The Noongar population of Perth have been protesting against the Government’s $1 billion offer to settle native title claims

Police are being forced to station country lock-ups singularly, putting themselves and the prisoners at risk.

Police are using the latest scanning technology to target drivers with past drug convictions

Asylum seekers at the immigration detention centre located in Nauru have initiated a protest as a result of slow-claim processing

Police appear to be extremely racist towards the Indigenous populations, resulting in high levels of arrest for minor offences

Mandatory sentencing was introduced into the Northern Territory in 1996 until it was repealed due to international criticism in 2001

An Indigenous female, who was taken to the Perth Lockups, was believed to have been strip searched by four female and one male officer

New South Wales police will have the power to stop and search people, cars and suspicious locations for weapons, without a warrant

It is an expensive venture to send members of a police force to another country

New police graduates find that the police culture disregards the good ethics and morals they've learnt in the academy

Australia has been a racist country since its foundation, which saw the destruction of Indigenous populations

Our knowledge of crime and media is largely informed by the media, however unjust and exaggerated it may be

Trace evidence is created when objects come into contact with each other, whether it is the transfer of paint, fingerprints or gunshot

It appears that policing is held to a higher standard and more scrutiny, whilst fostering the ‘blue wall of silence’

Like any other industry or organisation, police services around the world experience issues of ethics in conducting their work

A lot of research has been conducted into crime and the relationship between drugs as a cause or a result

David Berkowitz, also known as the Son of Sam, killed six people and injured a further seven between 1976 and 1977

Boko Harm, the ‘People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad’ is a Nigerian terrorist group

The media have a strong hold in how we define crime and tend to influence police operations and crackdowns, in particularly street crimes

Police services all around the world have various forms of ethics that govern their behaviour, much like any other agency or...

The war on drugs has motivated authorities to pursue a zero tolerance of illicit drugs being possessed, sold or made in our society

John Rawls' concept of The Veil of Ignorance promotes belief that we should make decisions based on what we believe is more beneficial to...

Care and Control are two elements of policing that ignite a fair amount of discussion amongst academics although at times, they may overlap

Restorative justice is a “penalty phase of the criminal process for admitted offenders” and is used in a wide range of settings

Singapore are recognised for their seemingly draconian laws for crimes such as failing to flush a toilet and chewing gum