It is a very great honour and a pleasure to be invited to address this conference on the extremely
important, and often neglected, topic of the role of schools in crime prevention. I would like to
thank the organisers for giving me this opportunity to do so. I am here on behalf of the International
Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC), to talk about some of the work which is being done in
this area. I am not a teacher, school administrator or policy maker, and we do not assume we know
all the answers, so I am here to learn, and I look forward very much to finding out much more about
developments in school crime prevention in Australia.