Russell Smith

Biographic Data

ID3768935
NAMERussell Smith
GIVEN NAMESRussell
FAMILY NAMESmith
SIGNATURESMITH R
AFFILIATIONSAustralian Institute of Criminology
ORCID0000-0001-6650-0276
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS118
AUTHOR COUNT38
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1912
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX3

  • Estimating the costs of serious and organised crime in Australia, 2020-21

    Russell Smith, Amelia HickmanBOOKEstimating the costs of serious…2022

    This report estimates the cost of serious and organised crime in Australia in 2020–21 to be between $24.8b and $60.1b. This is the third in a series of reports undertaken for the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission estimating the cost of serious and organised crime. It updates and improves on the methodology used in the previous report, which estimated the cost of organised crime in 2016–17. As with the previous research, this report cons…

  • Identity crime and misuse in Australia

    Penny Jorna, Russell SmithBOOKIdentity crime and misuse in…2020

    This report presents the findings of the latest survey of identity crime and misuse undertaken by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) as part of the Australian Government’s National Identity Security Strategy. Identity crime is one of the most prevalent forms of criminal activity in Australia and can have severe and lasting consequences for victims. In 2018, nearly 10,000 people from across Australia were surveyed about their experience…

  • Light Path

    Open AccessRussell E Smith, Russell Smith et al.ARTICLEJournal of Early Modern Studies2019

    This paper focuses on the mathematisation of mechanics in the seventeenth century, specifically on how the representation of compounded rectilinear motions presented in the ancient Greek Mechanica found its way into Newton’s Principia almost two thousand years later. I aim to show that the path from the former to the latter was optical: the conceptualisation of geometrical lines as paths of reflection created a physical interpretation of dia­gram…

  • Commonwealth fraud investigations 2016-17

    Penny Jorna, Russell SmithBOOKCommonwealth fraud investigations…2019

    Fraud against the Commonwealth is a serious matter for all Australian Commonwealth entities and the Australian public. It prevents taxpayer dollars from reaching intended targets and affects the government’s ability to deliver key services. In accordance with the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 (Cth) and s 10 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014, all non-corporate Commonwealth entities are …

  • Frankenstein in the automatic factory

    Russell SmithARTICLENineteenth Century Contexts2019References: 6

    Two aspects of the historical background of Frankenstein have long been recognised as playing a crucial role in Mary Shelley’s conception of the novel. These were the “Luddite” disturbances of 1811

  • Exploring the relationship between organised crime and volume crime

    Rick Brown, Russell SmithBOOK2018

    Volume crimes such as burglary, theft, criminal damage, drug possession, assault and fraud are often treated in popular discourse as a separate category of criminal behaviour to crimes committed by organised criminal groups. Yet in reality there is considerable overlap, with organised criminal groups involved in various forms of volume crime. As part of a program of work investigating the criminal histories of members of organised criminal groups…

  • Commonwealth fraud investigations 2015–16

    Penny Jorna, Russell SmithBOOK2018

    Public sector fraud involves dishonestly obtaining a benefit or causing a loss by deception or other means, and can be perpetrated by public servants or by members of the public or corporations. It can lead to a loss of revenue, damage to morale and long-lasting damage to trust in government services. The AIC has been conducting a Commonwealth fraud census since 2006, following on from an Attorney-General’s Department data collection established …

  • Disengagement from involvement in organised crime

    Kaylene Douglas, Russell SmithBOOK2018

    This paper provides insight into the processes and risks associated with disengaging from involvement in organised crime. It seeks to offer an understanding of what membership of an organised crime group entails, the motivations for leaving, processes of disengagement and potential repercussions that may be encountered as a result. Suggestions for promoting disengagement are also canvassed. Given the expansive nature of organised crime that takes…

  • Fraud against the Commonwealth

    Penny Jorna, Russell SmithBOOK2018

    The Fraud Against the Commonwealth Report for 2014-15 presents research findings on the level of fraud risk affecting Commonwealth entities and the government’s approach to preventing and responding to acts of dishonesty perpetrated within and against the Commonwealth. For the three years 2012-13 to 2014-15, 417,480 incidents of suspected fraud were detected worth over $1.208 billion with more than one third of Commonwealth entities experiencing …

  • Organised crime research in Australia 2018

    Russell SmithBOOK2018

    Organised crime and its transnational dimension is a persistent threat with the very real potential to undermine the rule of law and the security of Australia. In 2016, the Australian Institute of Criminology and the Australian National University established the Organised Crime Research Forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from around the country to present and discuss their work. The purpose of the Forum was to raise the profil…

  • Crime and Custom in Savage Society

    Bronislaw Malinowski, Russell SmithBOOKCrime and Custom in Savage Society2018

    Crime and Custom in Savage Society represents Bronislaw Malinowski's major discussion of the relationship between law and society. Throughout his career he constructed a coherent science of anthropology, one modeled on the highest standards of practice and theory. Methodology steps forward as a core element of the refashioned anthropology, one that stipulates the manner in which anthropological data should be acquired.Malinowski's choice of law w…

