Crime Increases in Perspective: The Regional Dispersion of Crime in NSW, 2001

• NCJ Number: 195298
• Author(s): Marilyn Chilvers
• Date Published: April 2002
• Length: 8 pages
• Sale Source: New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: Australia
• Note: NSW Crime and Justice Bulletin, No. 67

Annotation

This paper examines trends in crime New South Wales over a two-year period from 2000 to 2001. It offers information on four major New South Wales offence categories which show a statistically significant upward trend in recorded incidents of crime studied: robbery with a firearm, steal from a person, fraud, and assault for the calendar year of 2001.

Abstract

This report was complied from a study of six categories of crime identified in New South Wales, for calendar years 2000 and 2001. Four categories: robbery with a firearm, stealing from a person, fraud, and assault showed significant upward trends. While robbery with a firearm was the category with the largest statewide percentage increase in recorded incidents, it was also the crime category with the lowest absolute increase and the lowest prevalence statewide. It also was affected by increases in only a small section of the State, and most geographical regions in New South Wales saw a decrease or no change in the risk of robbery with a firearm. The conclusion of the study was that reporting of official crime statistics should include geographic dispersion to assure the public that the risk to a majority of New South Wales residents is not necessarily increased by the increase in incidents reported statewide. Tables