Jenny Mouzos and Yuka Sakurai analyse incidents of firearms theft reported to police between February and July 2004 to provide a picture of patterns and victims. Although the number of thefts has decreased, it is suggested that more active auditing of registration and storage compliance would lead to further drops.

Jenny Mouzos presents information on the circumstances and characteristics of homicide in Australia for 2003-04. This report also contains jurisdictional breakdowns for comparative purposes and some long-term trend data across the fifteen-year NHMP data collection period. In 2003-04, there was a total of 288 incidents of homicide recorded. These were committed by 310 offenders and...

Using information from the first year of the National Armed Robbery Monitoring Program, Maria Borzycki, Yuka Sakurai and Jenny Mouzos examine the nearly 9000 reported cases of armed robbery victimisation in 2003 in terms of the incident, the victim and the offender. Aspects of this crime that have not previously been closely examined, such as...

The International Violence Against Women Survey was conducted across Australia between December 2002 and June 2003. A total of 6677 women participated in the survey, and provided information on their experiences of physical and sexual violence. Jenny Mouzos and Toni Makkai describe the type of violence (including threats of violence) by current and former intimate...

Marissa McCall, Jenny Mouzos and Toni Makkai present both self-report and urinalysis data from participating detainees for the calendar year 2003. They provide an overview of the characteristics of the detainees at each site, including self-reported drug use, prior criminal behaviour and treatment history. An addendum on violence in the home was run in the...