Don Weatherburn
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1660653 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Don Weatherburn |
| PRENOMES | Don |
| SOBRENOME | Weatherburn |
| ASSINATURA | WEATHERBURN D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1759-8232 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Dual-Edged Benefits of Drug Policing
We develop a strong triple-difference design, with variation across crimes and areas, to quantify the impact of Australia’s 2001 heroin shortage on crime, providing precise and uniform evidence on both the immediate and long-term effects of drug law enforcement. Applying the design to 25 years of monthly postcode data, we show that crime experiences an 8.4 percent surge in the first month, followed by a 1 percent decrease every 13 months, resulti…
Health, Social and Recidivism Outcomes Among People Who Have Been Incarcerated in New South Wales, Australia
Risky alcohol use and violence against women
Does diverting minor drug offenders reduce recidivism? Cannabis cautioning in Australia
The adoption of alternatives to prosecution for minor drug offences is more likely to enhance public safety rather than reduce it
The impact of a voluntary alcohol and other drug diversion program on reoffending, imprisonment, and health
Survival times for participants in the MERIT program were significantly shorter for all health outcomes except one (death). At the 12-month mark, MERIT participants offended 21 per cent less frequently than comparison group participants (IRR: 0.793. CI: 0.748-0.841). This gap increased to 27 per cent after 24 months (IRR: 0.870. CI: 0.829-0.912). At the conclusion of criminal proceedings participants in the MERIT program were significantly less l…
Risky alcohol use and violence against women
Prevention resources are always limited and are therefore best targeted at those who are most at risk, regardless of whether the correlate plays a causal role or is simply a signal of heightened risk. Women reporting they have been assaulted to health, welfare or criminal justice authorities should be assessed to determine whether they also have concurrent drug and alcohol problems
Colonization and Its Legacy
The Indigenous peoples of the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are all over-represented in their prison systems. Yet despite a shared history of colonization and dispossession, most Indigenous peoples have little if any contact with the criminal justice system. In this article we put forward and test a model of Australian Aboriginal arrest which seeks to explain why some Aboriginal people come into frequent contact with the crimin…
The criminal careers of Australian drug traffickers
The present study raises two important questions for future research. The first concerns whether those involved in drug trafficking in Australia rely on it as a primary source of income or whether it is just one of several income-generating criminal activities they switch between in the course of a criminal career. The second question is why there are such marked differences in the risk, speed and frequency of offending among traffickers of diffe…
The influence of neighbourhood disadvantage on charge dismissal
We use a sample of 78,160 cases involving adults who pleaded guilty to drunk driving in a New South Wales (NSW) court between 2014 and 2019 to assess the contribution of neighbourhood disadvantage to charge dismissal. Data are analysed using a multilevel random effects model with controls for magistrate identity and legal factors that must be considered by the magistrate when deciding whether to dismiss a PCA charge against an offender. Findings …
Changes in and correlates of Australian public attitudes toward illicit drug use
Who would try (or use more) cannabis if it were legal
Can Electronic Monitoring Reduce Reoffending
We evaluate electronic monitoring as an alternative to prison for nonviolent offenses. Leveraging plausibly exogenous variation in sentencing outcomes generated by quasi-random assignment of judges, we find electronic monitoring reduces reoffending at both extensive and intensive margins. Compared with prison, electronic monitoring is estimated to reduce the probability of reoffending by 22 percentage points five years after sentencing and by 11 …
A trial of Criminal Infringement Notices as an alternative to criminal penalties for illicit drug offences in New South Wales, Australia
Does Prison Deter Drunk-Drivers
The Australian ready-to-drink beverages tax missed its target age group
Is tougher sentencing and bail policy the cause of rising imprisonment rates? A NSW case study
Between 2000 and 2019, the number of inmates in Australian prisons grew from 21,714 in 2000 to 43,028 in 2019, an increase of 98%, or in per capita terms, 48%. Much of this increase occurred between 2012 and 2019. In New South Wales (NSW), for example, the prison population rose by 17% in the 11 years between 2000 and 2011, but then grew a further 39% in the eight years between 2012 and 2019. A similar acceleration in inmate numbers occurred in o…
The deterrent effects of Australian street-level drug law enforcement on illicit drug offending at outdoor music festivals
What Does Research Tell Us about the Impact of Recent Liquor Licence Restrictions on Violence in New South Wales
