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DoctorMarozane Spamers

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Law

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  • Senior Lecturer
    Faculty of Law
  • +6433691459 (Work)
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TEACHING & SUPERVISION SUMMARy

In 2026 I am co-ordinating and lecturing in three courses at the University of Canterbury:

- CRJU201 - Crime and Justice

- CRJU315/LLAW315 - Mental Health and Criminal Justice

 - LAWS348 - Research Project

 

I supervise socio-legal or criminal justice doctoral and master’s research focused on mental health and criminal justice, criminal law reform, criminal justice policy, mental health law, prisons and corrections, or policing.

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Rehabilitation and New Zealand Prisons (working title)
    1 Jun 2026
    Paris, Cleo
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The framing of sportspeople who commit crime in New Zealand media (working title)
    1 Jun 2026
    Beehre, Ella
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Procedural Fairness in the Age of AI: Addressing the Evidentiary Risks of Machine-Generated Evidence in New Zealand Courts.
    1 Feb 2026 - 31 Jul 2026
    Reilly, Annabelle
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Evaluating the case for the introduction of a mental health court in New Zealand
    1 Jan 2026 - 31 Jul 2026
    Thwaites, Anna
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Comparative disaster planning in criminal justice systems
    1 Dec 2025 - 30 Jun 2028
    Bhuiyan, Khadiza
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    GeoAI and burglary crime prediction (working title)
    20 Oct 2025
    Deng, Dingyi
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Methamphetamine and Pacific criminal justice: A critical examination of Sāmoa’s approach to methamphetamine regulation and sentencing. Can Sāmoan society endure this new threat?”
    1 Jul 2025 - 30 Jun 2028
    Burke, Bill
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Addressing the sheep in the room: An exploratory thematic analysis of livestock theft intervention in Aotearoa New Zealand
    1 Jul 2024 - 28 Feb 2025
    Quigley, Logan
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Undue Burden of Undue Risk – Shortcomings of Parole within Aotearoa New Zealand
    1 Oct 2023 - 30 Sep 2025
    Whalen-Brown, Marty
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A critical analysis of the defence of consent in cases of sexual violation in New Zealand
    17 Jul 2023 - 30 Jun 2024
    Cruz, Pauline Dela
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Reforming the Insanity Defence: critically examining the definition of legal insanity in New Zealand
    17 Jul 2023 - 30 Jun 2024
    Patient, Laura
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Presumed Guilty in the Public Interest: Section 6 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 and the Right to be Presumed Innocent Until Proved Guilty
    18 Jul 2022 - 17 Jul 2023
    Ardouin, Patrick
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Prison labour in Aotearoa New Zealand: carceral capitalism and the exploitation of the orange collar worker
    1 Jul 2022
    Johnstone, Laura
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Decision-Making Capacity and Rights of Mentally Unwell Persons subject to Compulsory Treatment Orders under the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992
    18 Jul 2021 - 22 Jul 2022
    Ford, Georgia
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    An Analysis of New Zealand Parole Board Decision-Making Practice
    22 Feb 2021 - 27 Apr 2022
    Tailor, Darshan