This research from life course and place-based criminology will be used to explore whether some communities generate chronic and costly crime offenders. There has recently been renewed interest in place-based approaches for targeting crime prevention, such as justice reinvestment. The Semi-Parametric Group-based Method was used to identify non-normative or chronic offenders in the 1990 Queensland...

This report provides a stand-alone description of how the Australian Institute of Criminology’s Anti-money Laundering/Counter-terrorism Financing Survey of regulated businesses was undertaken, emphasising the importance of understanding the methodology and design of this national census of regulated businesses in Australia. As is often the case with social scientific research of a quantitative nature, the detail...

This paper provides statistics on crime in New South Wales, covering the 24 months to June 2012. Assaults and malicious damage to property are down, while stealing from a motor vehicle and fraud are up. The incidence of non-domestic assault fell by 8.2 per cent while malicious damage to property fell by 5.6 per cent...

The age at which an individual first experiments with illicit drugs has been of significant interest to policymakers and practitioners, primarily because research has persistently shown a link between early juvenile onset of drug use and less favourable health and criminal justice outcomes in adulthood. drug users who have regular contact with the criminal justice...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) (2008: 5) has defined consumer scams as a fraudulent invitation, request, notification or offer, designed to obtain someone’s personal information or money or otherwise obtain a financial benefit by deceptive means.