Following the success of restrictions on liquor licensing in curbing violence in Newcastle, successive New South Wales governments have relied heavily on liquor licensing controls to reduce alcohol-related violence. Research to date suggests that the collective impact of these controls has been substantial. At this stage, however, little is known about the mechanism or mechanisms through which changing liquor licensing controls have reduced viole…
Rack ‘em, Pack ‘em and Stack ‘em”
This article traces the recent history of prison population growth in Australia, discusses its causes, costs and benefits, and suggests ways in which the growth in Australian imprisonment rates may be contained or reversed without threat to public safety. Several options are discussed. They include abolishing short sentences, restoring discretion to the courts to set the relationship between the aggregate sentence and the non-parole period, givin…
Do drug seizures predict drug-related emergency department presentations or arrests for drug use and possession
The great (Australian) property crime decline
Between 1973/74 and 2000, rates of robbery, break and enter, motor vehicle theft and most other major forms of theft rose almost without interruption. Between 2000 and 2009, recorded rates of robbery in Australia fell by 63 per cent, recorded rates of burglary fell by 57 per cent, recorded rates of motor vehicle theft fell by 62 per cent, and recorded rates of all other forms of theft fell by 37 per cent. This article considers possible explanati…
Economic adversity and crime
In this article we make a case for the continuing relevance of economic adversity and social policy in the understanding and prevention of crime. We begin by discussing early theories positing a causal relationship between economic adversity and crime and examine the factors that have led to a loss of confidence in these theories. We then summarise two prominent strands of research investigating important indirect criminogenic effects of economic…
Juvenile Reoffending
Criminologists and other developmental researchers have long acknowledged the importance of both continuity and change in antisocial and criminal behaviour over the life‐course. To the extent that young offenders having contact with the police will persist with offending into adulthood is an important social issue with significant implications for the ongoing development and implementation of early intervention and prevention programs. Using data…
Supply-side reduction policy and drug-related harm
This study examines whether seizures of heroin, cocaine or amphetamine-type substances (ATS) or supplier arrests for heroin, cocaine or ATS trafficking affect emergency department admissions related to, or arrests for, use and possession of these drugs. Two strategies were employed to answer the question. The first involved a time series analysis of the relationship between seizures, supplier arrests, emergency department admissions and use/posse…
Parole supervision and reoffending
Although more than 12,000 offenders are on parole at any given time, little is known about the effectiveness of parole supervision in reducing reoffending. The few studies that have been conducted involve samples of parolees released from prison in other countries. The present study is the first to evaluate the effectiveness of parole supervision in Australia. It compares several groups of offenders, matched in terms of the factors likely to affe…
Reducing Aboriginal Over‐representation in Prison
The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody attributed the high rate of Aboriginal deaths in custody to the over‐representation of Aboriginal people in prison. Most analyses of this over‐representation focus on the issue of systemic bias in policing, the law or the operation of the criminal justice system. The present article contends that, while discriminatory treatment of Aboriginal people by police and the court system is an histori…
Re‐thinking Indigenous over‐representation in prison
It is now nearly two decades since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody recommended that a determined effort be made by all Australian Governments to reduce the level of Indigenous over‐representation in prison. The disparity between Indigenous and non‐Indigenous imprisonment rates, however, is now wider than it has ever been. This article reviews research published over the last twenty years which calls into question both the R…
Economic adversity and crime
In this article we make a case for the continuing relevance of economic adversity and social policy in the understanding and prevention of crime. We begin by discussing early theories positing a causal relationship between economic adversity and crime and examine the factors that have led to a loss of confidence in these theories. We then summarise two prominent strands of research investigating important indirect criminogenic effects of economic…
Correlates of physical violence at school
Studies of school violence have been generally been informed either by social disorganisation or social control theory. However applications of social disorganisation theory to school violence sometimes make little attempt to control for individual differences in propensity to violent behaviour. This study of 2,616 Australian high school students uses multilevel modelling techniques to see whether various characteristics of the school (e.g. lack …
The great (Australian) property crime decline
