# Crime in Austraila

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crime-in-austraila/52936>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 2, 2001, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crime-in-austraila/52936 "2001-02-02T23:21:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mongrel\_8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@mongrel\_8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mongrel_8)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crime-in-austraila/52936/1 "2001-02-02T23:21:51Z")

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I’m not trying to step on any ones toes, but how does crime in Austraila compare to other countries in the world? I’m curious because Austraila was orginally used as a prison colony.

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**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crime-in-austraila/52936/2 "2001-02-02T23:33:10Z")

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Last year’s crime stats were published here a couple of weeks ago, I’ll see if I can find the articles on line and post the links.

Is there a particular type of crime you’re interested in the stats for (the stats vary dramatically between urban and rural areas for different types of crimes)?

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**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crime-in-austraila/52936/3 "2001-02-02T23:47:22Z")

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[This site](http://www.ozemail.com.au/~born1820/auscjs.htm) has an overview of crime rates and trends over a period of time and expressed them as a proportion of population. I’ll keep looking for links to the recent newspaper articles.

apologies if the link messes up, preview isn’t working for me ATM for some reason

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**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crime-in-austraila/52936/4 "2001-02-02T23:58:58Z")

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[This site](http://www.ozemail.com.au/~born1820/auscjs.htm) has an overview of crime rates and trends over a period of time and expressed them as a proportion of population. I’ll keep looking for links to the recent newspaper articles.

apologies if the link messes up, preview isn’t working for me ATM for some reason

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**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crime-in-austraila/52936/5 "2001-02-03T00:04:40Z")

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Sorry for the double post, SDMB just doesn’t like me today.

There are some interesting graphs on [this page](http://www.cis.org.au/Sp02/SON99summary.html) showing the serious crime trend over the 90s (just click on the thumbnails, the graphs for crime are about halfway down).