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2025 Applied Research in Crime and Justice Conference
Conference program 2025 (PDF, 237.3 KB) pages)
Conference handbook 2025 - program and abstracts (PDF, 491.1 KB) (20 pages)
Keynote presentations
Access the keynote presentations from the 2025 Applied Research in Crime and Justice Conference.
Evidence-based strategies to break the incarceration cycle
What data can tell us about Closing the Gap?
Beyond the Numbers: Centering Aboriginal voices
Explore the intersection between DFV & substance abuse: Policy that can be put into practice
Conference presentations
View the full presentations and slide decks from all conference speakers.
| Presenters | Organisation | Title | Slides (pptx/pdf) | YouTube video |
| Sam Alderton-Johnson | Impact Policy | CoDesign in Practice: Embedding Aboriginal Voices in Justice Research | Slides (PPTX, 9.1 MB) | YouTube |
| Julie Barkworth | Corrective Services NSW | Implementation of digital tablets in NSW correctional centres | Slides (PPTX, 11.5 MB) | YouTube |
| Hayley Boxall | Australian National University | Restorative justice for DFSV | Slides (PPTX, 491.3 KB) | YouTube |
| Selwyn Button | Productivity Commission | What data insights can tell us about Closing the Gap? | Slides (PPTX, 2.7 MB) | YouTube |
| Rebekah Chapman & Deborah Kelso | Queensland Police Service | Reframing relationships and reducing crime: The long-term evaluation of a Queensland Police Service protective security initiative for First Nations communities | Slides (PPTX, 4.6 MB) (PPTX, 4.6 MB) | YouTube |
| Fan Cheng | NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics & Research | Evidence-based typology for the perpetrators of domestic and family violence in NSW | Slides (PDF, 1.2 MB) | YouTube |
| Darcy Coulter | Curtin University | The relationship between diagnoses of mental illness and substance use disorders, and reincarceration among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults. | Slides (PPTX, 10.6 MB) | YouTube |
| Edwina Crawford | Aboriginal Services Unit, NSW Department of Communities and Justice | Beyond the Numbers: Centering Aboriginal Voices in Justice Data | YouTube | |
| Jennifer Doleac | Arnold Ventures | Evidence-based strategies to break the incarceration cycle | Slides (PDF, 3.1 MB) | YouTube |
| Andrea Giovannetti | Australian Catholic University | A Theory of Competition and Cooperation between Organized Crime Groups | Slides (PDF, 7.6 MB) | YouTube |
| Garner Clancey, Jackie Fitzgerald, Anne Hollonds, Peta MacGillivray, Superintendent Greg Moore, Judge Nell Skinner | Panel discussion on trends in youth crime and implications for practice and policy | Slides (PPTX, 19.8 MB) | ||
| Jake Graceffo | NSW Treasury | Impact of COVID-19 stay-at-home orders on domestic violence | Slides (PPTX, 1.9 MB) | YouTube |
| Jonathan Gu | NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics & Research | Did a High Court decision on doli incapax shift court outcomes for 10-13 year olds? | Slides (PPTX, 3.0 MB) | YouTube |
| Cathy Humphreys | University of Melbourne | Exploring the intersection between DFV and substance abuse and the policy responses that can be put into practice | Slides (PPTX, 11.3 MB) | YouTube |
| Molly McCarthy | Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University | Comparing historical cohorts of justice-involved young people: what social and ecological risks are associated with growth in high frequency and high harm youth offending? | Slides (PPTX, 726.5 KB) | YouTube |
| Laura Hidderley & Ashley Pearson | Queensland Sentencing Advisory Council & University of the Sunshine Coast | Community Views on the Seriousness of Sexual Offending and Comparison to Sentencing Outcomes | Slides (PPTX, 1021.8 KB) | YouTube |
| Apriel Jolliffe Simpson | The University of Waikato | Understanding types of poly-victimisation | Slides (PDF, 9.7 MB) | YouTube |
| Kristen Sobeck | Australian National University | The impact of domestic violence on the employment, educational and mental health outcomes of young women | Access working paper | |
| Benjamin Spivak & Troy McEwan | Swinburne University of Technology | Why accurate assessment of family violence homicide risk is not possible | Slides (PDF, 1.1 MB) | YouTube |
| Hilde Tubex | University of Western Australia, Law School | Mind the gap: A study on the reintegration needs of returning prisoners | Slides (PPTX, 561.2 KB) | YouTube |
| Don Weatherburn | University of New South Wales | Risky alcohol use and violence against women: cause or consequence? | Slides (PPTX, 813.3 KB) | YouTube |
| Richard Wortley | University College London | The Contacting of Adolescents on Social Media by Suspicious Accounts | Slides (PDF, 497.4 KB) | YouTube |
| Steve Yeong | NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics & Research | Should you delay your child’s entry into kindergarten? Evidence on the effect of delayed school entry on education and crime. | Slides (PDF, 1.0 MB) | YouTube |
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