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Associate Professor
Angela Higginson
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Justice
Biography
Associate Professor Angela Higginson is a quantitative criminologist in the School of Justice, Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, QUT.One of her key research interests is in the use of systematic reviews and meta-analysis to inform evidence based public policy in policing and crime control. She is the author of more than 19 systematic reviews or evidence and gap maps, on topics including policing, radicalisation and terrorism, and youth gangs in low- and middle-income countries. Much of Angela’s research has examined the effectiveness (or potential for harm) of policing strategies.
Her current work focuses on the experiences of young marginalised and minoritized Australians, including experiences of youth hate crime victimisation, perceptions of policing, and offending behaviours, and includes the design, implementation, and analysis of the Australian Youth Safety Survey, a multi-wave online survey focusing on young Australians’ experiences of identity, diversity, and safety. This work was funded by an Australian Research Council DECRA fellowship (2018-2022).
Angela is co-Chair and Editor (Crime and Justice) of Campbell Systematic Reviews (Q1), an Editorial Board member of Journal of Experimental Criminology (Q1), an advisor on evidence synthesis to ANROWS – Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety, co-developer of the Global Policing Database, and the President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology.
Research interests
- Hate crime
- Youth gangs
- Policing and crime control
- Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
Personal details
Positions
- Associate Professor
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Justice
Keywords
Hate Crime, Policing, Youth Gangs, Systematic Reviews, Quantitative Methodology, QUT Centre for Justice
Research field
Criminology
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland)
Professional memberships and associations
- President, Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC)
- Editor, Crime and Justice - Campbell Systematic Reviews (Q1, IF:3.2)
- Co-Chair - Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice coordinating group
- Editorial Board Member - Journal of Experimental Criminology (Q1, IF:3.7)
- Member - Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC)
- Member - American Society of Criminology (ASC), Division of Experimental Criminology, Division of Policing
- Member - Asian Criminology Society (ACS)
- Member - European Society of Criminology (ESC)
- Associate Member - Australia & New Zealand Society of Evidence Based Policing (ANZSEBP)
Publications
- Benier, K. & Higginson, A. (2024). The myth of Australia's migrant youth gang: examining the perceived association between ethnicity and gangs. Journal of Youth Studies. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/253758
- Sydes, M., Hine, L., Higginson, A., McEwan, J., Dugan, L. & Mazerolle, L. (2023). Criminal justice interventions for preventing radicalisation, violent extremism and terrorism: An evidence and gap map. Campbell Systematic Reviews, 19(4). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/245928
- Morgan, M. & Higginson, A. (2023). Police and procedural justice: perceptions of young people with mental illness. Policing and Society, 33(7), 841–860. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/244066
- Hine, L., Higginson, A., Eggins, E., Bell, C. & Watt, E. (2023). Development of the ANROWS Instrument for assessing Risk of bias in quantitative Impact Studies (ANROWS-IRIS): Technical report. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/255127
- Scott, J., Staines, Z., Higginson, A., Lauchs, M., Ryan, V. & Zhen, L. (2021). 'Walking in two worlds': A qualitative review of income management in Cape York. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 80(1), 46–63. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/202564
- Higginson, A. & Morgan, M. (2020). Australian Youth Safety Survey: 2020 Technical Report. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/207259
- Higginson, A., Benier, K., Shenderovich, Y., Bedford, L., Mazerolle, L. & Murray, J. (2018). Factors associated with youth gang membership in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review. Campbell Systematic Reviews, 14, 1–131. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/128097
- Higginson, A., Eggins, E. & Mazerolle, L. (2017). Police techniques for investigating serious violent crime: A systematic review. Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, 539, 1–13. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/114072
- Higginson, A. & Benier, K. (2015). Gangs in African, Asian, and Australian settings. In SH. Decker & DC. Pyrooz (Eds.), The handbook of gangs [Wiley Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice] (pp. 538–557). John Wiley & Sons. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/95922
- Higginson, A. & Mazerolle, L. (2014). Legitimacy policing of places: the impact on crime and disorder. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 10(4), 429–457. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/97582
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Angela, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Appointment to Prestigious Positions
- Reference year
- 2024
- Details
- Re-elected as President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC) in 2024 for a second two-year term. Initially elected as President in 2022.
