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References

• Conference: Designing out crime: crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED)

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Direct serious and organised crime costs
  • Illicit drug activity
  • Serious and organised financial crime
  • Crimes against the person
  • Illicit commodities
  • Pure cybercrime
  • Serious and organised crime enabling costs
• Consequential organised crime costs
• Indirect costs of preventing and responding to serious and organised crime
  • Public sector costs

Key findings

• The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) interviewed 816 detainees about their personal experience of victimisation and fear of victimisation for three crime types—physical assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft—as part of the Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) program. This is the first study of its kind in Australia to compare rates of victimisation and fear of victimisation between a sample of police detainees and the general population.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Abstract
• Introduction
  • Methodological approach
• Direct serious and organised crime costs
  • Illicit drug activity
  • Organised financial crime
  • Crimes against the person
  • Illicit commodities
  • Pure cybercrime
  • Serious and organised crime enabling costs
• Consequential organised crime costs
• Indirect costs of preventing and responding to serious and organised crime
  • Public sector costs

Note: Second edition of this title published in 2000.

National Crime Prevention Framework - Overview

National Crime Prevention Framework - Bibliography

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Introduction
• Methodological approach
• Direct serious and organised crime costs
  • Illicit drug activity
  • Organised financial crime
  • Crimes against the person
  • Illicit commodities
  • Pure cybercrime
  • Serious and organised crime enabling costs
• Consequential organised crime costs
• Indirect costs of preventing and responding to serious and organised crime
• Conclusion and summary
• References

Like any Australians, older people are concerned about their safety. Australia's older population is growing rapidly, with one-quarter of the population projected to be over 65 years by the middle of the century. However, while it is a fact that older people are less at risk of criminal victimisation than other age groups, they tend to have a higher fear of crime than the general population.

Criminal justice system action to prevent crime is a tertiary-level prevention measure (that is, after offences have occurred). It is conventionally seen as operating directly through deterrence (for example, the criminal law code and certain forms of policing), incapacitation, and rehabilitation (that is, courts and prisons, including probation and parole services) and indirectly through effects on socialisation (for example, the promotion of social norms).

Contents

• Abstract
• Executive summary
  • Cost of identity crime
• Introduction
• Methodology
  • Components of the cost of identity crime and misuse
• Direct costs
  • Costs to Commonwealth government entities
  • Costs to individuals
  • Cost of serious identity crime
  • Police-recorded identity crime
  • Additional direct costs
  • Summary of direct costs
• Indirect costs
  • Public sector prevention and response costs

Foreword | This paper is timely, given that policing is currently going through a period of significant change in both operational tactics and organisational structures. New ideas in crime reduction and changes to short- and long-term policing strategies are underway. Intelligence-led policing represents a recent approach and is one of the more prevalent of the current "shifts in crime control philosophy and policing practice" (Maguire 2000).

The Australian Survey of Social Attitudes (AuSSA) is a survey of 4270 Australians, first carried out by the Australian National University's Centre for Social Research in 2003. One of the questions asked by AuSSA in 2003 was whether respondents believed crime had increased, decreased or stayed the same over the past two years. As can be seen in the chart below, belief that crime had increased either a little or a lot was most common. Comparatively few people perceived crime as having decreased in the two years leading up to the survey. Perception of crime varied across age groups.

Effective crime prevention is any action that causes a reduction in the level of criminal activity and the resulting harm, or in the number of criminal offenders and their victims:

• the focus is on the causes of crime rather than its effects;
• the goal is to significantly reduce or eliminate the factors that can to lead crime.

Crime prevention can be described in terms of three stages or levels - primary, secondary and tertiary prevention.

Previous research has explored the use of particular weapons in crime and the characteristics of weapons offences, but the reasons for owning and carrying weapons, and the sources of those weapons have not been examined. Nor have there been many studies examining the possible link between drug use and weapons, in particular firearms (Sheley 1994). Using data collected as part of the DUMA program, this paper examines the extent to which police detainees self-reported: