
Publications by year
Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland)
Dr Angela Higginson is an Associate Professor in the School of Justice, Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, QUT. She is an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) fellow for 2018-2022, and her DECRA project examines the correlates and consequences of ethnically-motivated youth hate crime in Australia. Much of Angela's work has focused on policing and community processes for crime control, with a particular interest in evaluation through systematic reviews and meta-analysis. Her research is situated in a comparative framework, and examines the contextual differences between the Global North and South. Prior to joining the School of Justice, Angela was a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, and she is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UQ. She has worked within the public sector as the Principal Advisor Statistical Research and Analysis in the Department of Emergency Services. Research interests
- Youth gangs, hate crime, anti-immigrant sentiment
- Policing and crime control
- Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
- Fraud and fire
Additional information
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2018
- Details
- Editor of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice coordinating group, and member of the Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Steering Committee. The Campbell Collaboration is the peak body for the promotion and production of systematic reviews in the social sciences.
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Experimental Criminology. The journal focuses on high quality experimental and quasi-experimental research in the development of evidence based crime and justice policy. The journal is currently ranked 3rd globally in the field of Criminology and Penology, with an of 3.912 for 2017
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- "Effectiveness of multiagency interventions with police as a partner for preventing radicalisation to violence". Chief Investigators: Lorraine Mazerolle, Elizabeth Eggins, Adrian Cherney, Angela Higginson. $98,213 awarded by Public Safety Canada, via the Campbell Collaboration.
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- "What impact do police programs that seek to increase community connectedness have on behaviour, attitudes and beliefs related to violent extremism?" Chief Investigators: Lorraine Mazerolle, Elizabeth Eggins, Adrian Cherney, Angela Higginson. $67,533 awarded by the Department of Homeland Security (USA) via the Campbell Collaboration.
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- "What works to address child exploitation offending?" Chief Investigators: Lorraine Mazerolle, Elizabeth Eggins, Michelle Sydes, Rebecca Wallis, Kerryann Walsh, Angela Higginson, John Williams. $90,426 awarded by Australian Institute of Criminology.
- 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
- 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
- As a result of my work conducting systematic reviews of the predictors of youth gang membership and preventive gang interventions in low- and middle-income countries, I was invited to give a seminar on the state of the evidence on gang violence prevention in Latin America to senior staff at the Inter-American Development Bank (Washington DC).
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- "Youth gang violence in developing countries: A systematic review of the predictors of participation and the effectiveness of interventions to reduce involvement". Principal Investigators: Angela Higginson, Lorraine Mazerolle. USD$97,817 awarded by USAID via 3ie (International Initiative for Impact Evaluation)
- 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., 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
- Scott, J., Higginson, A., Staines, Z., Zhen, L., Ryan, V. & Lauchs, M. (2018). Strategic review of Cape York Income Management - Final report. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/123533
- Mazerolle, L., Eggins, E., Higginson, A. & Stanko, B. (2017). Evidence-based policing as a disruptive innovation: the global policing database as a disruption tool. In L. Tompson & J. Knutsson (Eds.), Advances in evidence-based policing (Crime Science Series) (pp. 117–138). Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/114074
- Higginson, A., Eggins, E. & Mazerolle, L. (2017). Investigating serious violent crime: What works, what doesn't and for what crime types? [Report to the Criminology Research Advisory Council - Grant: CRG 43/13-14]. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/114073
- Benier, K., Wickes, R. & Higginson, A. (2016). Ethnic hate crime in Australia: Diversity and change in the neighbourhood context. British Journal of Criminology, 56(3), 479–496. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/98827
- 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., Benier, K., Shenderovich, Y., Bedford, L., Mazerolle, L. & Murray, J. (2015). Preventive interventions to reduce youth gang violence in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review. Campbell Systematic Reviews, 11(18), 1–177. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/95883
- Higginson, A., Mazerolle, L., Sydes, M., Davis, J. & Mengersen, K. (2015). Policing interventions for targeting interpersonal violence in developing countries: A systematic review, 3ie Grantee Final Review. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/95882
- 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
- Title
- Ethnically-motivated Youth Hate Crime in Australia
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DE180100853
- Start year
- 2018
- Keywords
- Exploring the Bystander Perspective: Scripting Bystander Intervention in Australian Hate Crimes
PhD, Mentoring Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Michael Chataway - Digital dating abuse among teenagers in the Global-South: victimisation experiences of Brasilians and Australians
PhD, Mentoring Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Laura Vitis
- 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)