This report suggests that a new approach that seeks a deeper understanding of why errors occur would be more effective in encouraging safe practices in the future. Executive Summary: The failure to protect children from sexual abuse not only arouses shock and anger but also puzzlement: how could people who are employed to care for...

Foreword The number of prisoners in Australian prisons has been increasing over the past decade. In Western Australia the number of female offenders has increased by 40 percent over the past five years. One contributing factor to this increase may be the re incarceration of parolees who have violated parole. This research used the publicly...

Assesses the Archdiocese of Melbourne’s process for responding to those who have been sexually abused by priests, religious and lay persons within the Archdiocese of Melbourne. Summary The report of Case Study 16 follows a public hearing into the Melbourne Response held in August last year (2014). At the public hearing the Royal Commission heard...

Overview This quick guide provides statistics on the number of asylum seeker boats that have arrived in Australia since 1976 when the first wave of boats carrying people seeking asylum from the aftermath of the Vietnam War began to arrive. The guide also includes the number of boats that have been ‘turned back’ since the...

Misuse of personal information lies at the heart of identity crime and continues to affect all sectors of the Australian community. Abstract To understand the trends associated with identity crime and misuse in Australia, the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) was, in 2014, commissioned by the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department to undertake a national survey of...