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New studies reveal the changing culture within outlaw motorcycle gangs in Australia

This project was funded by the Crime Prevention Branch of the Criminal Justice Division, Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department.

A study of 5,000 Australians aged between 12 and 20 has found that up to one quarter have witnessed physical domestic violence against their mother or stepmother. In the study, physical domestic violence was defined as including 'threw something at', 'tried to hit', 'hit in defence', 'hit when unprovoked', 'threatened with knife or gun' and 'used knife or gun'. The study is the largest research project of its kind in Australia.

The Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission has been appointed the Director (Chief Executive) of the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC).

The AIC employs researchers from a range of disciplines to undertake research and maintain statistical collections on a range of priorities issues, as guided by the Criminology Research Advisory Council.

The Grants Management team administers the Criminology Research Grants and the Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards.

Our YouTube channel, CriminologyTV has a range of videos by specialists on issues such as consumer fraud, the needs of victims of crime, juvenile justice and deaths in custody. It also includes keynote presentations from a range of AIC conferences. The most recent videos are below or to see all of our videos go to Criminology TV.

Proceedings of a seminar held 2-3 August 1984

Contents

Plenary session : Thursday 2 August

• Opening remarks
  
  Professor Richard W. Harding
• Opening address
  
  The Honourable Peter T. Anderson
• Community policing in Japan and Singapore
  
  Professor David H. Bayley
• Community policing in New Zealand
  
  Superintendent James Morgan
• Police community involvement: a planned approach to effective crime prevention
  
  Inspector David J. Smith

Plenary session : Friday 3 August

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Foreword | Up to 30 percent of children experience childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and whether this impacts re-victimisation or offending as an adult has been the subject of numerous studies.

Foreword | Very little is known about adult-onset offenders. This makes it difficult to know the most effective way for the criminal justice system to respond to these offenders. This project examined the nature of adult-onset offending in the 1983–84 Queensland Longitudinal Data Cohort and explored whether adult cautioning may be a suitable and cost-effective alternative to current court processing.