| DAY 1 | Wednesday 18 February 2009 |
| 8.30am - 8:40am | Introduction: Dr Don Weatherburn, Director, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research |
| 8:40am - 8:50am | Welcome to country: Mr Allen Madden, Acting CEO & Cultural Education Officer, Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council |
| 8:50am - 9:00am | Opening of proceedings: The Honourable John Hatzistergos, NSW Attorney General |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | Session 1: Chair, Dr Don Weatherburn, Director, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research |
 | Professor Peter Grabosky, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University - Crime statistics in retrospect: knowledge for policy in criminal justice |
| Professor Arie Freiberg, Faculty of Law, Monash University - Limits to evidence-based policy |
| 10:30am - 11:00am | MORNING TEA |
| 11:00am - 12:40pm | Session 2: Chair, Edwina Crawford, Manager, Aboriginal Strategic Unit, NSW Department of Juvenile Justice |
| Professor Larissa Behrendt, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology Sydney - Why is it that some Aboriginal communities have low crime rates and others have high crime rates? |
| Dr Maggie Brady, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University - ‘We wasn’t allowed in the hotel’: The impact of the hotel in past, present and (imagined) future patterns of Aboriginal drinking |
| Associate Professor Boyd Hunter, Australian National University - Neighourhood watch: confessions of an eclectic sticky beak |
| 12:40pm - 1:40pm | LUNCH |
| 1:40pm - 3:00pm | Session 3A - Target Theatre | Session 3B - Coles Theatre |
| Chair, Dr Rohan Lulham, Senior Research Officer, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research | Chair, Ms Sumitra Vignaendra, Senior Research Officer, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research |
| Ms Marilyn Chilvers, NSW Department of Community Services - Child protection and resilient communities - a NSW study | Dr Judy Putt, Research Manager, Australian Institute of Criminology
Public perceptions of crime and public confidence in the criminal justice system |
| Dr Tanya Chikritzhs, Senior Research Fellow,National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University - Predicting the impacts of licensed outlet density changes on public health, safety and amenity in Australian communities: results from a feasibility study | Professor Kate Warner, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania and Dr Peter Underwood, AO, Former Chief Justice, Supreme Court, Tasmania - Jury sentencing research: a novel way to explore public opinion? |
| Ms Tania Matruglio, Senior Policy and Research Officer and Ms Claudia Carr, Senior Programs Officer, Crime Prevention Division, NSW Attorney General’s Department
- Developing an alcohol related assault reduction strategy | Dr David Tait, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, and Dr Alice Richardson, Senior lecturer, Mathematics, University of Canberra - Use of indirect experiments to measure recidivism: a case study of NSW local courts |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm | AFTERNOON TEA |
| 3:30pm - 5.20pm | Session 4: Chair, Professor Ross Homel, AO, Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice & Governance, Griffith University |
| Professor Tony Vinson, University of Sydney - The trials and tribulations of setting up a crime research centre in Government |
| Professor Paul Mazerolle, Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice & Governance, Griffith University - The role of Government in crime and justice research |
| Mr Laurie Glanfield,AM, Director General, NSW Attorney General’s Department - Future directions (and challenges) for crime and justice research |
| Mr Ross Gittins, Economics Editor, Sydney Morning Herald - Uses and abuses of crime statistics |
| 5:30pm - 7:30pm | COCKTAIL PARTY |
DAY 2 |
Thursday 19 February 2009 |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | Session 5: Chair, Professor Julie Stubbs, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney |
| Professor Ross Homel, AO, Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice & Governance, Griffith University - For a science of crime prevention: breaking the bonds between social disadvantage and crime |
| Associate Professor Jane Goodman-Delahunty, School of Psychology, University of NSW - Abductive reasoning and evidence based jury reform |
| Associate Professor Judy Cashmore, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney - Pathways between child maltreatment and juvenile offending |
| 10:30am - 11:00am | MORNING TEA |
| 11:00am - 12:20pm | Session 6A - Coles Theatre | Session 6B - Target Theatre |
| Chair, Mr Craig Jones, Research Manager, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research | Chair, Dr Nadine Smith, Senior Research Officer, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research |
| Dr Wendy Swift, Senior Lecturer, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of NSW - Cannabis potency: research findings and implications for policy | Drs Geoffrey Watson and Anna Stewart, Justice Modelling, Griffith University - Mining for gold in mountains of administrative data |
| Dr Rebecca McKetin, Senior Research Fellow, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of NSW - Bias in illicit drug offence data: a case study of methamphetamine-related charges among a community sample of methamphetamine users | Mr Dan Birks, Senior Research Assistant, Justice Modelling, Griffith University - Synthesis over analysis: using agent-based models to examine the interactions of crime |
| Dr John Kasinathan, Postgraduate Fellow in Forensic Psychiatry, and Dr Claire Gaskin, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist Clinical Director, Adolescent Mental Health, Justice Health - NSW Predictors of rapid re-incarceration in mentally ill young detainees referred for community mental health follow-up | Ms Anna Ferrante, Senior Research Fellow, Crime Research Centre, University of Western Australia - How has the prevalence of offending changed over time? |
| 12:20pm - 1:20pm | LUNCH |
| 1:20pm - 2:40pm | Session 7A - Target Theatre | Session 7B - Coles Theatre |
| Chair, Mr Craig Jones, Research Manager, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research | Chair, Dr Don Weatherburn, Director, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research |
| Associate Professor Sandra Egger, Faculty of Law, University of NSW and colleagues - Criminal laws, policing and the health and welfare of sex workers | Professor Mark Finnane and Dr Jonathan Richards, Griffith University - Aboriginal imprisonment before the 1960s: some evidence from Queensland |
| Dr Annie Cossins, School of Law, and Professor Jane Goodman-Delahunty and Kate O’Brien, School of Psychology, University of NSW - Countering misconceptions in child sexual assault cases with expert evidence and judicial directions | Professor Rod Broadhurst, Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice & Governance, Griffith Universityand Dr Lee King Wa, Centre for Criminology, University of Hong Kong - The impact of law enforcement and social change on Triad societies in Hong Kong |
| Mr Ian Nisbett, Associate Professor Stephen Smallbone and Professor Richard Wortley, Griffith University - The sexual offending of Adolescent males | Professor Julie Stubbs, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney - Critical reflections on bail |
| 2:40pm - 3:10pm | AFTERNOON TEA |
| 3:10pm - 4:30pm | Session 8: Chair, Dr Don Weatherburn, Director, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research |
| Associate Professor Andrew Leigh, Australian National University - How a responsible Government should go about developing law and order policy |
| Associate Professor Russell Hogg, School of Law, University of New England - How a responsible Government should go about developing law and order policy: a response to Andrew Leigh |
