Publications
Research publications
The Australian Institute of Criminology has been a significant criminal justice publisher since the mid-1970s. Publications cover a range of broad subject areas - arson, corporate crime and fraud, corrections, courts, crime prevention, cybercrime, drugs, organised/transnational crime, policing, property crime, sex crimes, social groups and crime, and violence.
Please note: minor revisions are occasionally made to publications after release. The online versions available on this website will always include any revisions.
Accessing publications
You can obtain AIC publications in a number of ways.
New reports are available for download from the AIC website in both HTML and PDF format.
Recent RPP reports and Monitoring Reports are available as print-on-demand hard copies from the Sydney University Press https://sup-estore.sydney.edu.au/jspcart/cart/Category.jsp?nParentID=35. These can be ordered from the SUP on-line shop and will be processed and dispatched within 3 working days of payment.
RPPs, Monitoring Reports and Trends & issues papers published from the start of the 2011-12 financial year are also available in an e-publication format for tablets and smartphones which have an appropriate e-Pub application.
Publication series
Reports
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Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice
Concise papers that are designed to inform policymakers, researchers and the wider community on current research -
Research and public policy series
In-depth research reports -
Annual reports
Annual reports on research produced by the Institute's monitoring programs as well as the corporate annual reports -
Australian crime: facts and figures
Annual compilation of Australian crime statistics -
Monitoring reports
This series includes annual reports from AIC monitoring programs that capture data across Australia for a range of crime and justice issues. -
Technical and background paper series
This series of technical report contain statistical and methodolgocial material produced as part of the AIC research process - Special Reports
AIC reports or collaborations that are not peer reviewed but are substantive pieces of research. -
Criminology Research Council reports
Reports on outcomes of research funded by the Criminology Research Council.
Fact sheets
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AICrime reduction matters
Innovations in crime prevention -
Bushfire arson bulletins
Fact sheets on a broad range of topics relating to bushfire arson -
Crime facts info
Topical data from recent research by the Australian Institute of Criminology and other relevant research organisations -
High tech crime brief
Introduction to a wide range of key issues in the fight against high tech crime -
Research in practice
Fact sheets, tip sheets and case studies from evidence-based research for practitioners working in the criminal justice field. -
Transnational crime brief
Key insights, issues and developments in the area of transnational crime. -
Crime prevention tip sheets
A series of designed to help communities develop crime prevention projects in their local area
Newsletters
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brief
Newsletter of the Australian Institute of Criminology
Latest publications
2016
- Methamphetamine use and acquisitive crime: Evidence of a relationship
19 October 2016 - Annual report 2015/16
13 October 2016 - Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce: Results of the 2014 online consumer fraud survey
12 August 2016 - The reporting experiences and support needs of victims of online fraud
11 August 2016 - Self-inflicted deaths in Australian prisons
11 August 2016 - Study in prison reduces recidivism and welfare dependence: A case study from Western Australia 2005–2010
2 May 2016 - Use and acceptance of biometric technologies among victims of identity crime and misuse in Australia
29 April 2016 - Responding to unruly airline passengers: The Australian context
25 April 2016 - Brief review of contemporary sexual offence and child sexual abuse legislation in Australia: 2015 update
29 March 2016 - Fraud within the Commonwealth: A census of the most costly
incidents, 2010–11 to 2012–13
9 March 2016 - Assessing the utility of Project STOP in reducing pseudoephedrine diversion to clandestine laboratories
8 March 2016 - Non-offending parents as secondary victims of child sexual assault
7 March 2016 - Methamphetamine in Sydney: Perspectives from DUMA police detainees
4 March 2016 - Australian crime: Facts & figures: 2014
26 February 2016 - Drug Use Monitoring in Australia:
An expansion into the Pilbara
9 February 2016
2015
- Methamphetamine in Perth: Perspectives from DUMA police detainees
21 December 2015 - Methamphetamine in Adelaide: Perspectives from Police Detainees
15 December 2015 - Methamphetamine in Brisbane: Perspectives from DUMA police detainees
14 December 2015 - The social supply of cannabis among young people in Australia
14 December 2015 - Sexting among young people: Perceptions and practices
9 December 2015 - Recent developments in DNA evidence
16 November 2015 - Estimating the costs associated with community justice
13 November 2015 - Evaluating neighbourhood justice: Measuring and attributing outcomes for a community justice program
13 November 2015 - Annual report 2014/15
12 November 2015 - Migrant sex workers in Australia
10 November 2015 - Findings from the DUMA program: Methamphetamine drug market trends
18 September 2015 - Parole in Western Australia: An analysis of parole cancellations of female offenders
14 Septermber 2015 - Identity crime and misuse in Australia: Results of the 2014 online survey
9 September 2015 - Drug use monitoring in Australia: 2013–14 report on drug use among police detainees
23 August 2015 - Drug use monitoring in Australia: 2011–12 report on drug use among police detainees
23 August 2015 - The serious impact and consequences of physical assault
12 August 2015 - Fraud against the Commonwealth Report to Government 2010–11 to 2012–13
31 July 2015 - Understanding the local government role in crime prevention
30 July 2015 - Arson-associated homicide in Australia: A five year follow-up
03 July 2015
- Domestic violence typologies: What value to practice?
30 June 2015 - Prior offending among family violence perpetrators: A Tasmanian sample
30 June 2015 - Identifying first-time family violence perpetrators: The usefulness and utility of categorisations based on police offence records
30 June 2015 - Evaluation of the Victorian Community Crime Prevention Program: Final report
10 June 2015 - Findings from the DUMA program: Internet access, and frequency and nature of use among police detainees
09 June 2015 - How patterns of injecting drug use evolve in a cohort of people who inject drugs
05 June 2015 - Deaths in custody in Australia: National Deaths in Custody Program 2011–12 and 2012–13
04 June 2015 - Determining the impact of opioid substitution therapy upon mortality and recidivism among prisoners: A 22 year data linkage study
03 June 2015 - Adult sex offenders in youth-oriented institutions: Evidence on sexual victimisation experiences of offenders and their offending patterns
02 June 2015 - CCTV use by local government: Findings from a national survey
15 May 2015 - Findings from the DUMA program: Drink and drug driving among police detainees
14 May 2015 - Domestic/family homicide in Australia
05 May 2015 - Indigenous and non-Indigenous homicide in Australia
05 May 2015 - Preventing the onset of youth offending: The impact of the Pathways to Prevention Project on child behaviour and wellbeing
04 May 2015 - Exploring the feasibility of an enhanced monitoring program on human trafficking and slavery
25 February 2015 - Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce: Results of the 2013 online consumer fraud survey
23 February 2015 - Findings from the DUMA program: Impact of reduced methamphetamine supply on consumption of illicit drugs and alcohol
19 February 2015 - Corruption in Australian sport
16 February 2015 - Homelessness and housing stress among police detainees: Results from the DUMA program
12 February 2015 - Explaining the property crime drop: The offender perspective
11 February 2015 - Homicide in Australia: 2010–11 to 2011–12: National Homicide Monitoring Program report
5 February 2015
