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Homicide victim support services

The following links provide support information on topics including grief counselling, dealing with police, the courts and criminal justice system, compensation, dealing with the coroner and dealing with the media.

A good overview of grief support information for victims of homicide may be found at the Grief reactions associated with death through homicide page on the Grieflink website.

• Victim Support Australasia
  Includes contacts for all states and territories
• Homicide Victims' Support Group:
• New South Wales
• Queensland
• South Australia
• Victoria
• Western Australia
• Lifeline Australia
  National telephone counselling service
• Just Look
  National online database of health and community services

• Victims of crime
  Australian Federal Police

• Victims services NSW
  New South Wales Government counselling service
• New South Wales Coroner's Court
  New South Wales Government
• Services for witnesses and victims of crime
  Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
• VOCAL - Victims of Crime Assistance League
  Hunter Valley and Sydney
• Victimes of crime: homicide support services
  New South Wales Government

• Victims of crime NT
  Northern Territory Department of Justice
• Witness and Victim Support Service
  Northern Territory Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions

• Helping victims of crime
  Department of Justice and Attorney-General, Queensland

• Grief reactions and support
  National Association for Loss and Grief (NALAG) South Australia
• Victim support service
  Victim Support Service SA
• Commissioner for Victims Rights
  South Australian Government

• Victims of crime service
  Tasmania Police
• Victims support services
  Government of Tasmania - Department of Justice
• Victims of crime
  Government of Tasmania - Women Tasmania

• Victims Support Agency
  Government of Victoria
• Compassionate Friends
  The Compassionate Friends Victoria
• Crime Victims Support Association
  Victoria Homicide Victims' Support Group (VHVSG)
• National Association for Loss and Grief
  National Association for Loss and Grief (NALAG) Victoria

• Victim Support and Child Witness Service
  Government of Western Australia
• angelhands
  A space for family and friends of homicide victims

Telephone contact details for services without websites may be sourced through Just Look (a national online database of health and community services)

Recent publications

• Homicide in Australia: 2007–08 National Homicide Monitoring Program annual report
  17 December 2010
• Domestic-related homicide: keynote papers from the 2008 international conference on homicide
  25 November 2009
• Alcohol and homicide in Australia
  13 July 2009
• Homicide in Australia : 2006-07 National Homicide Monitoring Program annual report
  09 January 2009
• Intimate-partner homicides
  04 December 2008
• Murder-suicide in Australia
  22 July 2008
• Serial murder in Australia
  22 January 2008
• Fire-associated homicides in Australia
  18 September 2007
• An examination of serial murder in Australia
  04 September 2007
• The use of fire in homicide
  21 August 2007
• Homicide incidents in Australia
  24 July 2007
• Homicides in Australia 2004-05 : weapon type
  06 February 2007
• Homicide in Australia : 2005-06 National Homicide Monitoring Program annual report
  01 January 2007
• The murder of overseas visitors in Australia
  04 May 2006
• Homicide in Australia : 2004-05 National Homicide Monitoring Program (NHMP) annual report
  01 January 2006

Recent events

• International conference on homicide : domestic related homicide
  03 December 2008
• Homicide : patterns, prevention and control
  12 May 1992