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Foreword | Research investigating the methods and motivations of burglars has typically focused on incarcerated offenders. The Australian Institute of Criminology’s Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) program provided an opportunity for the authors to explore the methods and motivations of those actively involved in committing burglaries, whether or not they had actually been caught or detained for that offence.

Foreword | The issue of juvenile drug use and crime is of interest to a wide section of society. This paper examines the drug-taking patterns of a group of juveniles who were detained by police and interviewed as part of the Drug Use Monitoring Australia (DUMA) project. Most juveniles (around two-thirds) also gave a urine sample that was analysed for six classes of drugs. This paper reports on the 493 juveniles whose details are in the DUMA database.

Foreword | Prosecuting transnational crimes such as people trafficking is a complex and difficult task. It is often the case that the people who have been trafficked are the primary witnesses and provide the bulk of the evidence against a trafficker. Yet for a range of reasons, trafficked persons may be reluctant or unable to participate in criminal investigations and prosecutions.

Foreword

Car theft is a major problem in Australia as the following statistics show. In 1987-1988, 120,305 vehicles were stolen Australia wide, and in 1988-89 this increased to 122,542. A large number of these vehicles were never recovered which would indicate that car theft has become a serious organised criminal activity.

Today the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), in partnership with the Attorney-General the Hon Mark Dreyfus KC MP and state and territory police commissioners will celebrate the 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 before it actually occurs.

Proceedings of a conference held 4-6 June 1991

Contents

• Crime prevention: the universal challenge
  Gilbert Bonnemaison

Crime prevention in Transition

• An Australian perspective
  Chris Sumner
• Developments in crime prevention in New Zealand: an overview
  David Oughton
• Prevention or displacement?
  Dennis Challinger
• 'Opportunity and desire': making prevention relevant to the criminal and social environment
  Kayleen M. Hazlehurst

Crime prevention: state perspectives

There has been considerable growth in the use of closed circuit television (CCTV) in public spaces as a crime prevention measure and, increasingly, as a tool to detect and identify offenders. In Australia, CCTV systems have become an increasingly common fixture in urban centres, in shopping centres and malls, individual shops and banks, on public transport and in car parks.

Prevalence and frequency of use of methamphetamine

Proceedings of a conference held 30 November - 2 December 1992, Wellington, New Zealand

Contents

• Contributors
• Glossary of Maori terms
• Preface

Corrections

• Opening address
  The Honourable Douglas Graham
• Privatising prisons: principle and practice
  Richard W. Harding
• Some liberal and radical responses to privatising the penal system in Britain
  Mick Ryan
• History of contract management in Queensland corrections
  Stan Macionis and Ross Millican
• The challenge of change

Foreword | Unexplained wealth laws are a relatively recent development in confiscation law, which require a person who lives beyond their apparent means to justify the legitimacy of their financial circumstances. Unexplained wealth laws are currently in place in the Northern Territory and Western Australia, while Commonwealth provisions recently came into effect. New South Wales has recently announced its intention to introduce laws mirroring the Commonwealth legislation. Similar laws are expected to come into effect shortly in South Australia.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Abstract
• Introduction
  • Definition of a death in custody
  • Data collection
  • Scope
  • Considerations
  • Changes from previous report
• Deaths in custody 2023–24
  • Deaths in prison custody
  • Deaths in police custody and custody-related operations
• Indigenous deaths in custody 2023–24
  • Indigenous deaths in prison custody
  • Indigenous deaths in police custody and custody-related operations

Also titled: Aborigines and the criminal justice system

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Definition of a death in custody
• Data collection
• Scope
• Considerations
• Deaths in custody 2022–23
• Deaths in prison custody
• Deaths in police custody and custody-related operations
• Indigenous deaths in custody 2022–23
• Indigenous deaths in prison custody
• Indigenous deaths in police custody and custody-related operations
• Non-Indigenous deaths in custody 2022–23

Proceedings of a seminar held 22-24 April 1987

Contents

• Overview
  
  Dennis Challinger
• Welcome
  
  David Biles
• People with intellectual disability and the criminal justice system
  
  Ben Bodna

Police and the intellectually disabled

• Police officers, police surgeons and the intellectually disabled
  
  Peter Bush
• Working arrangements with the police and the Intellectual Handicap Services Branch of the Queensland Department of Health
  
  Dianne Beckey