This compendium brings together 21 recent studies published by the Australian Institute of Criminology. The first five chapters outline the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced crime, based on rapidly conducted projects that produced some of the most robust available evidence. The remaining chapters reflect the Institute’s research priorities—violence against women and children, transnational serious and organised crime, illicit drugs and youth crime—and provide insight into our work on these topics.
Contents
About the editor
List of contributors
Introduction
Part A: COVID-19
1. The prevalence of domestic violence among women during the COVID-19 pandemic (Statistical Bulletin no. 28)
Hayley Boxall, Anthony Morgan and Rick Brown
2. Social isolation, time spent at home, financial stress and domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 609)
Anthony Morgan and Hayley Boxall
3. Availability of COVID-19 related products on Tor darknet markets (Statistical Bulletin no. 24)
Roderic Broadhurst, Matthew Ball and Chuxuan Jessie Jiang
4. Changes in online gambling during the COVID-19 pandemic: April update (Statistical Bulletin no. 27)
Rick Brown and Amelia Hickman
5. COVID-19 pandemic constricts methamphetamine supply in Perth (Statistical Bulletin no. 29)
Alexandra Voce, James Finney, Natalie Gately and Tom Sullivan
Part B: Violence against women and children
6. Predicting repeat domestic violence: Improving police risk assessment (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 581)
Christopher Dowling and Anthony Morgan
7. Policing repeat domestic violence: Would focused deterrence work in Australia? (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 593)
Anthony Morgan, Hayley Boxall, Christopher Dowling and Rick Brown
8. Australians who view live streaming of child sexual abuse: An analysis of financial transactions (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 589)
Rick Brown, Sarah Napier and Russell G Smith
9. Enhancing evidence-based treatment of child sexual abuse material offenders: The development of the CEM-COPE Program (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 607)
Marie Henshaw, Chelsea Arnold, Rajan Darjee, James RP Ogloff and Jonathan A Clough
Part C: Transnational serious and organised crime
10. Recruitment into organised criminal groups: A systematic review (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 583)
Francesco Calderoni, Gian Maria Campedelli, Tommaso Comunale, Martina E Marchesi and Ernesto U Savona
11. Australian outlaw motorcycle gang involvement in violent and organised crime (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 586)
Anthony Morgan, Christopher Dowling and Isabella Voce
Part D: Illicit drugs
12. The relationship between drug price and purity and population level harm (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 598)
Caitlin Hughes, Shann Hulme and Alison Ritter
13. The price elasticity of demand for illicit drugs: A systematic review (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 606)
Jason Payne, Matthew Manning, Christopher Fleming and Hien-Thuc Pham
14. Street-level drug law enforcement: An updated systematic review (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 599)
Lorraine Mazerolle, Elizabeth Eggins and Angela Higginson
15. Is there fentanyl contamination in the Australian illicit drug market? (Statistical Bulletin no. 21)
Alexandra Voce and Tom Sullivan
16. Fentanyl availability on darknet markets (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 590)
Roderic Broadhurst, Matthew Ball and Harshit Trivedi
17. Methamphetamine dependence and domestic violence among police detainees (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 588)
Anthony Morgan and Alex Gannoni
Part E: Youth justice
18. Care-experienced children and the criminal justice system (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 600)
Andrew McGrath, Alison Gerard and Emma Colvin
19. The costs of Indigenous and non-Indigenous offender trajectories (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 594)
Dr Troy Allard, Dr Molly McCarthy and Professor Anna Stewart
20. What are the characteristics of effective youth offender programs? (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 604)
Kamarah Pooley
21. Youth justice in Australia: Themes from recent inquiries (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 605)
Garner Clancey, Sindy Wang and Brenda Lin
Index