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DrMolly McCarthy

DECRA Senior Research Fellow

Faculty of Arts and Education/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

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  • DECRA Senior Research Fellow
    Faculty of Arts and Education/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • +61 3 924 46949 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Pathways into and out of youth offending
  • Youth offending trends and trajectories
  • Life-course/developmental criminology
  • Impacts of policing approaches and tactics
  • Police diversionary initiatives
  • Economic analysis of crime issues

GRANTS

  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    Youth bystander approaches to countering violent extremism
    Department of Home Affairs1 Mar 2025 - 30 Jun 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ali M,
    • McCarthy M,
    • Roose J,
    • Abbas T,
    • McNeil-Wilson R
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    The impact of practice changes to police cautioning on access to police diversion in youth
    Australian Institute of Criminology4 Feb 2024 - 31 Oct 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Spivak B,
    • Shepherd S,
    • Papalia N,
    • McCarthy M,
    • Trood M
  • FELLOWSHIP
    Contemporary social and environmental risks for youth offending
    1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Molly McCarthy
    ARC DECRA - Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - DE240100066 - $445,017.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Evaluation of the Deferred Prosecution pilot
    Neighbourhood Justice Centre30 Oct 2021 - 31 Jul 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • McCarthy M,
    • Ross S
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Enhanced disposition and diversion framework evaluation
    Queensland Police Service31 Jan 2020 - 30 Jun 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ransley J,
    • McCarthy M,
    • Thompson C
  • FELLOWSHIP
    Griffith University Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Award: Identifying drivers of chronic youth offending
    Griffith University1 Jan 2020 - 30 Jun 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • McCarthy M
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Trends in youth offending in Queensland
    Queensland Police Service1 Apr 2019 - 31 Aug 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • McCarthy M
  • COMPETITIVE GRANT
    Costing Indigenous Offending Trajectories: Establishing better estimates to assist the evidence base and prevent offending
    Australian Institute of Criminology31 Jan 2017 - 28 Feb 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Allard T,
    • McCarthy M,
    • Stewart A