Fire-related
homicides fall
into two main
categories:
those where fire
is used to kill
the victim, and
those where it
is used to
destroy the
evidence. Using
data from the
National
Homicide
Monitoring
Program
database, this
report
identifies key
characteristics
of offenders and
victims of
fire-related
homicides.
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi2/tandi340.html
Fire-related
homicides fall into two main categories:
those where fire is used to kill the
victim, and those where it is used to
destroy the evidence.
A new paper by Drs. Samara McPhedran and
Jeanine Baker, Australian Firearms
Legislation and Unintentional Firearm Deaths,
suggests that the Australian Bureau of
Statistics has undercounted injury deaths,
including suicides and may 'over-count'
unintentional deaths, and that this may lead
to skewed statistics.
more...
"Would banning firearms reduce murder and
suicide?" by Don B Kates and Gary Mauser.
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“Human Rights and Gun Confiscation,” by
David B. Kopel, Paul Gallant & Joanne D.
Eisen,
addresses
a human rights problem which has been
generally ignored by the advocates of
firearms confiscation: the human rights
abuses stemming from the enforcement of
confiscation or similar laws.
download paper...
Australian Institute of Criminology - Fact
Sheet: Weapons types and serious crime
Crime facts info, No. 158
Firearms in Australia
—
Background Note:
a guide to electronic resources.
Issued 9 August 2007.
more...
UN Firearms Protocol.
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Victorian
Firearms Act
Amendment
Bill passed.
Hansard PDF,
see page 16
Firearms theft in Australia
2005–06, Samantha Bricknell and
Jenny Mouzos. Research and public
policy series no.82
This report
describes firearms thefts reported to
police between 1 July 2005 and 30 June
2006. Its findings - 634 incidents of
theft, with a total of 1,445
firearms stolen - mark another decline
in the number of firearms stolen yearly
in Australia, down from the 1,470
firearms reported stolen in 2004–05.
Firearms theft in Australia
Trends & issues in crime
and criminal justice series no. 346:
An examination of serial murder in
Australia, Jenny Mouzos
and David West.
This report explores the serial murder
phenomenon in Australia using data
collected as part of the Australian
Institute of Criminology's National
Homicide Monitoring Program (NHMP) and
earlier research undertaken at the AIC
(Pinto & Wilson 1990). It reports on the
characteristics of offenders and
victims, including the offenders' modus
operandi, and finds that the profile of
serial murder in Australia is similar to
that found in international research.
The report suggests that further
research on the profile of long term
missing persons and serial murder
victims should be undertaken as well as
exploring offenders who commit multiple
murders on separate occasions, to
identify what prevented them (apart from
law enforcement intervention) from
committing additional murders.
Trends & Issues No. 346
AIC Fact
Sheet:
Serial
Murder in
Australia
PDF
UK Home
Office Report
on crime, September 2007.
PDF
The Human
Right of
Self
Defence
PDF
Human
Rights and
Gun
Confiscation.
PDF
Australian
Firearms
Legislation
and
Unintentional
Firearm
Deaths.
read more
AIC Fact
Sheet:
Storage
arrangements
for firearms
at time of
theft.
PDF
Stolen
Firearms
Facts
PDF
UK Home
Office
Report on
crime,
September
2007.
PDF
AIC -
An examination of serial murder in
Australia. Trends & Issues in crime and
criminal justice series no. 346.
read more
AIC
-
Firearms
theft
in
Australia
2005–06.
Research and public policy series
no.82.
read
more
AIC Fact
Sheet:
Serial
Murder in
Australia.
PDF
Fact Sheet:
United
Nations Arms
Embargoes.
PDF
Howard
Nemerov and
David B
Kopel:
Is
there a
Relationship
between Guns
and Freedom?
Comparative
Results from
59 Nations.
PDF
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AIC Fact
Sheet:
cfi165
-
Storage
arrangements
for firearms
at time of
theft,
2005-06.
PDF
AIC:
Australian
Crime: facts
& figures
2007.
PDF
AIC:
Armed
robbery in
Australia:
2005.
Research and
Public
Policy
Series No.
84.
read more
New
study:
1996 bans 'missed the
mark'.
Executive summary
ACT: Firearms Act amendments.
PDF
UN:
Report on Small Arms and Light
Weapons 2008.
PDF
AIC Fact
Sheet: cfi165 – Storage
arrangements for firearms at time of
theft, 2006-07.
PDF
UN
Small
Arms Conference Report, 30 April
2008.
read more
Firearms Act Amendments
- Speech by Family
First MP
Firearms Act Amendments - Prohibition orders,
Hansard Report.
PDF
New study: The
impact of Australia's 1996 firearms legislation.
email
author
The
Republic of Ireland's
'Custody Order' of 1972
mandated the surrender of centre-fire rifles and
handguns with unforeseen, tragic effects .
PDF
AIC: Trends in violent crime.
Trends and Issues in crime and criminal justice
series No. 359
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Australian Bureau of Statistics -
Recorded
Crime - Victims, Australia, 2007
PDF
Kings College London -
The report finds that
most of the problems associated with the illegal use
of firearms require social and economic rather than
criminal justice solutions.
PDF
To
catch a predator? The MySpace moral panic.
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Abstract:
This paper examines
moral panics over contemporary technology, or “technopanics.”
I use the cyberporn panic of 1996 and the
contemporary panic over online predators and MySpace
to demonstrate links between media coverage and
content legislation. In both cases, Internet content
legislation is directly linked to media–fueled moral
panics that concern uses of technology deemed
harmful to children. This is of particular interest
currently as a new Internet content bill, the
Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), is being
debated in the U.S. Congress. The technopanic over
“online predators” is remarkably similar to the
cyberporn panic; both are fueled by media coverage,
both rely on the idea of harm to children as the
justification for Internet content restriction, and
both have resulted in carefully crafted legislation
to circumvent First Amendment concerns. Research
demonstrates that legislation proposed — or passed —
to curb these problems is an extraordinary response;
it is misguided and in many cases masks the
underlying problem.
