• Louise Taylor, Kyllie Cripps, Megan Davis
• Indigenous Law Centre

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21 June 2010Violence is a longstanding, widely recognised problem that disproportionately affects Indigenous people in comparison to non-Indigenous people. State governments across the country have conducted numerous inquiries into Indigenous violence. Cumulatively, these reports suggest that Indigenous women and children experience unusually high levels of sexual violence in comparison to their non-Indigenous counterparts.

The Indigenous Law Centre (Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales) is conducting a research project funded by the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department examining the experiences of Indigenous victims of sexual violence in the criminal justice system.

In this first phase, the project examines the way Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander female and child victims are dealt with by the courts through an analysis of court/sentencing decisions.