Criminal Justice Statistics

Somerford, P. & Smith DI. (1990)
Trends, consequences & patterns of illicit drug cases heard in courts in Western Australia, 1977 – 1985. Paper presented at Second national drug indicators conference, Canberra, ACT, Australian Institute of Criminology, 1990. [PDF 1.0MB]

Task Force on Drug Abuse (1995)
Protecting the community: Report of the Task Force on Drug Abuse
Volume 2: Drug abuse information and analysis.
Chapter 5: Law enforcement data – Charges for drug offences (1985-1994), drug seizures (1985-1994), convictions for drug offences (1985-1993) & imprisonment (1982-1992) [PDF 70k]

Swensen, G. (2011)
Arrests for drug offences: Australia & Western Australia, 1995/1996 – 2009/2010. (October 2011) [PDF 493kb

Valuri, G., Indermaur, D. & Ferrante, A. (2002)
The criminal careers of drug offenders in Western Australia: A study of the recidivism & criminal history of those arrested for a drug offence in Western Australia between 1989 & 1999. (May 2002) [PDF 807k]

Swensen, G., Pridiss,C. & Wilson, G. (2003)
Police drug seizures & drug purity narratives, Western Australia, 2002 (June 2003) [PDF 2.4MB]

Swensen, G. (2008)
Drug related convictions in Western Australia, 2002 – 2006. (April 2008) [PDF 783kb