The Office of the Commissioner for Victims of Crime has conducted extensive community consultations to understand coercive control in the Western Australian context. The resulting report recommends a suite of systemic and legislative reforms to recognise and respond to patterns of family and domestic violence behaviours.

The Justice Legislation Amendment (Integrity, Defamation and Other Matters) Bill 2024 introduces a number of reforms and technical amendments across several Acts in Victoria. This Bill Brief provides the background to how these proposals came about. It then outlines the second reading speech and the Bill’s provisions.

This report provides insights and perspectives from young people, families and workers on whether available supports and processes are addressing the needs of children and families, and diverting young people from reoffending behaviour.

In Australia and comparable international jurisdictions, a range of provisions, measures, laws and programs are designed to assess and address the risk of intimate partner violence. This project sought to contribute new evidence to inform the further development of whole-of-systems preventive approaches to repeat violence and intimate femicide.

This statistical report presents data on sentencing practices in Victoria in the decade to June 2022. The data includes the number and gender of people sentenced each year, the types of offences people were sentenced for, the types of sentences people received, and the imprisonment or detention lengths and fine amounts imposed in the Supreme...