Prof Lorraine Mazerolle, Dr Sarah Bennett, Darren Green, Det Insp Mike Newman
This panel will explore the tenets and importance of procedural justice through the lens of practical applications of the theory. The contacts police have with the public can be short or long, they can be in-person or digital. One message remains the same – the use of appropriate communication strategies with that person or community is vital and procedural justice provides an evidence-based framework for this to occur. Every contact police have with the community leaves a trace and every contact is an opportunity to leave that person, that community, with a better impression of police and policing.
Biography
Lorraine Mazerolle is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow (2010–2015), a Professor in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland, and a Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course (LCC). Her research interests are in experimental criminology, policing, drug law enforcement, regulatory crime control, and crime prevention. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Experimental Criminology, past Chair of the American Society of Criminology’s (ASC) Division of Experimental Criminology (2014–2015), an elected Fellow and past president of the Academy of Experimental Criminology (AEC), and elected fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences, Australia. Professor Mazerolle is the winner of the 2013 AEC Joan McCord Award, and the 2010 ASC Division of International Criminology Freda Adler Distinguished Scholar Award. She has won numerous US and Australian national competitive research grants on topics such as third party 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.
Dr Sarah Bennett’s research aims to advance the role of policing, training and social interventions in improving outcomes for victims, offenders, and communities through applied rigorous research methods. Sarah has significant expertise in developing partnerships with criminal justice stakeholders to facilitate measurable and meaningful research outcomes.
Detective A/Superintendent Newman is currently the Operations Commander, Financial and Cyber Crime Group, QPS. Mike is an advocate for adopting an evidence-based approach in policing, having led and brokered numerous initiatives within the QPS. He provides a voice for evidence-based policing nationally and internationally through his involvement in the ANZSEBP.