Reece Walters

Professor Reece Walters is a Professor of Criminology at Deakin University's School of Humanities and Social Sciences, affiliated with the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. A leading scholar in green criminology, his research examines crimes compromising essential resources like air, food and water.

Research focuses on:

• Environmental harm and corporate power
• Water theft and resource exploitation
• Ecocide and climate crimes
• Waste trafficking and pollution

Current projects include an ARC-funded study on preventing water theft in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin. His publications critically analyze environmental governance, species justice, and the political economy of ecological destruction. Professor Walters supervises doctoral students researching environmental activism, digital environmental harms, and climate migration.