Sentences with phrase «crime victimisation»

In this and so many other ways crime victimisation feeds a vicious cycle in communities.

The overrepresentation in imprisonment and crime victimisation rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people requires urgent, coordinated action from government.

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«These crimes can happen randomly or be part of a campaign of continued harassment and victimisation».

The committee believes crime and security breaches on the internet are increasing, but the government is ignoring this increasing victimisation of internet users.

Across two studies in the lab and field, women observed images and real life situations that varied in the risk of crime, such as crime hotspots and safespots, and were asked to rate their perceived risk of victimisation — a measure of fear of crime — of various crimes.

However, the relationship between PPFDM and fear did not vary in relation to risk situation, perpetrator gender, or crime type, suggesting that the psychological mechanisms underlying the relationship between perceived risk of victimisation and PPFDM are general in nature.

After conducting advanced analysis on the data obtained, being a victim of a sexual crime was shown to be a significant predictor of juror behaviour in rape cases, with the research revealing that jurors with personal experience of victimisation were four times more likely to convict in court, prior to deliberations taking place.

Studying criminology develops your understanding of the social and personal aspects of crime, victimisation and responses to crime and deviance, as well as building specific skills such as:

The study also found that victimisation in violent crimes is also predominately the result of offending by other Aboriginal people.