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Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Executive summary
• Introduction
• Method
• The 2014 consumer fraud survey results
• Loss of personal information or passwords as a result of fraudulent invitations
• Conclusion and policy implications
• References
• Appendix 1

In response to escalating burglary rates in the Australian Capital Territory, the Australian Federal Police has, over recent years, introduced a series of crime reduction strategies in Canberra. These operations have been effective in achieving a short-term reduction in burglary rates, but the number of burglaries has risen again after the cessation of the operation (though not to pre-operation rates).

Commissioned by the Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy as a project under the cost shared funding arrangement.

Proceedings of a conference held 23-25 October 1990

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• Avoiding the dangers and pitfalls of community policing: ten questions that need to be addressed
  Paul R. Wilson
• The state of the art in community policing: an international perspective
  David Bayley
• Community policing: implications for Queensland
  Glenda Waring
• Issues for the Queensland Police
  R. ​​​Kirkpatrick
• Community policing - an ACT perspective
  Bernard Collaery
• Pitfalls of the introduction of community policing
  Jeff Jarratt

Abstract

There are programs in Australia and other countries aimed at reducing the fire-setting activities of young arsonists (Muller & Stebbins 2007). Evaluating the effectiveness of these programs is quite rare. However, research in the United States has evaluated fire-setting interventions up to a year after the intervention occurred (Kolko 2001).

Fires that are lit on high fire danger days are larger, more intense and more difficult to control than on other days. Although there is little conclusive evidence that arsonists specifically target high fire danger days (see Bushfire arson bulletin no. 39), deliberate bushfires which are lit on these days are potentially more dangerous and, as they require more effort and resources to suppress, they impact on the ability of fire services to fight other fires.

Contents

• Foreword
• Criminological research in perspective
  W. Clifford
• The current status of Australian criminological research
  David Biles

Summaries of papers

• Expanded opportunities for criminological research: crime victims
  Ray Whitrod
• Paradigms of court research
  Roman Tomasic
• Aboriginal young offenders in an isolated community
  Maggie Brady and Rodney Morice
• Legal representation in magistrates courts
  Peter Cashman
• Avoiding delay in magistrates courts
  Edward Sikk

Foreword | Consumer fraud costs Australians almost $1b a year and most of this fraud involves scams in which individuals are persuaded to part with an upfront, or advance, fee, with the promise of large financial or other gain in the future.