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This ACEMS Public Lecture aims to provide an overview of how data science and in particular statistical modelling can be used to inform a more effective criminal justice system.  Dr Suzanne Poynton, Acting Director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, will open the session with some introductory remarks to set the context.  Dr Joanna Wang, who is a Research Statistician at the Bureau, will go into a more detailed description of how statistical modelling is used to help extract actionable insight from the Bureau's extensive database on criminal offenders in NSW.  She will go into some depth on one recent specific project that compares the recidivism rates of offenders who received an intensive correction order with those sentenced to short prison sentence.

ACEMS is proud to be one of the sponsors of the 20th INFORMS Applied Probability Society Conference, which is the major biannual conference held in applied probability worldwide. This year it's coming to Australia, and will be held at the Brisbane Convention Centre from 3-5 July 2019. 

ACEMS is proud to be a sponsor of the 2019 Young Statisticians Conference. This is a biennial conference for students and early career researcher in statistics sponsored by Statistical Society of Australia.