%T An update of long-term trends in property and violent crime in New South Wales: 1990-2012 %A Steve Moffatt %A Derek Goh %I NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research %D 2013 %K Crime, %K Property %U https://apo.org.au/node/33682 %X This paper analyses the trends in the rates of annual recorded incidents of ten major categories of property and violent crime for the period 1990 to 2012 in New South Wales. Method: Offence rates were calculated using criminal incident data from the NSW Police Force Computerised Operational Policing System (COPS) for the period 1995 to 2012, and the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research’s recorded crime statistics report series for the period 1990 to 1994. Kendall’s trend test was run on the 23 annual rates for each of the ten major offence categories. %9 Report