BA, Masters of Social Planning and Development, PhD

Prof Toni Makkai was appointed director of the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), the Australian Government’s National Crime and Criminal Justice Research Agency in 2003. She has also held teaching and research positions in the United Kingdom and at the Australian National University.
She has a strong focus on policy-relevant research including drugs and crime, crime statistics, drug courts, and regulation and compliance.

She has published widely in these fields with over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, numerous chapters in books, and government reports and monographs, and was responsible for the establishment of the Drug Use Monitoring Australia (DUMA) program in 1999. She is a member of a range of national government advisory boards on crime and drugs, is the editor of the AIC’s Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, is a member of the editorial board of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology and provides advice to the Criminology Research Council.