Alison is currently researching in 3 areas: first, she is completing a book on spectatorship, violence and justice in cinema, entitled Visions of Violence: Cinema, Crime, Affect (Routledge, forthcoming); second, she is engaged in a 5-year study of the police response to sexual assault (together with colleagues in the Melbourne Law School and at Edith Cowan University); and third, she is undertaking a three-year research project, funded by the Australian Research Council, concerning the social, legal and cultural responses to street art.