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Note: This is an abridged, updated version of the 1988 South Australian Justice Administration Foundation Oration presented at the South Australian Police Academy, Fort Largs on 13 July 1988.

Foreword | Crime prevention work, both in Australia and overseas, has long been distinctive for its strong commitment to the use of "whole of government" approaches to the development of policies and the implementation of programs. Whole of government approaches are built on the assumption that because we know the causes of crime are complex and multifaceted, then preventive responses will be more effective if we combine the efforts of all the relevant government agencies (and community and business groups) into a single coordinated strategy.

Foreword | Official Australian crime statistics indicate that individual offence levels peak around 15–24 years of age and decline thereafter (eg see AIC 2011). Change in this general age–crime trend could be expected to coincide with change in age-related demographic phenomena (South & Messner 2000). This paper is one of two by this author that investigate the impact of structural ageing on crime patterns.

Foreword | Online communities are increasingly being recognised as a way of sharing ideas and knowledge among different practitioner communities, particularly when practitioners are not able to meet face to face. This paper explores the considerations associated with establishing online communities for crime prevention practitioners, drawing on research from across the community of practice, online community and knowledge management sectors.

Foreword | Recent research shows that not all assaults described in victimisation surveys are considered to be crimes by the victims. This paper investigates this issue and puts forward findings which have implications for the role surveys play in measuring crime. Using ABS 2005 Personal Safety Survey data, it examines the extent to which surveyed incidents of assault are perceived by victims to be criminal events, aspects of incidents that predict perceptions and any existing variations by sex.

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Foreword | The Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards (ACVPA) is a national awards program administered by the Australian Institute of Criminology that recognises innovative crime prevention projects that embody good practice.

Proceedings of a conference held 4-6 June 1991

Contents

• Crime prevention: the universal challenge
  Gilbert Bonnemaison

Crime prevention in Transition

• An Australian perspective
  Chris Sumner
• Developments in crime prevention in New Zealand: an overview
  David Oughton
• Prevention or displacement?
  Dennis Challinger
• 'Opportunity and desire': making prevention relevant to the criminal and social environment
  Kayleen M. Hazlehurst

Crime prevention: state perspectives

Confiscating the assets of criminals is one of the legal responses included in the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF-GAFI) recommendations to the international community for combating money laundering and financing of terrorism.

Foreword | Worldwide concern about the impact of climate change, population growth and resource depletion will continue to drive a focus on environmental harms. Tackling and reducing these harms will inevitably lead to greater regulation and further criminalisation of both intentional and negligent acts by individuals, business and government. This paper discusses what can be learned from traditional crime prevention to reduce and prevent environmental harm.

• Link to first edition: The status of laws on outlaw motorcycle gangs in Australia (Research in practice summary no. 02, 12 June 2009)

Second edition, March 2010

Contents

Part I: Undertaking organised crime research

• Chapter 1: The state of organised crime research in Australia
  
  Professor Roderic Broadhurst, Dr Adam Masters, Dr Russell G Smith and Dr Rick Brown
• Chapter 2: A network perspective on fusion
  
  Associate Professor Chad Whelan and Associate Professor David Bright
• Chapter 3: Can we forestall terrorism and frustrate organised crime by means of metadata retention?
  
  Professor Rick Sarre

"Crime reduction" and "crime prevention" are essentially the same things - combinations of actions designed to eliminate and/or minimise the occurrence of crime and the harm associated with it. There is no empirical basis for the use of one term over the other.

Foreword | This paper reports on a face-to-face survey conducted with 337 small businesses in two ethnically-concentrated communities. Interviews were conducted in Vietnamese, Mandarin, Cantonese and English. Controlling for other factors, Chinese businesses were at greater risk of shoplifting and Vietnamese businesses were at greater risk of burglary and vandalism compared with English speaking businesses, while English speaking businesses were at greater risk of robbery and/or verbal abuse and/or physical assault.