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Victims organisations

Australia (national)

• Victim Support Australasia
• Crime Victims Support Association Inc.
• Adults survivng child abuse
• Bravehearts Inc
• Enough is Enough Anti-violence Movement Incorporated
• Homicide Victim Support Group
• Lifeline Australia

Australian Capital Territory

• Victim Support ACT
  ACT Government
• Information for victims of crime
  ACT Policing
• ACT Victims' Register
  Australian Federal Police

New South Wales

• Services for witnesses and victims of crime
  Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, New South Wales
• Victims Services
  New South Wales Justice and Attorney General
• Victims of crime advice and information 
  Victims Advisory Board 
• Victims of Crime Assistance League (NSW) (VOCAL)
  Based in the Hunter / Newcastle region

Northern Territory

• NT Charter for Victims of Crime
  Northern Territory Department of Justice
• Witness Assistance Service 
  Northern Territory Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
• Victims of Crime NT
  Victims of Crime NT

Queensland

• Victims Assist Queensland
  Department of Justice and Attorney-General
• Victims Counselling and Support Services - 1300 139 703
  A program of Relationships Australia (Qld) providing a 24 hour telephone referral service and information line for those affected by crime, and a range of counselling and support services to assist people whose lives have been impacted by crime to try to resume their lives.
• Queensland Homicide Victims' support group (QHVSC)
  

South Australia

• Victim Support Service of South Australia 
• Victims of Crime Coordinator
  Commissioner for Victims' Rights South Australia
• Grieflink
  

Tasmania

• Victims Support Services
  Tasmania Department of Justice
• Victims of crime service information
  Tasmania Police

Victoria

• Victims of Crime
  Victoria Department of Justice
• Victorian Help Line 1800 819 817
  Resources
• Victims of Crime Assistance Tribunal
  Victorian Government
• Victoria Homicide Victims Support Group
  Established Nov 2005

Western Australia

• Homicide Victim's Support Group (WA)
  Incorporated in Western Australia
• Victims of Crime
  Deparment of the Attorney General
• Victim Services
  WA Court and Tribunal Services
• Angelhands

Other countries and international

• Directory of International Crime Victim programs (US) 
• Crime Victims for a Just Society
• National Center for Victims of Crime (US)
• US Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime
• Victim Support (UK and Ireland)

Recent publications

• Australian crime: Facts & figures: 2011
  03 March 2012
• Misperceptions about child sex offenders
  30 September 2011
• Risk factors for advance fee fraud victimisation
  28 August 2011
• Online interactions involving suspected paedophiles who engage male children
  10 December 2010
• Responding to intimate partner violence victimisation: Effective options for help-seeking
  16 March 2010
• Mental health, abuse, drug use and crime: does gender matter?
  11 November 2009
• Child complainants and the court process in Australia
  06 August 2009
• Intimate partner abuse of women in a Central Queensland mining region
  24 July 2009
• Intrafamilial adolescent sex offenders: psychological profile and treatment
  22 July 2009
• What Australians think about crime and justice: results from the 2007 Survey of Social Attitudes
  01 May 2009
• Victims of armed robbery by location
  22 April 2009
• Child victims of homicide
  04 December 2008
• Preventing and dealing with armed robbery through staff training
  08 August 2008
• Trafficking of women for sexual purposes
  01 July 2008
• Risk factors in Indigenous violent victimisation
  01 May 2008

AIC events

• Meeting the needs of victims of crime
  18 May 2011
• Trailblazing victims’ rights as human rights: the quest for clarity
  16 May 2011
• Young people, risk and resilience: The challenges of alcohol, drugs and violence conference
  07 March 2011
• Vulnerable People Policing: inclusion or exclusion of target groups?
  17 November 2009
• Child sexual abuse : justice response or alternative resolution
  01 May 2003