AJ 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Property Crime, Victimisation, Transnational Crime

• School: Pasadena City College
• Department: Administration of Justice
• Course: AJ 010
• Professor: gallon

Document Summary

Australia an offshoot of 18th & 19th century british society. Transition from feudalism to capitalism & industrial capitalism. Overflow of prisons & worst sent to sydney. From 1788 through much 19th century high levels of conventional crime (e. g. theft and assaults) By end of 19th century reported crime already-y decreasing. Crime types can be categorised in different ways. E. g. stealing, break and enter, burglary, motor vehicle theft, property damage. E. g. drug offences, justice procedure offences, disorderly conduct. Prevalence of different crimes changes over time. Need to consider crime rates, rather than number of offences (population increases means crime will increase too) Australia was a less violent society at the end of the 20th century than it was at the end of the 19th or 18th centuries " (graycar & grabosky, 2002) Violent crime accounts for approximately 20% of reported crime in australia. The most serious violent crime murder accounts for a very small proportion of reported crime.