Tim Prenzler is a Chief Investigator in the Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, and a Professor in the School of Crimnology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, Brisbane. He joined the School when it was established in 1991. He completed a PhD, MA, BA and GradDipT in the areas of history, sociology and political science.

In teaching, Tim has developed and taught courses in situational crime prevention, security management, criminal justice ethics, social justice, criminological theories, police studies, and introductory criminology. He has also contributed to a number of textbooks, and co-edited An Introduction to Crime and Criminology (Pearson, 2009, with Hennessey Hayes).

In service, Tim has been a long-term member of campus health and safety committees, faculty staff committees and school management committees. He has also been an active member of the National Tertiary Education Union, holding executive positions and representing the membership on University committees. He has also held teaching program coordination positions at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has served on a range of industry committees including on promotion and advisory committees in the Queensland Police Service, and on other state government working groups including in Fair Trading, Transport, Corrective Services, Education, Technical and Further Education, and Housing. He has also worked on a range of collaborative research projects with the Victoria Police, the Australian Security Industry Association Limited (ASIAL), Queensland Department of Justice, Queensland Legal Aid, Crime Prevention Queensland, the Australian Attorney-General’s Department, and the New South Wales Police Service. He is a member of the editorial committees of Security Journal, Police Practice and Research: An International Journal and The International Journal of Police Science and Management.