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Today the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has released its Deaths in Custody in Australia 2023–24 report. From 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024, there were 104 deaths in custody, 6 less than in 2022–23.

In 2024–25, 33 of the 113 deaths in custody were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the largest number of Indigenous deaths in custody since 1979–80.

Companion document to NDLERF monograph series no. 34, Developing the capacity and skills for national implementation of a drug law enforcement performance measurement framework

As recent issues of the Bulletin have suggested, investigating the causes of bushfires is a challenging exercise. It is often difficult to make definitive assessments when so many volatile variables, such as climatic conditions, come into play.

Proceedings of a seminar held 2-4 June 1987

Contents

• Crime at school: an overview
  
  Dennis Challinger
• Welcoming address
  
  David Biles
• Understanding and preventing behavioural problems in school
  
  Maurice Balson
• Parents' view of crime at school
  
  Helen Szuty
• Awareness/action/prevention: the pre-service education of teachers relevant to the prevention of crime at schools
  
  Alistair Peacock
• Introducing a school discipline code
  
  Kate Sutherland

Today, the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has released a report that examines the prevalence of sexual violence perpetration in a community sample among adult Australians.

Foreword | Three-dimensional virtual environments (3dves) are the new generation of digital multi-user social networking platforms. Their immersive character allows users to create a digital humanised representation or avatar, enabling a degree of virtual interaction not possible through conventional text-based internet technologies.

Today the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has released new statistics on homicide in Australia. Homicide in Australia 2020–21 describes the 210 homicide incidents recorded by Australian state and territory police between 1 July 2020 and 30 June 2021. During this 12-month period there were 221 victims of homicide and 263 identified offenders.

AIC Deputy Director Dr Rick Brown said that since 1989–90, the homicide incident rate in Australia has declined overall by 55%.