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An evaluation of how evidence is elicited from complainants of child sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse is difficult to prosecute and has one of the highest attrition rates of all criminal offences. Part of the difficulty in prosecuting these cases is that offending is often hidden from public view, leaving only the complainants’ evidence to establish the defendants’...
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Jury reasoning in joint and separate trials of institutional child sexual abuse: an empirical study
This report forms part of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse’s research program in relation to criminal justice system’s response to child sexual abuse in institutional contexts. This study investigated the extent to which joint trials with cross-admissible tendency evidence infringed...
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Profiling parental child sex abuse
Drawing on data from a sample of 213 offenders, this study augments knowledge about sex offender typologies by identifying ten key descriptive features of parental offenders. Foreword: Public policy initiatives to redress parental child sexual offenders have been hindered by the absence of an offending...
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Enhancing fairness in DNA jury trials
The aim of this study was to identify factors that improve jury understanding and use of inculpatory DNA evidence.