Acknowledgements

Authors

We would like to thank the many people who have contributed to the preparation of this report. The members of the Project Management Group, Mr David Butten, Ms Jane Fisher, Mr Derek Jory, Ms Judy Putt and Ms Julie Rolfe, helped to clarify the main areas of focus for the report and provided valuable comments on successive drafts. Discussions about the project also were held with a number of other people and we are grateful to them for sharing their ideas and information with us. We are particularly grateful to Dr David Indermaur of the Crime Research Centre, University of Western Australia, who made a number of useful suggestions.

Research assistance to the project was provided by Ms Francoise Ballantyne and Ms Helen Peerless and we thank them for their significant contributions. The secretarial duties were the responsibility of Ms Barbara Smith and we are grateful to her for the expert manner in which these have been undertaken.