This paper assesses some of the major costs for a range of offences. The cost of the crimes covered here amounts to $19 billion. Other costs (such as policing, prisons and the security industry) add nearly another $13 billion. The total estimated bill is nearly $32 billion per year. Fraud is the most costly crime...

In examining home addresses of burglars and the addresses of their targets, Jerry Ratcliffe found that burglars did not, as expected, work in their own neighbourhood. Most burglars (77 per cent) travelled away from their home suburb to do their work, travelling an average of five kilometres to their target. There was no evidence that...

2002 was the first year of the second phase of data collection in the Drug Use Monitoring in Australia project, which has been running since 1999. There are now seven sites participating in the program which interviews detainees in police custody about their drug use: Adelaide city and Elizabeth in South Australia; Bankstown and Parramatta...

One way of reducing the number of burglaries and thefts may be to make the disposal of stolen property more difficult. In order to intervene in this illegal trade, authorities need to know what burglars and thieves do with the property they steal. With this in mind, the ACT Department of Justice and Community Safety...

This report discusses the technical details of the design, conduct and estimation methods of the Australian component of the 2000 International Crime Victims Survey (ICVS). Development of the ICVS commenced in 1987; its primary goal was to further international comparative research. The first survey was conducted in 1989 and 16 countries participated. Since then the...