Professor Lorraine Mazerolle
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Lorraine Mazerolle

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Background

Lorraine Mazerolle is an Emeritus Professor at The University of Queensland, School of Social Science and an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow (2010–2015). She received the Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in the General Division on Australia Day 2024 “for eminent service to education, to the social sciences as a criminologist and researcher, and to the development of innovative, evidence-based policing reforms.” Professor Mazerolle has published 5 books, 4 edited books, over 180 scientific journal articles and 46 book chapters. Her work has been cited more than 14,000 times. Her research interests are in experimental criminology, policing, drug law enforcement, regulatory crime control, and crime prevention. She has held many academic leadership roles including Co-Chair of the Crime and Justice Group (Campbell Collaboration), Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Experimental Criminology and Chair of the American Society of Criminology’s (ASC) Division of Experimental Criminology. She is an elected Fellow and past president of the Academy of Experimental Criminology (AEC), and an elected fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences Australia and the American Society of Criminology (ASC). Professor Mazerolle is the recipient of the ASC Division of Experimental Criminology Jerry Lee Lifetime Achievement Award (2019), Partners in Research Excellence Award The University of Queensland (2019), Distinguished Achievement Award of the Center for Evidence Based Crime Policy at George Mason University (2019), ASC Sellin-Glueck Award (2018), the ASC Division of Policing Distinguished Scholar Award (2016), the AEC Joan McCord Award (2013), and the ASC Division of International Criminology Freda Adler Distinguished Scholar Award (2010). She has won numerous US and Australian national competitive research grants on topics such as partnership policing, police engagement with high-risk people and disadvantaged communities, community regulation, problem-oriented policing, police technologies, civil remedies, street-level drug enforcement and policing public housing sites.

Availability

Professor Lorraine Mazerolle is:
Not available for supervision
Media expert

Fields of research

Crime policy Criminology Human Society Police administration, procedures and practice Policy and administration Sociology Urban sociology and community studies

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts, Flinders University
  • Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, Flinders University
  • Masters (Coursework), Rutgers University-Newark
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Rutgers University-Newark

Research interests

  • Experimental Criminology

  • Policing, especially Third Party Policing, Problem-Oriented Policing

  • Crime Control/Crime Prevention

  • Crime Analysis/Environmental Criminology

  • Community Regulation/Community Capacity Building

  • Ecology of Crime and Urban Criminological Theories

Search Professor Lorraine Mazerolle’s works on UQ eSpace

383 works between 1990 and 2025
All (383) Journal Article (197) Book Chapter (49) Conference Publication (87) Book (12) Other Outputs (38)

261 - 280 of 383 works

2013

Other Outputs

Legitimacy in policing

Mazerolle, Lorraine, Bennett, Sarah, Davis, Jacqueline, Sargeant, Elise and Manning, Matthew (2013). Legitimacy in policing. Crime Prevention Research Review Washington, DC, United States: Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, U.S. Department of Justice.

Legitimacy in policing

2013

Journal Article

Leadership in problem-oriented policing

Mazerolle, Lorraine, Darroch, Steve and White, Gentry (2013). Leadership in problem-oriented policing. Policing-An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 36 (3), 543-560. doi: 10.1108/PIJPSM-06-2012-0055

Leadership in problem-oriented policing

2013

Conference Publication

Random Breath Testing and their effectiveness revisited: an examination of RBT and alcohol-related crash data from 2000-2011 across Australia.

Ferris, Jason, Mazerolle, Lorraine, Bennett, Sarah, Devaney, Madonna, King, Mark and Bates, Lyndel (2013). Random Breath Testing and their effectiveness revisited: an examination of RBT and alcohol-related crash data from 2000-2011 across Australia.. ADASC 2013: 6th Australasian Drug and Alcohol Strategy Conference, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 19-22 March, 2013.

Random Breath Testing and their effectiveness revisited: an examination of RBT and alcohol-related crash data from 2000-2011 across Australia.

