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Risk factors for receiving requests to facilitate child sexual exploitation and abuse on dating apps and websites
This study investigates the risk factors for dating app and website users receiving requests from other users to facilitate child sexual exploitation and abuse. It does so by analysing data from a large survey of dating app and website users residing in Australia.
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Public attitudes towards coercive control: evidence from a nationally representative population survey
A recent survey found that just over half of Australians say they know what the term 'coercive control' means, but over 90% consider various forms of coercive controlling behaviour unacceptable, and 83% support criminalisation.
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Sexual exploitation in Australia: victim-survivor support needs and barriers to support provision
This report provides a valuable resource to help policy-makers and practitioners to support, improve, evaluate and fund specialised services, and to anticipate the needs of sexual exploitation victim-survivors.
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Preventing child sexual abuse material offending: an international review of initiatives
This study reviews initiatives that aim to prevent child sexual abuse material (CSAM) offending, including evidence of effectiveness. Information was sourced via a literature search and input from an international expert advisory group.
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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.