Staff profile

Professor Allan Borowski

Faculty of Health Sciences

School of Allied Health
Department of Social Work and Social Policy

HS2-512, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

B Commerce, Dip Soc Studs, MA (Hons) (Melbourne), PhD (Brandeis)

Membership of professional Associations

Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia; Fellow and Member, Gerontological Society of America; Fellow and Member, Australian Association of Gerontology; Inaugural Fellow, Australian College of Social Work; Member, Australian Association of Social Workers; Member, Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology; Member, Australian Population Association; Member, Australian Social Policy Association

Area of study

Social Work

Research interests

Social policy

- Social, Political and Economic Impacts of Population Ageing and International Population Movements

Social work

- Juvenile Crime, Justice and Corrections

Recent Publications

Allan Borowski and Rosemary Sheehan. In press.  "Magistrates’ Perspectives on the Criminal Division of the Children’s Court of Victoria.” Australian Social Work..

Allan Borowski. 2011. “In Courtroom 7--The Children’s Koori Court at Work: Findings from an Evaluation.”  International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. Vol 55, No. 5 (October)

Karin Amit, Allan Borowski and Sergio Della Pergola. 2010. “Demography--Trends and Composition.”  Pp. 15-45 in Andrew Markus and Moshe Semyonov (eds.) Immigration and Nation Building: Australia and Israel Compared. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

Allan Borowski. 2010. “Indigenous Participation in Sentencing Young Offenders.” Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Vol 43, No 3, pp. 465-484.

Allan Borowski. 2010. “Raising the Age Pension Eligibility Age and its (Dis)Contents,” Australasian Journal on Ageing, Vol 29, No. 3, pp 100-102.

Allan Borowski. 2009. “The Certainty of Uncertainty: Superannuation and Globalization.” Health Sociology Review (Special Edition on Ageing, Anti-Ageing and Globalization). Vol 18, No 4 (December), pp. 364-378.

Allan Borowski.  Robert Hudson and John McCormack. (2008). “Elder Participation and Senior Power in Australian Electoral Politics”.  Journal of Aging and Social Policy. Vol 21, No 1.

Allan Borowski. (2008) “Back at the Crossroads: The Slippery Fish of Australian Retirement Income Policy.” Australian Journal of Social Issues, Vol 43, No 2 (Winter), pp. 311-334.

Allan Borowski and Peter McDonald. (2007) "The dimensions and implications of Australian population ageing," in A. Borowski, S. Encel and E. Ozanne (Eds) Longevity sand Social Change in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 15-39.

Allan  Borowski and Diane Olsberg. (2007) "Retirement income policy for a long-lived society," in A. Borowski, S. Encel and E. Ozanne (Eds) Longevity and Social Change in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 189-218.

Allan Borowski and Mimi Ajzenstadt, M. (2007) "Achieving justice for children," International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol 51, pp. 191-211.

James H Schulz and Allan Borowski. (2006) "Economic security in retirement: reshaping the public-private pension mix," in R.H. Binstock and L.K. George (Eds) Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, 6th edn, Academic Press, New York, pp 360-379.

Allan Borowski. (2005) "The revolution that faltered: two decades of reform of Australia's retirement income system," International Social Security Review, vol 58, no 4, pp 45-65.

Mimi Ajzenstadt and Allan Borowski. (2005) "Setting things straight: probation officers' perspectives on the impacts of the introduction of public defenders on the Juvenile Court in Israel', Qualitative Social Work: Research and Practice, vol 4, no 1, pp. 33-50.

Allan Borowski and Mimi Ajzenstadt, M. (2005) "A solution without a problem: judges' perspectives on the impacts of the introduction of public defenders on the Juvenile Court in Israel," The British Journal of Criminology, vol 14, no 2, pp. 183-200.

Hillel Schmid and Allan Borowski. (2004) "Selected issues in the delivery of homecare services to the elderly a decade after implementing Israel's long-term care insurance law," Social Security (special English edition), pp. 87-114.

Allan Borowski. (2004) Book Review of Caro, F.G., Morris, R. and Norton, J. (Eds) Advancing Ageing Policy as the 21st Century Begins in International Psychogeriatrics, vol 16, no 3, pp. 375-377.

Allan Borowski. (2004) Book Review of Frederikson, G.M. Racism: A Short History in Australian Social Work, vol 57, no 2, pp. 199-201.

Allan Borowski. (2003) "The danger of strong causal reasoning in policy and practice: the case of juvenile crime and corrections," Australian Social Work, vol 56, no 4, pp 340-351.

Allan Borowski. (2000) "Creating a virtuous society: immigration and Australia's policies of multiculturalism," Journal of Social Policy, vol 29, Part 3, July, pp 459-475.

Hillel Schmid and Allan Borowski. (2000) "Israel's long-term care insurance law after a decade of implementation," Journal of Ageing & Social Policy, vol 12, no 1, pp 49-71.