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"Scoping studies and baseline data collection for an evaluation of best-practice policing interventions augmented by collaboration with emergency medicine and local community agencies to reduce alcohol-related assault".

The connection between drug use and criminal activity is frequently debated in the community. The Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) program, managed by the Australian Institute of Criminology, is focused on people who come into contact with the criminal justice system to provide specialised data that cannot be found in routine administrative data collections. As part of its quarterly survey, DUMA collects information on the age of first and regular use of seven classes of drugs, as well as the age of first arrest.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
  • Terminology
• Abstract
• Executive summary
• Introduction
• Literature review
  • Social determinants of incarceration
  • Systemic bias
  • Conclusion
• Research design and methodology
  • Research aims
  • The choice for qualitative research
  • The active involvement of Indigenous people with lived experience
  • Methodology
  • Western Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms
• Executive summary
• Introduction
• Measuring alcohol-related crime: An overview of research, policy and practice
• Police information systems and the recording of alcohol involvement in crime
• Other indicators of alcohol involvement in crime
• Measuring alcohol-related crime: Conceptual, definitional and practical considerations
• Towards national measures of alcohol-related crime
• Conclusion
• References
• Appendix A: Interview schedule

• Annex A : Taxi driver safety study: retrospective questionnaire, drivers (PDF 27kB)
• Annex B : Taxi driver safety study: driver interview questionnaire (PDF 20kB)