This audit assessed how Information and Communications Technology systems and processes are used to deliver an emergency service response. Overview Victorians rely on emergency services organisations during emergencies and crisis incidents, and expect a prompt and efficient response to any emergency. This audit assessed how Information and Communications Technology systems and processes are used to...

Examines how community-based order conditions were used in the Magistrates’ Court between July 2007 and June 2009 and how offender and offence characteristics differ for offenders who did and did not receive supervision. Executive summary This report examines the relationship between conditions imposed on offenders as part of a community-based sentence and subsequent reoffending. Specifically...

Selected findings from a national survey examining social norms, attitudes and beliefs toward alcohol and intoxication among Victorians aged 16 years and older.

Executive summary: This report has been prepared to assist the courts and those working in the criminal justice system to understand the operation of baseline medians as set out in the Sentencing Amendment (Baseline Sentences) Act 2014 (Vic) (‘the Act’) and some of the implications for current sentencing practices. The Act provides that the baseline...

This report argues that a high number of Australians believe that violence and rape can be excused.