Lorraine Mazerolle is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow (2010–2015) and a Professor of Criminology in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland. She is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Experimental Criminology and the Academy of the Social Sciences Australia.

Lorraine’s research interests are in experimental criminology, policing, drug law enforcement, regulatory crime control, and crime prevention. She has won numerous US and Australian national competitive research grants on topics such as partnership 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.

Lorraine has received multiple awards. Most recently, these include the ASC Division of Experimental Criminology Jerry Lee Lifetime Achievement Award (2019), the Partners in Research Excellence Award from the University of Queensland (2019), and the CEBCP Distinguished Achievement Award of the Center for Evidence Based Crime Policy at George Mason University (2019).