Arie Freiberg

Arie Freiberg is an Israeli-born Australian legal scholar born August 22, 1949, an emeritus professor at Monash University recognized as one of Australia's foremost experts on sentencing and the criminal justice system. After working at the Australian Institute of Criminology he began as a tutor at Monash in 1976, later becoming foundation chair of criminology at the University of Melbourne in 1991, heading its Department of Criminology from 1992 to 2002, serving as Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Melbourne in 2003, and as Dean of the Faculty of Law at Monash from 2004 to 2012. As inaugural chair of Victoria's Sentencing Advisory Council from 2004 to 2022 he advocated reforms including abolishing suspended sentences and removing provocation as a sentencing consideration in homicides. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Law, received the Member of the Order of Australia in 2009, and has published approximately 200 works. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/