pensyarah universiti
pusat kajian psikologi & kesejahteraan manusia (psitra)
rahimk@ukm.edu.my
Biografi/ Biography :
Profesor (Kriminologi) dan Pakar Perunding Kriminologi di Pusat Kajian Psikologi dan Kesejahteraan Manusia, Fakulti Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan (FSSK), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). Dr. Rahim juga merupakan mantan Ketua Unit Integriti & Ombudsman UKM dan pernah menyandang jawatan sebagai penyelaras bagi Program Kepolisan UKM-PDRM di UKM. Mendapat ijazah doktor falsafah (PhD) dari Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) dalam bidang Kriminologi. Tajuk PhD beliau ialah Pemprofilan Psikologi dan Mekanikal Pembunuh Lelaki di Malaysia. Bidang pengkhususan beliau ialah Jenayah dan Delinkuensi, Penilaian dan Pengukuran Kriminal, Psikologi Kriminal, Profiling, Psikometrik serta isu-isu sosial dan tingkah laku antisosial. Beliau merupakan Pengasas, Presiden Pertama dan Penasihat Pertubuhan Kriminologi dan Koreksional Malaysia. Beliau juga merupakan Ahli Lembaga Pengarah dan Ahli Think Tank bagi Institut Penyelidikan Pembangunan Belia Malaysia (IYRES), Kementerian Belia dan Sukan. Beliau juga merupakan penerima Anugerah Bitara Kriminologi dari Kementerian Dalam Negeri pada tahun 2019 dan Pingat Komisioner Jeneral Penjara (Kelas Pertama) pada tahun 2023. Sehingga April 2025, beliau telah menerbitkan lebih daripada 100 artikel jurnal (tempatan dan antarbangsa) serta menerbitkan 18 buah buku di Penerbit UKM, Penerbit UMS dan Penerbit UUM. Beliau juga merupakan Profesor Adjung di Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia. Beliau juga merupakan pakar rujuk bagi Kementerian Dalam Negeri, Polis Diraja Malaysia, Jabatan Penjara Malaysia, dan banyak lagi. Beliau juga merupakan ‘founding member’ kepada ASEAN Criminological Society dan juga Pan-Asia Cybercrime Investigation and Digital Forensics Interactive Cooperation. Kedua-dua Pertubuhan ini masih dalam proses penubuhan. Pada 2020 dan 2023, beliau dilantik sebagai Country Expert untuk membangunkan Indeks Jenayah Terancang Global di Geneva, Switzerland. Beliau telah melatih ramai pegawai polis kanan dari segi teknik pemprofilan jenayah.
Professor Dr. Mohammad Rahim Kamaluddin is a Professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). He formerly served as the Head of the Integrity and Ombudsman Unit of UKM and Programme Coordinator for Policing Studies, a collaborative initiative between UKM and the Royal Malaysia Police. He is the Founder and Past President, and currently serves as Advisor to the Malaysian Criminological and Correctional Association (MCCA).
Prof. Rahim holds a PhD in Criminology from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Health Campus (2015), and graduated with First Class Honours in Forensic Science from USM in 2011. He was awarded both the Chancellor’s Gold Medal and the Royal Excellence Gold Medal. His groundbreaking doctoral research involved direct interviews with 100 convicted murderers across 10 Malaysian prisons, marking a pioneering national-level study on offender profiling and psychological traits.
His areas of specialisation include criminology, criminal psychology, forensic criminology, social deviance, violence and crime prevention, psychometrics, and offender profiling. Prof. Rahim has secured numerous national and international research grants and is frequently consulted by agencies such as the Ministry of Home Affairs, Royal Malaysia Police, Malaysian Prison Department, and Institute for Youth Research Malaysia (IYRES).