  • Fraud against the Commonwealth

    Russell Smith, Penny JornaBOOK2017

    In response to the censuses, more than a third of Commonwealth entities reported experiencing fraud over the four financial years 2010–11 to 2013–14. Over 90 percent of reported frauds were allegedly perpetrated by members of the public, and the remainder by Commonwealth employees or contractors. Commonwealth entities reported 391,831 incidents of alleged, suspected and proven fraud over the four-year period. Fraud losses totalled approximately $…

  • Trajectories in online child sexual exploitation offending in Australia

    Tony Krone, Russell SmithBOOK2017

    Although the full extent and nature of the sexual exploitation of children is only beginning to be recognised, it is a problem of global significance that requires strong and effective responses. The extent to which the viewing of child exploitation material CEM) is linked to involvement in producing such material, sharing it and using it to groom and then assault children is a key concern. Most such material is held online, and it is important t…

  • Public Sector Criminological Research

    Open AccessRussell Smith, Russell G SmithCHAPTERThe Palgrave Handbook of…2017

  • Crime and Punishment in Britain

    Nigel Walker, Russell SmithBOOKCrime and Punishment in Britain2017

    This book, first published in 1965, describes the British penal system as it existed in the 1960s. It describes how the system defined, accounted for, and disposed of offenders. As an early work in criminology, it focuses on differences between, and changes in, the views held by legislators, lawyers, philosophers, and the man in the street on the topic of crime and punishment. Walker is interested in the extent to which their views reflect the fa…

  • Procedural impediments to effective unexplained wealth legislation in Australia

    Marcus Smith, Russell SmithBOOK2016

    Australia’s unexplained wealth laws form part of a range of measures introduced in response to growing concern about the prevalence and impact of organised crime. The confiscation of criminal assets, including through the use of unexplained wealth legislation, seeks to undermine the business model of organised crime by removing its financial return, punishing offenders, compensating society, preventing the improper use of assets and deterring par…

  • Uproar, bulk, rage, suffocation, effort unceasing, frenzied and vain”

    Open AccessRussell SmithARTICLEJournal of Medical Humanities2016

  • Shining a light on Harriot and Galileo

    Open AccessRussell E Smith, Russell SmithARTICLEHistory of Science2015

    Decades before Newton's Principia ushered in the age of modern science, Aristotelian physics faced a serious challenge against its weakest point, in the quest to construct a new theory of projectile motion. Yet how were such new principles of motion conceived, without reference to an established theory of mechanics? This paper explores the conceptual space between the rejection of Aristotle's physics and the appearance of Newton's physics in whic…

  • Responding to organised crime through intervention in recruitment pathways

    Russell SmithBOOK2014

    A multifaceted strategy is required to effectively combat organised crime. A key element of preventing and responding to organised criminal activity is to target how individuals become involved in illicit activities and to develop effective methods of preventing their recruitment. Using prior research into the methods used by organised crime groups to identify potential targets or confederates, and individuals’ motivations to seek or agree to par…

  • Organised crime and public sector corruption

    Elizabeth Rowe, Tabor Akman et al.BOOK2013

    In 2006, the Australian Government introduced the Anti-money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (Cth) which increased regulatory controls over businesses potentially able to facilitate organised criminal activities such as money laundering. The implementation of tougher legislation and associated law enforcement interventions may result in criminal organisations adjusting their tactics in order to continue their activities withou…

  • Crime and Custom in Savage Society

    Bronislaw Malinowski, Frank H Hankins et al.BOOKCrime and Custom in Savage Society2013Cited by: 91

    The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, through its enlightened interest in anthropology as a. branch of the social studies, will earn a deep gratitude from present and future humanists in erecting i lasting monument

  • Fraud vulnerabilities and the global financial crisis

    Michael Levi, Russell SmithBOOK2011

    This paper examines the evidence that would enable judgement of what is likely to happen to the incidence of fraud in the context of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), whether as a result of the crisis or of other factors that coincide with it. Normally, statistical data on crime and/or cost of crime trends is examined to enable determination of whether a problem is getting better or worse. However, despite measures being developed to improve fra…

  • Fraud in the ‘outback’

    Russell Smith, Penny JornaBOOK2011

    The Australian Institute of Criminology previously estimated the cost of fraud in Australia in 2005 to be approximately $8.5b (Rollings 2008). Fraud risks affect all sectors of society extending from those who provide government services, to those who receive benefits, as well as private sector businesses such as primary producers, and those who buy and sell goods and services online. In this paper, the specific risks of financial crime that aris…

  • The illegal movement of cash and bearer negotiable instruments

    Russell Smith, John WalkerBOOK2010

    As part of global regulatory measures designed to minimise risks of money laundering and financing of terrorism, financial institutions and other designated businesses in most countries are required to report certain financial transactions to government regulators. This has increased the probability that transactions involving the proceeds of crime will be detected and reported officially. In order to avoid such detection, serious criminals may s…

  • Financing of terrorism

    Russell Smith, Rob Mccusker et al.BOOK2010

    To date, Australia has been relatively quarantined from large-scale, organised terrorist activities such as those which have emerged in central and southeast Asia, Europe and the United States. Nonetheless, as a well-resourced country, Australia is at risk of being a location from which funds for terrorist activities may be drawn—even if the activities themselves are based predominantly in other countries. This paper presents information on the e…