2013

Conference Publication

Random breath testing and their effectiveness revisited: An examination of RBT and alcohol-related crash data from 2000-2011 across Australia

Ferris, Jason, Mazerolle, Lorraine, Devaney, Madonna, Bennett, Sarah, King, Mark and Bates, Lyndal (2013). Random breath testing and their effectiveness revisited: An examination of RBT and alcohol-related crash data from 2000-2011 across Australia. 20th International Council on Alcohol, Drugs, and Traffic Safety Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 25-28 August 2013.

Random breath testing and their effectiveness revisited: An examination of RBT and alcohol-related crash data from 2000-2011 across Australia

2013

Book Chapter

Preface

Wortley, Richard and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2013). Preface. In Environmental criminology and crime analysis 2nd ed. (pp. *-*) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203118214

Preface

2013

Journal Article

Random breath testing in Queensland and Western Australia: examination of how the random breath testing rate influences alcohol related traffic crash rates

Ferris, Jason, Mazerolle, Lorraine, King, Mark, Bates, Lyndel, Bennett, Sarah and Devaney, Madonna (2013). Random breath testing in Queensland and Western Australia: examination of how the random breath testing rate influences alcohol related traffic crash rates. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 60, 181-188. doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2013.08.018

Random breath testing in Queensland and Western Australia: examination of how the random breath testing rate influences alcohol related traffic crash rates

2013

Book Chapter

Drug law enforcement: reducing the supply of drugs

Mazerolle, Lorraine and Thompson, Jenna (2013). Drug law enforcement: reducing the supply of drugs. Drug Use in Australian Society. (pp. 251-271) edited by Alison Ritter, Trevor King and Margaret Hamilton. South Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand.

Drug law enforcement: reducing the supply of drugs

2013

Other Outputs

Using civil actions against property to control crime problems

Smith, Martha J. and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2013). Using civil actions against property to control crime problems. Problem-Oriented Guides for Police: Response Guides Series No.11 Albany, NY, United States:

Using civil actions against property to control crime problems

2013

Journal Article

Protocol for a systematic review: Community‐oriented policing's impact on interpersonal violent crime in developing countries

Higginson, Angela, Mazerolle, Lorraine, Davis, Jacqueline, Bedford, Laura, Mengersen, Kerrie, Somerville, Adele, Thompson, Jenna, Ham, Kathryn and Williamson, Harley (2013). Protocol for a systematic review: Community‐oriented policing's impact on interpersonal violent crime in developing countries. Campbell Systematic Reviews, 9 (1), 1-35. doi: 10.1002/cl2.112

Protocol for a systematic review: Community‐oriented policing's impact on interpersonal violent crime in developing countries

2013

Journal Article

Legitimacy in policing: a systematic review

Mazerolle, Lorraine, Bennett, Sarah, Davis, Jacqueline, Sargeant, Elise and Manning, Matthew (2013). Legitimacy in policing: a systematic review. Campbell Systematic Reviews, 9 (1), i-147. doi: 10.4073/csr.2013.1

Legitimacy in policing: a systematic review

2013

Journal Article

Drug normalisation and Australian youth: group differences in the social accommodation of drug use

Fitzgerald, Robin, Mazerrole, Lorraine and Mazerolle, Paul (2013). Drug normalisation and Australian youth: group differences in the social accommodation of drug use. Journal of Youth Studies, 16 (7), 901-915. doi: 10.1080/13676261.2013.763920

Drug normalisation and Australian youth: group differences in the social accommodation of drug use

2013

Other Outputs

The impact of policing interventions on interpersonal violent crime in developing countries (Protocol)

Higginson, Angela, Mazerolle, Lorraine, Davis, Jaqueline, Bedford, Laura and Mengersen, Kerrie (2013). The impact of policing interventions on interpersonal violent crime in developing countries (Protocol). Washington, DC, United States: International Initiative for Impact Evaluation.