He is a recipient of the Anugerah Bitara Kriminologi (Ministry of Home Affairs, 2019) and the Pingat Komisioner Jeneral Penjara (Kelas Pertama) (Malaysian Prison Department, 2023). As of 2025, he has authored over 100 journal articles, 10 policy papers, and 18 books published by UKM Press, UUM Press, and UMS Press. He is a Life Member of the Asian Criminological Society and serves as Malaysia’s Country Expert for the Global Organized Crime Index (2021, 2023), coordinated by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), Geneva.
azahah abu hassan shaari, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, fauziah ibrahim, siti marziah zakaria, noremy md akhir, nazirah hassan, ateerah abdul razak. (2025). group-based hiv awareness initiative for social work students in malaysia.. - social work with groups. 243 - 260.
tengku elmi azlina tengku muda, mohammad rahim kamaluddin . (2025). emotional intelligence, leadership, and personality types of gifted and talented students: an activity-based approach to developing positive character traits. - journal of information systems engineering and management . 785 - 801.
zeeshan khan, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, jamiah manap, surendran rajaratnam, masnizah mohd, ibrahim maclean chong, farhan navid yousaf, ratna yunita setiyani subardjo. (2025). exploring the role of technology in human trafficking in pakistan: a qualitative study of lived experiences of victims. - plos one. 1 - 16.
razik ridzuan mohd tajuddin, noriszura ismail, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, ahmad azwan amin nordin, mohd firdaus-raih. (2025). imbalance in spatiotemporal analysis of narcotics-related activities: a bibliometric review. - humanities and social sciences communications. 1 - 13.
muhammad amin bujang, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, jamiah hj. manap, mohd. nasir selamat. (2025). the effects of personality traits and perceived organisational injustice on deviant workplace behaviours: a review of the literature. - geografia-malaysian journal of society and space . 18 - 32.
zeeshan khan, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, jamiah manap, surendran rajaratnam, masnizah mohd, ibrahim maclean chong, farhan navid yousaf, ratna yunita setiyani subardjo. (2025). exploring the role of technology in human trafficking in pakistan: a qualitative study of lived experiences of victims. - plos one. 1 - 16.
razik ridzuan mohd tajuddin, noriszura ismail, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, ahmad azwan amin nordin, mohd firdaus-raih. (2025). imbalance in spatiotemporal analysis of narcotics-related activities: a bibliometric review. - humanities and social sciences communications. 1 - 13.
kalaivanan syasyila, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, hilwa abdullah @ mohd nor & paramjit singh jamir singh . (2025). psychosocial determinants of recidivism risk among incarcerated individuals with a history of substance use: a systematic review. - plos one. 1 - 24.
muhammad amin bujang, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, salawati mat basir, shalini munusamy, hee jhee jiow. (2024). impacts of workplace culture on deviant workplace behavior: a systematic review. - sage open. 1-20.
mohammad rahim kamaluddin, shalini munusamy, chong sheau tsuey, hilwa abdullah mohd nor. (2024). relational aggression in romantic relationship: empirical evidence among young female adults in malaysia. - bmc psychology. 1-15.
aedrianee reeza alwi, naji arafat mahat, faezah mohd salleh, seri mirianti ishar, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, mohd radzniwan a. rashid, sharifah nany rahayu karmilla syed hassan. (2024). genetic diversity and forensic statistical support for the 12 x-str markers in the malaysian indian population using qiagen investigator® argus x-12 qs kit. - legal medicine. 1-6.
aedrianee reeza alwi, naji arafat mahat, faezah mohd salleh, seri mirianti ishar, mohamad rahim kamaluddin, mohd radzniwan a. rashid. (2023). internal validation of reduced pcr reaction volume of the qiagen investigator® argus x-12 qs kit from blood samples on fta cards. - journal of forensic sciences. 2103-2115.
nur farah dina ajid, foo keat how, naji arafat mahat, wan nur syuhaila mat desa, mohd rahim kamaluddin, mohammad afiq mohamed huri, hasmerya maarof, dzulkiflee ismail. (2022). counterfeit one hundred malaysian ringgit banknotes discrimination using chemical imaging inspection and pattern recognition. - australian journal of forensic sciences. 695-709.
