)
Professional Associations and Honours
Memberships: American Society of Criminology
Association for Canadian Studies
Australian Academy of forensic Science
Australian Institute of Administrative Law
Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (Associate) Commission on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism International Society of Criminology
International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law National Organisation of Victim Assistance
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Sydney Institute
Transparency International
World Society of Victirnology
Fellowships
1968 - 69 Harkness Fellow, State University of New York at Albany
1962 - 65 British Commonwealth Scholar, University of Cambridge
Publications
Books and Monographs Chappell D and Wilson PR (eds) (1st edition, 1972; 2nd edition, 1977; 3rd edition 1986, 4th edition 1994). The Australian Criminal.Justice System, Sydney: Butterworths. [5th Edition in preparation for publication in 2000].
Reidel M and Chappell D (eds) (1976) Issues in Criminal .Justice Planning and Evaluation, New York: Praeger Pub1ishers, Inc
Chappell D, Geis R and Geis G (eas) (1977) forcible Rape: The Crime, The Victim and the Offender, New York: Columbia University Press
Chappell D, Gordon R and Moore. R (1982) L'Enquete Criminelle: Revue de Documents Choisis et Bibliographic, Ottawa, Ont: Solliciteur General Canada, Division de la Recherche
Chappell D and Moore R (1989) The Use of Criminal Penalties for Pollution of the Environment. A Sc1cctive and Annotated Bibliography, Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services Canada
Chappell D and Wilson PR (eds) (1989, 1st ed1tion; 2nd edition 1996) Australian Policing. Contemporary Issues: Sydney: Butterworths
Chappell D and Di Martino V (1998) Violence at Work: Geneva, International Labour Office
Chappell D and Evans J (1998) The Role, Preparation and Performance of Civilian Police in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations. Vancouver, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy. [Also in press, Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution .. for United Nations Office in Vienna. and in an edited version in the Commonwealth Law Bulletin].
Articles and Book Chapters 'Regional Crime Squads' (1965) Criminal Law • Review, p 5.
Hawkins G J and. Chappell D, 'The Need for Criminology' in Australia' (1967) Vol 40 Australian Law Journal, p 307. Also (in part) in Ch;ppel1 D and Wilson P R (cds) (1972) The Australian Criminal Justice System, Sydney: Butterworths. p 9
'The Criminal Injuries Compensation Act 1967 (NSW) Vol 2, Australian Bar Gazette, p 7.
Chappell D and Wilson P R, 'Australian Attitudes Towards the Police: A Pilot Study' (1968) British Journal of Criminology, p 424
Sentencing: A Painful and Unrewarding Task' (1968) Vol 1 Australian and New Zealand Journal of 'Collecting Fingerprints' (1970) Vol 3, Australian and New Zealand .Journal of Criminology, p 102. Also in Chappell D and Wilson P R (eds) (1972) The Australian Criminal Justice System, Sydney: Butterworths, p 355
Agopian M, Chappell D and Geis G Interracial Forcible Rape in a Norrh American City: Al1 Analysis of 63 cases in Drapkin and Viano E (eds) (1974) Victimology: A Reader, Lexington Books: Lexington (Mass); also in Thornberry T P and Sagarin E (eds) (1974) Images of Crime: Offenders and Victims, New York: Praeger Publishers, Inc. With revision in Chappell D, Geis Rand Geis G (eds) (l977) Forcible Rape: The Crime, The Victim and The Offender, New York: Columbia University Press.
Chappell D and Walsh M "No Questions Asked" - A Consideration of the Crime of Criminal Receiving (1974) Vol 20 Crime and Delinquency, p 157. Also in (1975) The Aldine Crime and Justice Annual 1974, Chicago: Aldine Publishing. Co, p 136; in US Senate Select Committee on Small Business (1972) An Analysis of Criminal Redistribution Systems and Their Economic Impact on Small Business, Hearings, 92nd Congress, 15t Session, Appendix I
Chappell D and Meyer J C 'Cross-Cultural Differences in Police Attitudes: An Exploration in CompaI::1tive Research' in Iv1acNamar,: D E J and Riedel M (eds) (1974) Police: Perspectives, Problems, Prospects, New York: Pracger Publishers, p 65. Also in (1975) Vol 8, Australian and New Zealand .Journal of Criminology, p 5
Bermant G, Chappell D, Crockett G T, Jacoubovitch M D and McGuire M, 'Juror Responses to Prerecorded Videotape Trial Presentations in California and Ohio', (1975) Vol 26 The Hastings Law Journal, p 975
Cohen FG, Chappell D and Wilson P R 'Aboriginal and American Indian Relations with Police' in Chappell D and Wilson P R (eds) (l977), The Australian Criminal Justice system, 2nd edition, Sydney: Butterworths
'Australia', in Johnson E (ed) (1983), International Handbook of Contemporary Developments in Criminology, Europe, Africa, The Middle East and Asia. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, pp 3 - 41
Geis G, Chappell D and Agopian M 'Rerieht Ivfenschliches Leiden lindem - Bericht unbcr das funfte intcrnationale Symposium uber Vikiimologie, Zagreb 1985, (1986) Vol 69~ .Monatsschrift fur Kr-irninologie and Strafrtchts reform, pp 221 - 236
Reasons C and Chappell D 'Continental Capitalism and Crooked Lawyering' (1987) Vol 26, Crime and Social Justice, pp 38 - 59
Chappell D, Grabosky P Wilson P and Mukherjee S K 'Firearms and Violence In Austra1ia' (1988), Trends and Issues No. 10, Canberra: AustraIian Institute of Criminology
'Measuring and Responding to Violence Victimization in Australia: The Work of the National Committee on Violence' in Kaiser G, Kim H, Albrecht H (1991) Victims and Criminal Justice Vol 3, Freiburg: Max Planck Institute,: pp 127 - 136
'A National Gun Control Strategy' (1992) Vol 3, Criminology Australia, pp 5 - 9
Crime and Prevention Policy. The State of Knowledge in Australia and New Zealand', in Robert P (ell) (1993) Crime and Prevention Policy, Research and Evaluation Freiburg: Max Planck Institute, pp 93 - 104
Chappell D and Norberry' J 'Environmental Protection in Australia: Developments and Debate~' .. in Zanghi C (ed) (1993) Protection of the Environment and Penal Law Bari: Cacucci Edilore, pp 99 - 115
'The Administration of Justice in South Africa', (1993) VoL 5(2), Criminology Australia, pp 13 – 18
'Violence and the Media: 'Commonsense' and Related Proposals' (1997) Vol 29, Australian Journal of forensic Sciences, pp 9-18
'Promoting Harm Minimisation: The Ongoing Antipodean Debate about Drug Law ¬Reform', in Jayasuriya D, Nayak R and Wells A (eds) (1997) Global Drugs Law New Delhi: Har-Anand Publications
'Plea Bargaining' (I 982) Victorian Bar News, pp 36-37
'Technology and the Police' (1983) 1 Prevention, pp 2 - 4
'Towards 'Real Sentences' for Pirates and Other Evil Doers: The Victorian Sentencing Committee Report' (1988) Vol. 11, The Bridge,. PP 6•8
(Distinguised author of numerous other books and learned articles in various fields of law).