Australian Violence: 
                            
              Contemporary Perspectives 
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
            Australian Violence: 
                 Contemporary 
                   Perspectives 
                                
                                
                                
                                
                       Duncan Chappell 
                       Peter Grabosky 
                                       
                        Heather Strang
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                     
                      Australian Institute of Criminology 
         First published in 1991 by the 
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         National Library of Australia 
         Cataloguing-in-Publication entry 
          
         Australian violence. 
          
         Bibliography. 
         Includes index. 
         ISBN 0 642 15763 4. 
          
         1. Violence - Australia. 2. Violence (Law) - 
         Australia. 3. Violent crimes - Australia.  4. 
         Victims of crimes - Australia. I. Chappell, 
         Duncan.  II. Grabosky, Peter N. (Peter Nils, 
         1945-     . III. Strang, Heather.  IV.  Australian 
         Institute of Criminology. 
          
         364.150994 
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
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                                                    Contributors 
                      DR CHRISTINE ALDER is a Senior Lecturer in the Criminology 
                      Department at the University of Melbourne 
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                        ROFESSOR  UNCAN  HAPPELL is Director of the Australian Institute 
                      of Criminology 
                      M            C
                        ARJORIE  UTHBERT is Deputy Director of Nursing at St Vincent's 
                      General Hospital, Sydney 
                      CHRISTOPHER DEVERY is a Senior Research Officer with the New 
                      South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research 
                      DR GORDON FULDE is Director of the Accident and Emergency 
                      Centre, St Vincent's General Hospital, Sydney 
                      D P         G
                        R   ETER     RABOSKY is a Principal Criminologist with the Australian 
                      Institute of Criminology 
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                        ROFESSOR  OSS  OMEL is Associate Professor of the School of 
                      Behaviour Sciences at Macquarie University, Sydney 
                      FRANCES LOVEJOY is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University 
                      of New South Wales 
                      JOHN MYRTLE is Librarian with the Australian Institute of Criminology 
                      DR DAVID NEAL is a Commissioner with the Victorian Law Reform 
                      Commission 
                      DR KEN POLK is Associate Professor and Head of the Criminology 
                      Department at the University of Melbourne 
                      DR DAVID RANSON is Senior Pathologist at the Victorian Institute of 
                      Forensic Pathology and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department 
                      of Forensic Medicine at Monash University, Melbourne 
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                        ROFESSOR  EVERLEY  APHAEL is Head of the Department of 
                      Psychiatry at the University of Queensland