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Cybercrime survey ended - results HERE! Updated estimates of ML in and through Australia Justice System Resource Allocation: Indigenous Over-representation in the Criminal Justice System
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Latest News2007 in Review The year began with a busy period forecasting trends in crime and criminal justice system workloads, developing various resource allocation formulas for police and legal aid, and researching motor vehicle thefts. I was then invited to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore, to demonstrate my crime trends forecasting techniques, and they have indicated that this could lead to a substantive project in 2008. In May, Austrade encouraged me to travel with the ACT Chief Minister’s Trade Mission to China, meeting academics and agency staff in Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen all in the space of a week. This too paid off, when the Chinese People’s Public Security University (effectively China’s national Police Academy) invited me to teach their post-graduates and lecture to the academic staff through November and December. Karan and I travelled via a one-day presentation on cybercrime (Singapore), spent a week in Beijing “acclimatising”, before flying to Utrecht (Netherlands) for a conference, organised by Prof. Brigitte Unger (Utrecht University School of Economics) specifically to generate discussion about my global model of transnational crime and moneylaundering, with leading researchers invited from around the world. Eminent speakers, both critics and proponents of my modelling work, agreed that the key deficiency was the poor global data on the proceeds of crime and the degree of moneylaundering engaged in by different criminal groups. Participants from the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and the Brookings Institution all indicated that some funding for research to address these deficiencies may be possible in 2008.
[L-R: Elod Takats (IMF), Raymond Baker (Brookings Institution), Peter Reuter (Rand Corporation), me, and Brigitte Unger (Utrecht Uni School of Economics)] The year ended with six weeks in Beijing, teaching a class of 15 postgraduate criminologists from all around China, and meeting senior academics. While it was very hard work living night and day in a Chinese-speaking suburban environment, we managed to communicate in Chinese (sometimes!), English (sometimes) and sign-language (frequently), and made a lot of friends there! The local restaurants will certainly miss us, as we caused great excitement and amusement (“la, bu la, ma?” is useful, meaning “is it spicy?”). I even performed (karaoke) in Beijing’s number 1 nightclub, and Karan and I managed an occasional swing dance in unlikely places! There is every indication that I will be invited back to work again in China – for more substantive research projects – two senior and influential academics told me that I had “inspired” them! We were showered with gifts, some of the students were actually in tears when we said our goodbyes, and we have been invited to just about every possible corner of China! A fantastic experience all round!
[Postgraduate Class, Chinese Peoples Public Security University, Beijing] My work featured several times in both the Queanbeyan Age and the Canberra Times during the year, and finished the year in the Australian.
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