DIVISION 94 LAW, POLITICS AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

This division covers R&D directed towards law, politics and community services.

It includes:

  • work and employment;
  • provision of community and social services, including welfare, to individuals or community groups;
  • social justice and general equity; and
  • government, politics and international relations.

This division has six groups:

Group 9401 Community Service (excl. Work)

This group covers R&D directed towards providing or delivering community and welfare services to individuals or to defined community groups such as the disabled, aged persons and single parents.

This group has eighteen objectives:

  • 940101 Ability and Disability
  • 940102 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Development and Welfare
  • 940103 Ageing and Older People
  • 9940104 Carers' Development and Welfare
  • 940105 Children's/Youth Services and Childcare/li>
  • 940106 Citizenship and National Identity
  • 940107 Comparative Structure and Development of Community Services
  • 940108 Distribution of Income and Wealth
  • 940109 Employment Services
  • 940110 Environmental Services
  • 940111 Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and Migrant Development and Welfare
  • 940112 Families and Family Services
  • 940113 Gender and Sexualities
  • 940114 Maori Development and Welfare
  • 940115 Pacific Peoples Development and Welfare
  • 940116 Social Class and Inequalities
  • 940117 Structure, Delivery and Financing of Community Services
  • 940199 Community Service (excl. Work) not elsewhere classified

Group 9402 Government and Politics

This group covers R&D directed towards government and politics.

It includes:

  • electoral and political systems;
  • civics and citizenship; and
  • public services management.

This group has five objectives:

  • 940201 Civics and Citizenship
  • 940202 Electoral Systems
  • 940203 Political Systems
  • 940204 Public Services Policy Advice and Analysis
  • 940299 Government and Politics not elsewhere classified

Group 9403 International Relations

This group covers R&D directed towards improving international relations. It includes R&D relating to current social, cultural and economic aspects of other nations.

This group has five objectives:

  • 940301 Defence and Security Policy
  • 940302 International Aid and Development
  • 940303 International Organisations
  • 940304 International Political Economy (excl. International Trade)
  • 940399 International Relations not elsewhere classified

Group 9404 Justice and the Law

This group covers R&D directed towards justice and the law.

It includes:

  • legal processes;
  • civil and criminal justice;
  • crime prevention, law enforcement and correctional services; and
  • law reform.

This group has nine objectives:

  • 940401 Civil Justice
  • 940402 Crime Prevention
  • 940403 Criminal Justice
  • 940404 Law Enforcement
  • 940405 Law Reform
  • 940406 Legal Processes
  • 940407 Legislation, Civil and Criminal Codes
  • 940408 Rehabilitation and Correctional Services
  • 940499 Justice and the Law not elsewhere classified

Group 9405 Work and Institutional Development

This group covers R&D directed towards aspects of work.

It includes:

  • employment and work patterns;
  • the professions;
  • unpaid work and volunteering; and
  • workplace safety.

This group has six objectives:

  • 9940501 Employment Patterns and Change
  • 940502 Professions and Professionalisation
  • 940503 Time Use, Unpaid Work and Volunteering/li>
  • 940504 Work and Family Responsibilities
  • 940505 Workplace Safety
  • 940599 Work and Institutional Development not elsewhere classified

Group 9499 Other Law, Politics and Community Services

This group covers R&D directed towards law, politics and community services not elsewhere classified.

This group has one objective:

  • 949999 Law, Politics and Community Services not elsewhere classified