The bulletin briefly summarises the case for legally coerced drug treatment, describes the different approaches that have been used to implement it, discusses the ethical issues raised by different types of legally coerced drug treatment, and summarises the evidence on the effectiveness of community-based drug treatment with and without legal coercion. The case for, and...

This report deals with criminal cases finalised in 2009 by the New South Wales (NSW) Local, Children’s, District and Supreme Courts. In 2009 there have been significant changes to the way court data is both collected and counted which have affected the continuity of some published court data. Some of these changes have arisen from...

The Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) opened in Kings Cross in May 2001. This paper examines whether there have been (a) increases in the volume of robbery, property crime and drug offences in Kings Cross Local Area Command, or (b) increases in the proportion of Kings Cross drug offences occurring in the immediate vicinity of...

This research involved a series of face-to-face interviews with Compulsory Drug Treatment Program (CDTP) participants.

Two new measures of offence seriousness in NSW are assessed in this Crime and Justice Bulletin. The first measure of offence seriousness, Median Sentence Ranking (MSR), was constructed by identifying the median sentence actually imposed in each Australian Standard Offence Classification group. The data used for this purpose consisted of cases finalised in the NSW...