Crime in Australia - Human Trafficking in Australia, the Jerilderie Letter, Timeline of Major Crimes in Australia (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Human trafficking in Australia, The Jerilderie Letter, Timeline of major crimes in Australia, Indigenous Australians and crime, Illicit drug use in Australia, Pong Su incident, Law enforcement in Australia, 2007 hitman case, Penal transportation, List of specific crimes in Newcastle, Karl Kast, Life imprisonment in Australia, 2010 Darwin shopping mall bombing, Ticket of leave, Offset Alpine fire, Australian Institute of Criminology, 2005 Indonesian embassy bioterrorism hoax, Moe incest case, Jimmy James, Racing identity, Operation Auxin, Whistleblowers Australia, 1993 Cangai siege, Bathurst Riots, Certificate of freedom. Excerpt: Human trafficking in Australia is illegal under Division 270 of the Criminal Code (Cth). The amendment to the Code, made in 1999, implemented the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, to which Australia is a party. The Australian Federal Police Annual Report 2008/2009 stated that the AFP has sponsored 146 people into the Support for Victims of People Trafficking Program administered by the Office for Women within the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. This program commenced in 2004. The below is a table of trafficking visas issued from 2004-05 to 2009-10: Some 83% of trafficking victims identified in Australia are women working in the sex industry. The extent of human trafficking in Australia is difficult to quantify. However, it has been estimates that the number ranges between 300 and 1000 a year. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) lists Australia as one of 21 trafficking destination countries in the high destination category. A 2005 parliamentary inquiry into sexual servitude in Australia fo...