Faculty of ArtsSchool of Social and Political Sciences

Assoc. Prof. Fiona Haines

Background

Fiona Haines (BA (Hons), Ph.D) is an Associate Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences. She has a BA (Hons) and PhD from the University of Melbourne. Her PhD won the 1996 Chancellor’s Prize for excellence (Arts and Social Sciences). She teaches in the area of corporate and white collar crime, regulation and compliance as well as the sociology of crime and deviance.

Assoc. Prof. Haines research interests and published work (including Globalization and Regulatory Character Ashgate, 2005) and Corporate Regulation: Beyond Punish or Persuade, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1997) encompasses a diverse range of corporate harms, disparate regulatory regimes and regulatory contexts: from workplace safety, product safety (including product liability insurance), corporate collapse, industrial disasters and anticompetitive conduct. Her current work extends into the tensions between regulatory regimes, the regulation of insurance and the emerging area of security regulation at seaports, airports and major hazard facilities. The increasing importance of global rules to regulatory strategies of government has also seen her undertake research into the impact of globalization on regulatory reform through research in Thailand and most recently a pilot study in Cambodia.

Assoc. Prof. Haines has advised government in the area of regulation and regulatory policies. She has worked with and range of government agencies including: Department of Justice (Victoria) Civil Law Policy, Primary Industries and Resources (South Australia) (PIRSA), National Road and Transport Commission and the Victorian Taxi Directorate. As a result of her research and consultancy work, she is called on to address government and professional conferences and seminars in a wide range of areas, most recently for the Victorian Law Reform Commission and the Victorian Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission. She was a member of the Victorian Government Advisory Committee for the Equal Opportunity Act review, chaired by the former Victorian Public Advocate, Julian Gardiner in 2008. She is also a member of the Victorian Government Firearms Consultative Committee.

Dr Haines co-edits the international journal Law & Policy with Professors Nancy Reichman (University of Denver) and Colin Scott (University College Dublin). She is on the editorial boards of Law and Society Review and Regulation and Governance.

Research

Subjects Taught

Supervision

Recent Publications

Books

Haines, F. (2011) the Paradox of Regulation: What Regulation Can Achieve and What it Cannot, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, (in press).

Haines, F. (ed.) 2007 Crime and Regulation, Dartmouth, Ashgate.

Haines, F. (2005) Globalization and Regulatory Character: Regulatory reform after the Kader Toy Factory Fire, Ashgate/Dartmouth. Part of the “Advances in Criminology” Series, edited by David Nelken.

Refereed Articles

Haines, F. (2011) "Addressing the Risk, Reading the Landscape: The Role of Agency in Regulation" Regulation & Governance 5(1) 118-144, 2011.

Beaton Wells, C. and Haines, F. (2010) "The Australian Conversion: How the Case for Cartel Criminalisation was made" New Journal of European Criminal Law, 1(4) 499-521.

Haines, F. and Platania-Phung, C. (2010) "Thoughts, feelings, action: survey of Victorian managers of major hazard facilities", Journal of Health, Safety and Environment 26(1)47-62, 2010.   

Haines, F. (2009) "Vanquishing the Enemy or Civilisizing the Neighbour? Controlling risks from hazardous industries" Social and Legal Studies 18(3) 1-19.


Book Chapters

Haines, F. (2011) "the Lure of the Market in Tackling Global Warming" in Tom Measham and Stewart Lockie (Eds.) Risk and Social Theory in Environmental Management CSIRO Publishing, (in press).

Haines, F. (2011) "A Ponzi Scheme on the Environment? Failures of fiduciary duty and the challenges of climate governance" in Tim Smith, Charles Sampford and Ken Coghill (Eds.) Fiduciary Duty, Public Trust and the Governance of Climate Change, ashgate, 2011 (in press).

Haines, F. (2011) "Facing the Compliance Challenge: Hercules, Houdini or the Charge of the Light Brigade?" in Christine Parker and Vibeke Lehmann Nielsen (Eds.) Explaining Compliance Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, (in press).

Haines, F. and Sutton, A. (2007) “The Importance of Being Ambiguous: Theorizing White-collar Crime” in A Brannigan and G. Pavlich (eds.) Critical Studies in Crime Control: Governance and Regulation in Social Life (Essays in Honour of W.G. (Kit) Carson, Routledge/ Cavendish.

