Susan Dennison
Biography
Susan Dennison is a Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the Griffith Criminology Institute at Griffith University. She is Director of Transforming Corrections to Transform Lives, an innovative collaboration working to create a transformative system of practice that addresses system gaps, improves pathways and programs, and provides proportionate end-to-end care for imprisoned mothers and their children during a sentence and after release. Through successive research grants, including an ARC Future Fellowship, Susan has focused on investigating how childhood adversity, particularly maltreatment and parental incarceration, affects young people’s development and long-term outcomes. Susan is working to transform policies and systems to reduce the intergenerational transmission of offending and disadvantage. She is committed to improving correctional design, policy and practice with respect to prisoner-family relationships, contact and community re-entry.