Chapter One : Crime and Punishment -- Volume of crime -- Australian crime rates outstrip America -- What's driving crime and where does the road ahead lead? -- Crime - what's really going on? -- Wave of error -- Recorded crime Australia, 1998 -- NSW remains the capital of serious crime -- Drugs can ensure a career in crime -- Justice delayed as courts struggle under wait -- Drug Court of New South Wales -- Ten key components for a successful drug court -- Persons under corrective services -- Rough justice -- tribal flogging bruises traditional law limits -- Aboriginal beatings are not justice -- Three strikes - the jury's out -- Junior criminals slip out of loopholes -- Students well-schooled in crime -- Should children be publicly shamed? -- Nicole's Law : the case for -- Humane justice lynched by vigilante action -- Victim showdown proves a winner -- Chapter Two : Policing and Crime Control - Prevention the key to crime fight -- Police good at nabbing killers, not car thieves -- Criminal justice resources -- A forum for law reform -- Prying police drive criminals out of town -- Zero tolerance policing -- Zero tolerance would be just intolerable -- PM pledges help for users, war on pushers
Summary
We are living in an age when the incidence of crime seems to be increasing. What are the most common forms of crime in Australia and who commits them? Crime control and prevention - what are the arguments for and against greater police numbers and powers, and tougher sentencing in the courts?
Analysis
Australia overseas comparisons
Crime
Crime & criminology (Australia )
Crime prevention
Crime rate
Federal issue
Law enforcement
Legal costs
State issue
juvenile Nonfiction
Notes
HS - kept in Volume order on shelf in Magazine section