Haines, F. (2007) “Crime? What Crime? Tales of the Collapse of HIH”, in H. Pontell and G. Geis (eds.) International Handbook of White-Collar Crime, Springer, Part IX Case Studies, Chapter 2.

Haines, F. and Lewis, C. (2004) “Kader, Compensation and Justice: The need for a comprehensive analysis”, in S. Pickering and C. Lambert (eds.), Global Issues: Women and Justice, Institute of Criminology (Sydney).

Haines, F. and Gurney, D. (2004) “Regulatory Conflict and Regulatory Compliance: the problems and Possibilities of Generic Models of Regulation” in Johnstone, R. and Sarre, R. (eds.) Regulation, Enforcement and Compliance, Canberra, Australian Institute of Criminology, (with D. Gurney).

Journal Articles

Haines, F. (2009) " Regulatory Failures and Regulatory Solutions: A Characteristic Analysis of the Aftermath of Disaster" Law & Social Inquiry 34:1:34:60. 

Haines, F. (2009) "Vanquishing the Enemy or Civilizing the Neighbour? Controlling risks from hazardous industries" Social and Legal Studies 18:2 (forthcoming).

Beaton-Wells, C. and Haines, F. (2009) "Making Cartel Conduct Criminal: A Case Study of Ambiguity in Controlling Business Conduct", Australian and new Zealand Journal of Criminology (forthcoming).

Haines, F., Sutton, A. and Platania-Phung, C. (2008) "It's All about Risk isn't it? Science, Politics and Public Opinion in Regulatory Reform, Flinders Journal of Law Reform, 10:3: 435-453 available at http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1837.

Haines, F., Reichman, N. and Scott, C. (2008) "Problematizing Legitimacy and Authority in Law & Policy" Law & Policy, 30:1:1-11.

Haines, F. and Reichman, N. (2008) "The Problem that is Global Warming: An Introduction" Law & Policy, 30:4: 385-393. 

Haines, F., Sutton, A. and Platania-Phung, C. (2008) “It’s All about Risk isn’t it? Science, Politics and Public Opinion in Regulatory Reform”, Flinders Journal of Law Reform (forthcoming).

Haines, Dr. Fiona (2006) Regulatory failures and regulatory solutions: a characteristic analysis of meta-regulation. In Proceedings Annual Meeting, Law and Society Association, Baltimore, MD. Available for download from: http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00004200/

Haines, F. and Hall, A. (2004) “The Law and Order Debate in Occupational Health and Safety” Journal of Occupational Health and Safety: Australia and New Zealand, 20:3:263-273 (with Andy Hall).

Haines, F. and Hall, A. (2004) "The Law and Order Debate in Occupational Health and Safety" Journal of Occupational Health and Safety: Australia and New Zealand, 20:3:263-273.


Conference and working papers

Haines, F. (2009) "Collaboration in regulation: solving problems and understanding possibilities" invited paper to the colloquium on Regulation, Governance and the Sociological Citizen held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA., on January 22-23rd.

Haines, F. (2009) "Risk and the politics of regulation" RegNet Seminar, Australian National University, April 21st.

Haines, F. (2009) "Addressing the risk, reading the landscape: the role of agency in regulation" paper presented to the 2009 annual meeting of the Law and Society Association, Denver, Colorado, May 26-31st, Grand Hyatt, Denver Colorado.

Haines, F. (2008) Regulation, Red Tape and the War on Terror: Exploring the Regulatory Aftermath of September 11th. In Deidre Howard-Wagner (ed), 'W(h)ither Human Rights?' Proceedings of the 25th annual conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and new Zealand available at http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/browse?type=author&value=Haines,%20Fiona

Haines, F. (2008) "The Lure of the Market in Tackling Global Warming" refereed conference paper presented to the annual conference of the Australian Sociological Association Conference, University of Melbourne, December 2-5th.

Haines, F. (2008) "Global Warming: Can we regulate our way out?" paper presented to the joint US and Canadian Law and Society Associations joint meeting, Montreal, Quebec, 29th May - 1st June.

Haines, F. (2008) "Thinking through the regulatory solution (again), Invited Seminar to the Victorial Law Reform Commission, November 18th 2008.

