Rate My Professor Roderic Broadhurst

Roderic Broadhurst is Emeritus Professor of Criminology in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University. He holds a PhD in Criminal Justice from the University of Western Australia, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and BA and BEd degrees from the University of Western Australia. His career began in Western Australia's Department of Corrective Services (1974-1985) and Health Service (1986-1989). In 1990, he was appointed Senior Fellow at the University's Crime Research Centre. From 1994, he lectured in Sociology at the University of Hong Kong, chairing the Hong Kong Society of Criminology and founding its Centre for Criminology. In 2005, he became Head of School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology, followed by Visiting Professor at Griffith University in 2008. Since 2009 at ANU, he has been Professor in the Regulatory Institutions Network (now RegNet), Fellow of the Research School of Asia and the Pacific, and Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (until 2013). He directs the ANU Cybercrime Observatory.

Broadhurst's research focuses on organised and transnational crime (including triads), cybercrime (darknet, spam, CSAM), crime in transitional states, homicide and violence causes, victimology, and recidivism using capture-recapture methods. He has worked with agencies in Australia, China, Cambodia, and conducted UN victim surveys. Notable publications include Violence and the Civilizing Process in Cambodia (Cambridge University Press, 2015, with Thierry and Brigitte Bouhours); highly cited papers such as "An analysis of the nature of groups engaged in cyber crime" (2014, cited by 407), "Developments in the global law enforcement of cyber-crime" (2006, cited by 355), "Cybercrime in Asia: trends and challenges" (2012, cited by 148), and "The recidivism of sex offenders in the Western Australian prison population" (1992, cited by 139). He founded and edited the Asian Journal of Criminology (2005-2007), was associate editor of the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology (1999-2004), and serves on several editorial boards. Broadhurst is a non-residential fellow at the Korean Institute of Criminology and contributes to UNODC cybercrime efforts.