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Natasha Madon is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University, where she has held academic positions since 2015. She currently serves as Program Director for multiple programs including the Bachelor of Psychological Sciences/Criminology and Criminal Justice and the Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice/IT. As a member of the Griffith Criminology Institute since 2015, she contributes to one of Australia's leading criminological research centers.
Dr. Madon's research focuses on the intersection of policing, procedural justice, and community trust, with particular attention to minority communities, immigrants, and youth populations. Her work examines how citizens perceive their treatment by police and how these perceptions relate to broader feelings of trust and legitimacy toward the criminal justice system. She employs diverse methodological approaches including experimental designs, survey research, and program evaluations to investigate police-community relations.
Her recent publications reveal a strong trajectory in police legitimacy research, with increasing focus on Muslim communities' interactions with police in counter-terrorism contexts and youth justice issues. Dr. Madon has successfully secured competitive external funding from sources including the Australian Institute of Criminology and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
As an educator, Dr. Madon teaches undergraduate courses including Youth, Crime and Justice and CCJ Common Time. She currently supervises two doctoral students and provides academic leadership as Program Director for multiple undergraduate and graduate programs. Her professional service includes extensive peer review activities for top criminology journals and conference organization roles.
Dr. Madon's research has practical implications for police training, community engagement strategies, and youth justice programming, with several of her evaluations directly informing Queensland Police Service initiatives including Project Booyah and the South Brisbane District Islamic Youth Program.
