Research and policy centres
A number of organisations have expertise in Indigenous justice research:
- Indigenous research centres (which solely focus on Indigenous research including justice research);
- national justice research centres which also undertake research on Indigenous issues, and
- selected state research agencies which also include Indigenous research in their research program.
- policy review centres which also include Indigenous research as part of their brief.
Indigenous research centres
- Jumbunna: Indigenous house of learning, University of Technology Sydney
Areas of study: Indigenous human rights, international law, public law, criminal justice. - Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Areas of study: Language maintenance, governance, education, natural resources management, family and community histories, cultural transmission and transformation, archaeology and cultural heritage management. - Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
Areas of study: Indigenous economic and social circumstances, development options for sustainable Indigenous futures, education, governance and capacity development.
National research centres which undertake justice research
- Australian Bureau of Statistics
Areas of study: National Indigenous social conditions, prisoners, corrections. - Australian Institute of Criminology
Areas of study: Deaths in custody, police custody, juveniles in detention, drug using offenders, homicide. - Criminology Research Council
Areas of study: Juvenile offenders. - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Areas of study: Juvenile justice, child abuse, non-fatal injury. - Australian Law Reform Commission
Areas of study: Legislation, law reform. - Australian Institute of Family Studies
Areas of study: Child protection, sexual assault. - Australian Attorney General's Department
Areas of study: Evaluation of crime prevention. - National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
Areas of study: Drug and alcohol.
Selected state agencies
- Crime Research Centre, University of Western Australia
Areas of study: Crime monitoring and evaluation. - Judicial Commission of NSW
Areas of study: Sentencing. - Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, Griffith University
Areas of study: Justice research, justice modelling, early intervention. - NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research
Areas of study: Crime monitoring and evaluation. - NSW Centre for Health Research in Criminal Justice
Areas of study: Health, mental health, prisoners. - Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission
Areas of study: Justice research. - Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research
Areas of study: Family violence. - SA Office of Crime Statistics and Research
Areas of study: Crime monitoring and evaluation.
Policy review centres
- Council of Australian Governments
- Effective interventions (New Zealand Ministry of Justice)
A series of measures to improve the New Zealand criminal justice system. - Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
