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Professor Lorraine Mazerolle

Professorial Research Fellow

School of Social Science
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
l.mazerolle@uq.edu.au
+61 7 344 36333
+61 410 289 745

Overview

Lorraine Mazerolle is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow (2010–2015) and a Professorial Research Fellow at The University of Queensland, School of Social Science. 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.

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

Qualifications

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

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  • The Role of Randomized Experiments in Developing the Evidence for Evidence-Based Policing

    Mazerolle, Lorraine, Eggins, Elizabeth, Hine, Lorelei and Higginson, Angela (2023). The Role of Randomized Experiments in Developing the Evidence for Evidence-Based Policing. The Future of Evidence-Based Policing. (pp. 147-169) Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108885737.011

  • Brisbane: a story of neighbourhoods and crime in a modern Australian city

    Wickes, Rebecca and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2022). Brisbane: a story of neighbourhoods and crime in a modern Australian city. Crime and disorder in community context. (pp. 1-22) edited by Rebecca Wickes and Lorraine Mazerolle. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315668178-1

  • Converging neighbourhood vulnerabilities: the impact of exogenous shocks on crime

    Zahnow, Renee, Mazerolle, Lorraine and Wickes, Rebecca (2022). Converging neighbourhood vulnerabilities: the impact of exogenous shocks on crime. Crime and disorder in community context. (pp. 167-190) edited by Rebecca Wickes and Lorraine Mazerolle. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315668178-9

  • Police legitimacy in the Australian community context

    Mazerolle, Lorraine, Murphy, Kristina and Sargeant, Elise (2022). Police legitimacy in the Australian community context. Crime and disorder in community context. (pp. 100-121) edited by Rebecca Wickes and Lorraine Mazerolle. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315668178-6

  • Translational criminology in the Antipodes: a tale of trials, tribulations, and (sometimes) triumph

    Mazerolle, Lorraine, Bennett, Sarah, Martin, Peter, Newman, Michael and Platz, Debbie (2022). Translational criminology in the Antipodes: a tale of trials, tribulations, and (sometimes) triumph. Translational criminology in policing. (pp. 217-234) edited by The George Mason Police Research Group with David Weisburd. New York, NY, United States: Routledge/Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781003153009-17

  • Evidence-based policing in Australia and New Zealand

    Mazerolle, Lorraine, Bennett, Sarah, Martin, Peter, Newman, Michael, Cowan, David and Williams, Simon (2021). Evidence-based policing in Australia and New Zealand. The globalization of evidence-based policing: innovations in bridging the research-practice divide. (pp. 136-149) edited by Eric L. Piza and Brandon C. Welsh. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003027508-12

  • Violent and street crimes

    Cartwright, Jenny and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2020). Violent and street crimes. An introduction to crime and criminology. (pp. 101-120) edited by Hennessey Hayes and Tim Prenzler. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Pearson Australia.

  • Advocate: third-party policing

    Mazerolle, Lorraine and Ransley, Janet (2019). Advocate: third-party policing. Police innovation contrasting perspectives. (pp. 251-272) edited by David Weisburd and Anthony A. Braga. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108278423.012

  • Trials and tribulations of evidence based procedural justice

    Bennett, Sarah, Mazerolle, Lorraine, Antrobus, Emma, Martin, Peter and Hine, Lorelei (2019). Trials and tribulations of evidence based procedural justice. Evidence based policing: an introduction. (pp. 145-160) edited by Renée J. Mitchell and Laura Huey. Bristol, United Kingdom: Policy Press.

  • 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

  • Drug law enforcement: Reducing the supply of drugs

    Mazerolle, Lorraine and Thompson, Jenna (2017). Drug law enforcement: Reducing the supply of drugs. Drug use in Australian society . (pp. 247-265) edited by Alison Ritter, Trevor King and Nicole Lee. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Oxford University Press.

  • Evidence-based policing as a disruptive innovation: the global policing database as a disruption tool

    Mazerolle, Lorraine, Eggins, Elizabeth, Higginson, Angela and Stanko, Betsy (2017). Evidence-based policing as a disruptive innovation: the global policing database as a disruption tool. Advances in evidence-based policing. (pp. 117-138) edited by Johannes Knutsson and Lisa Tompson. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315518299

  • 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

  • The Global Policing Database Protocol (Official Report to Mayor’s Office of Policing and Crime)

    Higginson, Angela, Eggins, Elizabeth, Mazerolle, Lorraine and Stanko, Betsy (2015). The Global Policing Database Protocol (Official Report to Mayor’s Office of Policing and Crime).

