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020			_a978-1-925343-64-9
022			_a2204-5538 (Online)
040			_aAFVC
100			_aWeatherburn, Don _96342
245			_aGeneral offending by domestic violence offenders _cDon Weatherburn and Sara Rahman
260			_aSydney, NSW : _bNSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, _c2018
300			_aelectronic document (12 pages) ; PDF file
500			_aCrime and Justice Bulletin, 2018, no. 215
520			_aRelease Date: 10.30AM, Thursday 30 August, 2018 Domestic violence (DV) offenders commit almost 2.5 times as many non-DV offences as DV offences a new study by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) has found. The study examined all 100,668 offenders convicted of a DV offence in a NSW court between 2008 and 2017. Between them, these offenders had a total of 622,065 offences proved against them but only 236,324 (38%) of these offences involved DV. The remainder included traffic offences (107,555), acts intended to cause injury (62,726), theft offences (56,593), drug offences (47,470), break and enter (14,366) and robbery (3,408). Only about a third (35%) of the cohort examined by BOCSAR restricted themselves to DV offending. These people offended fairly infrequently, with the average being about 1.59 DV offences over the study period. Offenders who did not specialise in DV tended to offend much more frequently than those who did specialise. Those whose DV offending accounted for less than 10 per cent of their total convictions, committed, on average, 21 offences between 2008 and 2017. BOCSAR also compared DV assault offenders with non-DV assault offenders in terms of factors like criminal history, education, accommodation, companions, and antisocial attitudes/orientation. Very few significant differences were found. Commenting on the findings, the Executive Director of BOCSAR, Dr Don Weatherburn, said that the study showed that measures taken to deter DV offenders may produce crime reduction benefits for other types of crime. "The results suggest that domestic violence is in many cases just one manifestation of a general pattern of antisocial behaviour. We may need to look at treating the whole pattern, rather than just the domestic violence component of it," he said. (From the website). Record #5960
650			_aCRIME _9163
650			_aDATA ANALYSIS _9181
650			_aDOMESTIC VIOLENCE _9203
650			_aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE _9431
650			_aOFFENDERS _9413
650			_aPERPETRATORS _92644
651		4	_aAUSTRALIA _92597
651			_aNEW SOUTH WALES _93273
700			_aRahman, Sara _97789
773	0	3	_tCrime and Justice Bulletin, 2018, no. 215
830			_aCrime and Justice Bulletin _96343
856			_uhttp://www.bocsar.nsw.gov.au/Documents/CJB/2018-Report-General-offending-by-domestic-violence-offenders-CJB215.pdf
856			_uhttp://www.bocsar.nsw.gov.au/Pages/bocsar_news/cjb215-General-offending-by-domestic-violence-offenders.aspx _yMedia release
942			_2ddc _cBRIEFING