Australians believe crime is worse than it really is

25/05/2009

The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has released a report revealing misconceptions of crime and the severity of sentencing.��What Australians think about crime and justice: results from the 2007 Survey of Social Attitudes shows that people perceived crime to be increasing when it wasn’t, that they overestimated the proportion of crime that involves violence and underestimated the proportion of people who are charged, convicted and imprisoned. Learn more >

**25 May 2009 **