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Today the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has released a report that examines the experiences of dating app and website users who have received requests to facilitate child sexual exploitation and abuse on dating apps and websites.

Let’s recognise the outstanding programs making waves in our local communities to prevent crime and violence

Nominations are now open for the 2024 Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards (ACVPA).

Contents

• Part one. The state of violence in Australia
  • Introduction
  • Sources of information on violence in Australia
  • Costs of violence in Australia
  • Patterns and trends in Australian violence
  • Risk of violence in Australia
  • Conclusion
• Part two. Explaining violence
  • Introduction
  • Biological factors
  • Personality factors
  • Mental illness
  • Social-psychological explanations
  • Substance abuse
  • Cultural factors
  • Conclusion

Contents

• Abstract
• Executive summary
  • Method
  • Results
  • Discussion
• Introduction
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs
  • Gang databases
  • Risk assessment
  • Predicting high-harm offending among outlaw motorcycle gang members
  • Current study
• Method
  • High-harm offending
  • Data
  • Analytic approach
  • Limitations
• Results
  • National-level analysis
  • State-level analysis
• Discussion

The AIC, in partnership with HEUNI, will be hosting an occasional webinar on Responsible Recruitment: How to prevent the exploitation of migrant workers at recruitment and placement, on 23 April via Microsoft Teams from 4:00pm-5:30pm AEST.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Abstract
• Introduction
  • Data collection
  • Definition of homicide
  • Homicide classification
  • Calculation of rates
  • Data amendments and revision
  • Reference period
• Homicide incidents
  • Incident clearance rates
  • Most serious charge
  • Single and multiple victim/offender homicides
  • Homicide classification
  • Location of homicide incidents
  • Circumstances and preceding events
  • Weapon use

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Abstract
• Introduction
  • Data collection
  • Definition of homicide
  • Homicide classification
  • Calculation of rates
  • Data amendments and revision
  • Changes from previous report
  • Reference period
• Homicide incidents
  • Incident clearance rates
  • Most serious charge
  • Single and multiple victim/offender homicides
  • Homicide classification
  • Location of homicide incidents
  • Circumstances and preceding events

Today the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) released the latest findings from the National Homicide Monitoring Program. This includes both the Homicide in Australia 2021–22 and Homicide in Australia 2022–23 reports following enhanced processes to ensure timely release of these important figures.