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Foreword | Community justice programs such as the Red Hook Court in New York and the Neighbourhood Justice Centre in the City of Yarra in Melbourne represent an innovative approach to a range of crime and safety issues by engaging the community in identifying problems and generating solutions. However, as with many small-scale or specialist court programs, community courts have found it difficult to provide robust outcome evaluation data to demonstrate their effectiveness.

The annual Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards (ACVPA) were announced in October 2008 by the federal Minister for Home Affairs. The Awards, a joint initiative of the Australian, state, and territory governments, recognise outstanding community-based projects that prevent or reduce crime and violence. The winning projects, selected from a field of 67 nominated from around Australia, focused primarily on domestic and family violence, youth, and alcohol-related crime. Three national winners from the community sector were:

A report recently released from the Australian Institute of Criminology shows that many crimes which are committed against small retail businesses go unreported to police. Results from a survey completed by 3,834 business proprietors revealed that reporting practices differed markedly, depending on both the type of crime and whether it was attempted or completed. While almost all burglaries and robberies were reported to police, very few incidents of shoplifting, employee theft and cheque/credit card fraud were reported.

Canberra, 10-14 June 1974

Contents

Papers of the seminar

• Crime prevention and control -  the role of the Australian Institute of Criminology
  Harold G. Weir
• Crime prevention and the community - whose responsibility?
  William Clifford
• Public participation in the work of the professional services
  William Clifford
• The community and its values
  William Clifford
• Socialisation
  William Clifford
• Community involvement in crime prevention
  A.W. Jamrozik

This is the longer, more technical version of a Criminology Research Grants study that was released by the AIC as a Trends & Issues report on September 19 2012.

Acknowledgements

This research was supported by a grant from the Criminology Research Grants, grant number CRG 38/10–11.

The Criminology Research Grants scheme is managed by the Criminology Research Advisory Council. The views expressed in this report are the responsibility of the authors and are not necessarily those of the Council.

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Canberra, 14-18 October 1974

Contents

Papers of the seminar

• Defensible space in Australian urban areas
  Harold G. Weir
• Crime and the urban community: sickness or symbiosis?
  Peter Scott
• Probation and parole in the community
  B.J. Brinley
• Community relations and law enforcement - a new initiative
  A.J. Grassby
• Report on the seminar
  G.I.A.D. Draper

Appendix I

• Seminar specialists

Appendix II

• List of participants

Appendix III

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Managed by the Australian Institute of Criminology, the Australian component of the 2004 International Crime Victimisation Survey (ICVS) randomly surveyed 6,000 people aged 16 or older. To assess the experience of crime among migrants, an extra 1001 individuals born, or whose parents were born, in Vietnam or the Middle East were surveyed. The chart below compares the five-year rates of victimisation for the main sample and the Middle Eastern/Vietnamese sample.