Lorraine Green Mazerolle (born 1964) is an Australian criminologist and professor at the School of Social Science at the

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, where she is also an affiliate professor at the Institute for Social Science Research. She is also a chief investigator in the

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's Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course, as well as a former

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. She is the

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of the ''

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''. She is also a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the

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. She served as president of the Academy of Experimental Criminology. Her research interests include problem-oriented policing, civil remedies, and third-party policing.

Education and career

Mazerolle received her Ph.D. from

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, and taught at the

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and Griffith University before joining the University of Queensland.

Awards and honours

Mazerolle was awarded an

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in 2010. She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2014. She was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in the

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for "eminent service to education, to the social sciences as a criminologist and researcher, and to the development of innovative, evidence-based policing reforms".

References

External links

Mazerolle's faculty page
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Mazerolle's profile
at the UQ Researchers website Living people 1964 births Rutgers University alumni Academic staff of the University of Queensland Academic journal editors Australian women editors Australian criminologists Australian women academics University of Cincinnati faculty Academic staff of Griffith University Companions of the Order of Australia Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Australian women criminologists {{Australia-sociologist-stub