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The Australian Institute of Criminology's Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) program provides information through urinalysis and interviews on illegal drug use among people detained in a police station or watchhouse. The chart below highlights the differences between the nine sites in adult male detainees testing positive to cannabis, methylamphetamine, heroin and cocaine during 2006. Consistent across the sites, cannabis was the most widely used drug, with a range of 41 to 67 percent of detainees testing positive.

The explanatory notes describe the scope and methodology of the Australian Sexual Offence Statistical (ASOS) collection and data presented on the Sexual offending dashboard.

• Link to first edition: The status of laws on outlaw motorcycle gangs in Australia (Research in practice summary no. 02, 12 June 2009)

Second edition, March 2010

This project was funded by the Crime Prevention Branch of the Criminal Justice Division, Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department.