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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.
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Outlaw motorcycle gangs and domestic violence
In this paper, the authors explore the prevalence and patterns of recorded domestic violence offending among outlaw motorcycle gang (OMCG) members in New South Wales. They then compare domestic violence offending among a sample of OMCG members and other male offenders who committed their first recorded offence in the same year.
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The overlap between child sexual abuse live streaming, contact abuse and other forms of child exploitation
The authors of this report analysed the chat logs of seven Australia-based men who had committed 145 child sexual abuse (CSA) live streaming offences, to examine the overlap between this offending, contact sexual offending and engagement with child sexual abuse material (CSAM).