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Foreword | The Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards (ACVPA) is a national awards program administered by the Australian Institute of Criminology that recognises innovative crime prevention projects that embody good practice.

Proceedings of a seminar held 29 April to 2 May 1985

Contents

• Preamble
• Opening address
  
  Professor Richard Harding
• Workshop introduction
  
  Kayleen M. Hazlehurst

I. The community

• Health and crime in black Australia
  
  Shane Houston
• Self determination: implications for criminal justice policy makers
  
  Roberta B. Sykes
• Aboriginal legal service: a problem of representation
  
  Craig Somerville
• The relevance of imprisonment
  
  Patricia Lowe

Proceedings of a conference held 22-24 September 1992

Contents

• Contributors
• Preface
  Lynn Atkinson

Juvenile justice: issues and overviews

• Opening address
  Michael Tate
• Preventing juvenile crime
  The Honourable Christopher Sumner
• Juvenile justice: the need to ask the right questions
  John Seymour
• Juvenile offending: new theory and practice
  John Braithwaite
• The courts, the judiciary and new directions: the limits of legislative change
  Kate Warner

Night patrols, in their various forms, are a common feature of Indigenous communities throughout Australia. They take on various names, roles and functions depending on the needs of the communities from which they operate. They may be known as street patrols, community patrols, foot or bare-foot patrols, mobile assistance patrols or street beat programs. They may provide a safe means of transport home or to refuges and safe houses for people at risk of offending or victimisation. Typically this includes young people or intoxicated adults.

Report to the Commonwealth Department of Employment, Education and Training, Youth Bureau, July 1989.

Note: The attached PDF does not include the Appendices. Appendix C is available in html (See below).

Contents

• Foreword
• Problems of research into Aborigines and the criminal justice system
  W. Clifford
• Pitfalls of evaluation in criminal justice
  Daniel Glaser

Summaries of papers

• Evaluating law reform in New South Wales
  Jeff Sutton
• Putting research to work
  Charlie Rook
• Counting prisoners
  John Walker
• Problem street drinking and the law
  Ron Okely
• Some problems of longitudinal research on deviant behaviour
  Kenneth Polk

Foreword | Statistics consistently highlight a higher prevalence of the use of amphetamines in Western Australia compared with other Australian drug markets. It is the third most commonly used drug in Western Australia behind cannabis and ecstasy.

Using data collected by Drugs Use Monitoring Australia (DUMA) program at the East Perth watch-house, researchers from Edith Cowan University explore the relationship between amphetamine use and the crimes committed by detainees who have used this drug.

Foreword | Corruption in Australian sport is not a new phenomenon. A series of high-profile cases in Australia, combined with an increasing international focus, has seen a reassessment of Australian sport’s vulnerability to illegal activities such as match-fixing, use of inside information for betting purposes and the use of performance and image-enhancing drugs.

The Embedded Youth Outreach Program today received a gold 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 | International research suggests alcohol consumption increases the number of homicides and that homicides involving alcohol differ significantly to non alcohol-related homicides. The current study sought to build on the limited Australian research on alcohol-related homicide by examining solved homicides recorded in the National Homicide Monitoring Program over a six year period.

Contents

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

Throughout history, consumers have been targeted by deceptive and misleading practices that have ranged in subtlety and complexity from the barely plausible to the refined and sophisticated. Grabosky, Smith & Dempsey (2001: 105-129) proposed a simple classification of the extensive range of illegal practices perpetrated against consumers, in the traditional marketplace and the electronic environment of the 21st century (Table 1).

Foreword | Adolescent antisocial behaviour is an issue of major concern to parents, teachers, police and governments and is a significant cost to the community. As not all antisocial behaviour is recorded by police, it is valuable to measure adolescents' own reports of their involvement in such behaviour.

Foreword | This paper examines the extent to which participants in the Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) program under-report their drug use. DUMA participants are asked to answer a questionnaire about their use of drugs, as well as to supply a urine sample. This sample is tested for the presence of illicit drugs and compared with the self-reported answers in the questionnaire.

Foreword | Public concern about crime victimisation is one of a range of factors that policymakers take into account when creating new criminal offences, setting penalties and allocating resources for policing and prosecution. The level of public concern about rising crime can also determine the extent to which people engage in certain daily activities, sometimes restricting behaviour unnecessarily.