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Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Abstract
• Introduction
  • Data collection
  • Reference period
  • Definitions and counting rules
• Reports of modern slavery in Australia
  • Jurisdiction where alleged offence occurred
  • Exploitation type and industry
  • Assessment and investigation
  • Suspected victim-survivors
  • Suspected perpetrators
• Support through the Support for Trafficked People Program
  • Gender and age

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.

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.

We’re pleased to announce keynote speaker Professor Ethel Quayle will be presenting at the AIC 2025 Conference, which will take place in Canberra on 11-12 March 2025. Professor Quayle will be speaking on Technology-facilitated sexual crimes against children: offenders, victims and environment.

New research, based on a survey of over 13,300 online Australians, shows four in 10 respondents (40.6%) had viewed fringe or radical content and 4.5 percent had viewed CSAM in the previous 12 months.

Based on a survey of over 13,300 online Australian adults, our new research shows two in five respondents (40.6%) reported being exposed to material they described as fringe, unorthodox or radical. One-quarter of these respondents (23.2%) accessed the content intentionally.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Abstract
• Introduction
  • Definition of a death in custody
  • Data collection
  • Scope
  • Considerations
  • Changes from previous report
• Deaths in custody 2023–24
  • Deaths in prison custody
  • Deaths in police custody and custody-related operations
• Indigenous deaths in custody 2023–24
  • Indigenous deaths in prison custody
  • Indigenous deaths in police custody and custody-related operations

Today the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has released its Deaths in Custody in Australia 2023–24 report. From 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024, there were 104 deaths in custody, 6 less than in 2022–23.

The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has announced important new funding that will support Australian academics to undertake cutting edge crime and justice research. 

AIC Director Heather Cook looks forward to seeing the work of these 7 new projects come to fruition under the Criminology Research Grants (CRG) program, all of which have been selected by the Criminology Research Advisory Council.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Direct serious and organised crime costs
  • Illicit drug activity
  • Serious and organised financial crime
  • Crimes against the person
  • Illicit commodities
  • Pure cybercrime
  • Serious and organised crime enabling costs
• Consequential organised crime costs
• Indirect costs of preventing and responding to serious and organised crime
  • Public sector costs

Today the Australian Institute of Criminology and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission have released updated figures for the cost of serious and organised crime in Australia. The Institute estimates that it cost up to $68.7 billion a year in 2022–23, compared to $60.1 billion in 2020–21.

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