Date Time
Nominations open for Australia’s best crime and violence prevention programs
Nominations are now open for the 2021 Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards. These awards recognise and reward good practice in the prevention or reduction of violence and other types of crime in Australia.
Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) Deputy Director, Dr Rick Brown, said the awards are open to projects of all sizes, including smaller initiatives involving local community groups, that have been fully operational before 1 February 2020.
“These awards play a vital role in highlighting effective community-based initiatives to prevent crime and violence, before it actually occurs,” Dr Brown said.
Australian Institute of Criminology
Nominations are now open for the 2021 Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards. These awards recognise and reward good practice in the prevention or reduction of violence and other types of crime in Australia.
Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) Deputy Director, Dr Rick Brown, said the awards are open to projects of all sizes, including smaller initiatives involving local community groups, that have been fully operational before 1 February 2020.
“These awards play a vital role in highlighting effective community-based initiatives to prevent crime and violence, before it actually occurs,” Dr Brown said.
“I strongly encourage businesses, community networks, and members of the public to nominate local projects that have made an impact on their community by preventing or reducing crime and violence.”
You are here
Home » News & events » All stories » Glock ghost guns up for grabs on the dark web
Glock ghost guns up for grabs on the dark web 24 March 2021
Australians have access to a wide variety of untraceable ghost guns online along with a significant market of 3D printed weapon blueprints and kits, according to a new study from The Australian National University (ANU).
The report found conventional handguns were most popular on the dark web with illicit market vendors offering stealth packaging to Australia.
Glock semi-automatic pistols made up over half, 57 per cent, of all the handguns sold. There are lots of Glocks available. They are the standard law enforcement side arm, you see them in action movies, lead author Professor Roderic Broadhurst, from the ANU Cybercrime Observatory, said.
Adam Graycar
Contributor
Adam Graycar is a professor of social and policy studies at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. He also is a professor of public policy at the Australian National University in Canberra, where he is director of the Transnational Research Institute on Corruption, which conducts research on public corruption and devises ways to reduce it.
Currently on sabattical at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York and at the Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity at Columbia University, he is a former dean of the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, the state university of New Jersey.