Crime and Justice in Australia 1997

Published with the Australian Institute of Criminology.This book gives a comprehensive picture of crime and the criminal justice system in Australia in the mid-1990s. It provides definitions of most aspects of the criminal event, describes the various tiers of the criminal justice process, and includes illustrative statistics which give a picture of the state of crime in Australia in the mid-1990s. Some tables and graphs convey 'snapshots' of various crimes, and others convey trends. State and Territory data are included, but the main emphasis is on the national perspective.