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Note: Second edition of this title published in 1982.

Second edition

Note: Earlier edition of this title published in 1987.

Second edition

Note: Earlier edition of this title published in 1979.

Note: Second edition of this title published in 1990.

Contents

1. The bottom of the harbour tax evasion schemes
2. The demise of trustees executors and agency co. Ltd
3. The collapse of Bishopsgate insurance
4. The Russell Island land fraud
5. The meat substitution scandal of 1981
6. Medical fraud and abuse in medical benefit programmes
7. The Dalkon Shield
8. The media, tobacco and public health
9. Sex discrimination: Wardley v Ansett
10. Lead pollution and the children of Port Pirie
11. crime without punishment: the Appin mine disaster
12. Death at Kellogg’s

This study was conducted with the cooperation of the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the authors wish to acknowledge the generous assistance provided by officers of the Department of the Attorney-General of South Australia in supporting this inquiry. They are indebted to the Crown Law Section which gave direct help in the assembling of the case material which is used in this study.

in: The Age, 23 April 2001, I.T.1 pp. 1,12.

Ever since human beings began to claim ownership over property, other human beings have sought to take it from them. In the past quarter of a century, with the arrival of digital technology, both property and theft have taken on new forms.

Money, music, text and video are now commonly stored and transferred electronically in the form of a long series of zeroes and ones. And they can be stolen with a laptop computer from one's bedroom.

A report prepared by the Australian Institute of Criminology for the ACT Department of Justice and Community Safety.

• Annex A : Taxi driver safety study: retrospective questionnaire, drivers (PDF 27kB)
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