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.
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