The over-representation of children from child protection backgrounds in the youth justice system is a significant and longstanding concern. This report presents selected findings of a detailed case file audit of 300 crossover children appearing before the Victorian Children’s Court in 2016–17.

This study is a collaboration between Monash University and the Children’s Court of Victoria. The study set out to examine the extent to which children and young people before the Criminal Division of the Victorian Children’s Court were also clients of the statutory Child Protection system, and to better understand the characteristics of this group.

Established in 1999 by the Australian Government, the Australian Institute of Criminology’s Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) program collects drug use and criminal justice information from police detainees at watch houses and police stations across Australia. This report outlines findings from data collected between January and December 2018.

This report describes the 229 homicide incidents recorded by Australian state and territory police between 1 July 2015 and 30 June 2016.

This report describes the 227 homicide incidents recorded by Australian state and territory police between 1 July 2014 and 30 June 2015.