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

382 works between 1990 and 2025
All (382) Journal Article (197) Book Chapter (49) Conference Publication (87) Book (6) Other Outputs (43)

181 - 200 of 382 works

2017

Journal Article

Different actions for different crimes: explaining individual action in local crime problems

Schaefer, Lacey, Mazerolle, Lorraine and Kapnoulla, Marianne (2017). Different actions for different crimes: explaining individual action in local crime problems. Journal of Community Psychology, 45 (7), 922-939. doi: 10.1002/jcop.21902

Different actions for different crimes: explaining individual action in local crime problems

2017

Journal Article

Truancy intervention reduces crime: results from a randomized field trial

Bennett, Sarah, Mazerolle, Lorraine, Antrobus, Emma, Eggins, Elizabeth and Piquero, Alex R. (2017). Truancy intervention reduces crime: results from a randomized field trial. Justice Quarterly, 35 (2), 309-329. doi: 10.1080/07418825.2017.1313440

Truancy intervention reduces crime: results from a randomized field trial

2017

Journal Article

Neighborhood social ties and shared expectations for informal social control: do they influence informal social control actions?

Wickes, Rebecca, Hipp, John R., Sargeant, Elise and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2017). Neighborhood social ties and shared expectations for informal social control: do they influence informal social control actions?. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 33 (1), 101-129. doi: 10.1007/s10940-016-9285-x

Neighborhood social ties and shared expectations for informal social control: do they influence informal social control actions?

2017

Journal Article

Disrupting domestic ‘ice’ production: deterring drug runners with a third-party policing intervention

Webster, Julianne, Mazerolle, Paul, Ransley, Janet and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2017). Disrupting domestic ‘ice’ production: deterring drug runners with a third-party policing intervention. Policing and Society, 28 (9), 1-13. doi: 10.1080/10439463.2016.1272602

Disrupting domestic ‘ice’ production: deterring drug runners with a third-party policing intervention

2017

Conference Publication

Time and risk preferences in high–risk youth

Mazerolle, Lorraine, Antrobus, Emma, Baranov, Victoria, Cobb-Clark, Deborah and Tymula, Agnieskza (2017). Time and risk preferences in high–risk youth. International Life Course Conference, Sydney, Australia, 24-26 October 2017.

Time and risk preferences in high–risk youth

2017

Conference Publication

Legitimacy in policing: an updated systematic review

Mazerolle, Lorraine, Bennett, Sarah, Eggins, Elizabeth, Higginson, Angela and Antrobus, Emma (2017). Legitimacy in policing: an updated systematic review. American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA USA, November 2017.

Legitimacy in policing: an updated systematic review

2017

Conference Publication

School based police officers. Might investment in the Ability School Engagement Program (ASEP) be a more cost-effective approach to dealing with truancy and offending in schools?

Mazerolle, Lorraine, Bennett, Sarah, Antrobus, Emma and Eggins, Elizabeth (2017). School based police officers. Might investment in the Ability School Engagement Program (ASEP) be a more cost-effective approach to dealing with truancy and offending in schools?. Presentation to Queensland Department of Education & Training, Brisbane, Australia, 13 June 2017.

School based police officers. Might investment in the Ability School Engagement Program (ASEP) be a more cost-effective approach to dealing with truancy and offending in schools?

2017

Conference Publication

Evidence based policing workshop

Mazerolle, Lorraine (2017). Evidence based policing workshop. International Women and Law Enforcement Conference, Cairns, QLD, Australia, 17-21 September 2017.

Evidence based policing workshop

2017

Conference Publication

Community–oriented policing in the Global South: a systematic review of the impact on interpersonal violence

Higginson, Angela, Mazerolle, Lorraine, Sydes, Michelle, Davis, Jacqueline and Mengersen, Kerry (2017). Community–oriented policing in the Global South: a systematic review of the impact on interpersonal violence. American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, United States, 15-18 November 2017.

