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The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) is Australia’s national research and knowledge centre on crime and justice, compiling trend data and disseminating research and policy advice. The AIC informs crime and justice policy and practice in Australia by undertaking, funding and disseminating policy-relevant research of national significance, by generating a crime and justice evidence base, and by establishing a national knowledge centre.

Our aim is to increase public awareness of the research the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) undertakes to inform crime and criminal justice policy and practice.

The AIC has researchers to comment on a range of criminology issues such as:

The Australian Institute of Criminology is located in the Australian Capital Territory.

Postal address

GPO Box 1936, CANBERRA CITY, ACT 2601

General enquiries

Contact officer
Email: front.desk@aic.gov.au
Phone: (02) 6260 9200

Library

The Library supports the information needs of the Australian Institute of Criminology and is the Institute’s national knowledge centre on crime and justice.

Undertaking research is the core function of the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC). The AIC conducts research on a range of crime and justice issues to provide timely, policy-relevant research to the Australian Government and other key stakeholders.

The research priorities for the AIC are set annually by the Director, in consultation with the Criminology Research Advisory Council. In 2024-25 the research priorities are:

Joint release by the Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety Limited (ANROWS), Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), and the Australian Institute of Family Studies.

With about seventy women killed by their partners or ex-partners each year, killing an intimate partner is the most common form of homicide in Australia.

Alarmingly, 2020 may well see that number rise, as self-isolation measures designed to contain COVID-19 are likely to exacerbate abuse and violence against women and their children.

Joint release by The Australian National University (ANU) and the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC).

Vendors on the dark web are selling Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and drugs marketed as coronavirus vaccines or cures at high cost, according to a new study from The Australian National University (ANU).  

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Abstract
• Introduction
  • Methods
• Incidents of theft and stolen firearms
  • Number of incidents
  • Number of stolen firearms
  • Single and multiple firearm thefts
  • Firearm type
  • Firearm category
  • Registration status
• Characteristics of theft incidents
  • Location
  • Remoteness
  • Type of offence
  • Theft of other items
  • Method of entry and access
  • Firearm security
  • Recovery of firearms