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Bridging the Gap between Police and Refugee Communities
Chief Investigator: Dr Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron
Funding: University of Tasmania
This project is a follow up on a research run by TILES two years ago. This study raised some issues relating to Police-Refugee relations. While the report of the research provides a valuable framework for agencies to start acting in enabling better relations with refugees and vice-versa, it does not present stakeholders with examples, tools or ideas to start doing so. The researcher, in this current project, follows stakeholders in the implementation of a Police-Refugee program in New South Wales, with the purpose of documenting actions and tools, in order to make them available to other interested parties throughout Australia.
* Research Project Brief 304 KB pdf
Introducing Restorative Confere
Chief Investigator: Dr Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron
Funding: Proceeds of Crime Funding (via Albury Youth & Family Services - YES)
The purpose of this project is to independently evaluate the Introducing Restorative Conferencing: a whole of community, early intervention approach to youth anti-social behaviour project in Albury (NSW), an initiative run by Albury Youth & Family Services (YES).
The aims of the evaluation are as follows:
- To track the initial stages of the scheme (bedding-in)
- To evaluate the process of implementing the scheme, including provision of training & rapport building with all stakeholders (schools, community agencies, young people, community, families, victims, etc)
- To observe 5 randomly selected restorative conferences (once the scheme is up and going) and assess their effectiveness against identified objectives, and from all parties’ perspectives (wrongdoers, victims, families or significant others, agencies and facilitators)
- To measure the overall impact of the scheme and the extent to which it meets its objectives (qualitatively and quantitatively)
- To document the scheme in order to identify the emergence of a possible flexible model, able to be transferred to other situations, cultures and areas throughout Australia and possibly internationally
- To disseminate research results so that areas in Australia interested in this model may refer to it as a stepping stone or inspiration for their own projects.
Criminal Justice Policy and Mentally ill in Tasmania
Chief Investigators: Dr Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron and Professor Jenny Fleming
Funding: Community Engagement Grant
Police Commissioners 'Tales from the Field'
Chief Investigator: Professor Jenny Fleming
Funding: Public Administration Trust Fund
Longitudinal Review of the Risk Assessment Screening Tool (RAST)
(Confidential Report - not available)
Chief Investigators: Mr Ron Mason and Associate Professor Roberta Julian
Funding: Department of Police and Emergency Management (DPEM)
As part of the overall response to family violence, Tasmania Police utilise a Risk Assessment Screening Tool (RAST) to assess the risk of a victim experiencing future violence. In 2005 TILES was commissioned to conduct a review of the RAST. The RAST has been in use for approximately three years and Tasmania Police have identified the need for an analysis of the RAST. The project will be divided into two parts: validation and a longitudinal analysis.
Policing Issues and Crime - Analysis of Tasmanian Data
Chief Investigators: Professor Jenny Fleming and Associate Professor Roberta Julian
Funding: Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC)
The research will comprise statistical analysis of a dataset containing Tasmania Police data currently held by the AIC. |
