Prof Tony Butler

Over the past 25 years Tony has conducted numerous projects in the justice health area and currently heads the Justice Health Research Program, UNSW, School of Population Health. His work has involved developing two national offender health data collections: the National Prison Entrants Bloodborne Virus Survey, and the Prisoner Health Information Collection. Current research includes examining the link in psychosis and offending, the role of traumatic brain injury in offending, a pharmacotherapy-based RCT (ReINVEST) for impulsive-violent offenders, an intervention (Beyond Violence) for women who use violence, and text mining police domestic violence event narratives. He leads an NHMRC-funded Centre of Research Excellence in Violence Perpetration.