Director

Professor Benoit Leclerc

Building on 20 years of research on how offenders operate, Dr Benoit Leclerc is an internationally recognised leader on crime script analysis. He is leading the theoretical advancements of crime scripts and its translation to end users worldwide. He has led several funded research projects using crime script analysis in Australia and Canada and currently leads this field on the significance of publications. Most recently, in collaboration with the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) and other Australian police agencies, he was the lead chief investigator of a project funded by the Australian Institute of Criminology on child sexual exploitation online.

Dr Leclerc serves on the editorial board of many journals including, Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment.