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...

National research literature and public debate regarding the capture and distribution of unauthorised visual images has recently been increasing. Such debate has focused on these unauthorised images being voyeuristic or an invasion of privacy (e.g., images captured on mobile phones in locker rooms); being used for cyber bullying (e.g., distributed widely via email or mobile...

This paper explores crime in Northbridge entertainment district in Perth, Western Australia and highlights how the legacy of governance can operate counter-intuitively, to foster crime precipitators, which can increase opportunities for crime.

Bushfires arson, like structural arson, is a strongly patterned activity. These patterns seem to be mainly determined by the interplay between socioeconomic and environmental dynamics. Since the fundamentals of these two factors change slowly, bushfire arson tends to happen at the same time and in the same place every year. Communities with a high propensity...

Theories on the causal relationship between drug use and crime in Australian literature have often overlooked the influence of gender as a confounding variable while research indicates that pathways into drug use and crime differ for males and females. Using data from the Australian Institute of Criminology’s Drug Use Monitoring in Australia program, this report...