Research and Public Policy Series

Level of crime as revealed by police statistics

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A statistical profile of crime in Australia
Satyanshu Mukherjee, Carlos Carcach, and Karl Higgins
ISBN 0 642 24033 7 ; ISSN 1326-6004
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 1997
(Research and Public Policy Series, no. 7)

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Abstract

Tables and graphs showing numbers and rates of property crimes (break enter and steal, motor vehicle theft, stealing, arson, malicious damage, fraud) and violent crimes (homicide, assault, armed and unarmed robbery) reported to police in yearly increments from 1991-92 to 1995-96 are presented. Tables are provided for Australia as a whole and each of the States and Territories. A short text indicates the trends shown by the statistical data.