Dr Toby Miles-Johnson

Lecturer in Criminology, Student Outreach/Recruitment Officer

Dr Toby Miles-Johnson is Lecturer in Criminology within Social Sciences: Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology at the University of Southampton.

Toby Miles-Johnson is a Lecturer in Criminology based in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at The University of Southampton. Toby is also a Senior Researcher, and an Associate Research Fellow: The Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS).

Toby received his Doctorate of Philosophy – Criminology from The University of Queensland. Toby graduated from Griffith University, Australia, with a First class honours degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice. His majors were international relations, and criminological research. Toby was awarded the Griffith University Medal and the Criminology and Criminal Justice Medal as the highest academic achieving student. Toby has also been awarded the Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) Award for academic excellence, four Griffith University Academic Excellence Awards and a Golden Key International Honour Society Award for academic excellence.

Toby is currently part of a project that is being undertaken as part of the Australian Research Council’s Linkage Project (LP110100585) titled “Targeted Crime: Policing and Social Inclusion”. Chief Investigators: Sharon Pickering, Monash University; Gail Mason, The University of Sydney; Jude McCulloch, Monash University; JaneMaree Maher, Monash University; Lorraine Mazerolle, The University of Queensland, Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security; Rebecca Wickes, The University of Queensland. The overall goal of the Linkage Project is to undertake a criminological study of the policing of targeted incidents and crime, that is, incidents and crimes motivated by bias, prejudice or hatred towards members of particular groups, communities and individuals. It will develop a best practice policing framework for policing targeted crimes and incidents. The goal of the project is to ascertain the factors that facilitate or constrain the capacity of police recruits and protective services officers (PSOs) to appropriately classify and deal with prejudice motivated crime (PMC) upon completion of PMC training at the Victoria Police Academy.