This final report makes 26 recommendations for reforms to enhance the effectiveness of adjourned undertakings. These recommendations are the culmination of the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council's extensive two-year review of adjourned undertakings and related orders in Victoria.

This study explores the role of offender depression within a sample of 199 cases of male-perpetrated intimate partner homicide in Australia, as described by judges in sentencing remarks.

The authors of this report argue that if Australian governments reformed sentencing so that non-violent low-risk offenders were not detained at taxpayer expense, but rather were put to work in industries which urgently need workers, this could deliver substantial benefits to taxpayers without compromising community safety.

The Queensland Sentencing Advisory Council has released this brief, which examines the sentencing of children aged 10–13 between 2005–06 to 2021–22.

Prepared for the Northern Territory Aboriginal Justice Agreement Governance Committee, this report outlines the strong evidence that community-based and culturally responsive justice approaches are more effective in achieving a reduction in reoffending and in preventing crime.