aida rasyidah azman, naji arafat mahat, roswanira abdul wahab, wan azlina ahmad, jive kasturi puspanadan, mohamad afiq mohamed huri, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, dzulkiflee ismail. (2021). boxbehnken design optimisation of a green novel nanobiobased reagent for rapid visualisation of latent fingerprints on wet, non-porous substrates. - biotechnology letters. 881-898.
nordin, n.h., ahmad, u.k., abdul rahim, n.a., kamaluddin, m.r., ismail, d., muda, n.w., abdul wahab, r., mahat, n.a.. (2020). development patterns of necrophagous flies infesting rabbit carcasses decomposing in mount kapur cave and its surrounding primary forest in kuching, sarawak. - tropical biomedicine. 333-356.
mohd alif jasni, nazirah hassan, fauziah ibrahim, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, sabri sulaiman . (2025). exploring the factors of recidivism from the perspectives of homeless former prisoners, government agency officers, and volunteers. - journal of population and social studies (jpss). 175 - 197.
azahah abu hassan shaari, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, fauziah ibrahim, siti marziah zakaria, noremy md akhir, nazirah hassan, ateerah abdul razak. (2025). group-based hiv awareness initiative for social work students in malaysia.. - social work with groups. 243 - 260.
tengku elmi azlina tengku muda, mohammad rahim kamaluddin . (2025). emotional intelligence, leadership, and personality types of gifted and talented students: an activity-based approach to developing positive character traits. - journal of information systems engineering and management . 785 - 801.
azahah abu hassan shaari, muhammad rahim kamaluddin, zainal abidin, muhammad adnan pitchan, shalini munusamy. (2025). what motivates social media users to share fake news, and what are its impacts? a systematic literature review. - changing societies & personalities. 524 - 547.
kalaivanan syasyila, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, hilwa abdullah @ mohd nor & paramjit singh jamir singh . (2025). psychosocial determinants of recidivism risk among incarcerated individuals with a history of substance use: a systematic review. - plos one. 1 - 24.
balan rathakrishnan, soon singh bikar singh, azizi yahaya, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, noor hassline mohamed, anath rau krishnan, zaizul ab rahman. (2023). the influence of social media use on social connectedness among university students. - international conference on information systems and intelligent applications. 465-476.
balan rathakrishnan, soon singh bikar singh, mohd fahmi ghazali, azizi yahaya, noor hassline mohamed, mohammad rahim kamaluddin. (2022). motivation factors attributed to engaging in online studies amongst public university students. - proceedings of international conference on emerging technologies and intelligent systems icetis 2021. 217-226.
balan rathakrishnan, soon singh bikar singh, mohd fahmi ghazali, azizi yahaya, noor hassline mohammed, mohammad rahim kamaluddin. (2021). motivation factors attributed to engaging in online studies amongst public university students. - proceedings of international conference on emerging technologies and intelligent systems (icetis 2021). 1-10.
vanethai ravindran, yeong yeong lim, mohammad rahim kamaluddin. (2024). jenayah seksual remaja: tripologi, faktor risiko dan pencegahan. - . 57 - 68.
nur saadah mohamad aun, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, daniella maryam mohamed mokhtar, mohd nasir selamat, mejar (b) asri ahmad, mohd fadhil mazlin, muhammad tajuddin abdul rahim, abdul qaiyum borhan, intan nurhaila meor safari, yuslina johari. (2024). perkhidmatan sokongan psikososial. - . 134 - 228.
mohd nasir selamat, daniella mokhtar, mohammad rahim kamaluddin. (2024). jenayah pekerjaan. - . 9-23.
nadiah syariani md shariff, geshina ayu mat saat, mohammad rahim kamaluddin. (2024). jenayah buli di tempat kerja: faktor dan penyelesaian. - . 99-121.
nazirah hassan, fauziah ibrahim, azahah abu hassan shaari. (2024). kepulihan penyalahgunaan dadah. - . 38 - 52.
