The National Firearm Theft Monitoring Program (NFTMP) was established at the Australian Institute of Criminology to monitor the number of firearms reported stolen in Australian states and territories and to examine the nature and characteristics of these thefts. This report represents the fourth in the NFTMP series and illustrates a consistency in the pattern of...

The extent to which CCTV can prevent crime depends on the consideration is given to all of the components of the system and where there is a detailed understanding of crime in the local area. Unintended consequences can include increased crime, crime displacement and problems with monitoring, maintenance and upgrades. Given the significant investment required...

Research consistently demonstrates that the effectiveness of many crime prevention initiatives is reduced by a continual lack of access to adequate crime prevention knowledge and technical skills. This paper suggests the development of a comprehensive national framework for a technical support program to improve the active dissemination of crime prevention knowledge, including research findings, evaluation...

While community policing initiatives are widely documented throughout the world, many schemes targeting disadvantaged groups or vulnerable communities are studied in a fragmented manner or are focused solely on individual groupings (eg. youth, sexual minorities, refugees, etc). Some academics, however, are starting to establish a new visible pattern that brings this colourful patchwork into a...

Confidence in the criminal justice system has emerged as a critical issue at the interface of the administration of justice and political pressures in western democracies. For more than a decade, governments in the West have felt acute pressure to make the criminal justice system more relevant, more transparent and more accountable. The ‘crisis of...