Researchers

Specialisations

• Criminal justice system
• Juvenile justice

Ross Homel is Foundation Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, and Director of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance.  He has also served as founder and director of the Griffith Institute for Social and Behavioural Research (now the Griffith Social and Behavioural Research College); as Head of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice; as a Commissioner of the Queensland Criminal Justice Commission; and in the early 2000s worked with Fiona Stanley and others to establish the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth and its associated ARC research network.  He is a former Board member and Vice-President of the Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and former member of the Academy executive committee.

Professor Homel has published three monographs and six edited books, as well as more than 120 peer-reviewed papers and numerous high impact government reports.  He has won numerous awards for his research on the prevention of crime, violence and injuries and the promotion of positive development and wellbeing for children and young people in socially disadvantaged communities.  His accomplishments were recognised in January 2008 when he was appointed an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AO) "for service to education, particularly in the field of criminology, through research into the causes of crime, early intervention and prevention methods".  In May 2008 he was recognized with an award from the Premier of Queensland as a 'Queensland Great', "for his contribution to Queensland's reputation for research excellence, the development of social policy and justice reform and helping Queensland's disadvantaged communities".   In December 2008 he was shortlisted for 2009 Australian of the Year, in 2009 he received a Distinguished Service Alumni for Alumni, Macquarie University, and in 2010 received the Sellin-Glueck Award from the American Society of Criminology for criminological scholarship that considers problems of crime and justice as they manifest outside the United States.