The audit examined and reported on the AFP's capabilities to provide for current and future demands for policing and law enforcement services to the Commonwealth. This is the review's final report. The report makes 110 findings and 40 recommendations relating to a wide range of topics including the capabilities, operating arrangements and governance of the...

Modest reductions in the rate at which offenders are re-imprisoned would result in substantial savings in prisoner numbers and correctional outlays, according to this report. At present 58 per cent of all persons given a prison sentence are re-imprisoned at some later point in time. For those who are re-imprisoned, the average time to the...

Research consistently demonstrates that the effectiveness of many crime prevention initiatives is reduced by a continual lack of access to adequate crime prevention knowledge and technical skills. This paper suggests the development of a comprehensive national framework for a technical support program to improve the active dissemination of crime prevention knowledge, including research findings, evaluation...

Conflicting and out–of–date internal information policies, multiple databases with varying degrees of security and low staff morale increased the risk of confidential Australian Crime Commission (ACC) intelligence falling into the wrong hands, according to Commonwealth Ombudsman Professor John McMillan. This investigation focused on the policies, practices and controls that the ACC uses to ensure information...

This research was completed for an LLB Honours thesis, which proposed to potentially serve as a pilot for a larger study. By examining sexual assault sentencing and judicial comments from a sample of mostly 2008 judgments in Victoria, this article explores differences in sentencing, focusing on the relationship between the perpetrator and the victim. The...