The International Crime Victimisation Survey (ICVS) is a project involving approximately 60 countries, which interviews people about their experiences and perceptions of crime and the criminal justice system. Results provide a picture of the risk factors associated with personal and household crime, the level of repeat victimisation, public perceptions of crime and safety, rates at...

Speech by ACCC chair, Graeme Samuel, to the International Competition Enforcement Conference, Tokyo. Cartel activity will not be deterred if the potential penalties are perceived by firms and their executives to be outweighed by the potential rewards. Under Australia's existing penalty regime, there was a real danger that, at least for some of the bigger...

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...

Whole of government approaches assume that because the causes of crime are complex and multifaceted, then preventive responses will be more effective if the efforts of all the relevant government agencies and community and business groups are combined into a single coordinated strategy. However, using the experience of the UK's Crime Reduction Programme, Peter Homel...

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...