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Between 1999 and 2006, a total of 24,936 police detainees were surveyed as part of the Australian Institute of Criminology's Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) program. Of these, 1,689 detainees (7%) reported living on the street, having no fixed address or living in crisis accommodation at the time of their apprehension.

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.

The Blue Rose Project today received a silver award in the police-led category of the 2023 Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards (ACVPAs).

The ACVPAs 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 occurs.

Foreword | Farm crime has a significant effect on the farming industry and community as a whole, especially in times of hardship such as drought. In order to understand how significant farm crime is in Australia, the Australian Institute of Criminology is conducting three annual surveys on farm crime. This paper summarises the results from the second National Farm Crime Survey (NFCS). A total of 1309 broadacre and dairy farms were surveyed about their experiences of crime between 1 July 2001 and 30 June 2002.

Foreword | The Australian heavy vehicle industry is critical to the movement of people, freight, livestock and other goods. However, every year there are deaths and serious injuries on Australian roads, some of which are caused by speeding heavy vehicles.

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In the past a rather gloomy picture of close-knit migrant communities, particularly in urban or industrial areas, has been painted. Biased media reporting and prejudice in wider society have depicted minority group enclaves as suffering from crime, disorder and inter-cultural conflict.

The winners of the 2007 Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards were announced on 23 October. The annual awards are sponsored by the heads of Australian governments and members of the Ministerial Council for Police and Emergency Management - Police (MCPEMP) to recognise outstanding work in the prevention or reduction of violence and other types of crime. The awards encourage public crime reduction initiatives and assist governments in developing practical projects to reduce crime in Australian communities. The 2007 national award category winners were:

This quarterly news magazine of the Australian Institute of Criminology replaced the Institute's Newsletter.

Vol. 1 No. 1 1979 - Vol. 8 No. 4 1987

The following documents are available only in PDF format.

Volume 8 Number 4 : December 1987

29 April-10 May 1974

Contents

Papers of the seminar

• Training for crime control personnel
  Harold G. Weir
• Account of the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute involvement
  V.N. Pillai
• Police training for tomorrow
  R.A. Wilson
• The significance of diversion from the traditional criminal justice process
  Benedict S. Alper
• Law training for correctional personnel?
  Mary W. Daunton-Fear
• Some aspects of the effectiveness of training for correctional personnel
  V.N. Pillai

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Introduction
• Deaths in prison custody
• Deaths in police custody and custody-related operations
• References
• Appendix A: Methodology
• Appendix B: Deaths in custody 2015-16 key findings: Data tables
• Appendix C: Data tables

Since 2003–04, government funding for justice services in Australia has experienced an average annual growth rate of 3.4 percent according to the Report on Government Services 2009 (Productivity Commission 2009). Net justice-funded expenditure (i.e. expenditure minus revenue from own sources) finances police services, court administration for criminal and civil matters and corrective services. The total expense for justice services has risen consistently from $9.4b in 2003–04 to over $10.7b in 2007–08.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Deaths in prison custody
• Deaths in police custody and custody-related operations
• References
• Appendix A: Methodology
• Appendix B: Deaths in custody 2017–18 key findings: Data tables
• Appendix C: Data tables

Proceedings of a conference held 23-25 June 1992

Contents

• List of contributors
• Preface
• Opening address
  Rob Hulls
• Law reform and the road to independence
  Michael Mansell

Community crime prevention

• A community development approach to crime prevention in Aboriginal communities
  Barbara Miller
• Crime prevention strategy for Aboriginal communities
  Rebecca Tonkin
• Mediation within Aboriginal communities: issues and challenges
  Marg O'Donnell

Of 4,232 adult detainees in police custody who responded to questions on local drug markets, 49 percent (n=2,058) reported that they had purchased drugs in the past month by paying cash. Of these, 584 (14%) said there was an occasion in the past month when they had tried to purchase drugs but were not successful. The most common reason across all drug types was that the dealers did not have the particular drugs sought, and this was most commonly the case for cannabis and cocaine. Across all drug types, around one-quarter of the detainees said that there was no dealer available.