ADJUS-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Victimisation
23 Jun 2020
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How we define crime has implications for how and what we measure. Because the definition of crime includes a broad range of behaviours, measuring crime also must take a broad approach. Includes information known (ie. , detected and/or reported and recorded) crimes. National data on reported or detected crime has been available consistently since 1993. Reports crimes along the 16 anzsoc categories. Data are largely comparable across states and territories. Exception is assault and sexual assault where there is known variation in how these offences are counted. Are not a measure of the true level" of crime in the community. Does not capture the dark figure" of crime. Offences committed but not reported or detected. Demonstrates how offenders progress through the various stages of the criminal justice system. Most offenders who appear in court do so at the magistrates level. Offenders in higher courts more likely to received custodial sentences. Most offenders sentenced to custody serve community-based orders.
