Publications and Submissions of the Research, Practice and Innovation team

The following publications and submissions, are attributable to members of the Research, Practice and Innovation (RPI) team in the Centre for Innovative Justice. This list also contains co-authored publications that the RPI team have contributed to.

2025

Stan Winford, Melanie Joosten et al, ‘Restorative justice and culpable driving’ in Jane Bolitho, Juan Tauri and William Wood (eds), International Encyclopedia of Restorative Justice (Den Haag: Eleven International Publishing, forthcoming 2025).

2024 

VLA Remand Service Review 

Submission to the Sentencing Advisory Council’s Sentencing Occupational Health and Safety Offences in Victorian Consultation Paper 

Australian Law Reform Commission: Justice Responses to Sexual Violence

Submission to NSW Law Reform Commission into serious road crime 

Africause Restorative Justice Scoping Project 

2023 

Submission to NSW Law Reform Commission into serious road crime 

Review of the Spent Convictions Act 2021 Submission 

Review of Serious Road Crime Preliminary submission of the Centre for Innovative Justice 

2022 

Yallum Yallum Elders and Respected Persons Council – Report 

Nuther-mooyoop (submission) to the Yoorrook Justice Commission on Systemic Injustice in the Criminal Justice System  

Reforming Sentence Deferrals in Victoria Centre for Innovative Justice submission to Sentencing Advisory Council

2021 

Submission to the Cultural Review of the Adult Custodial Corrections System  [co-produced with the CIJ’s Research, Advocacy and Policy team]

Submission to the Review of the Victorian Disability Act 2006 

Response to Issues Paper: Improving victims’ experience of summary criminal proceedings [co-produced with the CIJ’s Research, Advocacy and Policy team]

Submission # 2 to the review into victims’ experiences of summary criminal proceedings [co-produced with the CIJ’s Research, Advocacy and Policy team]

Submission to the Victorian Ministerial Taskforce on Workplace Sexual Harassment 

Submission to Legal and Social Issues Committee Inquiry into Victoria’s Criminal  Justice System [co-produced with the CIJ’s Research, Advocacy and Policy team]

Submission to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability

Submission to the Victorian Law Reform Commission’s Inquiry into Improving the Response of the Justice System to Sexual Offences

Reports to the Coronial Council of Victoria – From page 145

2020

Submission to Crime Statistics Agency on the draft measure of crime harm [co-produced with the CIJ’s Research, Advocacy and Policy team]

2019 

‘It’s healing to hear another person’s story and also to tell your own story’: Report on the CIJ’s Restorative Justice Conferencing Pilot Program

Communicating with Victims about Resolution Decisions A Study of Victims’ Experiences and Communication Needs – A report for Victoria’s Office of Public Prosecutions  

Supporting Justice System Map 

Stan Winford and Bronwyn Naylor, ‘Implementing OPCAT through prison monitoring: the relevance of rehabilitation’ April 2019, Australian Journal of Human Rights 25(1):1-17. DOI:10.1080/1323238X.2019.1588060

Stan Winford, Edward Santow, Sophie Farthing, Bronwyn Naylor, Penny Weller, ‘Foreword to the Special Issue on the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment’ April 2019, Australian Journal of Human Rights 25(1): 1-3.
DOI:10.1080/1323238X.2019.1590117

2018 

Submission to the Queensland Parliament’s inquiry into the Human Rights Bill 2018

Submission to the Sentencing Advisory Council’s inquiry into Restitution & Compensation Orders 

Recognition, Respect and Support: Enabling justice for people with an Acquired Brain Injury 

Supporting Justice Website Resource  

Stan Winford, Chris Maylea, Nareeda Lewers, Elissa Scott and Penelope Weller, ‘Socialising the law: Multidisciplinary Practice with lawyers and social workers’ in Social Work in the Shadow of the Law, eds Simon Rice, Andrew Day and Linda Briskman (Federation Press, 5th edition, 2018).

2017 

Criminal Record Discrimination Project – Woor Dungin – Submission to Aboriginal Justice Forum

Submission to the Coronial Council Appeals Review

Submission to Victorian Law Reform Commission – Review of the Victims of Crime Assistance Act 1996 

Submission to the Sentencing Advisory Council Swift, Certain and Fair Approaches to Sentencing Family Violence Offenders 2017 

Submission to the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory

2016 

Victorian Law Reform Commission Review: The role of victims in the criminal trial process 

2015 

Mental Health Legal Centre/Inside Access/Centre for Innovative Justice Submission to Family Violence Royal Commission [co-produced with the CIJ’s Research, Advocacy and Policy team]

2014 

Innovative justice responses to sexual offending– pathways to better outcomes for victims, offenders and the community [co-produced with the CIJ’s Research, Advocacy and Policy team]