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Nominations are now open for the 2021 Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards. These awards recognise and reward good practice in the prevention or reduction of violence and other types of crime in Australia.

Proceedings of a conference held 1-3 September 1993, Hobart

Contents

• Contents
• Contributors
• Glossary of terms/abbreviations
• Introduction
  Neil Gunningham and Jennifer Norberry
• The nature of environmental crime
  Brian Robinson
• Criminal law and environmental protection - overview of issues and themes
  Nicola Pain
• Old wine in new bottles: difficulties in the application of general principles of criminal law to environmental law
  Zada Lipman

Newsletter series detailing the Australian Institute of Criminology events, publication releases and resources.

1997 - 2008

The following documents are available only in PDF format.

This report was funded by the Australian Research Council's Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (Bushfire CRC) as part of Program C3.

Community policing is a term firmly ensconced in the lexicon of Australian policing. But what exactly is it? Although a phrase commonly used within both the criminal justice system and the public domain, it remains many things to many people. This paper examines the origins and central tenants of community policing and identifies pertinent issues for consideration regarding the future of community policing as a mechanism for crime control.

Proceedings of a conference held 4-6 April 1989

Contents

• Opening address
  David Malcolm
• Sources of confusion in the alcohol and crime debate
  Don Weatherburn
• Prisoners' experience with alcohol
  David Indermaur
• At court: the alcohol factor
  Jeff Giddings
• Alcohol, violent crime and social power
  Stephen Tomsen
• Domestic violence: alcohol and other distractions: a grassroots perspective
  Heather McGregor
• Crime on the roads: drinking and driving
  Ross Homel

In recent years finding a 'what works' catalogue for crime prevention action has become of prime importance for practitioners and professionals in the field. If we can just work out what crime prevention tools work best when and where, then we can successfully apply these to similar problems.

Indigenous people are over-represented at all stages of the criminal justice system in Australia. There are many suggested explanations for this, ranging from enduring institutionalised racism and differential treatment across the criminal justice system, to the effects of significant socio-economic disadvantage and actual higher levels of offending behaviour. This CRM summarises a number of the most important contemporary suggestions for helping to reduce offending in Indigenous communities.

Foreword | Three-dimensional virtual environments (3dves) are the new generation of digital multi-user social networking platforms. Their immersive character allows users to create a digital humanised representation or avatar, enabling a degree of virtual interaction not possible through conventional text-based internet technologies.

The ABS reports on weapons use in serious offences. These include murder, attempted murder, kidnap/abduction and robbery, with robbery defined as occurring against persons and not organisations. The figure below shows that weapons were more likely to be used in the most serious offences of murder (64%) and attempted murder (73%) than in kidnapping (19%) and robbery (44%). In terms of type of weapons used, around one-third involved knives, while more firearms (25%) were used in attempted murders than in completed murder cases (17%).

Acknowledgements
Extraction of data and preparation of text: Georgina Fuller.

Notes
Because of rounding, some percentages may not sum to 100.
Minor revisions are occasionally made to publications after release. The online version available on the AIC website will include any revisions made since printing.

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 reports examining identity crime and misuse in Australia: