This report covers trends in crime across 154 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in New South Wales over the 24 months to June 2013. Regional trends The Northern, North Western, Murray and Far Western Statistical Divisions (SDs) did not exhibit any upward trends in any the major offences. Eight SDs recorded an upward trend in at...

Aim: The Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) opened in Kings Cross in May 2001. This paper examines whether there have been: (i) increases in the volume of robbery, theft and illicit drug offences in Kings Cross Local Area Command (LAC) up until December 2012 or; (ii) increases in the percentage of Kings Cross illicit drug...

These fact sheets provide overviews of youth justice supervision during 2011–12 by state and territory. Differences in youth justice supervision between the states and territories may reflect variations in legislation, policy and practice.

Aim: To describe and discuss regional variation between parts of NSW in the rate at which theft and robbery offences have fallen. Method: Percentage changes in rates of offending in robbery and various categories of theft were calculated for the period 2000 to 2012. Changes in the extent to which rates of crime across areas...

This paper finds that the national decline in robbery and theft offences is partly due to a reduction in heroin use and partly due to improvements in the economy, but that other factors are likely to have also played a role. Aim: To describe and discuss inter-jurisdictional trends in police-recorded robbery and theft offences. Method...