Justice reinvestment strategy

RR25By25 and Beyond: A Justice Reinvestment Strategy aims to support a fair and sustainable criminal justice system in the ACT. It focuses on improving justice outcomes by preventing and reducing offending and reoffending and lowering rates of incarceration.

RR25By25 and Beyond is the second phase of the Reducing Recidivism in the ACT by 25% by 2025 Plan.

The strategy has 4 focus areas:

• a new approach to funding through a Justice Futures Fund
• an outcomes focused strategic framework
• improved data collection and evaluation tools
• aligning with other strategies.

Justice reinvestment projects

Justice Futures Fund co-design

Co-design for a new Justice Futures Fund is happening now. Curijo, an independent organisation, is leading the co-design.

Curijo want to talk to stakeholders and community to develop a plan for the fund.

They want to hear from:

• non-government organisations
• Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisations (ACCOs)
• government agencies
• community members
• people with lived experience of the ACT criminal justice system.

Feedback can be given by:

• completing a short online survey
• attending one of four face-to-face focus groups held by Galari Consulting
• joining an online focus group held by Curijo
• participating in a one-on-one online interview.

More information on how to participate is in the Participant Information Sheet .

Australian National University research

Research is happening to understand how people stop offending.

The Australian National University (ANU) is talking to people who have had contact with the justice system in the ACT about what made a difference. This is part of ANU’s research collaboration with the Justice and Community Safety Directorate.

The ANU would like to interview people over the age of 18 who were guilty of an offence in the ACT in the past 5 years. Interviews for the research project will end in August 2025. See the participant’s flyer for more information or email pocs@anu.edu.au.

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