Lifting the burden of imprisonment: Creating safer and stronger communities

该项目旨在确定降低监禁率如何使澳大利亚社区受益，并增强他们的安全和福祉。它将把一系列关于监禁、犯罪和社区福祉的统计数据来源联系起来。我们将首次全面展示监禁对澳大利亚国内外个人和社区的影响。该项目的预期成果包括强制性流动理论的扩展和创新、数据的新整合以及评估减刑对社区的影响的预测工具。这些证据将有助于倡导团体和政策制定者寻求解决澳大利亚迅速增长的监禁率问题。

This project aims to identify how a reduction in imprisonment rates could benefit Australian communities and enhance their safety and wellbeing. It will link a range of statistical data sources on imprisonment, crime and community wellbeing. We will, for the first time, comprehensively demonstrate the impact of imprisonment on individuals and communities in Australia and beyond. Expected outcomes of this project include expansion and innovation of coercive mobility theory, novel integration of data, and a forecasting tool to assess the impact of imprisonment reduction on communities. This evidence will assist advocacy groups and policy makers seeking to address Australia’s burgeoning imprisonment rate.