This compendium brings together 14 recent studies published by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC). The themes reflect the AIC’s focus on reducing crime and promoting justice by improving evidence-based policymaking, with research examining some of the most pressing crime and justice issues affecting Australia.

Chapters

1. Towards an understanding of Indigenous arrest.
2. Prevalence of recorded family and domestic violence offending: a birth cohort study.
3. How police body-worn cameras can facilitate misidentification in domestic and family violence responses.
4. Alternative reporting options for sexual assault: perspectives of victim-survivors.
5. Police training in responding to family, domestic and sexual violence.
6. Targeting fixated individuals to prevent intimate partner homicide: proposing the Domestic Violence Threat Assessment Centre.
7. Prevalence of viewing online child sexual abuse material among Australian adults.
8. Prevalence and predictors of requests for facilitated child sexual exploitation on online platforms.
9. Guiding principles for developing initiatives to prevent child sexual abuse material offending.
10. Grievances and conspiracy theories as motivators of anti-authority protests.
11. Testing the application of violent extremism risk assessment to individuals who have radicalised in Australia: the case of the VERA-2R.
12. Community perceptions of corruption by public officials.
13. Motives and pathways for joining outlaw motorcycle gangs.
14. Video visitation in Australian prisons: perspectives on father–child contact.