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2023
- Details
- Invited expert panelist in the opening plenary: "Researchers' advice to policy" (2023). Invited plenary discussion panel at the Stockholm Criminology Symposium, alongside the 2023 Stockholm Prize winner Prof Beatriz Magaloni. The invited plenary opens the conference each year and provides research-informed and evidence-based advice to the Swedish Minister for Justice. This year's panel focused on best-practice in responding to youth crime and gang violence.
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2023
- Details
- Secured a 3-year funding package for the Campbell Collaboration from DHS: "What works in preventing terrorism and radicalization: Campbell Collaboration Systematic Reviews" (USD$499,435 per year with options for 3 years). This package will fund up to 4 systematic reviews each year, providing robust research evidence to inform DHS and international efforts in countering violent extremism.PIs: Peter Neyroud, Angela Higginson, Vivian Welch, David B. Wilson, Izabela Zych.
- Type
- Advisor/Consultant for Industry
- Reference year
- 2022
- Details
- Appointed as an expert advisor to the ANROWS What Works Evidence Portal project to develop methodological frameworks for evidence summaries of interventions focused on women's safety.
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2018
- Details
- Appointed as Editor (Crime and Justice) of Campbell Systematic Reviews in 2018. Elected as Co-Chair of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Steering Committee in 2021. The Campbell Collaboration is the peak body for the promotion and production of systematic reviews in the social sciences. Campbell Systematic Reviews is a Q1 journal published by Wiley.
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2018
- Details
- Appointed as a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Experimental Criminology. This Q1 journal focuses on high quality experimental and quasi-experimental research in the development of evidence based crime and justice policy. From 2014-2018 I served as Associate Editor (Systematic Reviews).
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2018
- Details
- "Developments to the Global Policing Database". Chief Investigators: Elizabeth Eggins, Angela Higginson, Lorraine Mazerolle. $211,322 awarded by the College of Policing, UK.
- Type
- Recipient of a Nationally Competitive Research Fellowship
- Reference year
- 2018
- Details
- Awarded a 3 year $374,716 Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) for 2018-2021 to examine ethnically-motivated youth hate crime in Australia.
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Invited to launch the Global Policing Database at the Mayor's Office of Policing and Crime, London, to an international audience of police practitioners, policy-makers, and researchers. The Global Policing Database is an initiative to collate all experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations of policing interventions in an open-source web-based database. The GPD was funded by the UK College of Policing, via the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (UK).
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- Invited speaker on plenary panel "Gangs and youth violence: Innovative approaches and best practice" at the World Congress of Criminology in Monterrey, Mexico. The plenary was attended by over 1000 delegates, police, and government representatives.
Selected research projects
- Title
- Ethnically-motivated Youth Hate Crime in Australia
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DE180100853
- Start year
- 2018
- Keywords
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
Supervision
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Current supervisions
- Exploring the Bystander Perspective: Scripting Bystander Intervention in Australian Hate Crimes
PhD, Mentoring Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Michael Chataway - Neutralisation techniques in narrative construction by right-wing extremist and Islamic extremist groups
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Jodi Death - Digital dating abuse among teenagers in the Global-South: victimisation experiences of Brasilians and Australians
PhD, Mentoring Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Laura Vitis
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Non-mobilised pathways to socio-political participation by marginalised youth in authoritarian contexts (2024)
- Policing vulnerability: An examination of police policy, training, and perceptions of practice regarding responding to persons with mental illness (2021)
- A comparative multilevel analysis of ecology of child physical abuse and neglect in Chinese and Australian communities in Brisbane (2019)
- Enhancing emergency fire service delivery response ¿ a geostrategic approach (2017)
- The Immigration-Crime Myth: Exploring the Impact of Immigration on Neighbourhood Violence (2017)
- Bias in Brisbane: Correlates and Consequences of Hate Crime Victimisation in the Neighbourhood (2016)
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.