By Don Weatherburn and Sara Rahman
Melbourne University Press, 2021
According to a new book by Don Weatherburn and Sara Rahman, while crime rates in Australia rose markedly during the last three decades of the 20
th century, in the following two decades, the rates of most of these crimes actually declined.
During the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, Australia “faced rapidly rising rates of break and enter, motor vehicle theft, robbery, stealing, assault and fraud,” write Weatherburn and Rahman in
The Vanishing Criminal.
However, “between 2001 and 2017, the recorded rate of break and enter fell by 68%, motor vehicle theft fell by 70%, robbery fell by 71%, and other theft fell by 43%.”
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Those of us who believe in equality argue women should not need to modify their behaviour, it must be men who are made to behave like decent humans.
I do not think we can wait for men to stop raping women. It breaks my heart to write this. It should not be the role of women to be forced to live their lives differently but I can’t think of another solution after a long week of reading stories about young women being sexually assaulted where alcohol has been part of the mix. The researchers tell me to be patient. I can’t be.
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Those of us who believe in equality argue women should not need to modify their behaviour, it must be men who are made to behave like decent humans.
I do not think we can wait for men to stop raping women. It breaks my heart to write this. It should not be the role of women to be forced to live their lives differently but I can’t think of another solution after a long week of reading stories about young women being sexually assaulted where alcohol has been part of the mix. The researchers tell me to be patient. I can’t be.
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