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Dr. Molly McCarthy is a DECRA Senior Research Fellow at Deakin University's Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and Education. Her research focuses on policing strategies, youth justice, and societal responses to crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. She holds an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) investigating contemporary risks for youth offending.
Her work bridges criminology and public policy, addressing topics such as police use of force, procedural justice, and compliance mechanisms during emergencies. She supervises doctoral students Shaun McLaws and Chuol Gatkuoth Puot on topics like peer networks and high-harm offending among marginalized youth groups. McCarthy's grants include a $445k ARC DECRA (2024-2026) studying social and environmental risks linked to youth offending.
Recent publications analyze guardian-warrior police orientations' impact on use-of-force attitudes, predictors of vaccine hesitancy linked to conspiracy theories, and pandemic-era compliance strategies. Her research emphasizes methodological innovation, such as integrating administrative datasets for criminological analysis.
- Key Awards: ARC DECRA Fellowship (2024)
- Advising Focus: Youth offending dynamics and policing efficacy
