Crime and justice are pressing public concerns in Australia with implications for the safety,聽rights聽and freedoms of the community.
Our research deals with enduring concerns about social justice and criminal law matters, including the use and limits of聽criminalisation, police powers, law enforcement, evidence and trial processes in criminal cases, and punishment for criminal offences.聽We tackle the聽growing聽challenges arising from technology and how it affects human rights and criminal聽procedure and聽explore聽Australian and international聽developments聽in the criminal justice system.聽聽
Our expertise
- Criminal law & criminalisation
- Criminal trial, evidence & procedure
- Forensic science, big data & new technologies
- Gendered violence
- Indigenous people & criminal justice
- Innovative justice practices
- National security & counter-terrorism
- Policing
- Punishment
- State crime