Research
Crime control and policy
Addresses issues of controlling crime and other significant social problems through the use of crime prevention approaches including situational crime prevention, policing practices and private security operations.
Innovative justice
Research focuses on established an innovative mechanisms ofresponding to crime and deviance in society through examining and evaluating institutions, systems, and processes of justice.
Justice modelling
Integrating criminologicaltheory, modelling methods and advanced quantitative analysis, this program delivers tools for evidence based decision making in the area of justice policy.
Prevention and developmental pathways
Our research brings together expertise in crime prevention, developmental and forensic psychology, criminology and corrections theory to focus on ways in which community safety and human development may be promoted more equitably by institutions of care rather than institutions of regulation.
Preventing sexual violence and abuse
Through a unique combination of developmental, situational, clinical and justice system approaches, this innovative, team-based research addresses the prevention of sexual violence and abuse in our community.
Violence research and prevention
An interdisciplinary program aimed at understanding the causes of violence, its consequences, and the prospects for prevention and control.
Integrity and anti-corruption
Seeks to improve the measurement of corruption and works to map 'integrity systems' that counter corruption and build ethics into individual agencies nationally and internationally.
Global values and institutions
This program conducts research in institutional governance structures and values that are needed in a globalising world.Corporate governance
The current foci of this program are socially responsible investment and integrity in governance of morally contested industries, such as gambling.
Islamic studies in Australia
The central aim of the Griffith Islamic Research Unit is to promote Wasatiyya or balanced and contextualised understanding of Islam and Muslims in an Australian context.