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New South Wales Recorded Crime Statistics 2004 : Regionalanalysis of Crime Trends
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Moffatt, Steve Goh, Derek |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | NEW SOUTH WALES CRIME TRENDS The major points of interest in recorded crime statistics for the 16 major offences in the 24 months from January 2003 to December 2004 are: • At the State level nine offences were trending downward, seven were stable and no offences showed an upward trend (see Table 1). • The offences trending downward were all either theft offences or robbery offences. Violent offences without an acquisitive element such as assault and sexual offences have remained stable (see Table 1). • In the Sydney Statistical Division (SD) nine offences were trending downward and six were stable. Malicious damage to property was the only offence to increase, showing a significant upward trend of 2.8 per cent between 2003 and 2004 (see Table 2). • In the eleven regional SDs the major crime categories were mainly stable (see Table 2). There were, however, two significant upward trends: In Richmond-Tweed SD robbery with a weapon not a firearm increased by 20.0 per cent, from 20 incidents in 2003 to 24 incidents in 2004. In Far West SD fraud increased by 37.7 per cent, from 61 incidents in 2003 to 84 incidents in 2004. • Many of the 14 Sydney Statistical Subdivisions (SSD) reported significant decreases in robbery and property crimes (see Table 3). • There were 11 significant upward trends in Sydney SSDs: malicious damage increased in four Sydney SSDs, fraud increased in two, steal from retail store increased in one, indecent assault increased in two, sexual assault increased in one and assault increased in one (see Table 3). • The Inner Sydney SSD recorded the highest number of significant downward trends with eight offences trending downwards and one offence trending upwards (see Table 3). • The offences which showed the most widespread drops in Sydney SD were steal from person, which was trending downward in 13 Sydney SSDs, and break and enter non-dwelling which was trending downward in 12 Sydney SSDs. • Malicious damage to property, though stable for NSW, was the offence which recorded the highest number of significant upward trends. Malicious damage was trending upwards in the Sydney Statistical Division, four Sydney SSDs and in 20 NSW Local Government Areas (LGA). |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.bocsar.nsw.gov.au/Documents/BB/bb28.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
