What does the public think prisons are for?
The Australian Institute of Criminology has a new report out on public perceptions of crime levels and the performance of courts, prisons and police. One curious result in the AIC survey is that while...
View ArticleAre migrants more at risk of crime?
Recent crimes against Indian students have people of Indian appearance worried about their personal safety. But are migrants more generally at greater risk of crime? As the chart below shows, migrants...
View ArticleWhat can politicians do about crimes against Indian students?
Sunday’s protest by Indian students certainly drew plenty of attention, with Rudd and Turnbull both making statements on the issue in Parliament the following day. That’s what Age online subeditor Sam...
View ArticleCould hate crime legislation increase risks for others?
Victorian Attorney-General Rob Hulls is introducing hate crime provisions for sentencing laws: Mr Hulls said the laws would apply to hate crimes motivated by race, religion, gender or sexual...
View ArticleThe politics of crime and race
Today Victorian police chief Simon Overland, with Premier John Brumby, announced further measures to crackdown on crime against Indian students. This issue has been an interesting one, and is yet to...
View ArticleRanking crime
The Fairfax broadsheets are having some fun with the ABS’s attempt to rank criminal offences. “Theft of intellectual property” comes in at 73, one above actual physical theft from a retail premises,...
View ArticlePublic transport social capital not dead
A couple of weeks ago Tim Watts got a lot of coverage (here’s the Club Troppo version) for criticising the lack of response – from himself, and from others – to an incident on a tram, where a beggar...
View ArticleDo theories of racism explain crimes against international students?
Victoria University has published a lengthy research paper on the ‘community safety’ of international students. Their survey of international and domestic students at Victorian universities and private...
View ArticleShould we be sentencing criminals to transportation?
Yesterday’s Age reported the case of Andrew Moore, who died in England of a heroin overdose. Two days before he died, Moore had been removed from Australia after his visa had been cancelled on...
View ArticleCrunching the numbers
Maximum claim for sexual assault under NSW criminal compensation laws: $50,000 Kristy Fraser-Kirk’s claim for sexual harassment by former David Jones CEO Mark McInnes: $37,000,000.
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