The National Homicide Monitoring Program is Australia’s only national data collection on homicide incidents, victims and offenders. This report describes 232 homicide incidents recorded by Australian state and territory police between 1 July 2022 and 30 June 2023.

Police in Australia are seeing increased reporting of family, domestic and sexual violence, while facing greater pressure to secure positive outcomes for victims. This study reviews published Australian and international research on police training in responding to family, domestic and sexual violence.

The aim of this study is to undertake a descriptive analysis of data on persons under 18 years (ie: juveniles) who were proceeded against by police for a sexual offence between 2008–09 and 2020–21. This study follows on from a report by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS 2022), which examined sexual offences committed by...

In this paper, the authors replicate a prediction model that was developed in New South Wales to predict high-harm offending among outlaw motorcycle gangs nationally and in other states. They find that, even with a limited pool of data from a national police information system, high-harm offending can be predicted with a relatively high degree...

The authors of this report argue that implementing appropriate responses to reports of dating app facilitated sexual violence is important not only for supporting victim-survivors to recover from victimisation, but also for ensuring that victim-survivors of these behaviours choose to report again if they are revictimised.