395 research outputs found
Problem solving for crime prevention
No full textThis paper by Adrian Cherney uses existing literature to highlight the place of problem solving in crime prevention, and the need for flexibility, responsiveness, and an understanding of context in using problem solving techniques. It calls for problem solving to play a greater role in the efforts of criminologists to develop crime prevention programs, and stresses the need for the recording and exchange of information between crime prevention practitioners
A Case Study of Crime Prevention/Community Safety Partnerships in Victoria
No full textThis article discusses and analyses the operation of community safety partnerships initiated under the Victorian program Safer Cities and Shires. It looks at how they operated and aims to identify factors that impacted on the dynamics of local partnerships. The author argues that broader State government policy and action (or inaction) undermined the effective operation of local partnerships formed under Safer Cities and Shires. The lessons from this case study highlight that without commitment to the devolution of resources, authority and decision making powers, partnerships will struggle to effectively deliver State-wide policies on crime prevention and community safety
The Sydney Immigrant Survey: Final Technical Report
No full textThis technical report presents the methodology and data from the Sydney Immigrant Survey; a survey administered in 2018 and 2019 in Sydney, Australia. The data collection was undertaken as part of an Australian Research Council (ARC) Funded Project awarded to Professor Kristina Murphy, Associate Professor Adrian Cherney, Dr Elise Sargeant, and Professor Ben Bradford from Griffith University, the University of Queensland, and University College London, respectively1. Griffith University administered the Grant project. The title of the grant was: Policing in a Multicultural Society: Is Procedural Justice the Answer? (Grant Number DP170101149). The following sections of the report present the background literature informing the grant project, the aims of the project, and the methodology and summary of the findings obtained from the survey. The survey instrument that was used for the project is presented at the back of this report.Full Tex
Understanding and Documenting Anti-homosexual Sentiment
No full textThis article is divided into three interrelated lines of discussion. First, an examination of the origin or anti-homosexual sentiment is presented; second, while anti-homosexual sentiment may have a universal source, it is experienced in a non-universal manner by lesbian and gay men and third, an analysis of anti-homosexual sentiment is best achieved through qualitative research
Trust as a regulatory strategy
No full textGrowing scholarship hypothesises that presupposing trust in another party can actually secure more consistently the type of performance desired, with there being a necessity to build trust responsive mechanisms into a number of arenas due to the particular dynamics of trust relationships that see consistently the achievement of collaborative alternatives. The productive potential of transforming the regulatory environment based upon trust relationships presents the opportunity of securing greater compliance and mutually beneficial outcomes. While there are a number of theoretical and policy concerns with this theorising, it provides scope for identifying options that afford the greatest potential rewards for parties involved
A Letter from Australia: Doing Crime Prevention Research: A Personal Reflection
No full textIt is important for criminologists conscious of aware of the challenges policy makers and practitioners face in translating official policy statements and theories of crime prevention into working practices, empathetic to the crisis they face. Doing so does not diminish ones objectivity, but can actually enhance comprehension of the contingent nuances of crime prevention policy and practice. The work of C. Wright Mills’ provides a framework for attaining such insights. In a similar vain the "what works" paradigm needs to pay far greater attention to the inherently contingent nature of crime prevention, with the delivery of programs and strategies far harder than assumed. The weakness of the position is that it ignores the "enabling conditions" that need to exist to ensure "best practice" is followed in practice. The examination of these issues are grounded in the authors own experience and observations of conducting research on crime prevention in the Australian state of Victoria from the late 1990s to early 2000
The Role of Local Government in Crime Prevention: An Overview
No full textIn Australia local government has played a key role in pro-active crime reduction, with it since 1980s partnering with different organisations at both state and local levels to address causes of offending. Crime prevention policies developed by state and federal governments have relied heavily on local government to resource and implement local partnerships and crime prevention plans. Policies implemented in Victoria, NSW and Queensland have relied upon some level of local government participatio
Australian survey indicates policy-makers still have major reservations about assigning priority to academic research
No full textThe disparity between academics’ perception of the impact of their research and the opinions of policy-makers was recently underlined by a team of researchers from the University of Queensland who undertook cross-sectional surveys and semi-structured interviews with social science academic researchers and personnel in policy-relevant roles in public sector agencies. Michele Ferguson, Brian Head, Adrian Cherney and Paul Boreham look at some of their key findings from the study and offer suggestions for how to improve partnerships between academics and public sector staff
The governance of illicit synthetic drugs
No full text• The focus of this report is on amphetamine type substances (ATS) mainly amphetamine, methamphetamine and ecstasy (i.e. MDMA). • Throughout the lifecycle of an illicit synthetic drug there are a number of individuals or institutions in a position to reduce supply. • The challenge for law enforcement is to find the means of leveraging these external institutions in furtherance of supply reduction. • The aim of the project has been to: 1. Identify concrete examples of law enforcement agencies harnessing external institutions (public, private and non-profit) in furtherance of amphetamine and other illicit synthetic drug control. 2. Identify objective, replicable measures of each partnership’s institutional properties, and their impacts. 3. Analyse the strengths and weaknesses of each. 4. Disseminate findings to Australasian law enforcement agencies. • The research has focused on strategies adopted by law enforcement agencies overseas. • In-depth evaluation of diversion control partnerships in Australia has yet to be conducted. • The research involved fieldwork in Asia, Europe and the United States, where interviews were conducted with law enforcement, regulatory authorities and private sector groups. • There are a number of operational challenges police face in engaging external organisations and groups in furtherance of illicit synthetic drug control
Bending Granite? Recent Attempts at Changing Police Organisational Structures in Australia: the Case of Victoria Police
No full textSpecifically the discussion is divided into five parts: first, we outline the organisational restructuring that has been introduced under LPP; second, we assess the tension between the rhetoric and reality of police reform; third, we link the contents of the reforms embodied under LPP to broader shifts in the nature of policing and governance; fourth, we raise issues concerning the democratic content of LPP and the potential tensions and conflicts within the form and procedures for ‘shared decision-making’; and finally, we conclude by addressing the initial question raised by Guyot - the extent to which it can or cannot be argued that today changing a police organisation in Australia is akin to ‘bending granite’
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