Results suggest that the rate of some property crimes that can result in personal injuries has been increasing in Western Australia, although the police statistics for robbery and burglary may overstate the magnitude of the increase. In addition, no indication exists that the rate of serious personal injury from crime is either large or increasing in Western Australia. The homicide rate has been a stable and low 2 per 100,000 per year all during the increase in robbery and burglary. Moreover, although both burglars and robbers seem frightening, the chances of a robbery resulting in injury are 120 times those of a burglary, and other types of theft are even less dangerous than burglary. Even injury in a robbery is minor more than 9 times of every 10. Unlike in the United States, crime is not a major health problem in Australia. Tables, figures, footnotes, appended methodological information, index, and approximately 200 references