SOUTH AUSTRALIAN CRIME AND SAFETY SURVEY, 1991: BREAK AND ENTER OFFENSES

• NCJ Number: 142608
• Author(s): P Thomas
• Date Published: 1993
• Length: 7 pages
• Corporate Author: South Australia Office of Crime Statistics and Research
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Statistics
• Language: English
• Country: Australia
• Note: US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, International Crime Statistics Program Office of Crime Statistics JUSTATS, Occasional Bulletin on Criminal Justice Issues, N 1 (March 1993).

Annotation

A 1991 survey of South Australian residents focused on the public's perception of crime as a problem in their neighborhood, the victimization rates during the previous year, and the level of reporting to police. This report presents findings related specifically to break and enter offenses and to attempted break and enter.

Abstract

The findings showed that approximately 10.3 percent of South Australian households were victims of at least one successful or attempted break and enter offense in the previous year. Residents within the Adelaide Statistical division were twice as likely to become victims (11.9 percent) compared with residents of nonmetropolitan areas (6.0 percent). The victimization rates within the Adelaide Statistical division ranged from 7.5 percent to 16.3 percent in the various suburbs. The results showed that victimization rates for breaking and entering decreased in direct proportion to the age of the head of household. Persons living alone and single-parent families were more likely to be victimized than married couples, either with or without children. Over 21 percent of break and enter victims and 31 percent of attempted break and enter victims had experienced multiple victimizations during the previous year. Over 75 percent of victims of successful break and enter offenses reported the crime to the police. 14 tables and 1 appendix