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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
Discussion on trends in youth crime and implications for practice and policy
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 |
| 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, 20.8 MB) |
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| 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 |
| 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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