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Mobile dating applications and sexual and violent offending
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Misconceptions of sexual crimes against adult victims: Barriers to justice
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Bail practices and policy alternatives in Australia
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Social isolation, time spent at home, financial stress and domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic
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How and why vendors sell on cryptomarkets
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Social isolation, time spent at home, financial stress and domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic
11-11-2020
The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has released a paper exploring the relationship between social isolation, time spent at home, financial stress and domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Data from a large online…
Drug use monitoring in Australia: Drug use among police detainees, 2019
23-09-2020
In 2019, 78 percent (n=676) of detainees tested positive to at least one type of drug, and 44 percent (n=382) tested positive to more than one drug type. Methamphetamine had the highest test positive rate of any drug (51%, n=444), and was also…
Identity crime and misuse in Australia, 2019
27-08-2020
The estimated cost of identity crime in Australia in 2018–19 (including direct and indirect costs) was $3.1b—17 percent more than in 2015–16.
The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has released three new statistical…
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Statistics from three long-term monitoring programs—the Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) program, National Homicide Monitoring Program (NHMP) and the National Deaths in Custody Program (NDICP) as well as Identity Crime and Misuse.
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