In the period since 1990, assault and sexual assault rates recorded significant long term upward trends whilst the other eight offences analysed in this report were trending down or stable. Abstract Aim: The aim of this paper is to analyse the trends in the rates of annual recorded incidents of 10 categories of property and...

This paper analyses the trends in the rates of annual recorded incidents of 10 categories of property and violent crime for the period 1990 to 2013 in New South Wales (NSW). Method: Offence rates were calculated using criminal incident data from the NSW Police Force Computerised Operational Policing System (COPS) for the period 1995 to...

This report finds that in New South Wales, the surge in incidents involving the discharge of a firearm into premises which began in February 2010 has been reversed. In February 2010, incidents of discharge firearm into premises were running at an average of five a month. They peaked in August 2012 at an average rate...

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...

The aim of the paper is to examine the trends in the rates of annual recorded incidents of 10 major categories of property and violent crime for the period 1990 to 2011 in New South Wales (NSW). This brief is an annual update of the property and violent crime trends first reported in Moffatt and...