CASS Executive - Professor Toni Makkai

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Biography

Toni Makkai joined the Australian National University as Dean and Chair of the College of Arts and Social Sciences in May 2008. She has a strong commitment to research lead education, research that improves the social and cultural wellbeing of our community, and innovation in education and research through harnessing digitial technology and interdisciplinary perspectives.

From her prior position as the director of the Australian Institute of Criminology, the Australian Government’s national research agency on crime and justice, she brings significant administrative and research experience. She has also held various research and teaching roles at the ANU, University of Queensland and the University of Salford, UK. Her first position at the ANU was an ARC postdoctoral fellowship in the Research School of Social Sciences.

She has a strong focus on policy relevant research including drugs and crime, crime statistics, drug courts, and regulation and compliance. She established the first national monitoring program on drug use and crime in Australia that brought together traditional social data collection and forensic techniques. She has published widely in these fields with over 50 peer reviewed journal articles, numerous chapters in books and government reports and monographs.  Her most recent monograph is Regulating Aged Care: Ritualism and the New Pyramid (with John and Val Braithwaite) which was the culmination of a 25 year study of regulation and compliance in the aged care sector in Australia, the UK and the USA.

Toni currently sits on the Australian National Council on Drugs, the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice & Governance (Griffith University) and the Technical Advisory Group for the National Drug Strategy Household Survey (AIHW). She is also Chair of the Editorial Reference Group for OfSubstance, a national magazine for the drug and alcohol sector, and is on the editorial board for Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. She was previously editor of the Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice and has served on the editorial board of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology.

She has been an expert adviser on various delegations and boards including: Australian Government Delegation to UN Crime Commission meetings (2004-2007); National Crime Prevention Grants Programme (2004-2008); ACT Police Consultative Board (2004-2007); ABS Advisory Committee, National Information Development Plan for Crime and Justice Statistics (2005-2008); Criminology Research Council (2003-2008); Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards (2003-2007); Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated (ACSPRI, 2000-2004); Toora Inc (NGO providing domestic violence shelters and drug and alcohol services within the ACT, 2000-2005).

Toni has a PhD (Sociology) and a Master of Social Planning and Development from the University of Queensland, and a Bachelor of Arts from the Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education.

Her most recent publications include:

Monographs:

Mouzos, Jenny and Toni Makkai. 2004. ‘Women’s Experiences of Male Violence’ Research and Public Policy Series, No 56, Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. 143pp.

Makkai, Toni, Jerry Ratcliffe, Keenan Veraar and Lisa Collins. 2004, ‘Act Recidivist Offenders’ Research and Public Policy Series, No 54, Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. 83pp.

Makkai, Toni and Jason Payne. 2003. ‘Drugs and Crime: A study of incarcerated male offenders’ Research and Public Policy Series, No 52, Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. 143pp.

Selection of refereed journal articles:

Makkai, Toni and Rob McCusker. 2005. What do we need to know? Improving the evidence base on trafficking in human beings in the Asia Pacific Region. Development Bulletin, 66, 36-42.

Makkai, Toni and Jason Payne. 2005. ‘Illicit Drug Use and Offending Histories: A study of Male Incarcerated Offenders in Australia’. Probation Journal, 52, 2, 153-168.

Makkai, Toni. 2003. Substance use, psychological distress and crime. Editorial. Medical Journal of Australia, 8, 179, 399-400.

Taylor, Bruce, Henry Brownstein, Charles Parry, Andreas Pluddemann, Toni Makkai, Trevor Bennett and Kate Holloway. 2003, ‘Monitoring the use of illicit drugs in four countries through the International Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (I-ADAM) program’ Criminal Justice: An International Journal of Policy and Practice. 3, 3, 269 – 286.

McAllister, Ian and Toni Makkai. 2003, ‘Antisocial behaviour among young Australians while under the influence of illicit drugs’ The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 36, 2, 211-222.

