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The National Homicide Monitoring Program (NHMP) has collected and analysed information on all homicide incidents, victims and offenders in Australia since 1990. The establishment of the NHMP was recommended by the National Committee on Violence and has been made possible by the cooperation and continued support of all Australian police services and the National Coronial Information System.

Prepared for ACT Policing, Australian Federal Police.

Proceedings of a seminar held 24 May 1984

Contents

• Seminar program
• List of participants
• Report of proceedings
  • Session 1 - Policing in the A.C.T.
  • Session 2 - The courts
  • Session 3 - The treatment of offenders
  • Session 4 - Self government for the A.C.T.
• Rapporteur's interpretative note
• Papers presented to seminar
  • Professor Richard Harding
  • Mr P.R. Kobold
  • Dr Grant Wardlaw
  • Mr H. Woltring
  • Mr W.K. Nicholl S.M.

In 2006 more than 18,000 victim incidents of sexual assault and related offences were recorded by police across Australia (ABS 2007). Conservatively, this is estimated to represent only about 30 percent or less of all victim incidents of sexual offences as the vast majority of victims do not report to police. Of sexual offence incidents (including rape) which are reported to police, less than 20 percent result in charges being laid and criminal proceedings being instigated (Fitzgerald 2006; Heenan & Murray 2006).

The first national outlook symposium: Canberra, 5 & 6 June 1995

Contents

• Opening address
  Duncan Kerr
• The state of the nation
  Adam Graycar
• The role of crime prevention in modern Australia
  Trevor Griffin
• Crime prevention: a national approach
  Daryl Smeaton
• Organised crime
  Tom Sherman
• Child abuse and family violence
  Rosemary Sinclair
• Policing multicultural Australia
  Neil Comrie
• White collar crime
  Mick Palmer
• Aboriginal justice issues [paper not included]

Proceedings of a seminar held 19-22 April 1988

Contents

Introduction and keynote paper

• Introduction
• Networking with PCs: the WHIGNET experience
  
  Laura Maquignaz

Corrections

• Cataloguing on Inmagic: the NSW Corrective Services experience
  
  Helen Reidy
• Report from the Correctional librarians' special interest group
  
  Ellen Quinn
• Australian prison libraries: minimum standard guidelines
  
  Phil Roberts

Criminology

A report released by the Australian Institute of Criminology has evaluated a burglary reduction operation undertaken by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in Canberra in 2001. The report concludes that the AFP were successful in reducing levels of burglary in the ACT by a significant amount. Operation Anchorage employed strategies including the use of surveillance teams, targeting known prolific offenders, traffic enforcement in high-burglary areas, and extensive use of intelligence analysis to focus police efforts.

A report recently released from the Australian Institute of Criminology shows that many crimes which are committed against small retail businesses go unreported to police. Results from a survey completed by 3,834 business proprietors revealed that reporting practices differed markedly, depending on both the type of crime and whether it was attempted or completed. While almost all burglaries and robberies were reported to police, very few incidents of shoplifting, employee theft and cheque/credit card fraud were reported.