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This chapter looks at trends in crime in Australia and New Zealand mainly over the last two decades. It is reasonable to focus on the two countries together because they are geographically proximate, and are in large part culturally similar, reflecting a shared colonization by Britain. Both have indigenous populations, and are multicultural. They can be seen as on a broadly similar trajectory in terms of standards of living and social and technological development to the Western industrialized countries in which falls in crime have been witnessed. Policing methods are broadly similar in the two countries and in many ways mirror those in other Western countries. Criminal justice practices, too, are not distinctly different between the two countries and other Westernized countries — although there are some variations.
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Mayhew, P. (2012). The Case of Australia and New Zealand. In: van Dijk, J., Tseloni, A., Farrell, G. (eds) The International Crime Drop. Crime Prevention and Security Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291462_4
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