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The Australian Bureau of Statistics' publication Crime and Safety Australia presents findings from a household survey that collected data on the nature and extent of crime in the community. The publication includes information from individuals and households about their experience of selected crimes, as well as details regarding the most recent experience of crime such as whether it was reported to police.

• Previous report: Counting the costs of crime in Australia
• Previous report: Counting the costs of crime in Australia: technical report
• Topic: Costs of crime

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Abstract
• Executive summary
• Introduction
• Method
• Suspicious transactions by members of known organised crime groups
• Relationship between characteristics of organised crime groups and suspicious transactions
• Relationship between suspicious transactions and crime-related harm
• Discussion
• References

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Abstract
• Executive summary
• Introduction
• Methodology
• Prevalence of identity crime
• Characteristics of recent incidents
• Economic losses
• Impact on victims
• Reporting the misuse of personal information
• Risk and prevention of misuse of personal information
• Discussion
• References
• Appendix A: Identity crime survey 2019
• Appendix B: Methodological details

A report by the Australian Institute of Criminology, "Crime Reduction Through Product Design", highlights a number of ways in which technology is increasingly being used to reduce or prevent crime. Crime reduction through product design (CRPD) involves integrating protective features into products in order to reduce their potential to become targets of criminal activity, as well as preventing their use as instruments of crime. The term "product" encompasses any physical property and forms of currency, as well as electronic information and computer software.

Crime victimisation surveys provide an important complement to crime statistics collected by police and courts. Key results from the Australian component of the 2004 International Crime Victimisation Survey (ICVS) show that 52 per cent of Australians had experienced at least one incident of crime in the five years prior to the survey, a drop from 55 per cent reported in the previous ICVS in 2000. Seventeen per cent of Australians were victims of crime in the preceding 12 months, down from 24 per cent in 2000.

This publication largely comprises the edited papers presented at a seminar held at the University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, from 7 to 11 July 1975 under the title 'Crime prevention in developing areas'. The seminar was conducted by the Australian Institute of Criminology in conjunction with the Department of Law of Papua New Guinea.

Foreword | The low number of prosecutions in Indonesia for illegal logging may not offer a strong enough deterrent against engaging in what is a lucrative crime. However, the movement of offenders and proceeds tied to illegal logging through other countries in the region offers some opportunities to support Indonesia's law enforcement responses. Officials in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia may charge offenders in those jurisdictions with criminal money laundering offences for their involvement in corruption offences in Indonesia.

Foreword | Increasing demand for Australian seafood overseas and at home is driving both legal and illegal markets, heightening the need for sustainable harvesting and management. Though illegal activity in the Australian domestic fishing industry has long been thought to be small-scale and opportunistic, significant numbers are regularly flouting the regulations. Some organised criminal activity too is evident, in high-value, low-volume fish stocks, such as abalone and rock lobster.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Recorded crime, victims, Australia annual publication, property crime has undergone dramatic decline in recent years. Property crime is defined as including unlawful entry with intent (UEWI), motor vehicle theft (MVT), and other theft. Other theft includes offences such as pickpocketing, bag snatching, shoplifting and bicycle theft. In the period 1993-2005, the rate per 100,000 population of UEWI has been approximately steady at between 2,100 and 2,320 until 2001.

Foreword | This paper examines the offender behaviour patterns of residential burglars to demonstrate why protected communities are less likely to provide the protection from outsiders that residents seek. In examining the home addresses of Canberra burglars and the addresses of their targets, the study finds that burglars do not, as expected, work in their own neighbourhood. In A.C.T. burglaries recorded in 1999 and 2000, most burglars (77%) travelled away from their home suburb to do their work, travelling an average of five kilometres to their target.

Foreword | As our use of information and communication technologies increases and evolves, incidents of technology-enabled crime are likely to continue. Based on what we know today, this paper summarises a range of potential challenges that regulators and law enforcement agencies need to bear in mind.

Surveys

• Crime and justice in Asia and the Pacific (pdf 2.6MB)

A Report on the Third United Nations Survey of Crime Trends, Operations of Criminal Justice Systems and Crime Prevention Strategies, 1980-1986