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.
dayang anita binti abdul aziz;zarina binti abdul latiff;sharifa ezat wan puteh;faizah binti mohd zaki;safinaz binti mohd khialdin;suzaily binti wahab;asfarina binti zanudin;hana binti azhari;mohammad rahim bin kamaluddin. (2025). impact of unintended cyber-distraction-therapy on physical and behavioural development in early childhood. - . .
daniella maryam binti mohamed mokhtar;norshaffika izzaty binti zaiedy nor;mohammad rahim bin kamaluddin;nurul-azza binti abdullah. (2025). workplace bullying and employee well-being: the role of employee silence. - . .
siti noradilah zainal, fauziah ibrahim, ezarina zakaria, wan shahrazad wan sulaiman, mohammad rahim kamaluddin. (2024). reducing recidivism through entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review. - international journal of academic research in business & social sciences. 1620-1634.
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.
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.
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.
norhameza ahmad badruddin, abrahman roseliza-murni, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, abdul rahman ahmad badayai, shalini munusamy. (2024). intervening factors between risks of violence and aggressive behaviours among forensic inpatients: a scoping review. - bmc psychology. 1-16.
balan rathakrishnan, soon singh bikar singh, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, azizi yahaya, zaizul ab rahman. (2023). emotional intelligence as a mediator between parenting style and antisocial behavior among youth in malaysia. - sustainability. 1-15.
loy see mey, rozainee khairudin, tengku elmi azlina tengku muda, hilwa abdullah @ mohd nor, mohammad rahim kamaluddin. (2022). the mediating role of forgiveness and self-efficacy in the relationship between childhood maltreatment and treatment motivation among malaysian male drug addicts. - frontiers in psychology. 1-13.
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.
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.
siti noradilah zainal, fauziah ibrahim, ezarina zakaria, wan shahrazad wan sulaiman, mohammad rahim kamaluddin. (2024). reducing recidivism through entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review. - international journal of academic research in business & social sciences. 1620-1634.
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.
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.
kai li chung, yi shan wong, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, ray bull. (2024). investigative interviewing with suspects: exploring current practices among malaysian police. - international journal of police science and management. 118-128.
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.
mohd nasir selamat, daniella mokhtar, mohammad rahim kamaluddin. (2024). jenayah pekerjaan di malaysia. - . 14.
mohd nasir selamat, daniella mokhtar, mohammad rahim kamaluddin. (2024). jenayah pekerjaan di malaysia. - . 198.
fatin adha murad, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, wan shahrazad wan sulaiman. (2023). jenayah penipuan komersil di malaysia. - . 139.
dayang anita abdul aziz, zarina abdul latiff, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, muhammad azad badrul hisam. (2023). indeks risiko sosial siber. - . 38.
nazira sadiron, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, norruzeyati che mohd nasir. (2022). penyisihan sosial kumpulan marginal. - . 10.
nadiah syariani md shariff, geshina ayu mat saat, mohammad rahim kamaluddin. (2024). jenayah pekerjaan di malaysia. - . 22.
mohd nasir selamat, daniella mokhtar, mohammad rahim kamaluddin. (2024). jenayah pekerjaan di malaysia. - . 14.
mohammad rahim kamaluddin. (2023). penyelidikan kualitiatif: prosedur, praktis dan aplikasi. - . 18.
norruzeyati che mohd nasir, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, mohd alif jasni. (2022). penyisihan sosial kumpulan marginal. - . 33.
nazira sadiron, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, norruzeyati che mohd nasir. (2022). penyisihan sosial kumpulan marginal. - . 10.
habibie ibrahim, norruzeyati che mohd nasir, mohammad rahim kamaluddin. (2024). penyalahgunaan bahan dan intervensi kerja sosial. - . 195.
alif jasni, nazirah hassan, fauziah ibrahim, mohammad rahim kamaluddin. (2024). kehidupan gelandangan bekas banduan. - . 271.
mohd nasir selamat, daniella mokhtar, mohammad rahim kamaluddin. (2024). jenayah pekerjaan di malaysia. - . 198.
dayang anita abdul aziz, zarina abdul latiff, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, muhammad azad badrul hisam. (2023). indeks risiko sosial siber. - . 38.
fatin adha murad, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, wan shahrazad wan sulaiman. (2023). jenayah penipuan komersil di malaysia. - . 139.
daniella maryam binti mohamed mokhtar;norshaffika izzaty binti zaiedy nor;mohammad rahim bin kamaluddin;nurul-azza binti abdullah. (2025). workplace bullying and employee well-being: the role of employee silence. - . .
dayang anita binti abdul aziz;zarina binti abdul latiff;sharifa ezat wan puteh;faizah binti mohd zaki;safinaz binti mohd khialdin;suzaily binti wahab;asfarina binti zanudin;hana binti azhari;mohammad rahim bin kamaluddin. (2025). impact of unintended cyber-distraction-therapy on physical and behavioural development in early childhood. - . .
mohammad rahim kamaluddin. (2023). behind that cute pic may lie a scammer. - the star. 1.
mohammad rahim kamaluddin. (2023). buku garis panduan menangani isu kesihatan mental belia malaysia. - . 1-85.
zarina abdul latiff, dayang anita abdul aziz, sharifa ezat wan puteh, mohammad rahim kamaluddin, faizah mohd zaki, suzaily wahab, hana azhari, safinaz mohd khialdin, mohd farhan irwan fuead. (2023). kajian indeks: an integrated assessment and surveillance of cyber health threats towards cyber resilient families in malaysia. - . 1-24.
| Geran / Grant | Kolaborator / Collaborator | Status |
|---|---|---|
| LIVED EXPERIENCES OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE RECOVERY INDIVIDUALS WORKING AT COMMUNITY-BASED DRUG TREATMENT ORGANIZATIONS (CBTX). | pertubuhan komuniti cakna terengganu | 88.2% (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 | 88.2% (2023-10-01 sehingga 2025-09-30) |
| LIVED EXPERIENCES OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE RECOVERY INDIVIDUALS WORKING AT COMMUNITY-BASED DRUG TREATMENT ORGANIZATIONS (CBTX). | persatuan pengasih | 88.2% (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 | 88.2% (2023-10-01 sehingga 2025-09-30) |