Australian firearm policy had altered very little in 65 years prior to the 1990s. However, the events in April 1996 precipitated dramatic changes to national firearm legislation. This chapter explores how these events created a ‘perfect storm’ of outrage, law and leadership that forced policy reform. Although these changes are widely credited with establishing the...

This report makes eight recommendations to better reflect the vulnerability and defencelessness of victims of child homicide in sentencing and to improve system responses for family members of child vicitms.

This research report begins with an outline of the scope and an overview of the sentenced offences examined. The report then looks at victims of child homicide and offenders sentenced by Queensland courts for child homicide, as well as what we currently know about child homicide as an offence category.

This paper uses twenty-five years of data from the National Homicide Monitoring Program to describe the characteristics of homicide incidents perpetrated by offenders aged 10–17 years.

The development of this specialised national domestic and family violence homicide dataset has been one of the key goals of the network since its establishment. Analysis of this data can provide a better understanding of potential opportunities for intervention prior to domestic and family violence related homicide, and inform prevention initiatives at a national level.