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Crime in Our Cities: A Comparative Study
Author(s) -
Vinson T.,
Marshall C.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1973.tb00514.x
Subject(s) - homicide , publishing , project commissioning , geography , violent crime , criminology , property crime , rest (music) , state (computer science) , rural area , demography , socioeconomics , sociology , political science , suicide prevention , poison control , law , environmental health , mathematics , medicine , algorithm , cardiology
Crime rates in New South Wales are compared with overseas figures. Comparisons are made between Sydney and eight American and two Canadian cities of similar size. Urban‐rural crime rates are studied by relating Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong to the rest of the State. In both rural and urban areas the rates for homicide, sex offences and other offences against the person are relatively low when compared with American rates. The rates for property offences and car theft are similar to those which exist in America and, and in the case of Sydney, exceed the rate of these offences in the two Canadian cities studied.