Mark Yin
- Thesis Title: Children before court: young people’s encounters with the law
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About
Mark is a PhD student at the Institute, supervised by Dr Caroline Lanskey. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Criminology from the University of Melbourne, awarded in 2021; his Honours project focused on the negotiation of accountability in Australian offshore detention. His PhD is supported by a Cambridge Australia McCrum Scholarship.
Research
Mark’s current research is on how children charged with offences experience courtroom processes and environments. He is interested in children’s rights, particularly their best interests and participatory rights (Articles 3 & 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child), and the ways courts and court actors enable or constrain these rights. His other research interests include critical criminology broadly speaking, ethnographic methods and the politics of childhood and youth participation.