[Anthropgrad] CAEPR Seminar Reminder: Wednesday 29 August

[Karen Montefiore]

Please note a change of venue for the CAEPR Seminar Series to
the Humanities Conference Room, level 1, AD Hope building, ANU.

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Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR)
2007 Seminar Series II (8 August - 24 October)
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Wednesday , 29th of August
12.30 - 2.00pm



Indigenous victims of violent crime

Don Weatherburn (Director, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research)

Abstract:
A number of theories have been put forward to explain the high level 
of violence amongst Australia's Indigenous population. Up until 2002, 
lack of suitable data on the risk factors associated with Indigenous 
violent victimisation made it very difficult to assess the adequacy 
of these theories. In 2002 the Australian Bureau of Statistics 
conducted a national survey of Indigenous Australians (the National 
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey, or NATSISS). 
That survey made it possible to examine a range of correlates of 
Indigenous violent victimisation. Analysis of the NATSISS 
victimisation data, however, has so far been limited to a few 
bi-variate comparisons. This seminar presents the results of the 
first multivariate analysis of risk factors for violent victimisation 
among Indigenous Australians using the NATSISS. The results provide 
little support for cultural theories of Indigenous violence but 
strong support for social disorganisation, social deprivation and 
lifestyle theories, particularly the latter.

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When:   Wednesdays, 12.30 - 2.00pm
Venue:  Humanities Conference Room, Level 1, AD Hope Building #14, ANU.
Map:  A map of the AD Hope Building location 
http://campusmap.anu.edu.au/displaybldg.asp?no=14
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