The Prison Outcomes Study (POST)
Project Status:
Current
Criminal justice system
Improving the evidence base for services working with people who are at high risk of re-offending after release from prison
This project will focus on generating evidence around interventions that improve health and criminal justice outcomes of people released from prison, with a focus on supported accommodation services and men at high risk of re-offending.
Project Status:
Current
The Data-linkage Alcohol Cohort Study (DACS): Investigating mortality, morbidity, and offending among people with an alcohol-related problem using linked administrative data
This project will assemble a retrospective observational cohort of people presenting to emergency department and hospital inpatient services with an acute alcohol harm and/or problematic alcohol use.
Project Status:
Current
Review of approaches taken in Ireland and in other jurisdictions to simple possession drug offences
This project will provide an international literature review of the approaches taken in Ireland and other jurisdictions to simple possession drug offences.
Project Status:
Current
ACT Drug and Alcohol Court: Developing a program logic and evaluation framework
In 2016 the ACT committed to scoping and designing a Drug and Alcohol Court (DAC).
Project Status:
Completed
Comparing apples and oranges: investigating the utility of indexes as a measure of drug policy
This is a PhD project of Vivienne Moxham-Hall (supervised by Professor Alison Ritter and Dr Caitlin Hughes) investigating the utility of indexes as a measure of drug policy.
Project Status:
Current
Supply demand and harm reduction strategies in Australian prisons: An update
The Australian National Council on Drugs (ANCD) has requested a review of the prevalence of alcohol and/or drug use problems among prisoners and the range and availability of supply, demand and harm reduction programs and services in prisons.
Project Status:
Completed
The global harm reduction response – an assessment of the current situation, interventions and evaluation of specific programs
This project attempts to understand the global epidemiology of infectious disease among prisoners in all countries.
Project Status:
Current
Exploration of partnerships between rural Aboriginal communities and researchers to prevent and treat drug and alcohol-related harms: Three examples in remote NSW
This project seeks to develop knowledge about effective models of partnership between rural Aboriginal communities and researchers across a range of community-led programs delivered from 2012-2016, which aimed to reduce drug and alcohol-related harm.
Project Status:
Current
A randomised controlled study of health intervention "SNAP" in Northern Territory prisons
The Northern Territory prison population comprises 92% Indigenous Australians and 88% smokers. The NT prison-smoking ban creates a population-wide abstinence. We aim to extend this period of abstinence into the community.
Rationale
Project Status:
Current