Community–oriented policing in the Global South: a systematic review of the impact on interpersonal violence

2017

Conference Publication

Exploring the Relationships between Legitimacy, Antisocial Behavior, and Risk Preferences in a Sample of Truanting Young People

Mazerolle, Lorraine (2017). Exploring the Relationships between Legitimacy, Antisocial Behavior, and Risk Preferences in a Sample of Truanting Young People. International Life Course Centre Conference, Sydney, Australia, 24-26 October 2017.

Exploring the Relationships between Legitimacy, Antisocial Behavior, and Risk Preferences in a Sample of Truanting Young People

2017

Conference Publication

Giving a voice to values: an evaluation of the Voice4Values recruit training program

Mazerolle, Lorraine (2017). Giving a voice to values: an evaluation of the Voice4Values recruit training program. Griffith Criminology Institute Seminar Series, Brisbane, Australia, 9 November 2017.

Giving a voice to values: an evaluation of the Voice4Values recruit training program

2017

Conference Publication

Securing funding beyond the ARC seminar

Mazerolle, Lorraine (2017). Securing funding beyond the ARC seminar. Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 23 May 2017.

Securing funding beyond the ARC seminar

2017

Conference Publication

Truancy and school engagement

Mazerolle, Lorraine, Collingwood, Patricia and McDonell, Mark (2017). Truancy and school engagement. International Life Course Conference, Sydney, Australia, 24-26 October 2017.

Truancy and school engagement

2017

Conference Publication

Policy Panel: The replication issue in science and its relevance for criminology

Mazerolle, Lorraine (2017). Policy Panel: The replication issue in science and its relevance for criminology. American Society of Criminology Conference, Philadelphia, PA, United States, 15-18 November 2017.

Policy Panel: The replication issue in science and its relevance for criminology

2017

Journal Article

Putting process into routine activity theory: variations in the control of crime opportunities

Schaefer, Lacey and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2017). Putting process into routine activity theory: variations in the control of crime opportunities. Security Journal, 30 (1), 266-289. doi: 10.1057/sj.2015.39

Putting process into routine activity theory: variations in the control of crime opportunities

2017

Conference Publication

The effectiveness of crop targeting interventions for drug control: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Higginson, Angela, Mazerolle, Lorraine and Thompson, Jenna (2017). The effectiveness of crop targeting interventions for drug control: A systematic review and meta-analysis. International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP), Bogota, Colombia, 15-17 May 2013.

The effectiveness of crop targeting interventions for drug control: A systematic review and meta-analysis

2017

Book Chapter

Third sector involvement in criminal justice

Ransley, Janet and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2017). Third sector involvement in criminal justice. The Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, Crime and Justice. (pp. 483-496) Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-55747-2_32

Third sector involvement in criminal justice

2017

Conference Publication

Nudging hotels into reporting guest–room ICE factories: One of many Queensland RCTs

Mazerolle, Lorraine (2017). Nudging hotels into reporting guest–room ICE factories: One of many Queensland RCTs. 10th International Conference on Evidence Based Policing, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 10-12 July 2017.

Nudging hotels into reporting guest–room ICE factories: One of many Queensland RCTs

2016

Journal Article

Increasing the access to evidence to inform evidence-based policing: the global policing database

Eggins, Elizabeth, Higginson, Angela and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2016). Increasing the access to evidence to inform evidence-based policing: the global policing database. Police Science: Australia and New Zealand Journal of Evidenced Based Policing, 1 (2), 37-38.

Increasing the access to evidence to inform evidence-based policing: the global policing database

2016

Journal Article

Boozy nights and violent fights: perceptions of environmental cues to violence and crime in licensed venues

de Andrade, Dominique, Homel, Ross and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2016). Boozy nights and violent fights: perceptions of environmental cues to violence and crime in licensed venues. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 34 (9), 1820-1842. doi: 10.1177/0886260516657910

Boozy nights and violent fights: perceptions of environmental cues to violence and crime in licensed venues

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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