NCJ Number
178546
Date Published
1999
Length
79 pages
Annotation
This report presents data on crimes reported to or detected by New South Wales (NSW) police between January 1996 and December 1998 that were extracted from the Computerized Operational Policing System of the NSW Police Service in January 1999.
Abstract
There was a statistically significant downward trend in the monthly number of recorded criminal incidents for sexual assault (down by 14.1 percent) and indecent assault, acts of indecency, and other sexual offenses (down by 18.7 percent). No statistically significant upward or downward trends were observed in the monthly number of recorded criminal incidents for murder, robbery without a weapon, robbery with a firearm, motor vehicle theft, retail store theft, and fraud. Statistically significant upward trends, however, were noted in the monthly number of recorded criminal incidents for assault (up by 6.2 percent), robbery with a weapon other than a firearm (up by 29.7 percent), breaking and entering (up by 7 percent for dwellings and up by 6.8 percent for non-dwellings), stealing from motor vehicles (up by 5.9 percent), and malicious damage to property (up by 11.9 percent). Appendixes provide additional information on offense classification, maps of New South Wales and Sydney statistical boundaries, and local government areas in statistical divisions. 36 tables and 9 figures