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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.

On 26 November 2019, 13 projects were recognised at an award ceremony at Parliament House in Canberra.

Foreword | By its nature, money laundering is unlikely ever to be measured accurately, but estimates of its cost to the economy can be made using a range of data sources. This research updates estimates of the cost of money laundering undertaken in 1995 and identifies risk areas for money laundering in and through Australia. It confirms that fraud constitutes the greatest source of laundered funds, followed by the illegal drug trade.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Executive summary
• Introduction
• Background
• Methods
• Findings
• Discussion
• References

Foreword | Gambling has always been a popular form of entertainment in Australia, but the advent of poker and gaming machines, casinos, TABs and lotto-style games has contributed to a substantial growth in the gambling industry. The Productivity Commission (1999) reports that 82 per cent of the Australian adult population engaged in some form of gambling in 1997-98, with gambling taxes and levies paid to state and territory governments nearly doubling over the past 10 years.

The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) manages the annual Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards (ACVPA) every year, with the Director of the AIC chairing the Selection Board. On 29 November 2018, 12 projects were recognised at an award ceremony at Parliament House in Canberra. The Senator the Hon Linda Reynolds CSC, Assistant Minister for Home Affairs, announced the winners.

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Part A: Family and domestic violence

1. Who reports domestic violence to police? A review of the evidence (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 559)
Isabella Voce and Hayley Boxall

2. Targeting repeat domestic violence: Assessing short-term risk of reoffending (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 552)
Anthony Morgan, Hayley Boxall and Rick Brown

On 23 November 2021, 12 projects were recognised for their contribution to the prevention of crime and violence in Australian communities.

Foreword | Homicide is a multifaceted crime, and policies oriented to prevention must be built on solid data and a clear understanding of the various characteristics of homicide and situations in which it might occur. This paper focuses on one such situation: homicide incidents that occur in the course of other crime (for example, during a robbery or a sexual assault).

The first national outlook symposium: Canberra, 5 & 6 June 1995

Contents

• Opening address
  Duncan Kerr
• The state of the nation
  Adam Graycar
• The role of crime prevention in modern Australia
  Trevor Griffin
• Crime prevention: a national approach
  Daryl Smeaton
• Organised crime
  Tom Sherman
• Child abuse and family violence
  Rosemary Sinclair
• Policing multicultural Australia
  Neil Comrie
• White collar crime
  Mick Palmer
• Aboriginal justice issues [paper not included]

Foreword | Australia's immigration rate is among the highest in the world. Migrants face special challenges integrating into a new country, especially if their language, skin colour, religion or cultural practices set them apart from mainstream society. To assess the experiences of crime among migrants, the Australian component of the 2004 International Crime Victimisation Survey oversampled migrants who were born or whose parents were born in Vietnam or the Middle East.

Foreword | Official crime statistics suggest that young people aged 24 years and under make the greatest contribution to a population’s overall crime levels. A decline in the proportion of the population aged 24 years or under should therefore reduce the population’s crime levels. Yet the impact of structural ageing—the shift in population age structure from ‘young’ to ‘old’—in Australia is ‘one frequently overlooked influence on long-term crime trends’ (Weatherburn 2001: 2).