Haines, F. (2008) "Who are we trying to impress? Regulatory audiences and regulatory impact" paper presented to the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Society of Criminology Annual Conference, National Convention Centre Canberra, November 26-28th.

Haines, F. (2007) “Global warming and the regulatory challenge” invited presentation to Reg Net, Australian National University, December 5th.


Haines, F. (2007) “Can we regulate our way out of global warming?” public address, Melbourne Law School, December 4th.

Haines, F. (2007) “Regulation and global warming” paper presented to the Australian and New Zealand Law and Society Association annual conference, November 26th to 27th, University of Melbourne.

Haines, F. (2007) “Understanding regulation: implications for the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (VEOHRC)” invited presentation to the VEOHRC, Melbourne September 11th.

Haines, F. (2007) “Vanquishing the Enemy or Civilizing the Neighbour? Controlling the risks from hazardous industries” paper presented to the Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law conference Humboldt University of Berlin, July 25-28.

Haines, F., Sutton A. and Platania Phung, C. (2007) “It’s all about risk isn’t it? Understanding the nexus of science, politics and public pressure in regulatory reform” paper presented to the Occupational Health and Safety Consortium, National Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Research, ANU, Canberra, February 6-8.

Haines, F. (2006) “OHS: Local problems and international challenges” invited keynote address to the Comcare Conference Compliance, Performance and Beyond, Rydges Lakeside, Canberra October 18-19th.

Haines, F. (2006) “Reducing Terror and Calming Fear: What can regulation offer” invited public address, at the Seminar “Protecting Human Rights in an Age of Terrorism” invited address hosted by Human Rights Forum and the University of Melbourne, Village Roadshow Theatrette, Public Library, Melbourne, August 22nd 2006.

Haines, F. (2006) “Safety, Security Politics and Fact: Shaping the Regulatory Solution”, working paper 46 National Research Centre for OHS regulation, available from http://ohs.anu.edu.au/publications/pdf/wp 46 - Haines.pdf accessed May 25th 2006.

Haines, F. (2006) “Thinking through the regulatory solution” invited address, seminar presented to the Victorian Law Reform Commission, Melbourne, June 14th.

Haines, F. (2006) “Safety, Security Politics and Fact” paper presented to the Occupational Health and Safety Consortium, National Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Research, ANU, Canberra, February 16-17 available as working paper 46 National Research Centre for OHS regulation , available from http://ohs.anu.edu.au/publications/pdf/wp 46 - Haines.pdf (with Chris Platania-Phung).

Haines, F., Sutton, A. and Platania-Phung, C. (2006 )“Fending off catastrophe: risk management and public assurance in Australian society.” Presented at the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, Hobart, February 8.

Haines, F. and Sutton, A. (2005)“The Importance of Being Ambiguous: Kit Carson and White-collar Crime” paper presented to the 18th Annual Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference, University of Wellington, Wellington New Zealand, February 9-11.

Haines, F. (2005) “Globalization and Regulatory Character: Regulatory reform after the Kader Toy Factory Fire” Paper presented to the American Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Marriott Resort, Las Vegas, June 2-5.

Haines, F. (2005) “Globalization and Regulatory Character: Regulatory reform after the Kader Toy Factory Fire” Paper presented to Monash Law School, August 16th.

Haines, F. (2005) “Safety, Security and the Problem of the Virtual Bureaucracy” invited address presented to the Ballarat Regional Occupational Safety and Health Group, Ballarat Town Hall, October 20th .

Haines, F. (2004) “The law and order debate in Occupational Health and Safety” paper presented to the Occupational Health and Safety Consortium, National Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Research, ANU, Canberra, February 11-12.

Haines, F. (2004) “Corporate Manslaughter: a critical weapon to combat death at work?” paper presented to Industrial and Corporate Manslaughter Seminar, hosted by School of International Business at the University of South Australia, March 12.

Haines, F. (2004) “Meta-regulation and competing risks: how are priorities set” paper presented to the Annual Governance Network and Regulatory Institutions Network Conference, Australian National University, Coombs Extension, December 6-8.


Discussion paper for comment

Haines, F. (2011) "Now You See Me Now You Don't! Understanding the lives and crimes of finance" paper presented to RegNet@10 conference marking the 10th Anniversary of the Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National University, March 28-9.


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