  • Family engagement strategies to reduce crime

    Meyer, Silke and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2014). Family engagement strategies to reduce crime. Encyclopedia of criminology and criminal justice . (pp. 1563-1573) edited by Gerben Bruinsma and David Weisburd. New York, United States: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_177

  • History of randomized controlled experiments in criminal justice

    Lum, Cynthia and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2014). History of randomized controlled experiments in criminal justice. Encyclopedia of criminology and criminal justice. (pp. 2227-2239) edited by Gerben Bruinsma and David Weisburd. New York, United States: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_252

  • Police-led interventions to enhance police legitimacy

    Bennett, Sarah, Davis, Jacqueline and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2014). Police-led interventions to enhance police legitimacy. Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. (pp. 3753-3765) edited by Gerben Bruinsma and David Weisburd. New York, USA: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_478

  • Third party policing and school truancy

    Nitschke, Faye, Mazerolle, Lorraine and Bennett, Sarah (2014). Third party policing and school truancy. Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. (pp. 5211-5221) edited by Gerben Bruinsma and David Weisburd. New York, USA: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_172

  • Web-based GIS to support visualization and analysis of community variations in crime

    Shyy, Tung-Kai, Mazerolle, Lorraine, Riseley, Kate and Stimson, Robert J. (2014). Web-based GIS to support visualization and analysis of community variations in crime. Handbook of research methods and applications in spatially integrated social science. (pp. 535-559) edited by Robert Stimson. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar. doi: 10.4337/9780857932976.00033

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Innovative methods for terrorism and counter-terrorism data

    Porter, Michael D., White, Gentry and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2012). Innovative methods for terrorism and counter-terrorism data. Evidence-based counterterrorism policy. (pp. 91-112) edited by Cynthia Lum and Leslie W. Kennedy. New York, United States: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0953-3_5

  • Legitimacy and policing

    Sargeant, Elise, Murphy, Kristina, Davis, Jacqueline and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2012). Legitimacy and policing. Policing and security in practice: challenges and achievements. (pp. 20-36) edited by Tim Prenzler. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Environmental criminology and crime analysis: Situating the theory, analytic approach and application

    Wortley, Richard and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2011). Environmental criminology and crime analysis: Situating the theory, analytic approach and application. Environmental criminology and crime analysis. (pp. 1-18) edited by R. Wortley and L. Mazerolle. London, United Kingdom: Willan Publishers. doi: 10.4324/9780203118214

  • Experimental criminology

    Mazerolle, Lorraine and Bennett, Sarah (2010). Experimental criminology. Oxford Bibliographies: Criminology. (pp. 1-1) edited by Beth M. Huebner. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780195396607-0085

  • Third party policing

    Ransley, Janet and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2009). Third party policing. SAGE dictionary of policing. (pp. 302-304) edited by Alison Wakefield and Jenny Fleming. London, United Kingdom: SAGE Publications.

  • Drug law enforcement in an agent-based model: Simulating the disruption to street-level drug markets

    Dray, Anne, Mazerolle, Lorraine, Perez, Pascal and Ritter, Alison (2008). Drug law enforcement in an agent-based model: Simulating the disruption to street-level drug markets. Artificial crime analysis systems : Using computer simulations and geographic information systems. (pp. 352-371) edited by Lin Liu and John Eck. Hershey PA: Information Science Reference (IGI Global). doi: 10.4018/978-1-59904-591-7.ch018

  • Environmental Criminology and Crime-Analysis: Situating the theory, analytic approach and application

    Wortley, Richard and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2008). Environmental Criminology and Crime-Analysis: Situating the theory, analytic approach and application. Environmental criminology and crime analysis. (pp. 1-15) edited by Richard Wortley and Lorraine Green Mazerolle. London, UK: Willan Publishers.

  • Eras of Policing

    Drew, Jacqueline and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2008). Eras of Policing. Policing in context : An introduction to police work in Australia. (pp. 32-48) edited by Roderic Broadhurst and Sara E. Davies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Crime, Hot Spots

    Mazerolle, Lorraine (2007). Crime, Hot Spots. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. (pp. 1-2) Oxford, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosc149

  • Street crimes

    Mazerolle, Lorraine (2007). Street crimes. An introduction to crime. (pp. 117-134) edited by Hennessey Hayes and Tim Prenzler. Sydney: Pearson Education Australia.

  • Third party and partnership policing

    Ransley, Janet and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2007). Third party and partnership policing. Police leadership and management. (pp. 37-49) edited by Margaret Mitchell and John Casey. Sydney, Australia: Federation Press.

  • SimDrug: A multi-agent system tackling the complexity of illicit drug markets in Australia

    Perez, Pascal, Dray, Anne, Ritter, Alison, Dietze, Paul, Moore, Tim and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2006). SimDrug: A multi-agent system tackling the complexity of illicit drug markets in Australia. Complex science for a complex world - Exploring human ecosystems with agents. (pp. 193-224) edited by Pascal Perez and David F. Batten. Canberra: ANU E Press.

  • The case for third party policing

    Mazerolle, Lorraine and Ransley, Janet (2006). The case for third party policing. Police Innovation: Contrasting perspectives. (pp. 191-206) edited by David Weisburd and Anthony Allan Braga. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511489334.010

  • Web GIS for mapping community crime rates: Approaches and challenges

    Shyy, Tung-Kai, Stimson, Robert J., Western, John, Murray, Alan T. and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2005). Web GIS for mapping community crime rates: Approaches and challenges. Geographic information systems and crime analysis. (pp. 236-252) edited by Fahui Wang. Hershey, USA: Idea Group Publishing.

