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A Matter of Crime, Episode 2: How do we reduce the risk of terrorism?

It’s one of society’s great conundrums, how best to counter violent extremism, that has become a part of modern life. In this episode, we speak… Read More

A Matter of Crime, Episode 1: Should Australia have a sex offenders registry?

In this episode, we speak to Griffith University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice senior lecturer Dr Danielle Harris about whether public registers should… Read More

The Sydney Immigrant Survey: Final Technical Report

By Kristina Murphy,… Read More

Exploring the impact of retirement on police officers’ wellbeing

By Lyndel Bates, Elise Sargeant and Christine Carney* This brief is based on the following paper published by the authors: Carney, C.,… Read More

Press freedom in Australia needs much more than piecemeal protection

By Keiran Hardy This article first appeared on The Interpreter, published by the Lowy Institute. This week in the Australian parliament, the Joint… Read More

The enforcement of young driver behaviour within graduated driver licensing systems

By Lyndel Bates This brief is based on the following paper: Bates, L., Rodwell, D. & Matthews, S. (2019)… Read More

Australia New Zealand Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abuse Biennial Conference

The 9th biennial Australia New Zealand Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abuse (ANZATSA) international research, theory and practice conference was co-organised by GCI member… Read More

Crime prevention and countering violent extremism

By Keiran Hardy This brief is based on the following paper: Hardy, K. (2020). A crime prevention framework for CVE. Terrorism and Political… Read More

Electronic monitoring bracelets are only crime deterrence tools, they can’t ‘fix’ offenders

By Lacey Schaefer This article was first published on The man arrested after a deadly… Read More

Charging the Christchurch mosque attacker with terrorism could be risky – but it’s important

By Keiran Hardy This article was first published on On Tuesday, the gunman in the Christchurch mosque shootings was … Read More