Specialisations

• Crime prevention
• Corruption prevention
• Security industry
• Criminal justice ethics
• Gender in policing

Tim Prenzler is a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security where he manages the Integrity Systems project and works in the ‘Frontline Policing’ project.  

He completed a PhD, MA, BA and GradDipT in the areas of history, sociology and political science, and taught politics at the University of Queensland for a short period before joining the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice in 1991.  He has developed and taught courses in situational crime prevention, security management, criminal justice ethics, social justice, criminological theories, police studies, and introductory criminology. He has also contributed to a number of textbooks, and co-edited ‘An Introduction to Crime and Criminology’ (Pearson, 2009, with Hennessey Hayes).