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Nominations for the 2025 Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards (ACVPA) have been extended.

In recent years finding a 'what works' catalogue for crime prevention action has become of prime importance for practitioners and professionals in the field. If we can just work out what crime prevention tools work best when and where, then we can successfully apply these to similar problems.

Foreword | This paper is timely, given that policing is currently going through a period of significant change in both operational tactics and organisational structures. New ideas in crime reduction and changes to short- and long-term policing strategies are underway. Intelligence-led policing represents a recent approach and is one of the more prevalent of the current "shifts in crime control philosophy and policing practice" (Maguire 2000).

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.

Acknowledgment

Summary report of the seminar is attached.

Proceedings of a seminar held Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 7-11 July 1975

Contents

• Introduction
• Outline of plenary sessions
• Reports of discussion groups
• Summary of recommendations
• Appendix I
  • List of participants
• Appendix II
  • Seminar programme
• Appendix III
  • Press clippings

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• 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
• Conclusion and summary
• References

Foreword | Technology has both facilitated and impeded the investigation of crime, particularly high tech crime involving computing and communications technologies. On the one hand, computers have enabled vast amounts of data to be searched and analysed quickly, and have permitted documents and files to be scanned and transmitted across the globe in seconds.

Foreword | Another Trends & Issues paper (Prenzler 2011) identified key dimensions of welfare fraud in Australia and some of the social issues associated with efforts to reduce fraud. The present paper makes a more detailed examination of detection and prevention strategies, reporting on a range of initiatives that have been introduced progressively over the last three decades. These initiatives appear to be consistent with trends in comparable jurisdictions.

The approach selected to measure the relative costs and benefits of crime prevention programs can have an important effect on decisions about future spending priorities and directions for crime prevention work. The terms "cost-benefit analysis" and "cost effectiveness" are frequently used interchangeably. However, while they measure similar things, they provide different and separately useful information. Further, they are only two approaches used to analyse program costs and benefits. The following summarises some of the possible choices.

Performance measurement is a basic tool for answering the management question: "how is your crime prevention program going?" As such, it is an important part of efficiently implementing crime prevention and reduction programs.