The impact of policing interventions on interpersonal violent crime in developing countries (Protocol)

2013

Conference Publication

Unlawful entry experiment

Antrobus, Emma, Mazerolle, Lorraine and Bennett, Sarah (2013). Unlawful entry experiment. Queensland Police Service Forensic Services Group Senior Leaders Conference, Brisbane, Australia, September 2013.

Unlawful entry experiment

2013

Conference Publication

Crime Reduction Through Regulation: the case of ProjectSTOP

Ransley, Janet, Ferris, Jason and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2013). Crime Reduction Through Regulation: the case of ProjectSTOP. Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis (ECCA) Symposium, Philadelphia, PA United States, June, 2013.

Crime Reduction Through Regulation: the case of ProjectSTOP

2012

Journal Article

Random breath testing: impact on alcohol related crashes

Ferris, Jason and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2012). Random breath testing: impact on alcohol related crashes. CEPS Research Quarterly, 4, 4-5.

Random breath testing: impact on alcohol related crashes

2012

Journal Article

Title registration for a review proposal: Community-oriented policing’s impact on interpersonal violent crime in developing countries

Mazerolle, Lorraine, Davis, Jacqueline, Higginson, Angela, Mengersen, Kerrie, Bedford, Laura, Somerville, Adele, Thompson, Jenna and Ham, Kathryn (2012). Title registration for a review proposal: Community-oriented policing’s impact on interpersonal violent crime in developing countries. The Campbell Collaboration Library of Systematic Reviews.

Title registration for a review proposal: Community-oriented policing’s impact on interpersonal violent crime in developing countries

2012

Journal Article

Title registration for a review proposal: The effectiveness of crop targeting as a drug control strategy

Mazerolle, Lorraine, Higginson, Angela, Thompson, Jenna, Somerville, Adele and Ham, Kathryn (2012). Title registration for a review proposal: The effectiveness of crop targeting as a drug control strategy. The Campbell Collaboration Library of Systematic Reviews.

Title registration for a review proposal: The effectiveness of crop targeting as a drug control strategy

2012

Other Outputs

Random Breath Tests (RBT): a call for national thresholds in RBT to driver ratios

Ferris, Jason and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2012). Random Breath Tests (RBT): a call for national thresholds in RBT to driver ratios. Brisbane, Australia: ARC Centre for Excellence in Policing and Security.

Random Breath Tests (RBT): a call for national thresholds in RBT to driver ratios

2012

Journal Article

Procedural justice, routine encounters and citizen perceptions of police: main findings from the Queensland Community Engagement Trial (QCET)

Mazerolle, Lorraine, Bennett, Sarah, Antrobus, Emma and Eggins, Elizabeth (2012). Procedural justice, routine encounters and citizen perceptions of police: main findings from the Queensland Community Engagement Trial (QCET). Journal of Experimental Criminology, 8 (4), 343-367. doi: 10.1007/s11292-012-9160-1

Procedural justice, routine encounters and citizen perceptions of police: main findings from the Queensland Community Engagement Trial (QCET)

2012

Journal Article

Crime, place, and pollution expanding crime reduction options through a regulatory approach

Mazerolle, Lorraine and Ransley, Janet (2012). Crime, place, and pollution expanding crime reduction options through a regulatory approach. Criminology and Public Policy, 11 (2), 335-344. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-9133.2012.00812.x

Crime, place, and pollution expanding crime reduction options through a regulatory approach

