This year’s report includes data from two new sites in Melbourne and Darwin, to give a broader picture of drug use and criminal activity across Australia. The report provides comprehensive data for 2006 and trend analysis from the start of the program in 1999. In 2006 more than half the detainees tested positive to cannabis...

Motor vehicle theft continued to fall in 2006 and was at its lowest level since national reporting began in 1993, according to this ABS report of national crime statistics relating to victims of a selected range of offences that have been recorded by police. Motor vehicle theft continued to fall in 2006 and was at...

This compendium of the most recently available national information on crime in Australia is intended to serve as a ready reference. It covers different types of recorded crimes, their place of occurrence, victim and offender characteristics, responses of criminal justice agencies, and government resources directed to deal with crime.

Results of a Criminology Research Council funded study argues for a nationwide system of screening of all accused offenders taken into police custody to identify those who require a comprehensive mental health assessment. Cross-agency communication also needs to be encouraged and further developed, and training for those who first come into contact with possibly mentally...

Final Report No 9 makes recommendations concerning the attribution of criminal reponsibility to organisations. The recommendations in this paper do not change the normal rules about criminal responsibility which apply to individuals.