Rate My Professor Michelle Sydes

Her academic interests encompass applied corrections, research synthesis, policing, and neighbourhood effects on crime. Sydes has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications, including the book 'Partnerships in Policing: How Third Parties Help Police to Reduce Crime and Disorder' (Cambridge University Press, 2025, with Janet Ransley, Lorraine Mazerolle, and Kevin Petersen); 'Criminal justice interventions for preventing radicalisation, violent extremism and terrorism: An evidence and gap map' (2023); 'Body-worn camera activation in prisons: understanding correctional officer discretion' (2024, with Shannon Dodd, Emma Antrobus, and others); 'PROTOCOL: Correlates and Antecedents of Hate Crime: A Systematic Review of Place-Level Risk and Protective Factors' (2025, with Kathryn Benier and Angela Higginson); 'Predicting and screening out police wrongdoing' (2024, with Louise Porter, Janet Ransley, and James McEwan); and 'Sentencing Practices for Sexual Assault and Rape Offences' (2024, with Lacey Schaefer). These works have accumulated over 217 citations on ResearchGate. Sydes has obtained research grants from the Australian Institute of Criminology, including funding for studies on poly-victimisation and mental health across female offending pathways (with Lorana Bartels and Caitlin Davey) and parole waivers (with Shannon Dodd and Lorana Bartels). She holds the position of Secretary for the Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology. In her teaching role, Sydes convenes courses and collaborates with teams to deliver statistics training tailored for criminology students at Griffith University.