Jenny Mouzos and Yuka Sakurai analyse incidents of firearms theft reported to police between February and July 2004 to provide a picture of patterns and victims. Although the number of thefts has decreased, it is suggested that more active auditing of registration and storage compliance would lead to further drops.

Using information from the first year of the National Armed Robbery Monitoring Program, Maria Borzycki, Yuka Sakurai and Jenny Mouzos examine the nearly 9000 reported cases of armed robbery victimisation in 2003 in terms of the incident, the victim and the offender. Aspects of this crime that have not previously been closely examined, such as...

Fraud is a significant component of female offending, and examining the dynamics underlying serious fraud is important if we are to understand the broader issues of gender difference in patterns of offending and imprisonment. Janice Goldstraw, Russell G. Smith and Yuka Sakurai demonstrate that, contrary to the previous welfarist and needs-focused explanations of fraud, women...

In their Trends and Issues paper, 'Red Flags of Fraud', Grabosky and Duffield (2001) identified a number of warning signals for fraud, or anomalies. While the existence of anomalies is not always indicative of criminality, they do signify heightened risks that should be investigated further. Drawing upon data collected for the Australian Institute of Criminology...

At present, adult Australians spend $13,839 million a year on gambling, or $901 per adult per year. However, with increasing opportunities and venues for gambling, public concern about 'problem gambling' has grown. This paper examines one of the principal social costs of gambling, namely, gambling related crime, or crime committed by individual gamblers in order...