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Report to the ACT Chief Minister's Department by the Australian Institute of Criminology.

Note: This report is the second part of the report by the Chief Minister's Department titled Profile of young offenders in the ACT 2001 - 2002.

A report prepared for the Office of the Status of Women by the Australian Institute of Criminology.

Note: This report updates a version previously released in June 2003.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
  • The Commonwealth Fraud Prevention Centre
• Abstract
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Key terms and definitions
• Key findings
• Background
  • What is fraud against the Commonwealth?
  • What the report covers
  • Participating entities
  • Extent of potential fraud
  • Commenced investigations
  • Estimated fraud losses from investigations commenced
  • Finalised fraud investigations
  • Economic and other impacts
  • Recoveries

Contents

• Abstract
• Executive summary
  • Cost of identity crime
• Introduction
• Methodology
  • Components of the cost of identity crime and misuse
• Direct costs
  • Costs to Commonwealth government entities
  • Costs to individuals
  • Cost of serious identity crime
  • Police-recorded identity crime
  • Additional direct costs
  • Summary of direct costs
• Indirect costs
  • Public sector prevention and response costs

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Abstract
• Executive summary
• Introduction
• Methodology
• Acquisition of fraudulent identities
• Use of fraudulent identities
• Remediation of identity crime
• Prevention of identity crime
• Conclusions
• References
• Appendix A: Measurement framework indicators
• Appendix B: Definition of key terms
• Appendix C: Government data
• Appendix D: Police data

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Incidents
  • Homicide classification
  • Location
  • Motive
  • Preceding crime
  • Weapon use
  • Alcohol and illicit drug use
• Victims
  • Sex and age
  • Indigenous status
  • Country of birth
  • Cause of death
  • Relationship with primary offender
• Offenders
  • Sex and age
  • Indigenous status
  • History of domestic violence