mohammad rahim kamaluddin, fauziah ibrahim, selven tharmalingam. (2025). perilaku jenayah: isu dan perspektif. - . .
alif jasni, nazirah hassan, fauziah ibrahim, mohammad rahim kamaluddin. (2025). pemerkasaan gelandangan bekas banduan menerusi amalan kerja sosial pemulihan. - . .
mohd suhaimi mohamad, najwa afiqa roshaizad, mohamad rahim kamaluddin. (2025). hubungan tingkah laku impulsif dan kawalan kendiri dengan tingkah laku keganasan dalam kalangan bekas banduan. - akademika : jurnal sains sosial dan kemanusiaan asia tenggara. 184 - 199.
mohammad rahim kamaluddin adibah shuib mohd norzikiri kamaruddin fauziah ibrahim zulkifli mohd nopiah lee lai soon nurakmal ahmad mustaffa malina zulkifli mohammad fadzli ramli . (2024). indeks jenayah rentas sempadan polis diraja malaysia. - . .
vanethai ravindran, yeong yeong lim, mohammad rahim kamaluddin. (2024). jenayah seksual remaja: tripologi, faktor risiko dan pencegahan. - . 57 - 68.
azahah abu hassan shaari, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, fauziah ibrahim, siti marziah zakaria, noremy md akhir, & nazirah hassan . (2024). transformative hiv/aids advocacy: empowering students and communities through education and collaboration. - iucel x knovasi 2024 the congress and innovation competition in teaching and learning . .
azahah abu hassan shaari, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, fauziah ibrahim, siti marziah zakaria, noremy md akhir, & nazirah hassan.. (2024). assessing hiv knowledge among final-year social work students: a preliminary study in malaysia.. - the 14th international symposium of health sciences 2024 (i-sihat 2024). .
azahah abu hassan shaari. (2024). join the conversation: restorative justice principles in substance use disorder (sud) recovery programs.. - 4th annual social work & ecological justice virtual conference. .
mohammad rahim kamaluddin. (2024). act a1726 drug dependents (treatment and rehabilitation) (amendment) 2024. - . .
mohammad rahim kamaluddin adibah shuib mohd norzikiri kamaruddin fauziah ibrahim zulkifli mohd nopiah lee lai soon nurakmal ahmad mustaffa malina zulkifli mohammad fadzli ramli . (2024). indeks jenayah rentas sempadan polis diraja malaysia. - . .
| Geran / Grant | Kolaborator / Collaborator | Status |
|---|---|---|
| LIVED EXPERIENCES OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE RECOVERY INDIVIDUALS WORKING AT COMMUNITY-BASED DRUG TREATMENT ORGANIZATIONS (CBTX). | pertubuhan komuniti cakna terengganu | 94.5% (2023-10-01 sehingga 2025-09-30) |
| LIVED EXPERIENCES OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE RECOVERY INDIVIDUALS WORKING AT COMMUNITY-BASED DRUG TREATMENT ORGANIZATIONS (CBTX). | pondok remaja inabah | 94.5% (2023-10-01 sehingga 2025-09-30) |
| LIVED EXPERIENCES OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE RECOVERY INDIVIDUALS WORKING AT COMMUNITY-BASED DRUG TREATMENT ORGANIZATIONS (CBTX). | persatuan pengasih | 94.5% (2023-10-01 sehingga 2025-09-30) |
| A SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS AND HOTSPOTS DETECTION FOR NARCOTIC-RELATED ACTIVITIES IN MALAYSIA | jabatan siasatan jenayah narkotik, polis diraja malaysia | 75.7% (2023-10-01 sehingga 2026-03-31) |
| PEMBANGUNAN PELAN TINDAKAN REINTEGRASI PENGHUNI PENJARA INDIA: KE ARAH DASAR SOSIAL | jabatan penjara malaysia | 82.7% (2023-12-01 sehingga 2025-12-31) |