NCJ Number
143380
Date Published
1993
Length
184 pages
Annotation
This is the report of the Australian results from the second International Crime Victims Survey, conducted during January-March 1992.
Abstract
This report, as did its predecessor, presents some detailed tabulations of the results of the Australian component of the survey, with estimates of the frequencies of victimization for the various types of crimes surveyed, indications of how the risks of victimization vary across broad categories of respondents, and details of the main characteristics of crime incidents, including place of occurrence, costs, injuries suffered, and whether or not police were informed. A number of special topics are also presented, including information on fear of crime, crime prevention, and attitudes toward sentencing in Australia. An additional section has been provided, based on an aggregated data set of 4,018 respondents from the two surveys combined. This larger sample size permits more reliable and detailed estimates of risk. The crimes surveyed addressed incidents that affected respondents personally, such as robbery, pickpocketing, or assult, and incidents that affected the respondents' household, such as burglary or motor vehicle theft. 73 tables and 48 figures