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The range of benefits that sport and other physical activities can have in preventing or reducing crime and other antisocial behaviours among young people are widely documented. However, a shortage of good long-term research means that it is difficult to fully appreciate the impacts these sorts of programs may have over time.

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• 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

This report was funded by the Australian Research Council's Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (Bushfire CRC) as part of Program C3.

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Part A: Family and domestic violence

1. Who reports domestic violence to police? A review of the evidence (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 559)
Isabella Voce and Hayley Boxall

2. Targeting repeat domestic violence: Assessing short-term risk of reoffending (Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 552)
Anthony Morgan, Hayley Boxall and Rick Brown

Foreword | Gambling has always been a popular form of entertainment in Australia, but the advent of poker and gaming machines, casinos, TABs and lotto-style games has contributed to a substantial growth in the gambling industry. The Productivity Commission (1999) reports that 82 per cent of the Australian adult population engaged in some form of gambling in 1997-98, with gambling taxes and levies paid to state and territory governments nearly doubling over the past 10 years.

A comparison of the costs and benefits of similar crime prevention programs will not necessarily show that one program is better than another. For example, one program may produce a net benefit for one group, while another will benefit a different group. In addition, resources are often spread across a number of programs intended to generate overall crime prevention benefits for a variety of groups. In order to produce the best "mix" of programs, a practical decision-making framework is required.

Nominations are now open for the 2021 Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards. These awards recognise and reward good practice in the prevention or reduction of violence and other types of crime in Australia.

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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

Nominations are now open for the 2022 Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards (ACVPA). Now in the 30th year, the ACVPA recognise and reward good practice in the prevention or reduction of violence and other types of crime in Australia.