Answer 1	Correct answer is b). 4.2% of the NSW residents who took part in the survey reported being a victim of personal crime. Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2006, Crime & Safety NSW, Catalogue No. 4509.1
Answer 2	Correct answer is b) cannabis, with 6159 charges brought in NSW Local Courts compared with 1622 charges for possess/use amphetamines, 595 charges for possess/use ecstasy and 788 charges for possess/use opiates. Source: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, unpublished data
Answer 3	Correct answer is d). In a study of abduction incidents in the first six months of 2004, the most common motives were retribution (24%), robbery (29%) and sexual desire (35%). Source: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Crime and Justice Bulletin number 103, Victims of abduction: patterns and case studies, Jacqueline Fitzgerald and Julie People
Answer 4	Correct answer is c). In a study of people born in NSW in 1984, 9.9% had appeared before a NSW criminal court at least once by the age of 21. There was a marked difference by gender, with 15.7% of males and 3.8% of females appearing in court. Source: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Crime and Justice Bulletin number 96, Generation Y and crime: a longitudinal study of contact with NSW criminal courts before the age of 21, Jiuzhao Hua, Joanne Baker and Suzanne Poynton
Answer 5	Correct answer is b). In a study of malicious damage incidents recorded by Police in 2004 and 2005, 22% of incidents occurred on Fridays, compared with 12% on Thursdays, 19% on Saturdays and 13% on Sundays. Source: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Crime and Justice Bulletin number 100, Malicious damage to property offences in NSW, Mark Howard
Answer 6	Correct answer is c). A knife or similar weapon was used in 2307 assaults, compared with a syringe (42), firearm (244) and glass/bottle (970). Almost 90% of the 71718 assaults recorded in NSW in 2005 did not involve the use of a weapon. Source: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Recorded Crime Statistics, unpublished data
Answer 7	Correct answer is d). Assaults against women more commonly take place in a residential dwelling than any other location. In October 2005 to September 2006, 64% of assaults on women took place in residential dwellings, compared with 5% at business / commercial premises, 18% outdoors or in a public place and 5% in licensed premises. Source: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, unpublished data
Answer 8	Correct answer is a). In 2005, 1235 Holden Commodore VN series cars were stolen in NSW, compared with 843 Ford Falcon EA, 663 Hyundai Excel X3 and 578 Toyota Corollas. Different series of Holden Commodore cars were in first, third, eighth and tenth place in the top ten ranking of stolen passenger vehicles. Source: National Motor Vehicle Theft Reduction Council, “Quick stats on vehicle theft in NSW”, http://ncars.on.net/
Answer 9	Correct answer is d). Suicide was the most common cause of death of those listed; 577 people died from suicide in 2004. This compares with 76 victims of murder or manslaughter, 449 deaths from traffic accidents and at least 146 deaths from opiate overdoses in 2004. Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2004, Causes of Death, 2001,catalogue number 3303.0, ABS www.abs.gov.au. NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research www.bocsar.nsw.gov.au. Opiate overdose information is available on the NSW Health website at http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/public-health/chorep/beh/beh_illidth_table.htm
Answer 10	Correct answer is b) 120 thefts per month. Source: Crime and Justice Bulletin number 101, The relationship between petrol theft and petrol prices, Steve Moffatt and Jacqueline Fitzgerald
Answer 11	Correct answer is d) approximately 53%. In 2004, 1042 sexual offence incidents were cleared by police within 180 days (i.e. police were no longer investigating the incident). Criminal proceedings were commenced in 554 (53.2%) of these cleared incidents. Source: Crime and Justice Bulletin number 92, The attrition of sexual offences from the NSW criminal justice system, Jacqueline Fitzgerald
Answer 12	Correct answer is d). In a survey of Indigenous people carried out in 2002 and 2003, the likelihood of having been charged at any time in the past or imprisoned in the previous five years was found to increase if the person had ever used substances for non-medical purposes, had failed to complete year 12 or was unemployed. Source: Crime and Justice Bulletin number 104, The economic and social factors underpinning Indigenous contact with the justice system: Results from the 2002 NATSISS survey, Don Weatherburn, Lucy Snowball and Boyd Hunter