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Improving police risk assessment of domestic violence: a follow-up validation study
This study examines the predictive validity of ACT Policing’s refined Family Violence Risk Assessment Tool, which exhibited a good overall level of accuracy in predicting repeat domestic violence within the sample that was used to develop it.
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Online behaviour, life stressors and profit-motivated cybercrime victimisation
This study analyses data from a survey of Australian adult computer users conducted in June 2021 to examine the influence of online routine activities and life stressors on the likelihood of profit-motivated cybercrime victimisation.
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Understanding and preventing internet-facilitated radicalisation
This paper reviews available research on how the internet facilitates radicalisation and measures to prevent it. It briefly canvasses evidence on the extent to which the internet contributes to radicalisation broadly, and who is most susceptible to its influence, before delving further into the mechanisms underpinning the relationship between the internet and violent extremism.
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Exposure to intimate partner violence and the physical and emotional abuse of children: results from a national survey of female carers
This study addresses a crucial gap in the evidence by focusing on children as victims of violence and abuse in their own right, concentrating on two facets of child abuse - exposure to IPV perpetrated against their female carers, and being the direct target of physical and/or emotional abuse.
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The role of depression in intimate partner homicide perpetrated by men against women: an analysis of sentencing remarks
This study explores the role of offender depression within a sample of 199 cases of male-perpetrated intimate partner homicide in Australia, as described by judges in sentencing remarks.