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Foreword | Women's drug use is believed to be a defining factor in their participation in crime and it is argued that the severity of women's drug use is more closely related to their criminality than it is for men, particularly for prostitution and property crime. Women's drug use and offending are different from men's.

Proceedings of a conference held 23-25 June 1992

Contents

• List of contributors
• Preface
• Opening address
  Rob Hulls
• Law reform and the road to independence
  Michael Mansell

Community crime prevention

• A community development approach to crime prevention in Aboriginal communities
  Barbara Miller
• Crime prevention strategy for Aboriginal communities
  Rebecca Tonkin
• Mediation within Aboriginal communities: issues and challenges
  Marg O'Donnell

1-5 March 1976

Contents

• Foreword

Part I

• Opening remarks
  The Honourable R.J. Ellicott
• The use of customary law for crime prevention
  W. Clifford
• The use of customary law for crime prevention and control
  His Excellency the Honourable Sir John Kerr
• Keynote address: The use of customary law in the criminal justice system
  The Honourable Sir Sydney Frost
• Commentary on keynote address
  Professor R.S. O'Regan

Part II

• Summary of discussions
  W. Clifford

Wilderness programs that include adventure activities and 'boot camps' involving military-like discipline are often promoted as effective crime prevention measures for young people in contact with the justice system or those at risk of criminal involvement. However, research reviews show mixed results for such programs.

Foreword | The Australian heavy vehicle industry is critical to the movement of people, freight, livestock and other goods. However, every year there are deaths and serious injuries on Australian roads, some of which are caused by speeding heavy vehicles.

Project Vigilance today received a silver award in the police-led category of the 2021 Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards (ACVPA).

The ACVPA recognise best practice in the prevention or reduction of violence and other types of crime in Australia and play a vital role in highlighting effective community-based initiatives to prevent crime and violence.

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. 

A roundtable was recently held in Victoria to develop strategies to curb antisocial behaviour, with a focus on violence and public safety—particularly alcohol-related incidents. Attendees included academics, police, health professionals, representatives from the justice system and the co-founder of a violence prevention initiative.

Foreword | In recent years, the Australian Government has committed significant resources to combating trafficking in persons. Within this larger anti-trafficking effort, the community sector, law enforcement, prosecutors, health professionals and members of the community all have an important role to play. As each sector comes to terms with the reality of trafficking in Australia, it is important that emerging challenges and possible solutions are identified.

Communities That Care (CTC) is a socio-developmental model of community crime prevention planning. It draws on the risk and protective factor theory that arose from studies showing associations between certain conditions in a child's life and the likelihood of them later engaging in problem behaviour.

Has violence in the workplace increased? Some sectors of the community believe that it has. Certainly the headlines on this page illustrate the justifiable anxieties of some of our public contact workers. Many public transport workers have been verbally or physically abused by the travelling public. For example, earlier this year a Canberra bus driver suffered a heart attack and died following an altercation with a man who refused to pay a bus fare. Banking staff have to cope with irate, aggressive customers as well as the prospect of facing a professional, violent criminal.