Report
Criminal justice responses to child sexual abuse material offending: a systematic review and evidence and gap map
This report provides the world’s first systematic review of criminal justice responses to child sexual abuse material (CSAM) offending.
Report
Never let a crisis go to waste: social policy opportunities from COVID-19
In this paper, the authors share a range of ideas relating to health, labour markets, the tax and transfer system, gender equality, education, housing, and criminal justice. The aim is to provide an optimistic, forward-looking counterpoint to what has undoubtedly been a catastrophic year.
Report
The impact of arrest and seizure on drug crime and harms: a systematic review
Drawing on the Global Policing Database (GPD), this review assesses the impact of supplier arrests and seizures on drug crime, drug use, drug price, drug purity and drug harm outcomes.
Report
Street-level drug law enforcement: an updated systematic review
This updated review uses the Global Policing Database (GPD) to capture evaluations of the impact of street-level law enforcement interventions on drug crime and drug-related calls-for-service. The GPD is an online searchable database designed to capture all published and unpublished experimental and quasi-experimental impact evaluations...
Working paper
School truancy and welfare receipt dynamics in early adulthood: a longitudinal study
This study’s results are relevant to academics, policy makers and practitioners, both in Australia and overseas, in the pursuit of evidence-based policy that makes a positive, sustained impact on truancy: a perennial and costly social problem.