Anna Corbo Crehan

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Dr Anna Corbo Crehan

PhD, BA (Hons) Melb

Senior Lecturer
off campus

Anna Corbo Crehan, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at Charles Sturt University’s Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security. She is a philosopher by trade and has been with Charles Sturt on a full-time basis since 1999. She has published papers about several aspects of policing, including police accountability (with a focus on deaths in police custody), various aspects of police ethics, obedience to authority, policing domestic violence, the policing of vulnerable people and professional boundaries.

She currently teaches the undergraduate subject JST309 Indigenous Communities, Criminal Justice and Policing, and she maintains an extensive higher degree supervision commitment.

Teaching

Undergraduate:

  • JST309 Indigenous Communities, Criminal Justice and Policing

Postgraduate (Higher Degree Research [HDR]) supervision:

  • PhD – 2 students
  • Doctor of Policing and Security – 1 student
  • Doctor of Public Safety – 8 students

HDR Completions:

PhD
  • Irregular Migration and Humanitarian Aid in the Asia Pacific, Tasia Power, 2025
  • Developing Community Policing for the Policing of Terrorism: Merging Western and Eastern Perspectives, Xue Fei Cao, 2021
  • Looking beyond the trees: Police educators’ conceptions of and approaches to growing and developing as teachers, Brett Shipton, 2018
  • An empirical study of Chinese police officers’ perceptions of integrity in the workplace, Zhang Liyun, 2016
  • A theoretical model of implementing the mass line principle in criminal investigation in China, Li Yongtao, 2015
  • Intelligence and Intelligence Analysis: Exploring the State of Intelligence since 9/11, Patrick F. Walsh, 2013
  • A qualitative exploration into the policing of Aboriginal Peoples’ use and occupancy of public space and the consequent usefulness of current criminological conceptualisations of over-policing, John Williams-Mozley, 2009
  • Millstones in the Sea? Australian Churches and Child Sexual Abuse, Jodie Death, 2008
Doctor of Policing and Security
  • When Prevention Could be the Cure: Developing a Risk-Based Instrument for the Early Detection of Adolescent Extremist Vulnerability, Claire O’Neill, 2022
  • Disengagement and Deradicalisation: An Online Intervention, Jason-Leigh Striegher, 2021
  • Police corruption may be inevitable, but is it foreseeable? Merrilyn Beer, 2020
  • Justice, Rehabilitation and Reintegration: Capturing ‘success’ of Drug Courts in Australia, Amanda Clarke, 2019
  • Police cynicism: A practitioners’ perspective of what police cynicism is and how it impacts upon police practice, Mary-Jane Welsh, 2015
  • Police officers’ attitudes towards community policing: A case study of the Royal Malaysia Police, Siva Suppiah, 2015
  • Why do hate crime victims report to the police?, Patrick McCaffery, 2012
Doctor of Police Leadership
  • Leadership in Indigenous Child Protection Policing, Maurice Carless, 2013
Master of Emergency Management
  • Weighing up the risk versus reward. An insight into the management of police pursuits by police pursuit controllers, Patrick Hayes, 2018
  • School rampage violence - best practices to effectively cope with this phenomenon within an Australian university environment, Jamie Daniluck, 2016
  • Minimising the risk to Psychological Health of Bystanders Exposed and/or Engaged to Assist at Fatal or Serious Injury Motor Vehicle Collisions, Tanya Eade-Smith, 2016
  • Preferred Sheltering Practices for Emergency Sheltering in Australia: Child Safe Practices, Stephanie Ayres, 2015
  • Principles, Strategies, and Tools of Mass Notification Systems during Emergency Situations, Carolyn Dumbeck, 2015
  • Knock, knock, knocking at the Control Centre door - Water Industry Crisis Management Plan, Helen Foster, 2015
Master of Arts (Investigations Management)
  • Ignorance and uncertainty in the management of aviation accident investigations, John Robins, 2015
  • Ethnographical Exploration of Synergy: Establishing and Maintaining a Visionary Tri-Service Investigative Policing Culture within the ADF Investigative Service (ADFIS), Andrew Johnston, 2009
Master of Arts (Criminal Intelligence)
  • On the effects of intervention on the search engine and registrar level in order to disrupt the business continuity of rogue online pharmacies (OLPs), Kerstin Schrade-Butscher, 2015
Master of Ethics and Legal Studies
  • Legislative and policy expectations and restrictions on the private lives of NSW police officers – a Millian critique, Ms Kim Willer, 2012
Master of Arts (Fraud Investigation)
  • Exploring the prevalence of fraud and corruption in indigenous corporations, Jodie Goddard, 2007
Master of Arts (Crime Prevention)
  • Examining The Significance of The Victoria Police Neighbourhood Watch Coordinator, Dianne Thomson, 2007

Research interests

  • Police accountability
  • Deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in police custody
  • Police use of discretionary authority

Publications

Chapters in books

Goodman-Delahunty, J., Corbo Crehan, A. & Brandon, S. (2019). The Ethical Practice of Police Psychology (Chapter 1). Police Psychology: New Trends in Forensic Psychological Science. Netherlands: Elsevier (in press).

