Dr Vicki Sentas
UNSW Law & Justice
Dr Vicki Sentas’ 2017 report, Policing Young People in NSW: A Study of the Suspect Targeting Management Plan, sparked the Law Enforcement Conduct Committee’s STMP review in 2018.
Dr Sentas contributed further to the LECC’s Operation Tepito in 2022 and 2023; and has delivered a separate report and government submission on NSW Police Force strip search practices in 2019 and 2020, respectively.
Related UNSW news articles feat. Dr Sentas
2020 Strip searches, STMPs: more evidence of excessive police power
2019 UNSW report reveals extraordinary increase in police strip searches
2017 Secret NSW Police policy ‘harmful to young people'
Biography
Dr Vicki Sentas researches the processes of criminalisation and racialisation in law and policing, and is a senior lecturer in criminal law, criminology and policing at UNSW Law & Justice.
Contact details
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v.sentas@unsw.edu.au
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Kate Newton
UNSW Law & Justice
0404 788 622
k.newton@unsw.edu.au
