The number of prisoners in custody in Victoria has flatlined, raising questions about the state government’s $1.8 billion jail building and refurbishment program.
The last of Sydney’s lockout laws will be lifted from next month, six years after the state government imposed strict regulations on CBD venues in response to a spate of deadly public violence.
Expert says Australian youth crime is dropping30/01/2021|1min
A leading crime expert believes Australia is the safest it has ever been due to a significant drop in youth crime.
Former director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research Don Weatherburn says crime rates in key areas are better than they were in the 1970s.
One example is break and enters, which fell 68 per cent between 2001 and 2017.
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In 1836, the Scottish geologist, chemist, and agricultural improver Sir George Stewart Mackenzie was concerned about what he called the recent atrocities of violent crime in the British penal colony of New South Wales, Australia.
The root cause, he thought, was a failure to manage which criminals were transported to work in the colony especially the two-thirds of convicts who worked for private masters. At present they are shipped off, and distributed to the settlers, without the least regard to their characters or history, Mackenzie wrote in a representation [PDF] to Britain s Secretary for the Colonies, Lord Glenelg.