Between 1973/74 and 2000, rates of robbery, break and enter, motor vehicle theft and most other major forms of theft rose almost without interruption. Between 2000 and 2009, recorded rates of robbery in Australia fell by 63 per cent, recorded rates of burglary fell by 57 per cent, recorded rates of motor vehicle theft fell by 62 per cent, and recorded rates of all other forms of theft fell by 37 per cent. This article considers possible explanati…
The Specific Deterrent Effect of Higher Fines on Drink-Driving Offenders
Fines are an extremely common sanction in most Western countries and, in some countries, have become an important source of government revenue. Despite this, the deterrent effectiveness of high fines has received little research attention. This article reports the results of a two-stage least-squares analysis of the specific deterrent effect of high fines on drink-driving offenders in NSW, Australia, in which judicial severity served as the instr…
Indigenous Violence
The Recidivism of Offenders Given Suspended Sentences in New South Wales, Australia
The suspended sentence has been described as the 'Sword of Damocles' and praised as a means ofexploiting the deterrent effects of prison while avoiding some of its human and financial costs. Thedeterrent value of suspended sentences is said to derive from the fact that the consequences ofreoffending during the period of a suspended sentence are 'known and certain', whereas thoseattending a breach of probation are not. Past research, however, has …
Strategic approaches to property crime control
Despite the growth of interest in situational crime prevention, most approaches to property crime control, particularly in Australia, still place a heavy emphasis on the need for tougher sanctions and additional police. This article maintains that such approaches are neither effective nor efficient. It advocates a greater commitment by police to the strategic analysis of property crime, and the mobilisation of public/private partnerships to addre…
Latency-probability functions as bases for evaluating competing accounts of the sensory decision process
Latency-probability functions as bases for evaluating competing accounts of the sensory decision process
Latency–probability functions
Latency-probability functions
Strategies for Managing Criminal Justice Systems
Strategic approaches to property crime control
Despite the growth of interest in situational crime prevention, most approaches to property crime control, particularly in Australia, still place a heavy emphasis on the need for tougher sanctions and additional police. This article maintains that such approaches are neither effective nor efficient. It advocates a greater commitment by police to the strategic analysis of property crime, and the mobilisation of public/private partnerships to addre…
Delinquent-Prone Communities
Despite a century of effort, criminologists do not yet fully understand the relationship between disadvantage and crime. The balance of evidence suggests that economic and social stress increase the risk of involvement in crime by increasing the motivation to offend. But there are a number of empirical anomalies that cannot easily be reconciled with this interpretation of the evidence. Weatherburn and Lind argue that the transmission mechanism li…
Transient Offenders in the 1996 Secondary School Survey
Reducing Aboriginal Over‐representation in Prison
The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody attributed the high rate of Aboriginal deaths in custody to the over‐representation of Aboriginal people in prison. Most analyses of this over‐representation focus on the issue of systemic bias in policing, the law or the operation of the criminal justice system. The present article contends that, while discriminatory treatment of Aboriginal people by police and the court system is an histori…
Delinquent-Prone Communities
The ESIOM paradigm and its problems 2. The insidious effects of economic and social stress on parenting 3. Parenting, peers and delinquency 4. Delinquency generation at the individual level 5. Delinquency generation at the aggregate-level 6. An epidemic model of offender population growth 7. Theories of crime and place 8. Prevention Notes References Index
Reducing Aboriginal Over-representation in Prison
Chris Cunneen (2006) has dismissed the claims made in Aboriginal over-representation in prison, as simplistic and an accusation is made of serious distortion, gross misrepresentation, reckless disregard for the truth and of making hollow claims. A brief reply is offered to these accusations
Riots, Policing and Social Disadvantage
The role that crime, policing and disadvantage play in generating outbreaks of social disorder is discussed by focusing on the riots that occurred in Macquarie Fields in 2005 and in Redfern in 2004. It is found that there is no easy formulaic solution to this kind of problem but using three commonsense guidelines helps in reducing the risk of police-citizen confrontation. These guidelines are: treating the residents of crime-prone neighbourhoods …
Correlates of physical violence at school
Studies of school violence have been generally been informed either by social disorganisation or social control theory. However applications of social disorganisation theory to school violence sometimes make little attempt to control for individual differences in propensity to violent behaviour. This study of 2,616 Australian high school students uses multilevel modelling techniques to see whether various characteristics of the school (e.g. lack …
The Recidivism of Offenders Given Suspended Sentences in New South Wales, Australia
