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A recent report, commissioned by the Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy and prepared by the Australian Institute of Criminology, has highlighted a number of important issues associated with drink spiking, including estimates of prevalence, prevention and education strategies and laws governing drink spiking. A range of data was collected on information about victim's experiences. This data found that drink spiking is under-reported to the police, medical agencies and other authorities. Overall, only one quarter of victims who rang into the hotline reported the incident to police.

According to a report released by the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR), the recent heroin drought in Australia has resulted in dramatic drops in heroin use and expenditure as well as in the number of heroin overdoses. The BOCSAR report cites results of urinalysis testing of arrestees in Bankstown and Parramatta, conducted as part of the Australian Institute of Criminology's Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) project.

Second edition

Note: Earlier edition of this title published in 1987.

This collection reproduces and updates some of the major reports published during the first few years of the Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice series. The series, begun in July 1986, has attracted considerable media and public attention because it deals with contemporary crime and justice issues in an intelligent and comprehensible manner.

Proceedings of a seminar held 1-2 October 1986

Contents

• Introduction
  
  David Biles
• The role of an ombudsman in curbing government illegality
  
  Professor Jack Richardson
• Role of Auditors General
  
  Peter L. Lidbetter
• Government illegality and public service boards
  
  Emeritus Professor D.C. Corbett
• Royal commissions
  
  Terry Higgins
• Parliamentary committees
  
  Senator Janine Haines

Proceedings of a seminar held 29-30 September 1987

Contents

• Overview
  
  Julia Vernon
• Welcome
  
  David Biles

Controlling prison crowding - the Victorian approach

• The political imperative
  
  Jim Kennan
• Sentencers' reactions
  
  Murray Gerkens
• Practical aspects of Victoria's approach
  
  Bill Kidston

Commentaries on Victoria's approach

• Whose gaols? Whose goals?
  
  Alec Lobban
• A police perspective on prison populations
  
  

Proceedings of the third seminar, University of New South Wales, 16-18 February 1981

Contents

• Preface
• Objectives of the seminar

Proceedings - Monday 16 February

• Opening address - The development of information in criminology
  W. Clifford
• The role of the J.V. Barry Memorial Library of the Australian Institute of Criminology and the future of the criminal justice library system
  Mary Gosling

Summary of discussion

• Aborigines and the law: the methodology of a bibliography

Proceedings of a National Conference on Rape Law Reform, held in Hobart, Tasmania from 28-30 May 1980

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Resolutions

I. The United States example

• Reforming rape laws - The Michigan experience
  Virginia Blomer Nordby

II. The substantive law

• Rape law reform - proposals for reforming the substantive law
  Helen Coonan
• Law reform and rape under the Tasmanian Criminal Code
  W.J.E. Cox

Today the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has released its Deaths in Custody in Australia 2023–24 report. From 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024, there were 104 deaths in custody, 6 less than in 2022–23.

In 2024–25, 33 of the 113 deaths in custody were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the largest number of Indigenous deaths in custody since 1979–80.

Companion document to NDLERF monograph series no. 34, Developing the capacity and skills for national implementation of a drug law enforcement performance measurement framework