myAIPMCrime & justice research 2021
Australian Institute of Criminology
Introduction
"The nature of crime in Australia has always evolved in response to changing circumstances, and this has continued to be the case in 2021. When I wrote the introduction to the first compendium in 2019, I could not have foreseen the impact that COVID-19 would have on crime or the huge efforts criminal justice policymakers and practitioners would put into responding to the pandemic. Although COVID-19 was not a formal research priority for the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), it has shaped much of the Institute’s recent work. This compendium, which brings together 21 recent research studies published by the AIC, starts with five chapters that outline ways in which COVID-19 has influenced crime. These projects, all conducted rapidly, provided some of the most robust available evidence on how crime was affecting our community during the pandemic."
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Crime & justice research 2021, Australian Institute of Criminology, 2021