The suspended sentence has been described as the 'Sword of Damocles' and praised as a means ofexploiting the deterrent effects of prison while avoiding some of its human and financial costs. Thedeterrent value of suspended sentences is said to derive from the fact that the consequences ofreoffending during the period of a suspended sentence are 'known and certain', whereas thoseattending a breach of probation are not. Past research, however, has …
Re‐thinking Indigenous over‐representation in prison
It is now nearly two decades since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody recommended that a determined effort be made by all Australian Governments to reduce the level of Indigenous over‐representation in prison. The disparity between Indigenous and non‐Indigenous imprisonment rates, however, is now wider than it has ever been. This article reviews research published over the last twenty years which calls into question both the R…
Indigenous Violence
What Data Can You Get From Bocsar
The purpose of this Comment is to further the academic debate about the use and availability of crime statistics and to respond to Clancey's Contemporary Comment (Clancey 2011) in the March 2011 issue of Current Issues in Criminal Justice. Clancey (2011) made a number of points on the use of crime statistics in crime prevention and evaluation, and this included comment on the information available from the New South Wales (NSW) Bureau of Crime St…
Willingness to Pay for Rehabilitation Versus Punishment to Reduce Adult and Juvenile Crime
Punitive penal policies are often justified on the assumption that members of the public demand punitive responses to crime. The current study employed a contingent valuation survey design to assess the extent to which this is true in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The survey investigated public willingness to pursue crime control policies that rehabilitate offenders versus those that punish. Using a quota‐based telephone survey, 1885 t…
The Specific Deterrent Effect of Higher Fines on Drink-Driving Offenders
Fines are an extremely common sanction in most Western countries and, in some countries, have become an important source of government revenue. Despite this, the deterrent effectiveness of high fines has received little research attention. This article reports the results of a two-stage least-squares analysis of the specific deterrent effect of high fines on drink-driving offenders in NSW, Australia, in which judicial severity served as the instr…
Supply-side reduction policy and drug-related harm
This study examines whether seizures of heroin, cocaine or amphetamine-type substances (ATS) or supplier arrests for heroin, cocaine or ATS trafficking affect emergency department admissions related to, or arrests for, use and possession of these drugs. Two strategies were employed to answer the question. The first involved a time series analysis of the relationship between seizures, supplier arrests, emergency department admissions and use/posse…
Parole supervision and reoffending
Although more than 12,000 offenders are on parole at any given time, little is known about the effectiveness of parole supervision in reducing reoffending. The few studies that have been conducted involve samples of parolees released from prison in other countries. The present study is the first to evaluate the effectiveness of parole supervision in Australia. It compares several groups of offenders, matched in terms of the factors likely to affe…
Arresting Incarceration
The biggest impediment to reducing the rate of Indigenous imprisonment is not hostility to the idea itself but an overwhelming sense of pessimism about the prospect of achieving this goal, even among people who care about the issue. Part of this book is about why past efforts to reduce Indigenous imprisonment failed. The more important part is an attempt to show that change is possible, even in an area as seemingly intractable as Indigenous impri…
Offending, custody and opioid substitution therapy treatment utilisation among opioid-dependent people in contact with the criminal justice system
Compared to non-Indigenous opioid-dependent people, Indigenous opioid-dependent people in contact with the criminal justice system are charged with a greater number of offences, spend longer in custody and commonly initiate OST in prison. Hence, contact with the criminal justice system provides an important opportunity to engage Indigenous people in OST
Economic adversity and crime
In this article we make a case for the continuing relevance of economic adversity and social policy in the understanding and prevention of crime. We begin by discussing early theories positing a causal relationship between economic adversity and crime and examine the factors that have led to a loss of confidence in these theories. We then summarise two prominent strands of research investigating important indirect criminogenic effects of economic…
Juvenile Reoffending
Criminologists and other developmental researchers have long acknowledged the importance of both continuity and change in antisocial and criminal behaviour over the life‐course. To the extent that young offenders having contact with the police will persist with offending into adulthood is an important social issue with significant implications for the ongoing development and implementation of early intervention and prevention programs. Using data…
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