Six priorities were established for the Australian Institute of Criminology's research in 2018. These priorities cover a range of contemporary crime and justice concerns, including family and domestic violence, child exploitation material, Indigenous over-representation in the criminal justice system, youth crime, serious and organised crime, and illicit drugs. This book is structured broadly around these six themes, and each paper provides an insight into the AIC's work on that topic.
Contents
Part A: Family and domestic violence
1. Who reports domestic violence to police? A review of the evidence (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 559)
Isabella Voce and Hayley Boxall
2. Targeting repeat domestic violence: Assessing short-term risk of reoffending (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 552)
Anthony Morgan, Hayley Boxall and Rick Brown
3. Is methamphetamine use associated with domestic violence? (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 563)
Christopher Dowling and Anthony Morgan
Part B: Child exploitation
4. Understanding and preventing the onset of child sexual abuse in adolescence and adulthood (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 554)
Nadine McKillop, Susan Rayment-McHugh, Stephen Smallbone and Zoe Bromham
5. Exploring the implications of child sex dolls (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 570)
Rick Brown and Jane Shelling
6. Benevolent harm: Orphanages, voluntourism and child sexual exploitation in South-East Asia (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 574)
Samantha Lyneham and Lachlan Facchini
Part C: Indigenous over-representation in the criminal justice system
7. Diversionary pathways for Aboriginal youth with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 557)
Harry Blagg and Tamara Tulich
8. Impact of the 'Yes, I Can!' adult literacy campaign on interactions with the criminal justice system (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 562)
Jenny Wise, Bridget Harris, Ray Nickson, Bob Boughton and Jack Beetson
9. Indigenous deaths in custody: 25 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (Statistical bulletin no. 17)
Alexandra Gannoni and Samantha Bricknell
Part D: Youth crime
10. Where have all the young offenders gone? Examining changes in offending between two NSW birth cohorts (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 553)
Jason Payne, Rick Brown and Roderic Broadhurst
11. Antisocial behaviour during the teenage years: Understanding developmental risks (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 556)
Kathryn Modecki, Bep Uink and Bonnie Barber
12. Parental offending and children's conduct problems (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 571)
Stacy Tzoumakis, Melanie Burton, Vaughan J Carr, Kimberlie Dean, Kristin R Laurens and Melissa J Green
Part E: Serious and organised crime
13. Exploring the relationship between organised crime and volume crime (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 565)
Rick Brown and Russell G Smith
14. Criminal histories of Australian organised crime offenders (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 567)
Georgina Fuller, Anthony Morgan and Rick Brown
15. Estimating the dark figure of human trafficking and slavery victimisation in Australia (Statistical bulletin no. 16)
Samantha Lyneham, Christopher Dowling and Samantha Bricknell
Part F: Illicit drugs
16. Prescription opioid use among Australian police detainees (Statistical bulletin no. 11)
Tom Sullivan, Andrew Ticehurst and Samantha Bricknell
17. Polydrug use among police detainees (Statistical bulletin no. 14)
Eileen Patterson, Tom Sullivan and Samantha Bricknell
18. How much fentanyl is available on the darknet? (Statistical bulletin no. 18)
Matthew Ball, Roderic Broadhurst and Harshit Trivedi