NCJ Number
105521
Date Published
1987
Length
111 pages
Annotation
The Australian Institute of Criminology has compiled statistics from 1973 to 1985 for eight violent and property offenses; it finds that the links are tenuous between the actual rates of offending and the rates of arrests, conviction, and imprisonment.
Abstract
Statistics collected by the police commissioners' annual reports and a new series of selected crime statistics of the Police Commissioners' Australian Crime Statistics Sub-Committee are shown in tables and graphs. Number and rate of crimes reported, number of offenses cleared and clearance rate, sex and age of arrestees, size and cost of police force, and number of crimes reported for each police officer are given. The offenses are: murder, rape, aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, motor vehicle theft, fraud, and forgery. For every 1,000 crimes committed, only about 400 are reported to the police; only 43 persons are convicted; and only one is imprisoned. 46 tables and 44 graphs. (Author abstract modified)