Criminology Research Unit (CRU)
The aim of the Criminology Research Unit (CRU) is to foster criminology in Tasmania as a field of study, research, evaluation and policy development. In doing so, collaborating with local communities and stakeholders is essential.
The CRU was established in 2000, and it operates within the School of Social Sciences, College of Arts, Law and Education at the University of Tasmania. The CRU offers research and consultancies undertaken by professionals with diverse interests and broad skills sets. For example, current areas of expertise within the Unit include:
- incarceration and prison issues, community corrections, and working with offenders
- collaboration and cross-sectoral partnerships
- environmental criminology, harm, and ecological justice
- crime prevention, social programmes, local government and evaluation research
- youth studies, juvenile justice, children's courts, and youth gangs
- building capacity to respond to co-occurring mental illness and substance misuse.
Contact
Professor Rob White
Director - Criminology Research Unit
School of Social Sciences
University of Tasmania
Private Bag 22
HOBART TAS 7001
Tel: +61 3 6226 2877
Email: R.D.White@utas.edu.au
Resources
The Unit periodically releases scoping papers, briefing papers and evaluation reports, including both qualitative and quantitative analysis. Anyone interested in discussing prospective research or consultancies should contact the CRU director, Rob White:
Evaluation & Strategic Planning
Evaluation involves systematic assessment of the processes and outcomes of a particular project, program or strategy. It can refer to how agencies perform or to impacts on the wider community or environment. Evaluation and strategic planning are intended to enhance performance in positive and constructive directions.
Comorbidity Improved Services Capacity Building Project
- Allies for Recovery Comorbidity Family Information Pack (PDF 5.4MB) (Mar 2011)
- Comorbidity Competencies Skills Indicators (PDF 2.5MB) (Mar 2011)
- Alcohol and Other Drugs Practitioner Protocols for Responding to Self Harm (PDF 789.1KB) (Jun 2010)
- Alcohol and Other Drugs Practitioner Protocols for Attempted Suicide and Risk Assessment (PDF 787.5KB) (Jun 2010)
- Domestic Family Violence Practitioner Protocols (PDF 788.7KB) (Jun 2010)
- Panic Attacks and Anxiety Practitioner Protocols (PDF 787KB) (Jun 2010)
- Prescription Drug Misuse Practitioner Protocols (PDF 150KB) (Jun 2010)
- Psychosis Practitioner Protocols (PDF 789KB) (Jun 2010)
- Comorbidity Factsheet No. 1 - Co-occurring mental illness and drug misuse (PDF 168KB) (Sep 2009)
- Comorbidity Factsheet No. 2 - The process of grieving a loss (PDF 593KB) (Sep 2009)
- Comorbidity Factsheet No. 3 - Mephedrone (PDF 558KB) (Jan 2010)
- Comorbidity Worksheet No. 1 - Grieving a loss - the year of firsts (PDF 1MB) (Sep 2009)
- Comorbidity Worksheet No. 2 - Personal wellbeing plan (PDF 1.5MB) (Sep 2009)
- Comorbidity Worksheet No. 3 - Finding the Good [Strengths] (PDF 452KB) (Jun 2010)
- Comorbidity Worksheet No. 4 - Celebrating Strengths (PDF 510KB) (Jun 2010)
- Recovery postcards (PDF 1.7MB) (Mar 2009)
- Comorbidity Improved Services Capacity Building Project (PDF 1.1MB) (Mar 2009)
- Co-existing Mental Illness and Substance Misuse: Information & Contacts for Family and Carers (PDF 505KB) (Mar 2009)
- Comorbidity Quick Contact List (PDF 31KB) (Jan 2009)
- Comorbidity: towards evidence based practice in the ATOD sector (PDF 1.4MB) (Nov 2008)
- A Practitioner's Guide to Mental Health Services in Southern Tasmania (PDF 916KB) (Oct 2008)
Residential Drug Rehabilitation
Eco-Global Criminology
Hazardous Waste Briefing Papers
- Briefing Paper 7 - Policing Hazardous Waste Disposal: Key Trends and Issues (PDF 207KB) (Jul 2012)
- Briefing Paper 6 - Legislation, regulatory models and approaches to compliance and enforcement (PDF 899KB) (Jul 2012)
- Briefing Paper 5 - Prosecution and penalties for illegal dumping of hazardous waste (PDF 700KB) (Jul 2012)
- Briefing Paper 4 - Hazardous waste in Australia - What is the scale of the problem? (PDF 397KB) (Apr 2011)
- Briefing Paper 3 - Key vulnerabilities and limitations in the management of hazardous waste and its disposal (PDF 378KB) (Mar 2011)
- Briefing Paper 2 - What is hazardous waste and what makes it hazardous? (PDF 843KB) (Mar 2011)
- Briefing Paper 1 - The Policing Hazardous Waste Research Project (PDF 251KB) (Mar 2011)
Criminology Briefing Papers
Briefing papers consist of relevant literature reviews and discussion of current issues of significance, being concise, though comprehensive, overviews that draw upon contemporary research and scholarship. Briefing papers are 3000-6000 words in length.
- Briefing Paper 5 - Restructuring Dorian Gray: A New Portrait of Sexual Abuse - Sister Philippa Chapman (PDF 235KB) (Jul 2004)
- Briefing Paper 4 - Prisoner Leave and Victim-Offender Relationships - What Section 42 Means to You - Rob White (PDF 299KB) (Dec 2003)
- Briefing Paper 3 - Prison Culture and the Pains of Imprisonment - Prison Action and Reform (PDF 263KB) (Nov 2003)
- Briefing Paper 2 - Issues in Community Corrections - Rob White and Kevin Tomkins (PDF 232KB) (Mar 2003)
- Briefing Paper 1 - Community Corrections Service Tasmania - Rob White and Kevin Tomkins (PDF 188KB) (Mar 2003)
Conference Proceedings
Criminology Scoping Papers
Scoping papers provide an in-depth analysis of a particular area of research or practice, including extended discussion of current practices and strategies, discussion of evolving trends, and key models and questions pertaining to the issue in question. Scoping papers are more than 6000 words in length, and are published in the CRU Occasional Paper series.
- Occasional Paper 3 - Food Matters- Diane Heckenberg and Danielle Cody (PDF 237.0KB) (Jun 2006)
- Occasional Paper 2 - An Evaluation of the "Inside Out" Prison Program - Rob White and Ron Mason (PDF 361KB) (Nov 2003)
- Occasional Paper 1 - Crime Data Collection in Tasmania : A Register - Compiled by Rob White and Sue Willis (PDF 285KB) (Mar 2003)
Key Criminology Links
- Australian Institute of Criminology
- CrimNet Criminal Justice Information Network, Institute of Criminology , Sydney
- Environmental Protection Authority, Tasmania
- Reintegration Toolkit, Tasmania
- Social Inclusion Unit, Tasmanian Government
- Tasmanian Prison Service, Department of Justice
- Community Corrections Service, Department of Justice