The Commonwealth Government has stated that it is committed to addressing the issues of crime and violence in Australia. An important focus of National Crime Prevention (NCP), the Commonwealth's crime prevention program, has been to identify the priorities for violence prevention in Indigenous communities, where statistics show it is occurring at disproportionately high rates when compared to the Australian population as a whole. In 1998, PMA was commissioned to undertake research into this situation and the programs being implemented in response to it.