  • Third party policing: Considering the ethical challenges

    Mazerolle, Lorraine and Prenzler, Tim (2004). Third party policing: Considering the ethical challenges. Police integrity and ethics. (pp. 163-187) edited by Matthew Hickman, Alex R. Piquero and Jack R. Greene.. Belmont, CA, U.S.A.: Wadsworth.

  • Third party policing: Prospects, challenges and implications for regulators

    Mazerolle, Lorraine and Ransley, Janet (2004). Third party policing: Prospects, challenges and implications for regulators. Regulation : Enforcement and compliance. (pp. 61-76) edited by Richard Johnstone and Rick Sarre. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.

  • Introduction to volume 4 : Measurement and analysis of crime and justice : An introductory essay

    Duffee, David, McDowall, David, Mazerolle, Lorraine Green and Mastrofski, Stephen (2000). Introduction to volume 4 : Measurement and analysis of crime and justice : An introductory essay. Criminal justice 2000. Volume 4, Measurement and analysis of crime and justice. (pp. 1-31) edited by Robert Kaminski and Nancy La Vigne. Washington , D.C.: National Institute of Justice.

  • Civil remedies and crime prevention: An introduction

    Mazerolle, Lorraine Green and Roehl, Jan (1998). Civil remedies and crime prevention: An introduction. Civil remedies and crime prevention. (pp. 1-18) edited by Lorraine Green Mazerolle and Jan Roehl. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press.

  • Controlling social disorder using civil remedies: Results from a randomized field experiment in Oakland, California.

    Mazerolle, Lorraine Green, Roehl, Jan and Kadleck, Colleen (1998). Controlling social disorder using civil remedies: Results from a randomized field experiment in Oakland, California.. Civil remedies and crime prevention. (pp. 141-160) edited by Lorraine Green Mazerolle and Jan Roehl. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press.

  • Crime mapping in police departments: The challenges of building a mapping system

    Mazerolle, Lorraine Green, Bellucci, Charles and Gajewski, Frank (1998). Crime mapping in police departments: The challenges of building a mapping system. Crime mapping and crime prevention. (pp. 131-156) edited by David Weisburd and Tom McEwen. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press.

  • Getting evicted : Social factors influencing eviction decisions in six public housing sites

    Ready, Justin, Mazerolle, Lorraine Green and Revere, Elyse (1998). Getting evicted : Social factors influencing eviction decisions in six public housing sites. Civil remedies and crime prevention. (pp. 307-328) edited by Lorraine Green Mazerolle and Janice A. Roehl. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press.

  • Insurance and Social Control: New Dimensions of Policing and Crime Prevention.

    Roach Anleu, Sharyn, Mazerolle, Lorraine Green and Presser, Lois (1998). Insurance and Social Control: New Dimensions of Policing and Crime Prevention.. Refashioning sociology : Responses to a new world order. (pp. 406-412) edited by M. Alexander, S. Harding, P. Harrison, G. Kendall, Z. Skrbis and J. Western. Brisbane: QUT.

  • The problem-solver : The development of information technologies to support problem-oriented policing

    Mazerolle, Lorraine Green and Haas, Robert C. (1998). The problem-solver : The development of information technologies to support problem-oriented policing. Criminal justice technology in the 21st century. (pp. 99-112) edited by Laura J Moriarty and David L Carter. Springfield: Charles C. Thomas.

  • Measuring immediate spatial displacement : Methodological issues and problems

    Weisburd, David and Mazerolle, Lorraine Green (1995). Measuring immediate spatial displacement : Methodological issues and problems. Crime and place. (pp. 349-359) edited by John Eck and David Weisburd. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press.

  • Policing places with drug problems : The multi-agency response team approach

    Mazerolle, Lorraine (1995). Policing places with drug problems : The multi-agency response team approach. Crime and place. (pp. 199-216) edited by John E. Eck and David Weisburd. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press.

  • Defining the street-level drug market

    Weisburd, David and Green, Lorraine (1994). Defining the street-level drug market. Drugs and crime : Evaluating public policy initiatives. (pp. 61-76) edited by Doris Layton MacKenzie and Craig D. Uchida.. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

  • Drug nuisance abatement, offender movement patterns, and implications for spatial displacement analysis

    Green, Lorraine (1994). Drug nuisance abatement, offender movement patterns, and implications for spatial displacement analysis. Crime analysis through computer mapping. (pp. 21-32) edited by Carolyn Rebecca Block and Margaret Dabdoub. Chicago IL USA: Illinois Criminal Justice Authority.

  • Raising questions of law and order

    Weisburd, David, Uchida, Craig and Green, Lorraine (1993). Raising questions of law and order. Police innovation and control of the police : Problems of law, order, and community. (pp. 3-9) edited by David Weisburd, David Uchida and Lorraine Green. New York , NY,: Springer - Verlag.

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  • Mitigating Digital Threats and Crime: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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

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  • Innovating Police Performance Measurement

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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