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A report released by the Australian Institute of Criminology, "Patterns of Victimisation Among Small Retail Businesses", shows that half of all retail businesses, responding to a small business crime survey, reported experiencing some form of crime in the 12 months to July 1999. Liquor stores were the most likely targets, with 72 per cent reporting they had experienced a crime. This was followed by pharmacies (61 per cent) and newsagencies and general stores (57 per cent for each). Fifty per cent of service stations and 38 per cent of cafes and restaurants also experienced a crime.

Proceedings of a seminar held 2-4 June 1987

Contents

• Crime at school: an overview
  
  Dennis Challinger
• Welcoming address
  
  David Biles
• Understanding and preventing behavioural problems in school
  
  Maurice Balson
• Parents' view of crime at school
  
  Helen Szuty
• Awareness/action/prevention: the pre-service education of teachers relevant to the prevention of crime at schools
  
  Alistair Peacock
• Introducing a school discipline code
  
  Kate Sutherland

Foreword | Increasing demand for Australian seafood overseas and at home is driving both legal and illegal markets, heightening the need for sustainable harvesting and management. Though illegal activity in the Australian domestic fishing industry has long been thought to be small-scale and opportunistic, significant numbers are regularly flouting the regulations. Some organised criminal activity too is evident, in high-value, low-volume fish stocks, such as abalone and rock lobster.

Foreword | Unexplained wealth laws are a relatively recent development in confiscation law, which require a person who lives beyond their apparent means to justify the legitimacy of their financial circumstances. Unexplained wealth laws are currently in place in the Northern Territory and Western Australia, while Commonwealth provisions recently came into effect. New South Wales has recently announced its intention to introduce laws mirroring the Commonwealth legislation. Similar laws are expected to come into effect shortly in South Australia.

In partnership with the Minister for Home Affairs, the Hon Karen Andrews MP, and state and territory police commissioners, the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) today awarded 12 Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards to police and community-led projects across the nation in a virtual ceremony.

The routine activities theory of crime posits that crime can occur when there is a convergence of a motivated offender, a suitable target, and the lack of a capable guardian. Situational crime prevention assumes that crime is a rational choice by offenders and that crime can be prevented by hardening targets to increase the risks and reduce the rewards.

The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) and Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) have exposed the impact and scale of serious and organised crime in Australia.

What people want to know about a crime prevention initiative is 'did it work?' That is, did it achieve its intended outcome by preventing or reducing the targeted crime and if so, by how much?

A "whole of government" approach to crime prevention is very widespread in Australia. However, it is an approach that is not unique to crime prevention. Rather, it is an example of a more general shift in public administration away from a command and control mode of governance and towards governance through multiple stakeholders working together to deliver integrated solutions to social problems across sectors and tiers of government. In parts of the USA this is known as "networked government" while in the UK the approach is popularly known as "joined-up government".

The ‘I live my life… without a knife’ campaign today received a bronze award in the police-led category of the 2021 Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards (ACVPA).

The ACVPA recognise best practice in the prevention or reduction of violence and other types of crime in Australia and play a vital role in highlighting effective community-based initiatives to prevent crime and violence.