Criminal Justice
The Criminal Justice Division is responsible for Australian Government crime prevention initiatives, national law enforcement policy, the fraud policy of the Commonwealth, legal and policy advice on criminal law and legal aspects of the Commonwealth criminal justice system as well as international criminal law and transnational crime issues.
Structure and Role
The Division consists of four Branches:
- Criminal Law Branch
- National Law Enforcement Policy Branch
- Strategic Policy Coordination Branch
- Identity Security Branch
Areas of responsibility:
- Administration of Justice for Federal offenders
- Australasian Police Ministers Council
- Corrective Services Ministers Council
- Corruption policy
- Crimes Act Part 1B Review
- Crimes Act Part 1D Review
- Criminal law policy
- Criminal law policy penalties review
- Drug policy
- E-crime/financial crime/future crime
- Financial Action Taskforce (FATF)
- Firearms policy
- Fraud Control
- International transfer of prisoner arrangements
- Legislation development and amendment
- Ministerial Council on the Drug Strategy
- OECD Working Group on Bribery
- People trafficking policy
- Proceeds of Crime
- UN Convention against Corruption
- Transnational Organised Crime Convention
Other Information:
- National Project on Drink Spiking: Investigating the nature and extent of drink spiking in Australia
- Secretariat to the Ministerial Council on the Administration of Justice
- National Community Crime Prevention Programme
- Criminal Code Practitioner Guidelines (March 2002)
- Federal Offenders - Common Questions and Answers
- International Transfer of Prisoners material
- Firearms Information
- Publications
- Export of Human Embryos