We’re pleased to announce keynote speaker Professor Rutger Leukfeldt will be presenting at the AIC 2025 Conference, which will take place in Canberra on 11-12 March 2025. Professor Leukfeldt will be speaking on Examining the pathways into cybercrime and online interventions.
For the first time, the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has today released information on the nature and outcomes of reports of modern slavery in Australia, and the characteristics of suspected victim-survivors and perpetrators.
Today the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), in partnership with the Attorney-General the Hon Mark Dreyfus KC MP and state and territory police commissioners will celebrate the Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards (ACVPA).
The ACVPA recognise best practice in the prevention or reduction of violence and other types of crime in Australia and play a vital role in highlighting effective community-based initiatives to prevent crime and violence before it actually occurs.
A new AIC study examined threads on a darknet forum for undetected online and contact child sexual offenders to identify key drivers and deterrents of offending and to inform intervention approaches.
New reports by researchers from Griffith University demonstrate the benefits of a communication program to improve children’s language skills, when combined with family support.
The Australian Institute of Criminology will be hosting
the AIC 2025 Conference on 11-12 March 2025.
The theme of this year’s conference will be Reducing Online Harms and the aim of the event is to present the latest research on the changing nature of online harms and approaches to preventing, disrupting and mitigating those harms, as well as approaches to support victim / survivor recovery.
The Australian Institute of Criminology has released a new Trends & issues paper that uses a randomised survey experiment involving 13,301 online Australians to measure support for environmental, anti-lockdown and sovereign citizen protests.
The Australian Institute of Criminology has released new research that reviews statutory offences for sexual violence and abuse in Australia.
A new AIC study conducted by the University of Adelaide assesses the benefits of using cloud-based technologies in child sexual abuse investigations.
• The quantity of child abuse material being confiscated and processed during criminal investigations presents budgetary and computing resource challenges, while also limiting inter-agency collaboration.
• The paper reviews the discrete benefits of cloud-based infrastructures and assesses the perceived risks associated with their use.
In collaboration with the Griffith Criminology Institute, the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) today released a report which used criminal history data for 3 birth cohorts in New South Wales (NSW) to estimate the prevalence of recorded family and domestic violence offending.
The data for this study is based on offences recorded by the NSW Police Force for individuals who were proceeded against by police and who were born in one of 3 NSW birth cohorts (1984, 1994 and 2004).