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At the conference of Ministers in Charge of Prisons, Probation and Parole held in Broome, Western Australia on 29th June 1979, a paper prepared by Andy Duckworth, Acting Co-ordinator of Community Programmes, Western Australian Department of Corrections and titled "Restitution : An Analysis of the Victim-Offender Relationship was reviewed. The Ministers decided to seek from the Australian Institute of Criminology further advice on this subject for consideration at their 1980 conference.
Contents
- Participants
- Introduction
- Opening address
Report of the conference
- Preliminary discussion
- Item I: The use of technology in prisons
- Item II: The role of volunteers in prisons in relation to programs for inmates
- Item III: Problems of the physically and mentally handicapped in prisons
- Item IV: Mechanisms used by various jurisdictions to monitor crime and incident rates in prison systems
- Item V: The definition of recidivism
- General business
As part of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2007 National Drug Strategy Household Survey (NDSHS), respondents aged 14 years and over were asked whether, in the 12 months prior, they had experienced drug-related victimisation or were involved in a range of illegal activities while under the influence of drugs. Drug-relatedness is based on the perceptions of respondents in the NDSHS and does not necessarily indicate the actual presence of drug use or intoxication at the time of an incident.
New reports by researchers from Griffith University demonstrate the benefits of a communication program to improve children’s language skills, when combined with family support.
Foreword | Fraud is Australia’s most costly form of crime with the Australian Institute of Criminology estimating that in excess of $8.5b was lost to fraud in 2005 (Rollings 2008). Consumer fraud alone has been found to cost Australians almost $1b each year (ABS 2008c). Most types of consumer fraud entail the use of so-called ‘advance fee’ techniques in which individuals are tricked into paying money—an ‘advance fee’—upfront in order to secure an anticipated financial or other benefit at a later date.
Foreword | In some countries, collecting statistics about the occurrence of homicide is not possible, either because of a lack of resources or because of the sheer volume of incidents. Fortunately in Australia there are three main data collection systems that produce largely independent sets of statistics on homicide: the National Homicide Monitoring Program at the Australian Institute of Criminology, and the Recorded Crime Australia and Causes of Death collections managed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Personal security in public places has become an area of increasing concern to governments in the past 10 years in Australia and overseas. One response has been a significant increase in the use of closed circuit television (CCTV) in densely populated areas such as central business districts and entertainment districts. CCTV is employed as a surveillance measure in such areas to monitor behaviour of individuals and in public spaces as a deterrent and opportunity reduction measure (see AIC 2006).
Heather Cook, Australian Institute of Criminology Director and Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission CEO
Thank you, Aunty Violet Sheridan, for your Welcome to Country. I’d also like to begin by acknowledging the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, the traditional custodians of the land on which we gather today.
Foreword | It is generally accepted that a person’s living situation, in particular their experience of homelessness and housing stress, can have both long-lasting and wide-ranging consequences. For criminal justice practitioners, the task of limiting homelessness and preventing crime remain key policy priorities in need of ongoing and integrated research.