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Alcohol and homicide in Australia

A key finding of this research is that alcohol is equally likely to be implicated in intimate-partner homicides as it is in all other homicides
Police drug diversion: a study of criminal offending outcomes

This report looks at the structure and effectiveness of drug diversion programs run by policing agencies in the Australian state and territories and compares offending behaviour before and after program attendance

The Queensland Drug Court: a recidivism study of the first 100 graduates

This paper considers the Queensland Drug court's attempt to reduce reoffending by drug-dependent offenders with a long history of criminal offending and heavy drug use

Recidivism in Australia: findings and future research

What policy makers would like to measure is often not the same as researchers are able to measure, given the limitations on appropriate data and available information

A discrete-time survival study of drug use and property offending: implications for early intervention and treatment

The report examines the connection between drug use and crime and uses data from a survey of prisoners to determine the risk factors in the likelihood of escalating to regular offending and the intervention and treatment options with the greatest chance of diverting this development

Specialty courts: current issues and future prospects

Specialty courts are a response of the criminal justice system to specific problem behaviours and associated issues, such as drug use or domestic violence

Alcohol, drugs and crime: a study of juveniles in detention

Jeremy Prichard and Jason Payne surveyed 370 young people in juvenile detention centres around Australia with the aim of understanding their offending patterns, links with drug and alcohol use, and risk factors

Final report on the North Queensland Drug Court

Jason Payne evaluates the implementation, operation and outcomes of the pilot program for 26 months from its inception in 2002

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