As a world-leader in its field, Griffith Criminology Institute is involved in numerous research projects in Australia and across the world. Our research deepens understanding of why crime occurs, who perpetrates it and how to manage social and policy responses to crime.

Our projects

A case study analysis of the 2012 USADA investigation of Lance Armstrong: the role of Social Network Analysis in identifying doping networks and activities

Pathways to prevention

Developing and evaluating a theoretically grounded novice driver education program incorporating simulators

Linked lives: Antisocial behaviour across three generations

The Qld Linkage Project: Advancing life-course criminology

Reducing recurrence in the child protection system

Understanding the relationship between mental illness and offending: Implications for crime prevention and the management of mentally ill offenders

The Vulnerable Families Project: A study of paternal incarceration and family wellbeing

What works, what doesn’t, and what is promising for preventing sexual violence and abuse: The effectiveness of situational prevention

Advancing the production, utilisation and impact of social work research to generate innovation in human services

Queensland child protection parent perspectives study

Avoiding community backlash in the fight against terrorism

Boys and sexual abuse: Rethinking victim and offender categories

Pathways to punishment: Exploring the sentencing of women and girls in two Australian jurisdictions

Procedural Justice Program

Reconceptualising Sexual and Violent Victimisation and Justice

Redressing Institutional Abuse of Children: A Comparative Analysis

Sexual Offences, Legal Responses and Public Perceptions: 1880s-1980s

Good Evidence, safe outcomes in parenting matters involving family violence: Analysing current family report writing practice

Improving the health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous ex-prisoners: A multi-jurisdictional, mixed-methods study

Identifying novel, health-related predictors of recidivism: Informing evidence-based throughcare

Monitoring and improving the health and justice-involved populations: A public health approach

The Quality of Prisons for Indigenous Persons in Custody: Determining How Prison Impacts on Culture, Community Life and Recidivism?

Assessing Crime Harms

Understanding how criminals decide where and when to offend

Develop and trial resources to improve mainstream reporting of Islam

Strengthening Australia’s national integrity system: priorities for reform

Subjects in Security - An Interdisciplinary History of a Contested Concept

Policing Noise: The sounds of civility in British discourse c. 1700-1850

Innovative Policing Models? An evaluation of the QPS Hub Policing Trial

Evaluation of the Surfers Paradise 10 hour shift trial

Parental third party policing graduated driver licensing: What are the experiences of parents in trying to enforce compliance of their teenage drivers with restrictions of GDL?

How effective is the ACT Road Ready pre-licence driver education program at changing novice driver risk related attitudes and reducing the offence and crash involvement of novice drivers in the ACT?

Young Adult Compliance

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