Professor Tracey Booth is a leading international scholar whose work explores public confidence in legal processes. She is an expert on victim impact statements (VISs), victims of crime in legal processes, the impact of emotion on courtroom proceedings and judicial emotion. She was a member of the NSW Sentencing Council 2014-2022.

Tracey’s research is inter-disciplinary and crosses a range of fields including criminology, psychology, sociology, and law. She is well-known for her legal ethnographic approach that seeks to build on theory and legal doctrine with empirical insights to create an evidence-base for the development of policy and law reform.

The quality of Tracey’s ground-breaking research is illustrated by her article "Cooling out victims of crime: Managing victim participation in the sentencing process in a superior sentencing court", which won the 2013 Allen Austin Bartholomew Award. More recently, she is the author of Accommodating Justice: Victim Impact Statements in the Sentencing Process (The Federation Press, 2016).

Tracey has an extensive track record in applying qualitative and legal ethnographic research methods to propose reforms for improved access to justice. For example Tracey was one of the chief investigators on an ANROWS funded project that explored the intersection of self-representation and family violence in matters before Australian family courts. A copy of the report is available from: https://www.anrows.org.au/publication/no-straight-lines-self-represented-litigants-in-family-law-proceedings-involving-allegations-about-family-violence/.

Tracey is also committed to disciplinary excellence in legal research methods education. She has led the development and renewal of research training in undergraduate, postgraduate and Higher Degree by Research (HDR) programs in the Law Faculty at UTS. She has developed a suite of research subjects and currently teaches the core research subject for HDR students.