Dr Elyse Methven is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), where she teaches criminal law and sentencing. Elyse's areas of expertise include the legal regulation of offensive language, policing and penalty notices.
Experience
2020–present
Senior Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
2017–2020
Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
2015–2016
Associate lecturer, Macquarie University
2011–2015
Associate lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
Education
2017
UTS, Doctor of Philosophy (Law)
2008
UTS, Bachelor of Laws (Hons.)
Publications
2024
It might be powerful; but is it offensive? Unpacking judicial views on the c-word, Current Issues in Criminal Justice
2023
Skipping straight to the punishment: criminal infringement notices and factors that influence police discretion, Current Issues in Criminal Justice
2022
There is no need for anyone to be concerned”: The discursive legitimation of coercive police powers during the COVID-19 pandemic, Revista de Llengua i Dret
2020
A death sentence for swearing: the fatal consequences of the failure to decriminalise offensive language, Griffith Law Review
2020
‘A Woman’s Tongue’: Representations of Gender and Swearing in Australian Legal and Media Discourse, Australian Feminist Law Journal
2020
Commodifying Justice: Discursive Strategies Used in the Legitimation of Infringement Notices for Minor Offences, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law
2020
Life in the shadow carceral state: Surveillance and control of refugees in Australia, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
2019
Dancing with Death: Why the NSW Homicide Offence of Drug Supply Causing Death May Cause More Harm than Good, Criminal Law Journal
2019
Cheap and Efficient Justice? Neoliberal Discourse and Criminal Infringement Notices, University of Western Australia Law Review
2019
The controversial case of Lawyer X: Should lawyers be prevented from acting as human sources?, Alternative Law Journal
2017
Offensive Language Crimes in Law, Media, and Popular Culture, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice
2016
Serious Crime Prevention Orders, Current Issues in Criminal Justice
2016
'Weeds of our own Making': Language Ideologies, Swearing and the Criminal Law, Law in Context
2015
We will decide who comes to this country, and how they behave: A critical reading of the asylum seeker Code of Behaviour, Alternative Law Journal
2014
'A Very Expensive Lesson': Counting the Costs of Penalty Notices for Anti-social Behaviour, Current Issues in Criminal Justice