Aussies are safer in a strip club than a church, suggests new government data.
According to the latest figures compiled by the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, 1600 people were charged with committing a range of 27 offences in the state's "places of worship" in 2008.
"Most people would think of churches and synagogues as sanctuaries in society," News.com.au quoted bureau director Don Wedderburn, as saying.
Wedderburn added: "But maybe that's naive, because the statistics show they are likely to rob, assault or steal from people there like anywhere else. The figures are genuinely surprising."
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The report names churches, synagogues, monasteries, mosques, convents, cathedrals and chapels as places of worships.
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Places of worship also took the lead in sexual offences (16), theft from motor vehicles (33), resisting arrest (7) and liquor offences (10).
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