Getting Tough on Crime: Will it Win the War?

Jenny Williams

No 1999-05, School of Economics and Public Policy Working Papers from University of Adelaide, School of Economics and Public Policy

Abstract: We begin by putting the size of Australia's crime problem in an international perspective thorugh comparisons with England and the U.S. Having established the magnitude of crime in Australia, section 3, rovides a framework useful for understanding the 'tough on crime' policy approach. Section four discusses the NSW (New South Wales) experience. We use multivariate regression analysis in section 5 to examine the NSW experience in the light of the framework outlined in section 3. Using the regression results, section 6 offers an insight into why the rate of crime has continued to grow in spite of a harsher sentencing regime.

Keywords: crimes; public policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D70 H50 K14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 1999
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Published in Agenda, 2002, vol. 7, number 1, pp. 33-45

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