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Victoria Police statistics show that, since the late 1980s, there has been a significant increase in reported rapes in that State. One interpretation of this trend is that there has been an increase in the underlying incidence of sexual violence in the community. An alternative explanation is that rape victims have become more willing to report to the police, in response to factors such as improved provision of support services to sexual assault victims, reforms to substantive and procedural law, and changes in police attitudes and procedures. In order to test these competing interpretations data were collected and analysed on the characteristics of rapes reported to the Victoria Police in the late 1980s/early 1990s. This analysis showed that: (1) most of the additional offences reported in the early 1990s were allegations of rapes committed by family members, spouses and other intimates; and (2) an increasing number of reports related to offences which had been committed at least one year prior to a report being made to the police. It is argued that these changing patterns are co nsistent with a significant increase in the reporting rate for rape. More generally, the research reported in this paper highlights the limitations of reported crime statistics as measures of the level of social violence, and points to the need for crime researchers to develop alternative methodologies for measuring and interpreting trends.

Intro -- Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 An introduction to mining, mobility, and social change -- Section I The Andes -- 2 Ch'ixi mobilities: Small-scale mining and Indigenous autonomy in the Bolivian tin belt -- 3 Mining, infrastructure, and mobility in the Andes -- 4 Navigating gendered landscapes of mineral extraction: Spatial mobility, women's autonomy, and mining development in the Peruvian Andes -- Section II Central and West Africa -- 5 Chasing gold: Technology, people, and matter on the move in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo -- 6 Making mining localities: Trajectories and stories of mining and mobility in Zambia -- 7 The governance of ASGM in Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire: (Im)mobility, territory, and technological change -- Section III Melanesia -- 8 Mining-induced in-migration in Papua New Guinea -- 9 Mining fronts, labor mobilities, and the construction of locality in Thio, New Caledonia -- 10 Beyond the enclave: Workforce mobility and livelihoods in a New Caledonia mining region -- Section IV Conclusion -- 11 Mining and mobility: Key insights, governance implications, and future research -- Index.