Dr Scarlet Wilcock

Dr Scarlet Wilcock

Associate Professor
  • PhD Law (UNSW, Sydney)
  • Grad Dip Legal Practice (College of Law, St Leonards)
  • Arts(Hons1)/Law(Hons1) (UNSW, Sydney)
Law & Justice
School of Law, Society & Criminology

Dr Wilcock is a Senior Lecturer at UNSW's Faculty of Law & Justice and a an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. She is a socio-legal researcher with expertise in the areas of social security law and policy and criminal law. 

Her research examines how social welfare institutions regulate and criminalise marginalised people and communities, particularly single mothers and people experiencing gendered violence. A core focus of her work is the relationship between new technologies and social services law, policy and administration. Drawing on critical approaches and empirical research methods, Dr Wilcock studies the ways that new technologies and systems can reinforce, shape and/or transform the architecture, aims and outcomes of welfare payment delivery and how these changes affect welfare recipients and public commitments to welfare provision. 

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Location
Room 376, Law Building, UNSW Kensington Campus
  • Books | 2023
    Wilcock S, 2023, Policing Welfare Fraud, Routledge, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429277306
  • Journal articles | 2022
    Isbanner S; O'Shaughnessy P; Steel D; Wilcock S; Carter S, 2022, 'The Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care and Social Services in Australia: Findings From a Methodologically Innovative National Survey of Values and Attitudes (the AVA-AI Study).', J Med Internet Res, 24, pp. e37611, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/37611
    Journal articles | 2019
    Wilcock S, 2019, '(De-)Criminalizing Welfare? The Rise and Fall of Social Security Fraud Prosecutions in Australia', The British Journal of Criminology, 59, pp. 1498 - 1519, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azz027
    Journal articles | 2016
    Fransquet PD; Hutchinson D; Olsson CA; Wilson J; Allsop S; Najman J; Elliott E; Mattick RP; Saffery R; Ryan J, 2016, 'Perinatal maternal alcohol consumption and methylation of the dopamine receptor DRD4 in the offspring: The Triple B study', Environmental Epigenetics, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eep/dvw023
    Journal articles | 2014
    Wilcock S, 2014, 'Official discourses of the Australian 'welfare cheat'', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 26, pp. 177 - 194, http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=tsh&AN=99835126&site=ehost-live
  • Reports | 2024
    Weatherall K; Henman P; Bello Y Villarino J-M; Matulionyte R; Sleep L; Trezise M; Van Der Arend J; Wilcock S, 2024, Executive Report - Automated decision-making in NSW: Mapping and analysis of the use of ADM systems by state and local governments, http://dx.doi.org/10.60836/40eb-we52, https://cmsassets.ombo.nsw.gov.au/assets/Reports/Executive-Report-ADMS.pdf

  • University of Wollongong Impact Makers' Award (2018)
  • UNSW Thesis Excellence Award (2017)
  • Australian Parliamentary Library Scholarship (2015)
  • Law Foundation Fieldwork Grant (2013)
  • Graham Pringle Prize for Politics and International Relations (2004)