Australian violence : contemporary perspectives

• Duncan Chappell, Peter Grabosky, and Heather Strang (eds.)
• ISBN 0 642 15763 4 ; ISSN 1034-5086
• Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 1991

• Download full proceedings (PDF 834kB)

Abstract

The First National Conference on Violence was organised by the Australian Institute of Criminology on behalf of the National Committee on Violence, and was held in Canberra, October 1989. This collection of the conference papers covers topics such as:

• the incidence and causes of violence;
• deterrence measures;
• perceptions of violence on television;
• public violence;
• domestic assault;
• international perspectives;
• socioeconomic determinants; masculinity; and
• issues relating to victims of violence.

Contents

• Contributors (PDF 13kB)
• Introduction (PDF 39kB)
• Violence in Australian history
  Henry Reynolds
• How violent is Australia?
  Don Weatherburn and Christopher Devery
• Violence and public policy: information needs
  David Neal
• Homicide in Victoria
  Kenneth Polk and David Ranson
• The contribution of injury surveillance to understanding patterns of intentional violence in Australia
  Graham Vimpani
• Investigation of the incidence and analysis of cases of alleged violence reporting to St Vincent's Hospital
  Marjorie Cuthbert, Frances Lovejoy, and Gordon Fulde
• The ecology of community violence
  Don Edgar
• Explaining violence: socioeconomic determinants and masculinity
  Christine Alder
• The causes of public violence: situational "versus" other factors in drinking related assaults
  Stephen Tomsen, Ross Homel and Jenny Thommeny
• Australian violence: an international perspective
  Hans Joachim Schneider
• Perceptions of violence on television
  Peter Sheehan
• The victim of violence and the criminal justice system
  Chris Sumner
• Psychiatric aspects of preventive intervention with victims of violence
  Beverley Raphael
• Political pragmatism versus informed policy : issues in the design, implementation and evaluation of anti-vioilence research and programs
  Rick Sarre
• Conclusion
• Violence in Australia: an annotated bibliography
  John Myrtle