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Delivering crime prevention : making the evidence work

Carlton Crest Hotel, Sydney
22 November 2005

Introduction

This conference examined the role of evidence-based policy (EBP) approaches in the development and delivery of crime prevention policies and programs in Australia today. The different models for EBP programs were critically assessed in terms of their appropriateness and effectiveness in informing and improving practical crime prevention policy and on-ground working. Barriers to the successful implementation of evidence-based initiatives were reviewed and possible solutions explored.

Conference papers

• Facing the challenge of delivering evidence-based policy programmes
  Sandra Nutley, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
• The consequences of poor evidence, responding to Aboriginal crime (Paper not available)
  Brendan Thomas, Crime Prevention Division, Attorney General's Department, New South Wales
• Ten arguments against evidence-based crime prevention policy : an assessment of their validity
  Don Weatherburn, Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, New South Wales
• Moving developmental prevention from 'success in miniature' to mainstream practice that improves outcomes : can it be done? (Paper not available)
  Ross Homel, Griffith University
• The Campbell Collaboration : what works in criminal justice
  Peter Grabosky, Australian National University

Evidence and the criminal justice system

• Magistrates early referral into treatment : evaluation and 'real world' challenges | Download presentation slides
  Bruce Flaherty, Jane Bolitho and Sandra Crawford, Attorney General's Department, New South Wales
• Crossing the thin blue line : integrating alcohol harm research into policing practice
  Allan Trifonoff and Tim Pfitzner, South Australia Police

Working with communities

• Targeted programming : evidence and expectations
  Garner Clancey, CHD Partners; and Peter Borg, NSW Police
• Aboriginal community patrols : achieving best practice in the local management of order and community safety (Paper not available)
  Giullietta Valuri and Harry Blagg, University of Western Australia

Regulation and technology

• Corporate governance and compliance : preventive measure or just another fad?
  Angus Young, University of Technology Sydney
• Biometric solutions to identity related crime : evidence versus policy
  Dr Russell Smith, Australian Institute of Criminology

Using evidence in crime prevention planning

• Maximising outcomes in community crime prevention plans
  Patrick Shepherdson, Crime Prevention Division, Attorney General's Department, New South Wales; Kate Bennett, Office of Crime Prevention, Western Australia; and Jessica Anderson, Australian Institute of Criminology
• Crime prevention problem solving : essential elements
  Adrian Cherney, University of Queensland

Crime prevention and young people

• Evaluation, policy and practice : collaborating across agencies to evaluate a project to improve outcomes for children engaging in anti-social behaviour
  Julia Tresidder, Australian Institute of Criminology; and Rae Markham, Office of Crime Prevention, Western Australia
• Using local government planning regulations to enhance young people's access to shopping centre space : a case study of the Broadway Shopping Centre redevelopment (Paper not available)
  Rebecca Pinkstone, University of Western Sydney

Approaches to local crime prevention work

• Making 'evidence' work in community crime prevention
  John Mallett, Department of Communities, Queensland
• StAMP mentoring program : a community strengthening program for people who have been in prison
  Liz Collyer, Marrickville Council, New South Wales; and Alison Churchill, Emily Lenton and Caroline Glass-Pattison, Community Restorative Centre

Using evidence in crime prevention planning

• Trying to make the evidence fit : local crime prevention planning
  Garner Clancey, CHD Partners
• The kids and domestic violence project (Paper not available)
  Mary Willis, Violence Against Women Specialist Unit, New South Wales; and Lillian Gomez, Lismore City Council, New South Wales

Prevention and the criminal justice system

• Making evidence work when there is none : the value of oral testimony (Paper not available)
  Mandy Young and Marcia Ella-Duncan, Attorney General's Department, New South Wales
• Safe at home : a criminal justice framework for responding to family violence in Tasmania
  Elizabeth Little, Department of Justice, Tasmania

Approaches to local crime prevention work

• Graffiti : local solutions, local issues
  Jenny Coppock, Auburn Council, New South Wales
• Burglar Beware : WA's response to the challenge of being the burglary capital of Australia
  Bernie Durkin, Office of Crime Prevention, Western Australia

Policing

• Evidence-informed policy and practice in policing : the challenge of how to bridge the knowledge gap
  David Bradley, Victoria Police
• Partnerships in policing and evidence-based practice in crime prevention : are they incompatible?
  Catherine Layton and Christine Jennett, Charles Sturt University

Working with communities

• Community crime prevention : a new Australian Government funding initiative (Paper not available)
  Rebecca Olsen, Australian Government Attorney-General's Department
• Crime prevention begins with children and families : establishing the family support component of the Pathways to Prevention project in Brisbane
  Cherie Lamb, Pathways to Prevention Project and Griffith University; and Ross Homel and Kate Freiberg, Griffith University

Situational crime prevention

• Designing out crime : from evidence to action
  Paul Cozens, Office of Crime Prevention, Western Australia

Working with communities

• We have evidence about community consultations. What do we do with it? (Paper not available)
  John Casey and Margaret Mitchell, Charles Sturt University
• To serve or not to serve : the problematic question of alcohol management in Queensland (Paper not available)
  Gordana Blazevic, Blaze Consulting

Getting evidence into practice

• Creative strategies to link research and policy
  Ruth Lawrence, Attorney General's Department, New South Wales
• Bringing data up to speed
  Tomas Lopata and David Bennett, Attorney General's Department, New South Wales

Prevention and the criminal justice system

• When is community protection putting the community at risk? : questions arising from international community notification laws in managing sex offenders in the community
  Jason Freeland and William Wainwright, Corrections Victoria
• Victoria Police study on repeat family violence
  Leanne Sargent and Sandra Russell, Victoria Police