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About the editor

List of contributors

Introduction

1. Towards an understanding of Indigenous arrest
Don Weatherburn, Michael Doyle, Tegan Weatherall and Joanna Wang

2. Prevalence of recorded family and domestic violence offending: A birth cohort study
Jason Payne and Anthony Morgan

Our aim is to increase public awareness of the research the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) undertakes to inform crime and criminal justice policy and practice.

The AIC has researchers to comment on a range of criminology issues such as:

This paper is taken from the report of research undertaken with the assistance of a grant from the Criminology Research Council.

The Drug use monitoring in Australia (DUMA) annual report 2003 provides an overview of the patterns of drug use and criminal activity amongst police detainees (across seven sites in Australia). Within the questionnaire, detainees are asked a series of questions about their involvement in the local drug market in the past 30 days. Seventy per cent of detainees across all sites self-reported obtaining drugs in the past 30 days - 26 per cent paid cash only for the drugs, 23 per cent obtained the drugs without paying cash, while 52 per cent had used both methods to obtain the drugs.

Foreword| When on 5 January 1975 the coastal steamer Lake Illawarra collided with the Tasman Bridge, a crisis resulted which was quite unlike those due to fire, pestilence or famine in which there is considerable loss of life and devastation. In this case a city was suddenly cut in two and the resulting disorganisation was due to the destruction of the only direct means of communication between the two halves of the city, and a complete disruption of personal, community and occupational life.

Proceedings of an autumn seminar held 2 May 1988 (The Australian National University) and a seminar held 18-20 July 1988 (Australian Institute of Criminology)

Contents

• Introduction

Setting the scene

• Defining fraud and examining it as an issue which governments need to address
  
  Michael Tate
• From the newspapers
• Fraud on government: a criminological overview
  
  Dennis Challinger
• The Commonwealth Government's Fraud Control Committee: its brief and purpose
  
  Alan Rose

The Australian Institute of Criminology has recently released A typology of online child pornography offending, based on research funded by the Australian High Tech Crime Centre. Knowing the differences in how online child pornography offences are committed is vitally important to understanding and combating the problem of the sexual exploitation of children. There is an increasing seriousness of offending, from offences that do not directly involve a child, to offences that involve direct contact with children, from online grooming to physical abuse.

Foreword | The prevention of assault has been a high-profile, long-term concern for government and police agencies. However, while the nature and impacts of certain types of physical violence, such as domestic or sexual assault, have been extensively studied, this is not the case for more traditional forms of physical assault. Understanding the needs of victims of physical assault, particularly in an Australian context, is important in order to ensure that services are adequately able to address these victims’ needs.