Corbo Crehan, A. (2017). Some implications of the moral vulnerability of police. In N. L. Asquith, I. Bartkowiak-Théron, & K. A. Roberts (Eds.), Policing Encounters with Vulnerability (pp. 71-86). UK: Palgrave Macmllan.

Bartkowiak-Théron, I., & Corbo Crehan, A. (2012). "For when equality if given to unequals, the result is inequality": The Socio-legal Ethics of Vulnerable People. In I. Bartkowiak-Théron, & N. L. Asquith (Eds.), Policing Vulnerability (pp. 33-46). Sydney, Australia: The Federation Press.

Corbo Crehan, A. (2011). Ethics in policing. In P. Birch, & V. Herrington (Eds.), Policing in Practice (pp. 147-160). South Yarra, Vic, Aust: Palgrave Macmillan.

Corbo Crehan, A. (2010). Philosophy in Professional Education. In G. Oppy, & N. N. Trakakis (Eds.), A Companion to Philosophy in Australasia and New Zealand (pp. 376-378). Melbourne, Victoria: Monash University Publishing.

Layton, C., Corbo Crehan, A., & Campbell, M. (2008). Getting people involved: leadership for change as an occupation professionalises. In G. D. G. Danaher (Ed.), Changing University Learning and Teaching: Engaging and Mobilising Leadership, Quality and Technology (pp. 39-58). Teneriffe, Qld: Post Pressed.

Corbo Crehan, A. (2007). Understanding and Managing Professional Distance. In J. Ruiz, & D. Hummer (Eds.), Handbook of police administration (pp. 401-412). [25] Boca Raton, USA: CRC Press.

Journal articles (refereed)

Corbo Crehan, A., Delaforce, R. & Shipton, B. (2025). A new focus for accountability: Enabling police to act well. Current Issues in Criminal Justice. 37(4), 554-571.

Corbo Crehan, A., Delaforce, R. & Shipton, B. (2025). Unmasking police accountability: Responses to Australian First Nations peoples’ deaths in police custody. Policing and Society, 35(6), 867-882.

Corbo Crehan, A. and Goodman-Delahunty, J. (2019). Procedural Justice and Complaints about Police. Salus Journal, 7(1), 58-87.

Corbo Crehan, A. (2019). Teaching Police Ethics: Analysis of an Increasingly Complex Teaching Context. Police Practice and Research: An International Journal (Special Issue on Police Education). DOI: 10.1080/15614263.2019.1598075

Goodman-Delahunty, J., & Corbo Crehan, A. (2016). Enhancing Police Responses to Domestic Violence Incidents: Reports From Client Advocates in New South Wales. Violence Against Women, 22(8), 1007-1026. DOI: 10.1177/1077801215613854

Corbo Crehan, A., & Absalom, M. (2016). Watching out for the watchers. Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, 2(3), 164-172. DOI: 10.1108/JCRPP-08-2015-0038

Nixon, J., Wooden, K., & Corbo Crehan, A. (2012). Policing Students' Understanding of Obedience to Authority. Policing (Oxford), 6(4), 335-343. DOI: https://doi-org.ezproxy.csu.edu.au/10.1093/police/pas030

Corbo Crehan, A. (2010). "Appropriate" Police Discretion and Indigenous Over-Representation in the Criminal Justice System. Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics, 11(1 / 2), 68-80.

Kelly, A., Coyle, J., Latham, H., & Corbo Crehan, A. (2010). Cynicism and emerging professionals: a cross disciplinary panel discussion. Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics, 11(1 / 2), 110-121.

Corbo Crehan, A. (1999). Compensating for Historical Injustices - Three Important Issues. Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics, 1(2).

Corbo Crehan, A. (1999). The Stolen Generations: Some Principles of Compensation. Professional Ethics, 7 (3/4), 49-65.

Journal articles (non-refereed)

Corbo Crehan, A. & Austin, Wendy (May 2002). ‘Professional Distance Part II:  Maintaining & Managing it’ Police News (Journal of the NSW Police Association).

Corbo Crehan, A. & Austin, Wendy (April 2002). ‘Professional Distance Part I: What is it, why is it important?’ Police News (Journal of the NSW Police Association.

Corbo Crehan, A. (1997). ‘Wik, Land Entitlements and Coexistence’, Res Publica vol. 2, no. 2.

Corbo Crehan, A. (1992). ‘Some Moral Implications of Mabo’, Res Publica, vol. 1, no. 1.