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Professor Lorraine Mazerolle
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Lorraine Mazerolle

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Overview

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

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

Works

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383 works between 1990 and 2025

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2018

Journal Article

Operation Galley: a partnership approach to reducing hotel drug crime

Morton, Paul, Mazerolle, Lorraine, Luengen, Kelsy and Newman, Mike (2018). Operation Galley: a partnership approach to reducing hotel drug crime. Police Science, 3 (1), 7-10.

Operation Galley: a partnership approach to reducing hotel drug crime

2018

Conference Publication

Examining the effects of school structure and social context bullying, victimization, and nonviolent delinquency

Aiyer, Sophie, Antrobus, Emma and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2018). Examining the effects of school structure and social context bullying, victimization, and nonviolent delinquency. American Society of Criminology Conference, Atlanta, United States, 14-17 November 2018.

Examining the effects of school structure and social context bullying, victimization, and nonviolent delinquency

2018

Conference Publication

Crime and justice – using evidence for less crime and better justice

Mazerolle, Lorraine, Bennett, Sarah, Eggins, Elizabeth, Higginson, Angela and Antrobus, Emma (2018). Crime and justice – using evidence for less crime and better justice. Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden, 12-14 June 2018.

Crime and justice – using evidence for less crime and better justice

2018

Conference Publication

Legitimacy in policing: an updated Campbell Collaboration systematic review

Mazerolle, Lorraine, Bennett, Sarah, Eggins, Elizabeth, Higginson, Angela and Antrobus, Emma (2018). Legitimacy in policing: an updated Campbell Collaboration systematic review. Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2018.

Legitimacy in policing: an updated Campbell Collaboration systematic review

2018

Conference Publication

Models for successful policing. Researchers’ advice to policy

Mazerolle, Lorraine (2018). Models for successful policing. Researchers’ advice to policy. Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden, 12-15 June 2018.

Models for successful policing. Researchers’ advice to policy

2018

Book Chapter

Procedural justice

Bennett, Sarah, Hine, Lorelei and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2018). Procedural justice. Oxford bibliographies. (pp. 1-3) New York , NY, United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780195396607-0241

Procedural justice

2018

Conference Publication

Life and death decisions: estimating the causal impact of Australia’s gun buyback program on homicide and suicide

Bartos, Bradley J., Mazerolle, Lorraine and McCleary, Richard (2018). Life and death decisions: estimating the causal impact of Australia’s gun buyback program on homicide and suicide. American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Atlanta, USA, 14-17 November 2018.

Life and death decisions: estimating the causal impact of Australia’s gun buyback program on homicide and suicide

2018

Conference Publication

Making communities safer: translating evidence into practice

Mazerolle, Lorraine (2018). Making communities safer: translating evidence into practice. Crime Prevention and Communities Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 7-8 June 2018.

Making communities safer: translating evidence into practice

2018

Conference Publication

Community–oriented policing to reduce crime and improve citizen perceptions: a systematic review

Mazerolle, Lorraine (2018). Community–oriented policing to reduce crime and improve citizen perceptions: a systematic review. Global Evidence and Implementation Summit, Melbourne, Australia, 22–24 October 2018.

Community–oriented policing to reduce crime and improve citizen perceptions: a systematic review

2018

Conference Publication

Authors meet critics: mirage of police reform

Mazerolle, Lorraine (2018). Authors meet critics: mirage of police reform. American Society of Criminology Conference, Atlanta, GA, United States, 14-17 November 2018.

Authors meet critics: mirage of police reform

2018

Conference Publication

Crime and justice – using evidence for less crime and better justice

Mazerolle, Lorraine and Neyroud, Peter (2018). Crime and justice – using evidence for less crime and better justice. Global Evidence and Implementation Summit, Melbourne, Australia, 22-24 October 2018.

Crime and justice – using evidence for less crime and better justice

2018

Conference Publication

Evidence–based policing as a disruptive innovation: The Global Policing Database as a disruption tool

Mazerolle, Lorraine, Eggins, Elizabeth, Higginson, Angela and Stanko, Elizabeth (2018). Evidence–based policing as a disruptive innovation: The Global Policing Database as a disruption tool. Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2018.

Evidence–based policing as a disruptive innovation: The Global Policing Database as a disruption tool

2017

Other Outputs

The risk and time preferences of young truants and their parents

Antrobus, Emma, Baranov, Victoria, Cobb-Clark, Deborah, Mazerolle, Lorraine and Tymula, Agnieszka (2017). The risk and time preferences of young truants and their parents. LCC Working Paper Series. 2017-27. Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland.

The risk and time preferences of young truants and their parents

2017

Other Outputs

IZA DP No. 11236: The Risk and Time Preferences of Young Truants and Their Parents

Antrobus, Emma, Baranov, Victoria, Cobb-Clark, Deborah A., Mazerolle, Lorraine and Tymula, Agnieszka (2017). IZA DP No. 11236: The Risk and Time Preferences of Young Truants and Their Parents. IZA Institute of Labor Economics.

IZA DP No. 11236: The Risk and Time Preferences of Young Truants and Their Parents

2017

Journal Article

International Women and Law Enforcement Conference

McLaren, Scott, Mazerolle, Lorraine and Platz, Debbie (2017). International Women and Law Enforcement Conference. Police Science, 2 (2), 21-21.

International Women and Law Enforcement Conference

2017

Book

Police techniques for investigating serious violent crime: A systematic review

Higginson, Angela, Eggins, Elizabeth and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2017). Police techniques for investigating serious violent crime: A systematic review. Australian Institute of Criminology. doi: 10.52922/ti129192

Police techniques for investigating serious violent crime: A systematic review

2017

Journal Article

Police techniques for investigating serious violent crime: A systematic review

Higginson, Angela, Eggins, Elizabeth and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2017). Police techniques for investigating serious violent crime: A systematic review. Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, 2017 (539), 1-13.

Police techniques for investigating serious violent crime: A systematic review

2017

Other Outputs

Investigating Serious Violent Crime: What works, what doesn’t and for what crime types?

Higginson, Angela, Eggins, Elizabeth and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2017). Investigating Serious Violent Crime: What works, what doesn’t and for what crime types?. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Australian Institute of Criminology.

Investigating Serious Violent Crime: What works, what doesn’t and for what crime types?

2017

Journal Article

Social capital and fear of crime in Brisbane

Sargeant, Elise, Liu, Yifan, St John, Nathan, Hong, Nga Fong, Huu, Tracy, Chen, Jie and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2017). Social capital and fear of crime in Brisbane. Journal of Sociology, 53 (3), 637-652. doi: 10.1177/1440783317704992

Social capital and fear of crime in Brisbane

2017

Journal Article

Living near violence: how proximity to violence shapes perceptions of police effectiveness and confidence in police

Zahnow, Renee, Mazerolle, Lorraine, Wickes, Rebecca and Corcoran, Jonathan (2017). Living near violence: how proximity to violence shapes perceptions of police effectiveness and confidence in police. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 53, 138-144. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2017.07.007

Living near violence: how proximity to violence shapes perceptions of police effectiveness and confidence in police

Funding

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

Supervision

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

    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

Completed supervision

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