This paper examines the profile of offenders who commenced the Blacktown Traffic Offender Program between 1994 and 2011 and investigates which factors predict re-offending. Method: Descriptive statistics were used to examine the profile of program participants. Logistic regression models were used to determine which participant characteristics were associated with an increased risk of reconviction (for...

After steadily increasing for more than a decade, from mid 2009 the NSW prison population started falling. This paper identifies why this has occurred. Method: The study relied upon administrative data. Corrections data was considered to gauge the size, timing and nature of changes in the prison population. Police recorded crime and court data were...

This paper finds that the Youth Justice Conferences scheme is more cost-effective than the Children’s Court.

This paper provides statistics on crime in New South Wales, covering the 24 months to June 2012. Assaults and malicious damage to property are down, while stealing from a motor vehicle and fraud are up. The incidence of non-domestic assault fell by 8.2 per cent while malicious damage to property fell by 5.6 per cent...

This report by Lawlink aims to investigate: 1) penalties for drug driving; 2) risk of reconviction among drug drivers; and 3) how penalties and reconviction risk vary according to offender characteristics. In 2010, 14.7 per cent of Australians aged 14 years or older reported using an illicit drug in the previous 12 months. Of these...