The aim of this report was to identify the crime risks which will arise between 2007-09 out of the environment in which Australians use information and communications technologies. The aim of this report was to identify the crime risks which will arise over the next two years (2007-09) out of the environment in which Australians...

What is ‘road rage’ and how prevalent is it? Is it increasing, and how does it rate against other forms of violence and harms resulting from driving? Russell Smith considers how to define the problem and quantify its extent.

Fraud is a significant component of female offending, and examining the dynamics underlying serious fraud is important if we are to understand the broader issues of gender difference in patterns of offending and imprisonment. Janice Goldstraw, Russell G. Smith and Yuka Sakurai demonstrate that, contrary to the previous welfarist and needs-focused explanations of fraud, women...

Technology has both facilitated and impeded the investigation of high tech crime involving computing and communications technologies. Computers have enabled vast amounts of data to be searched and analysed quickly, and files to be transmitted across the globe in seconds, but the sheer quantity of information creates considerable problems for investigators. Russell G. Smith identifies...

Courts have experimented with sanctions which require the computer of an offender convicted of high tech crimes to be forfeited, or which prohibit the offender from undertaking computer-related activities. Some courts have also imposed requirements that the offender's computer activities be monitored by a probation officer or that the computer have filtering software installed to...