Overview
The Policing and Security Research Program seeks to reduce crime and disorder, increase quality of life and improve community self regulation by conducting high-quality research into conflict, crime, policing and security.
The Research Prorgram consists of a multi-disciplinary team of research scholars with expertise in experimental criminology, urban criminological theories, survey methods, advanced multi-level statistics and spatial statistics.
Research activities include:
- Experimental criminology - conducting randomised field trials to test innovative police interventions, systematic searches and Campbell Collaboration systematic reviews;
- Using applied statistical methodologies (spatial, multi-level and longitudinal statistics as well as text analytics) to study crime, inter-group conflict, policing, and the effectiveness of national security interventions;
- Advancing theoretical insights into ecological processes to explain crime, inter-group conflict and outcomes of community regulation;
- Conducting social science surveys, such as:
- National household surveys that benchmark Australian attitudes to significant international surveys (such as the International Crime Victimisation Survey, the START National Household Survey and the Global Values Survey);
- Longitudinal community surveys that help understand how community dynamics cause spatial variation in community conflict, tensions, cohesion, resilience and regulatory capacity.
Current projects
- Target Crime: Policing and Social Inclusion
- Understanding how criminals decide where and when to offend
- Systematic Review of procedural Justice
- Threat Assessment of Terrorist and Extremist organisations in Indonesia, the Phillipines and Thailand
- Systematic Search of Procedural justice
- Systematic Search of Serious Crime Investigations
- Counter Terrorismn i-Library (CTiL)
- Reducing the methamphetamine problem in Australia: Evaluation innovative partnerships between police, pharmacies and other third parties
- ARC Research Network on Spatially Integrated Social Science
- Project 1.2 Vulnerable Communities
- Project 1.9 National Probability Survey
- Project 2.6 Audit of Police Interventions in Diverse Communities
- Project 3.2 The Queensland Community Engagement Trial
- A SWOT analysis of strategic problem-solving in the South Australian Police
People
- Professor Lorraine Mazerolle (Program Leader)
- Professor Mark Western
- Professor Paul Boreham
- Dr Sarah Bennett
- Dr Gentry White
- Dr Rebecca Wickes
- Dr Suzanna Ramirez
- Dr Emma Antrobus
- Ms Angela Higginson
- Mr Toby Miles-Johnson
- Ms Faye Nitschke
- Ms Jacqueline Davis
- Ms Jenna Thompson
- Ms Elise Sargeant
- Ms Melinda Chiment
- Ms Renee Zahnow
- Ms Laura Bedford
- Ms Adele Somerville
- Ms Emina Prguda
- Ms Elizabeth Eggins
Publications
For a select list of publications related to this program area, please click here.
In the media
- “Policing Challenges”, presented by Paul Barclay. Australia Talks, ABC Radio National, broadcast 18.10, 15 August, 2011. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/australiatalks/stories/2011/3291430.htm
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"Southeast Asia's Counter-Terrorism Efforts Assessed", presented by Liam Cochrane. ABC Radio National, Connect Asia, broadcast September 13, 2011. http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/connectasia/stories/201109/s3316702.htm