Weatherburn, Don, Craig Jones, Karen Freeman and Toni Makkai. 2003, ‘Supply control and harm reduction: Lessons from the Australian heroin ‘drought’. Addictions, 98(1), 83-91.

Makkai, Toni. 2002, ‘The Emergence of Drug Courts in Australia, Journal of Substance Misuse and Use, 37, 1567-1594.

Makkai, Toni. 2001, ‘Patterns of recent drug use amongst a sample of Australian detainees’, Addictions, 96, 12, 1799 – 1808.

Makkai, Toni and John Braithwaite. 1994, ‘Reintegrative Shaming and Compliance with Regulatory Standards’, Criminology, 32, 3, 361-385.

Makkai, Toni and Valerie Braithwaite. 1993, ‘Professionalism, Organizations and Compliance’, Law and Social Inquiry, 18, 1, 33-59.

Makkai, Toni and John Braithwaite. 1993, ‘The Limits of the Economic Analysis of Regulation: An Empirical Case and a Case for Empiricism’, Law and Policy, 15, 4, 271-291.

Makkai, Toni and John Braithwaite. 1991, ‘Criminological Theories and Regulatory Compliance’, Criminology, 29, 2, 191-220.

Recent chapters in monographs:

Makkai, Toni and Tim Prenzler, 2009, ‘The Nature and Prevalence of Crime in Australian Society’ in Tim Prenzler and Hennessey Hayes (Eds) Crime and Justice in Australia Pearson Education Australia. 2nd Edition

Hayes, Hennessey and Makkai, Toni, 2009, ‘Measuring Crime’ in Tim Prenzler and Hennessey Hayes (Eds) Crime and Justice in Australia Pearson Education Australia. 2nd Edition

Makkai, Toni and Natalie Taylor 2009 ‘Immigrants as victims of crime: the Australian experience’ in William McDonald (Ed) Immigration, Crime and Justice, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Makkai, Toni and Jenny Fleming 2009 ‘Diffusion’ in Alison Wakefield and Jenny Fleming (Eds) The Sage Dictionary of Policing, London: Sage Publications.

Makkai, Toni and Jeromey Temple 2008 ‘Drugs and Crime: calculating attributable fractions’ in David Collins and Helen Lapsley (Eds) Counting the cost: estimates of the social costs of drug abuse in Australia in 2005-2006, National Drug Strategy Monograph, Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.

Recent grants/consultancies:

2007-2008     Department of Health and Ageing, Developing the National ATS Strategy, ($60,000) with National Drug Research Institute (NDRI).

2007                Commonweath Attorney General’s Department, Review of the National Community Crime Prevention Program ($240,000)

2007                Commonweath Attorney General’s Department, Review of Commonwealth Penalties ($80,000)

2006-08          National Community Crime Prevention Grants, Research partnership between the National Community Crime Prevention Program (NCCPP) and the AIC ($337,000)

2006-07          National Community Crime Prevention Program, Organisation and management of International Crime Prevention Colloquium and associated meetings ($150,000)

2004-2007     ARC Linkage Grant LPP0455448, Regulatory Strategies for Improving Health Sector Performance. (ARC component $350,750) Partner Investigator status with Braithwaite, J, Health, J, Dugdale, P and Dawn, K.

2005-06          National Drug Law Enforcement Fund, ‘Drug law enforcement performance measurement framework’ ($199,067) with Peter Homel, Katie Willis, Frank Hansen, Don Weatherburn and Robert Rushby

2004                Criminology Research Council, Specialty courts in Australia ($35,000)

2003-07          Commonwealth National Illicit Drug Strategy, Drug Use Monitoring in Australia, ($5.3 million)

2001                National Drug Law Enforcement Fund, Drug Driving in Australia ($83,000) with Queensland Police Service

2000-02          National Health and Medical Research Council 'Modelling Illicit Drug Use, Criminal Offending Behaviour and Treatment in the Criminal Justice System' ($120,000) with A. Graycar.

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