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David Barrie is an Associate Professor in History at the University of Western Australia, specializing in the history of crime, policing, and punishment in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. He has established and edited a book series on Palgrave Histories Policing, Punishment, and Justice. His teaching interests include criminal justice history, British history, and the history of leisure and sport. Barrie has attracted significant competitive research income totaling $430,000 from various grants including the Australian Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council in the UK. His notable publications include a two-volume monograph, 'Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland' and 'The Police Age of Improvement: Police Development and Civic Tradition in Scotland, 1775-1865', both of which received prestigious awards. Barrie is actively involved in research concerning media representations of policing and the historical relationship between marriage and affinity. He also supervises doctoral students and contributes extensively to the field of urban history and criminal justice studies.
University of Western Australia • Perth, Australia
Teaching and researching the history of crime, policing, and punishment.
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