Current funding

  • 2024 - 2027
    Legitimacy and effective policing responses to domestic and family violence
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2024
    Developing an evidence gap map
    Griffith University
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2023
    Enhancing the Capability of the Global Policing Database
    Australian Federal Police
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2023
    Criminal Justice Interventions for Preventing Terrorism and Radicalisation: An Evidence and Gap Map
    The Campbell Collaboration
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2023
    Enhancing the Capability of the Global Policing Database
    Australia and New Zealand Society of Evidence Based Policing Inc
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2023
    Mobile Police Community Office: Randomised Controlled Trial of Operations
    Queensland Police Service
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2021
    Research into Mandatory Countering Violent Extremism Programs
    Australian Government Department of Home Affairs
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2022
    Informing Policing in NZ Through GDP Systematic Reviews
    New Zealand Police
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2021
    Review of the Triage Referral and Investigative Support Tool (TRIST)
    Australian Federal Police
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2021
    Democratic Policing and the Evidence Base for Police Effectiveness
    The Campbell Collaboration
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2022
    Reducing Online Child Exploitation Consumption: Testing the effect of Deterrence, Desistance and Diversion Messaging
    Australian Federal Police
    Open grant
  • 2020
    Rapid Evidence Reviews
    Queensland Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2021
    Effectiveness of Multiagency Interventions with Police as a Partner for Preventing Radicalisation to Violence
    The Campbell Collaboration
    Open grant
  • 2019
    Development of a new Child Exploitation Material Risk Assessment Tool
    Australian Federal Police
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2022
    QPS Police Effectiveness Program
    Queensland Police Service
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2020
    The ACCCE Child Exploitation Material (CEM) Risk Assessment Tool: A Randomised Controlled Trial to Test the Effectiveness of a New ACCCE Risk Assessment Tool.
    Australian Federal Police
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2021
    Testing the Efficacy of the Ability School Engagement Program (ASEP)
    Commonwealth Department of Social Services
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2020
    Neighbourhood Watch and community participation in crime prevention
    Neighbourhood Watch Australasia Limited
    Open grant
  • 2019
    What works to address Child Exploitation Material offending? A systematic rapid review and evidence gap-map of criminal justice responses
    Australian Institute of Criminology
    Open grant
  • 2019
    Global Police Database - effectiveness of street level drug law enforcement
    Australian Institute of Criminology
    Open grant
  • 2019
    Impact of drug seizures and supplier arrests on drug use
    Australian Institute of Criminology
    Open grant
  • 2019
    Testing the efficacy of the ability school engagement program (ASEP) Co-Development
    Commonwealth Department of Social Services
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2022
    Using the Global Policing Database to Expedite Campbell Collaboration Reviews
    The Campbell Collaboration
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2020
    What impact do police programs that seek to increase community connectedness have on attitudes and beliefs related to violent extremism?
    The Campbell Collaboration
    Open grant
  • 2018
    Systematic review of criminal justice system responses to domestic and family violence
    Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney-General
    Open grant
  • 2018
    Developments of the Global Policing Database
    College of Policing
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2018
    What works in corrections: A review of the evaluation literature
    Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney-General
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2019
    Research Project for the Office of the Chief Inspector, Queensland Corrective Services
    Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney-General
    Open grant
  • 2017
    CVE Baseline Data Research Project
    Australian Government Attorney-General's Department
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2018
    Operation Galley
    Queensland Police Service
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2017
    Research into Police Effectiveness
    Queensland Police Service
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2018
    Evaluation of a blended online and face-to-face training program targeted at detectives in the Queensland Police Service (QPS)
    Public Safety Business Agency
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2017
    Evaluation of a procedural justice training program being developed by the Queensland Police Service (QPS)
    Public Safety Business Agency
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2018
    Evaluation of a targeted training program currently being developed by the Queensland Police Service (QPS) to support officers working with vulnerable persons
    Public Safety Business Agency
    Open grant
  • 2016
    Building the Global Policing Database
    Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2019
    Experimental Criminology at UQ: Growing research outcomes, enriching student experiences
