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Ethnicity and crime - Australian Institute of Criminology Ethnicity and crime statistics will be useful only if other demo- graphic, social and economic statistics for migrant groups are also collected These can then be used not only to understand the differences between migrant groups but also to explain rela- tionships, if any, between ethnic- ity and crime
ETHNICITY AND CRIME: An Australian Research Study General Most research and official statistics and documents on the issue of ethnicity and crime have rarely examined described the concept ‘ethnicity’ The relationships described under the heading ‘ethnicity and crime’ pertained generally to migrants (including illegal migrants), foreigners (resident and non-resident), overseas-born, etc Often these groups are labelled by country
Offences by Nationality - Sydney Criminal Lawyers The media often depicts people from a Middle Eastern, Asian or African background as being major perpetrators of crime, in particular focusing on organised crime gangs such as the bikies and car rebirthing rings But is criminal activity in Australia actually split according to race or ethnic background? What the statistics say Although the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR
Are Crime Rates Higher Among Migrants, Including Refugees? Australia doesn’t record crime rates by ethnicity, but we do record the country of birth of prisoners This allows the Australian Bureau of Statistics to identify the rates of incarceration for each migrant group, that is, how many people per 100,000 of any given country of birth have been convicted of a crime for which they have been jailed
Immigration, Ethnicity, and Neighborhood Violence: Considering Both . . . Drawing on three waves of census data and 9 years of official recorded crime data, this study explores the impact of both immigrant concentration and diversity on violent crime across 882 neighborhoods located in two Australian cities
Ethnicity and crime: a statewide analysis by local government areas Information on police recorded crime rates and selected ethnicity variables were gained from all local government areas in Victoria The general findings were that high rates of Australian born were related to lower property crime rates and, perhaps more importantly, Australian citizenship is significantly related to lower crime rates across LGAs
Ethnic Minority Youth, Crime and Conflict in Australia: In this article we look at aspects of criminality, anti-social behaviour, national identity and belonging of ethnic minority youth in Australia, a traditional settler immigration society with more immigrants and greater ethnic diversity than most western countries We focus in particular on Sydney, Australia’s largest city which takes about 40 per cent of Australia’s annual immigration
Migration, Ethnicity and Crime in Australian Society In the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs 1985-86 migration program outcome, 14 per cent of all entries were of refugee or humanitarian status (figure 2)
Australia - Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice: An International Dilemma Turning to the current state of affairs in Australia, the chapter reviews demographic information on the population, as well as the state of the Indigenous population The chapter continues, first with a brief review of Australian crime statistics, followed by a review of the state of the Indigenous population in relation to crime and justice