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Background: There has long been an international interest in the eradication of drug markets particularly heroin markets given their documented connection to the deterioration of local community and social amenity. Recent interest in focused drug law enforcement strategies has reinvigorated debate about the potential for deterrence; however, there exists no large-scale effort to document the risk perceptions of those who transact in heroin markets. Methods: We use data from 2,257 police detainees interviewed as part of the Australian Institute of Criminology's (AIC) Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) program. We employ a multilevel generalised ordinal logistic regression model to explore the geographical and temporal heterogeneity of risk, controlling for individual demographic covariates. Results: With one exception, we find a surprising degree of homogeneity at the high end of the risk perception scale, with between 30 and 35 percent of respondents rating their local heroin
Warning: This article discusses child sexual abuse
Thomas didn’t always look at child sexual abuse material. He says, it started with legal pornography.
“Some of the links are so unclear that you can find yourself going on to something that you shouldn t be.”
Thomas said he accessed the material when out of work and recovering from surgery. After he returned to work, he didn t look at the images again, but did not delete all traces from his computer.
“I had no sexual interest in children. It s not something that interested me,” he said.
“There was an element of curiosity, fascination, whatever you like to call it.and that probably got me looking at things that I shouldn’t have been.”
Over the past thirty years, more than half of all Aboriginal people that have died in police custody were apprehended for low-level offences, statistics contained in the Australian Institute of Criminology’s (AIC) most recent annual report reveal.
In the thirty years from 1989-90 to 2018-19, the AIC recorded 858 deaths in police custody, including 168 Aboriginal deaths in police custody.
Among the 168 Aboriginal deaths in police custody, 53 or around one third were suspected of having committed a theft-related offence.
Nearly a quarter (39) of all Aboriginal people that died in police custody, were suspected of committing a ‘good order offence’, such as alcohol related offences, disorderly conduct or unpaid fines.
10,000 Australians invited to take part in a study of childhood experience of abuse
A national survey commences this week to find out for the first time how many Australians have experienced child abuse.
The Australian Child Maltreatment Study (ACMS) is led by QUT Professor Ben Mathews in collaboration with an international team of researchers.
The $2.8 million study, funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian Government, and the Australian Institute of Criminology, has three main parts, and is the most comprehensive national study in this field.
The survey will be conducted with 10,000 randomly drawn participants, aged 16 and over from across Australia, who will be invited to participate by advance text message and then by mobile phone.