Résumé
"The $32 billion per year cost of crime, coupled with the 90% growth (1999/00 – 2007/08) in offshore defence spending, is driving the proliferation of a range of new policies, laws and programs aimed to control and prevent crime and security threats, creating a real and urgent need for high quality research of scale, focus and depth not previously undertaken in Australia. CEPS was established by the Australian Research Council (ARC) in 2007 to meet these challenges and boost policing and security research capacity in Australia amid the growing complexity and internationalisation of transnational crime in this post 9/11environment. ... Our Five Year Strategic Plan is the product of a series of consultations between CEPS Chief Investigators, the ARC, the International Advisory Board, our Industry Partners and the central CEPS management team."--Foreword.