Mark Halsey
Matthew Flinders Professor of Criminology, Research Lead/ Member of the Centre for Social Impact, Flinders University, Australia
Mark Halsey is Matthew Flinders Professor of Criminology, Research Lead, and member of the Centre for Social Impact at Flinders University. He has had a long term interest in the conditions which support desistance from crime among various offender populations and has attracted in excess of $8 million in research funding on this and related topics—including a 5-year Australian Research Council Future Fellowship on intergenerational incarceration. Mark is co-author with Simone Deegan of Young Offenders: Crime, Prison and Struggles for Desistance—a qualitative longitudinal (10-year) study that received the 2017 Christine M Alder Book Prize for having ‘made a valuable and outstanding contribution to criminology’.
From 2016 to 2022, Mark was Co-Chief Editor of the Journal of Criminology (formerly the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology) and currently serves on the editorial boards of Incarceration (Sage), Current Issues in Criminal Justice (Taylor & Francis) and the International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation (Routledge). He has been a Visiting Fellow at such institutions as UC Berkeley and University of Oxford. From mid 2025, Mark will lead a $3.5 million Industry Laureate project called “Breaking the Prison-Reoffending Cycle: A Desistance From Crime Approach”. This is one of the top individual awards provided by the Australian Research Council and one of only 8 awarded nationally each year.
