As police forces worldwide increase the number of specialist units within their organisational structures, they require innovative performance measurement frameworks to properly evaluate the effectiveness of these units within the broader policing context. Specialist units are generally either technical in nature (eg forensics) or operational (eg drug or fraud squads). This report describes the development...

This paper reports on a review of the Australian Capital Territory’s Family Violence Intervention Program, which provides an interagency response to family violence matters. The scope of the review was to analyse the program’s activities and outcomes using 2007–08 data provided by participating agencies, supported by in-depth interviews with key stakeholders including victims whose matters...

This research from life course and place-based criminology will be used to explore whether some communities generate chronic and costly crime offenders. There has recently been renewed interest in place-based approaches for targeting crime prevention, such as justice reinvestment. The Semi-Parametric Group-based Method was used to identify non-normative or chronic offenders in the 1990 Queensland...

This report provides a stand-alone description of how the Australian Institute of Criminology’s Anti-money Laundering/Counter-terrorism Financing Survey of regulated businesses was undertaken, emphasising the importance of understanding the methodology and design of this national census of regulated businesses in Australia. As is often the case with social scientific research of a quantitative nature, the detail...

In Australia, legislation was introduced in 2006 that requires specified businesses to forward reports of certain financial transactions to the Australian Government agency, AUSTRAC. This report examines the findings of the survey on the perceptions of Australian businesses to the reporting regime in Australia. As part of the Australian Institute of Criminology’s research in to...