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Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on responses to technology-facilitated coercive control
Perpetrators of domestic and family violence are increasingly using advancements in communication and surveillance technologies to extend the tactics of their abuse. Concern is growing, particularly about how technologies enable and amplify coercive controlling behaviours of abusive partners. This paper examines the experiences of victim-survivors, and the challenges support services face, responding to these harms...
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Technology-facilitated coercive control
Perpetrators of domestic and family violence are increasingly using advancements in communication and surveillance technologies to extend their abuse tactics. This study examines pathways to safety and justice for victim‑survivors. The analysis identifies gaps, limitations and opportunities for improvement in responses to victim‑survivors of this rapidly developing form of domestic and family violence. It presents...
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Homicide of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
This study uses 34 years of data from the National Homicide Monitoring Program to describe the prevalence and characteristics of homicide of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, finding Indigenous women experienced a homicide victimisation rate up to seven times the national average.
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Prevalence of recorded family and domestic violence offending
This study presents the first estimate of the prevalence of recorded family and domestic violence offending in a population sample in Australia. It estimates that 6.3 percent of people born in New South Wales had been proceeded against by police for a family and domestic violence offence by age 37.
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Money laundering and the harm from organised crime
This report examines the effect of money laundering on the harm associated with organised crime by linking data on organised crime groups known to law enforcement, and data on suspicious transactions reported to the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre. This study is the first step in assessing the social and economic harms associated with...