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2023-24

Research Priorities 2023-24

The Australian Sexual Offence Statistical (ASOS) collection monitors the extent and nature of sexual offending in Australia from 2021–22 onwards. The collection brings together data on sexual offences, alleged offenders and victims. It covers offences perpetrated against children and adults, including penetrative and non-penetrative sexual offences, handling of unlawful sexual material offences, and offences related to enabling unlawful sexual conduct.

The explanatory notes describe the scope and methodology of the Australian Sexual Offence Statistical (ASOS) collection and data presented on the Sexual offending dashboard.

This glossary provides definitions of data items presented on the Sexual offending dashboard.

Adult offenders

Offenders aged 18 years or over at the time of their first police proceeding in the reference period for a sexual offence.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Abstract
• Executive summary
• Introduction
  • Purpose of this report
• Methodology
  • Literature review
  • Interviews with stakeholders
  • Terminology
  • Limitations
  • Next steps
• Money laundering and terrorism financing opportunities
  • The scale of money laundering
  • Sectors, methods and enablers
  • Summary
• Economic impacts
  • Distorted rates

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Data collection
  • Definitions
  • Data items and coding
  • Counting rules
  • Limitations
• Sexual offenders
  • Sex and age
  • Indigenous status
  • Number of incidents and victims
  • Offender–victim relationship
  • Offenders with child sexual offences
  • Offenders with non-child sexual offences
  • Location of offending
  • Number and type of proceedings

Today, the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has released a report that examines the prevalence of sexual violence perpetration in a community sample among adult Australians.

Summary report of the seminar is attached.

Proceedings of a seminar held Canberra, 14-18 October 1974

Contents

• Introduction
• The workshop proceedings
• Conclusions of the workshops
• General conclusions
• Appendix I
  • Seminar specialists
• Appendix II
  • Workshop participants
• Explanatory note
• Appendix III
  • Resolutions
• Seminar programme

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Abstract
• Executive summary
• Introduction
• Method
• Suspicious transactions by members of known organised crime groups
• Relationship between characteristics of organised crime groups and suspicious transactions
• Relationship between suspicious transactions and crime-related harm
• Discussion
• References

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).