    Vice-Chancellor's Research and Teaching Fellowship
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2016
    Overview of reviews on drug law enforcement strategies
    The Campbell Collaboration
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2016
    Voice for Values Program Evaluation
    Public Safety Business Agency
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2020
    ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course (UQ lead institution)
    ARC Centres of Excellence
    Open grant
  • 2014
    Law Enforcement Role in Controlling Misuse of Pharmaceuticals: Assessing the Impact of ProjectSTOP on Crime
    Australian Institute of Criminology
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2015
    Creation of the Global Policing Database
    Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2015
    Investigating serious crime: What works, what doesn't and for what crime types?
    Australian Institute of Criminology
    Open grant
  • 2014
    Electronic tracking systems and real time reporting of controlled (Section 8) medicines: assessing the impact of Project STOP on methamphetamine-related harm indicators
    UQ Collaboration and Industry Engagement Fund - Seed Research Grant
    Open grant
  • 2014
    UQ Travel Award - Category 1 Ms Sarah MacQueen
    UQ Travel Awards for International Collaborative Research (Category 1)
    Open grant
  • 2013
    Literature review - Intergenerational income support dependency
    UniQuest Pty Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2013 - 2016
    Youth gang violence in developing countries: a systematic review of the predictors of participation and the effectiveness of interventions to reduce involvement.
    3ie Systematic Review Call 5
    Open grant
  • 2013
    Flexible Social Analysis Platforms
    UQ Major Equipment and Infrastructure
    Open grant
  • 2013
    Securing the data
    ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
    Open grant
  • 2012
    The development of a transportable computing facility for research engagement & research training.
    UQ Major Equipment and Infrastructure
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2014
    Targeted Crime: Policing and Social Inclusion (ARC Linkage Project administered by Monash University)
    Monash University
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2014
    Gender Panel (Deed of Standing Offer 46074480): Respectful Relationships Program Evaluation (Official Order 45397620)
    Commonwealth Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2014
    What are the impacts of interventions to reduce violent crime in developing countries
    Global Development Network
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2012
    Enhancing Analytic Social Science withComputing Capacity & an E-Archive for Aboriginal Environments Research
    UQ Major Equipment and Infrastructure
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2015
    Multi-Site Trials of Third Party Policing: Building the Scientific Capacity for Experimental Criminology and Evidence-Based Social Policy in Australia
    ARC Australian Laureate Fellowships
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2011
    Co-ordinated Response to Young People at Risk (CRYPAR) Evaluation
    Queensland Police Service
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2012
    National Security iLibrary
    Research Support for National Security Program
    Open grant
  • 2010
    An enhanced computing environment for advanced social science research
    UQ Major Equipment and Infrastructure
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2012
    ResTeach 2010 0.1 FTE School of Social Science
    UQ ResTeach
    Open grant
  • 2009 - 2010
    Legitimacy in Policing
    George Mason University
    Open grant
  • 2009
    A SWOT analysis of strategic problem-solving in South Australia Police (ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security_CEPS) (Griffith Univ_lead institution)
    Griffith University
    Open grant
  • 2009 - 2013
    The Drug Policy Modelling Program (Colonial Foundation Trust grant administered by The University of New South Wales)
    University of New South Wales
    Open grant
  • 2009 - 2011
    Modelling the effectiveness of anti- and counter-terrorist strategies in Indonesia, the Phillipines, and Thailand (Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet funded project administered by Griffith Uni)
    Griffith University
    Open grant
  • 2008 - 2013
    ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS) (Griffith U_leading)
    Griffith University
    Open grant

Availability

Professor Lorraine Mazerolle is:
Not available for supervision

Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Mitigating Digital Threats and Crime: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Sarah Bennett

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Nudging cybersecurity: The limitations of email-based nudges in enhancing defensive behaviours

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Sarah Bennett

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Removing police barriers in sexual offence cases: Explicating police decision making heuristics and victims perspective

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Sarah Bennett

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Innovating Police Performance Measurement

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Sarah Bennett

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Removing police barriers in sexual offence cases: Explicating police decision making heuristics and victims perspective

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Sarah Bennett

Completed supervision

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  • crime
  • criminology
  • policing

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