Samantha Lyneham
Supervisors: Jan Breckenridge, Bianca Fileborn
For over a decade, Samantha has published extensively on a range of modern slavery issues including forced marriage, sexual and labour exploitation, voluntourism, and Australia’s policy and legal response to these crimes. Recently, her work has focused on developing estimates of the prevalence of modern slavery victims in Australia, the attrition of cases through the Australian criminal justice system and the role of technology in facilitating modern slavery. Internationally, Samantha has collaborated with the UNODC on forced marriage, and with statistical experts to accurately quantify the prevalence of victimisation using multiple systems estimation methods.
Samantha holds a Bachelor of Social Science (Criminology, Social Research & Policy) from UNSW and a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Criminology) from Melbourne University. Samantha is currently undertaking a PhD at UNSW to better understand issues of consent and coercion in cases of forced marriage.
- Research area
- Research outputs
- Human trafficking
- Modern slavery
- Forced marriage
- Boxall H et al. 2023. Sexual exploitation in Australia: Victim-survivor support needs and barriers to support provision. Research Report no. 29. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.
- Lyneham S & Bricknell S 2021. Attrition of human trafficking and slavery cases through the Australian criminal justice system. Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no.640. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.
- Lyneham S & Voce I 2020. Review of the National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking and Slavery 2015-19. Research Report no. 17. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.
- Lyneham S & Facchini L 2019. Benevolent harm: Orphanages, voluntourism and child sexual exploitation in South-East Asia. Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice no. 574. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.
- Lyneham S & Bricknell S 2018. When saying no is not an option: Forced marriage in Australia and New Zealand. Research Report no. 11. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.
- Lyneham S, Dowling C & Bricknell S 2018. Estimating the dark figure of human trafficking and slavery victimisation in Australia. Statistical Bulletin no. 16. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.
- Richards K & Lyneham S 2015. Bride traffic: Trafficking for marriage to Australia, in Dragiewicz M (ed). Global Human Trafficking: Critical Issues and Contexts. Routledge.
- Lyneham S 2014. Recovery, return and reintegration of Indonesian victims of human trafficking. Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice no. 483. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.
- Lyneham S & Richards K 2014. Trafficking in Persons involving marriage and partner migration. Research and Public Policy Series no 124. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.
- Andrevski H & Lyneham S 2014. Experiences of exploitation and human trafficking among a sample of Indonesian migrant domestic workers. Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice no. 471. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.
- Richards K & Lyneham S 2014. Help-seeking strategies of victim/survivors of human trafficking involving partner migration. Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice no. 468. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.
- Andrevski H, Joudo Larsen J & Lyneham S 2013. Barriers to trafficked peoples' involvement in criminal justice proceedings: An Indonesian case study. Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice no 451. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.
- Lyneham S & Joudo Larsen J 2013. Exploitation of Indonesian trafficked men, women and children and implications for support. Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice no 450. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.
- Joudo Larsen J, Andrevski H & Lyneham S 2013. Experiences of trafficked persons: an Indonesian sample. Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice no 449. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.
- Lyneham S 2013. Forced and servile marriage in the context of human trafficking. Research in Practice no 32. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.