The Vanishing Criminal
Causes of Decline in Australia's Crime Rate
- English
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About this book
In 2000, Australia had the highest rate of burglary, the highest rate of contact crime (assault, sexual assault and robbery) and the second highest rate of motor vehicle theft among the 25 countries included in the international crime victim survey, which takes in the United States, the United Kingdom and most western European countries. Then in 2001, Australian crime statistics began to decline. By 2018, rates of the most common forms of crime had fallen between 40 and 80 percent and were lower than they'd been in twenty or in some cases thirty years. Australia is not the only country to have experienced this social trend. In The Vanishing Criminal Don Weatherburn and Sara Rahman set out to explain the dramatic fall in crime, rigorously but accessibly comparing competing theories against the available evidence. Their conclusions will surprise many and reshape the terms for discussion of these questions well into the future.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. The Rise and Fall in Australian Crime
- 2. Explanations for the Crime Drop: A First Pass
- 3. Is It All about Demographics?
- 4. The Rise and Decline of the Heroin Gen
- 5. Men, Booze and Violence
- 6. Bars, Locks and Alarms: Are We Just More Secure?
- 7. Shopping for Stolen Goods
- 8. Is It All Down to the Police, Courts and Prisons?
- 9. Tying It All Together
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary of Technical Terms
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Appendix A: Changes in Repeat Offending and Offender Age
- Appendix B: Alcohol-Related Emergency Department Admissions and Assault
- Appendix C: Petrol Prices and Petrol Theft
- Appendix D: Clear-up Rates and the Risk of Apprehension
- Appendix E: Changes in Crime-Prone Age Groups: Major States
- Notes
- References
- Index