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I received my PhD in Criminology from Simon Fraser University and my MA and BA in Sociology from Queen’s University. Prior to joining Laurier, I was a lecturer (assistant professor) at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Throughout my career I have worked as a SafeGrowth® facilitator helping to develop safer and more liveable cities around the world.
My current research interests focus broadly on community safety, with a specific focus on policing, crime prevention and spatial criminology. My research focuses on using multiple forms of data to improve policy and practice, including developing crime prevention and community safety strategies with communities across Canada and internationally.
My research is informed by a social constructionist/critical realist approach, though I work extensively in the area of environmental criminology. I use a myriad of methods in addressing my research questions including action research, spatial and quantitative analysis and qualitative methods.
Awards and recognitions
- 2024: American Society of Criminology Division of Rural Criminology - Early Career Award
- 2024: Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities - Award for Excellence - Rising Star
- 2023: Early Career Researcher Award - Wilfrid Laurier University
- 2021: International Society for the Study of Rural Crime – Joseph F. Donnermeyer New Scholar Award
- 2021: American Society of Criminology Division of Communities and Place – Robert J. Bursik Junior Scholar Award
- 2018: Office of Crime Reduction and Gang Outreach Grant – Province of British Columbia
- 2017: Organization Studies Emerging Scholar Award
Funded research
- 2025 - SSHRC Partnership Development Grant: Breaking down data silos for community safety and well-being in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Principal Investigator
- 2024 - Hamilton Police Service: Community Safety in Hamilton - Principal Investigator
- 2024 - SSHRC Insight Grant: Securitizing the last public bastion: Safety in public libraries in mid-sized Ontario municipalities. – Co-investigator
- 2024 - SSHRC Connection Grant: Addressing the governance gap: A collaborative strategy for building capacity to enhance police oversight and governance. – Principal Investigator
- 2023 - SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant: “Beyond the crisis in the downtown:” Understanding perceptions of safety and victimization across the city of Brantford. – Principal Investigator
- 2023 - SSHRC Connection Grant: Reducing the “crisis in the downtown”: An action research approach to addressing fear and safety in Brantford, Ontario – Principal Investigator
- 2023 - British Columbia Crime Reduction Research Program: Comparative Analysis of Community-Informed Police Service Models – Principal Investigator
- 2022 - SSHRC Partnership Engagement Grant: Crisis in the downtown, exploring the convergence/divergence between official crime data and perceptions of safety in downtown Brantford. - Co-investigator
- 2022 - SSHRC Partnership Engagement Grant: Addressing the alignment gap in police organizations through collaborative, bottom-up strategic planning - Principal investigator
I am currently willing to supervise students on qualitative and quantitative projects that fall under the umbrella of community safety. This generally includes projects on policing, crime prevention, environmental (spatial) criminology, victimology and rural criminology. I am a member of the Graduate Program in Criminology. I work closely with graduate students to develop projects that are theoretically and methodologically important, feasible, and publishable.
Hodgkinson, T. & Currado, V. (2026) Churn at the top: Understanding predictors of police leadership turnover in Canada. Policing & Society.
Hodgkinson, T., Harkness, A., Mulrooney, K.D. & White, R. (2025). Steal that car: A spatial analysis of motor vehicle theft in New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Criminal Justice.
Giacomantonio, C., Hodgkinson, T., & Andresen, M.A. (2025). Credence for clearance rates: Modeling police clearance rates in Canadian municipalities. Police Practice and Research: An International Journal 1-18.
Martino, N., Hodgkinson, T., & Caputo, T. (2025). Who is watching the watchers? A snapshot of Canadian Police Services Board member capacity. Canadian Public Administration, 68(2): 227-244.
Hodgkinson, T. & *Vamvakaris, C. (2025) Back to school days: Crime seasonality in a campus-dominated community. Journal of Criminal Justice, 98, 10288.
Andresen, M.A., & Hodgkinson, T. (2025). Il y a quelque chose sur la carte: A modern spatial analysis of crime in early 19th century France. American Journal of Criminal Justice, 50: 565-584.
Hodgkinson, T., & Andresen, M.A. (2025). Preventing crime at places: The importance of recognizing that places exist within a broader social context. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 714(1): 134-149.
Hodgkinson, T., Henderson, S., Andresen, M.A., Sanders, C., Condon, C., *Anthony, T. (2024). To tent and protect: Homeless encampments as "protective facilities." Journal of Criminal Justice. 95 (102299).
Andresen, M.A., Hodgkinson, T., & Henderson, S. (2024). Statistician’s blues: A methodological critique of measuring the association between police and crime. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 66(2), 66 - 80.
Hodgkinson, T., Caputo, T. & Martino, N. (2023). The governance gap: Examining the capacity of police service boards to hold police services accountable in Canada. Police Practice and Research: An International Journal.
Hodgkinson, T. & Martino, N. (2023). Less than idyllic: Crime specialization in rural and remote Queensland, Australia. Journal of Rural Studies.
McIntyre, M., Hodgkinson, T., & Caputo, T. (2023). Strategic planning processes in policing: Evidence from the field. Policing: An International Journal.
Hodgkinson, T., Schaefer, L., Harte, N., Pearson N., Lonergan, N., & Barber, C. (2023). And you know, we’re on each other’s team: Lessons from an in-depth analysis of researcher-practitioner partnerships in criminal justice research. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice.
Hodgkinson, T. & Pringle, D. (2023). Alternative response officers: Investing in policing alternatives and community safety in Saskatoon, Canada. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 17, Article paac109.
Hodgkinson, T. Corcoran, J. & Andresen, M.A. (2023). Violent assault geographies in Northeastern Australia. PlosOne, 18(3), Article e0282522. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282522
Andresen, M.A., & Hodgkinson, T. (2023). In a world called catastrophe: The impact of COVID-19 on neighbourhood level crime in Vancouver, Canada. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 19(2), 487 – 511.
Sabine, C. & Hodgkinson, T. (2022). Night after night, my heartbeat shows the fear: Examining predictors of fear of crime in the nonurban Australian context. International Criminal Justice Review.
Andresen, M.A., & Hodgkinson, T. (2022). Stumbling from one disaster to another: The COVID-19 pandemic and mental health calls for police service across Canada. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 64(4), 1 – 20.
Hodgkinson, T., Andresen, M.A., Frank, R., & Pringle, D. (2022). Crime down in the Paris of the prairies: Spatial effects of COVID-19 and crime during lockdown in Saskatoon, Canada. Journal of Criminal Justice, 78, Article 101881.
Hodgkinson, T. & Harris, B. (2022). The impact of the “Not Now, Not Ever”: Recommendations on police-reported domestic violence in Queensland, Australia. Violence Against Women, 28(15-16), 3703 – 3725.
- CC303: Victimology
- CC319: Crime Prevention
- CC327: Statistics in Criminology
- CC415: Advanced Issues in Policing
- CC602: Quantiative Methods
- CC603: Theories of Crime and Control
- CC614: Advanced Studies on Policing
- CC625: Crime and Place