Professor Mark Halsey
Professor Halsey first joined the Law School at Flinders University in 2000 and taught criminology at the University of Melbourne from 2005 to 2007. He currently serves as Joint Chief Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology and as Research Section Head (Criminology and Criminal Justice) in the College of Business, Government and Law at Flinders University.
His research centers on youth offending, repeat incarceration, rehabilitation, gun violence, Aboriginal social exclusion, and desistance from crime. Through five successive Australian Research Council (ARC) grants, Professor Halsey has conducted in-depth studies that inform these fields, including Australia’s longest-running and most comprehensive exploration of repeat incarceration and desistance among young men aged 15 to 29. His book based on this research, Young Offenders: Crime, Prison and Struggles for Desistance, earned the 2017 Christine M Alder Book Prize.
Professor Halsey has undertaken consultancies for state and local governments on a range of issues—including graffiti vandalism, restorative and therapeutic justice, correctional corruption, offender reintegration, mentoring, and serious repeat youth offending. He also serves on the editorial boards of the International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation (Routledge) and the International Journal for Crime and Justice.
In 2017, he received a four-year ARC grant for a project aimed at reducing Aboriginal imprisonment by examining the relationship between repeat incarceration and key communities in South Australia and the Northern Territory to which Aboriginal individuals return following custody.