Library Resources for Criminology/Policing & Justice: Alcohol and Drugs

Produced by the Australian Insitute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).

Department of Health, Victoria

Includes a comprehensive range of links to websites and information resources on alcohol and other drugs.

This site contains research and reports on illicit drugs and harm minimisation.

Hosted by the University of New South Wales. The DPMP Publications section contains a number of downloadable reports and articles.

FARE is an independent charitable organisation working to prevent the harmful use of alcohol in Australia. Our mission is to help Australia change the way it drinks by: Helping communities to prevent and reduce alcohol-related harms; Building the case for alcohol policy reform and engaging Australians in conversations about our drinking culture.

Full text reports are available in the Resources Section

Full text reports are available in the publications section.

Produced by the Australian Government.

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

by Beau Kilmer, Susan S. Everingham, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Gregory Midgette, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Peter H. Reuter, Rachel M. Burns, Bing Han, Russell Lundberg. RAND, 10/03/14

this site contains articles on Australian legal issues. Use it to search for articles about victim issues such as compensation and victim impact statements.

Published by the Australian Institute of Criminology.

Volume Two: Process Evaluation and Policy and Legislative Review by Julian King, Bevan Fletcher, Silvia Alberti & Jim Hales, 2004.

this site contains articles on Australian legal issues. Use it to search for articles about victim issues such as compensation and victim impact statements.

The Australian (illicit) drug policy timeline provides a list of key events, policy and legislative changes that have occurred in Australia. Events are listed by jurisdiction, at the national and state/territory level. Hosted by the NDARC.

Goltz, K & Bruun, A 2008, Planning growth corridor municipal environments to prevent alcohol related harms, DHS, Vic.
See page 10 for a simple table comparing supply reduction, demand reduction and harm reduction.

Department of Premier and Cabinet, 2000.

Published by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (formerly known as the Australian Crime Commission).

Published by the UNODC.

AODstats is a Victorian alcohol and drug interactive statistics and mapping webpage. AODstats provides information on the harms related to alcohol, illicit and pharmaceutical drug use in Victoria. Published by Turning Point.

The Drug use monitoring in Australia (DUMA) program seeks to measure drug use among people recently apprehended by police. Published by the Australian Institute of Criminology.

Published by NCETA.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

Published by the Australian Institute of Criminology.

Melbourne Institute Working Paper No. 3/15, January 2015.

Cannabis
Published by the Australian Institute of Criminology.

Ecstasy
Published by the Australian Institute of Criminology.

Published by the Australian Institute of Criminology.

Published by the Conversation.

Published by The Conversation.

This is not an academic source but has been included for your information.
Williams, L 2017, 'The strange history of methamphetamines' News.com

Published by the Australian Institute of Criminology.

Published December 2015

The Conversation, 08/12/15

Skvarc, DR, Varcoe, J, Leung, R, Hall, J, Miller, P & Toumbourou, JW 2015, Methamphetamine (ice) use trends in South Western Victoria and the Barwon region, Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development, Deakin University, Burwood

Victoria. Parliament. Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee 2014, Inquiry into the supply and use of methamphetamines, particularly 'ice' in Victoria: final report, Government Printer, Melbourne

Fast, D, Kerr, T, Wood, E & Small, W 2015, 'The multiple truths about crystal meth among young people entrenched in an urban drug scene: a longitudinal ethnographic investigation', Social Science and Medicine, vol.110, pp.41-48

Ferrelli, EJ 2013, A New Low in Getting High: Illegal Drug Use and Crime, Portland State University: Dissertations and Theses, no. 1123, pp.1-94