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
- Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales
Areas of study: Indigenous peoples and public law, Indigenous peoples and international law, Indigenous women and Australian democracy. - 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. - Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
The Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet is an innovative Internet resource that aims to inform practice and policy in Indigenous health by making research and other knowledge readily accessible. In this way, we contribute to 'closing the gap' in health between Indigenous and other Australians.
National research centres that 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. - University of Canterbury
New Zealand Justice Statistics - Crime and Justice Research Centre: Te Puni Rangahau Taihara, Ture, Victoria University of Wellington (NZ)
Areas of study: National Indigenous social conditions. - Ministry of Justice Crime Prevention Unit (NZ)
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 Commission
International research centres which undertake justice research
- New Zealand Crime and Justice Research Centre
Areas of study: National Indigenous social conditions.