Molly Dragiewicz is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University in Australia. Dragiewicz is an internationally award-winning critical criminologist who studies domestic violence, gender equity, and technology. She is a global leader in research on domestic violence survivors' experiences of technology-facilitated coercive control and the ways children are involved in tech abuse in the context of domestic abuse. Dragiewicz conducted foundational research on men's antifeminist organising, connections between mainstream masculinity and misogynist extremism, and their implications (MRAs/manosphere/INCELS) including Equality with a vengeance: Men’s rights groups, battered women, and antifeminist backlash (2011, Northeastern University Press), which analysed the first U.S. lawsuit attempting to eliminate services for battered women based on spurious claims of "gender symmetry" in domestic violence. Her work has exceptional impact via translation to practice, with more than 100 citations in international policy documents in applied work to end gender-based violence, promote gender equity, prevent cybercrime, and promote safe digital inclusion in more than 15 countries and by international bodies like UN Women, the Organization of American States, European Commission, and United States Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women.

Dragiewicz is highly involved in interdisciplinary, collaborative, applied research with community organisations working to end domestic, sexual, and family violence and other forms of gender-based violence. She is a frequently invited speaker and trainer for judicial officers, lawyers, first responders, domestic violence advocates, and universities. She founded Australia’s first interdisciplinary graduate certificate in domestic violence and created the Federal Family and Circuit Court of Australia's  training on sexual abuse. 

Dragiewicz serves on the Board of the Gold Coast Family Law Pathways Network where she plays a key role in producing core Australian datasets on domestic violence and educates professionals working with families post-separation to prevent domestic violence. She also serves on ACCAN's Independent Grants Panel.

Dragiewicz is author of nine books including Abusive endings: Separation and divorce violence against women (2017, University of California Press) with Walter DeKeseredy and Marty Schwartz. She is editor of Global human trafficking: Critical issues and contexts (2015, Routledge); co-editor of The Routledge handbook of critical criminology (2nd ed 2018, Routledge); Critical criminology: Critical concepts in criminology: Vols I-IV. (2014, Routledge); and The Routledge handbook of critical criminology (2011, Routledge) with Walter DeKeseredy.

Dragiewicz was recognised as Australia's Research Field Leader in Feminism and Women's Studies by The Australian Research Magazine 2024; won the 2021 Vice Chancellor’s Research Excellence Award Gender Equity Research Network Team Special Commendation; the 2019 Saltzman Award for Contributions to Practice from the American Society of Criminology Division on Women and Crime; 2018 Domestic Violence Prevention Leadership Award from the Domestic Violence Prevention Centre Gold Coast; 2017 Robert Jerin Book of the Year Award for Abusive endings: Separation and divorce violence against women from the American Society of Criminology Division on Victimology; Queensland University of Technology Vice Chancellor’s Performance Award for Research in 2016; 2012 Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the American Society of Criminology Division on Critical Criminology; and 2009 New Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology Division on Women and Crime.

She has won over $2,000,000 of competitive research grants and contracts from Australia, Canada, and Finland, including funds from the National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse, Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS), The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN), the eSafety Commission, Federal Family and Circuit Court of Australia, Fulbright, VicHealth, QUT, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ontario Women’s Directorate, and Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General.