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Proceedings of a conference held 12-14 May 1992

Contents

• Welcome address
  Professor Duncan Chappell
• Characteristics of homicide in Australia 1990-91
  Heather Strang
• Preventing homicide through trial and error
  Lawrence W. Sherman
• A scenario of masculine violence: confrontational homicide
  Kenneth Polk
• Hot spots for violence: the environment of pubs and clubs
  Professor Ross Homel and Dr Steve Tomsen
• Homicide: the Northern Territory perspective
  William L. Goedegebuure

Proceedings of a conference held 17-19 July 1989

Contents

• Delinquency prevention: individual control or social development?
  Robert Semmens
• The Youth and the Law Project: community crime prevention in action
  Youth and staff from the Youth and the Law Project
• Three years of youth participation in the community
  John Engel
• Child abuse - no way!
  Axelle Moutia
• The entertainment group forum project
  Youth and the Law Project
• How young people see school: this is no ship of fools
  Roger Slee

The National Deaths in Custody Program (NDICP) is responsible for monitoring the extent and nature of deaths in police, prison and juvenile custody. Since 1980, there has been a total of 1,879 deaths in custody - 1,161 in prison custody, 701 in police custody (and custody-related operations) and 17 in juvenile custody (Joudo & Curnow 2008). As prison deaths account for most deaths in custody, trends in prison deaths will be reflected in overall deaths. Between 1980 and 2006, three trends have emerged in the total number of deaths in custody recorded each year.

Findings from the Australian Institute of Criminology's National Deaths in Custody Program (NDICP) 2002 Annual Report revealed that there were a total of 69 deaths in custody in Australia. Fifty of these deaths were in prison custody and 19 were in police custody and custody-related police operations. One in five (20 per cent) of all custodial deaths involved Indigenous persons (n=14) during 2002. Of these, eight occurred in prison facilities and six occurred whilst in the custody of police.

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