This report covers trends in crime across 154 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in New South Wales over the 24 months to September 2013. If finds that all major categories of crime in NSW except one either fell or remained stable over the 24 months. The exception involved fraud offences, which increased by 20.7 per cent...

Foreword: In 2006, the Australian Government introduced the Anti-money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (Cth) which increased regulatory controls over businesses potentially able to facilitate organised criminal activities such as money laundering. The implementation of tougher legislation and associated law enforcement interventions may result in criminal organisations adjusting their tactics in order to continue...

This report looks at the results and recommendations of a project exploring youth recidivism—in particular, whether it would be possible to analyse youth recidivism using data from the Juvenile Justice National Minimum Data Set (JJ NMDS). The JJ NMDS is a longitudinal person-based data collection, containing information on all children and young people in Australia...

This paper provides an assessment of offenders who commit human trafficking, slavery and slave-like crimes in Australia. Foreword: There is a lack of international and Australian research about offenders who have been convicted of human trafficking, slavery and slave-like practices. In Australia, 15 offenders have been convicted of such crimes. The publicly available court judgments...

This paper examines men's role in the prevention of sexual assault.