Justice
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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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Inclusive juries — access for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or have low vision: report
This report recommends ways to remove barriers from current law and practice that prevent Victorians who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or have low vision, from serving as jurors.
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Custody, violence against women and violence against children
This report examines ways in which family courts in different regions refer to “parental alienation” or similar pseudo-concepts in custody cases, ignoring histories of domestic violence, which may lead to the double victimization of victims of such violence.
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Care criminalisation of children with disability in child protection systems
The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability commissioned this research to improve understanding of the pathways that lead children with disability from their contact with child protection system to entering the criminal justice system.
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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).