This compendium brings together 14 recent studies published by the Australian Institute of Criminology. The chapters explore topics including Indigenous over-representation in the criminal justice system; family, domestic and sexual violence; online sexual exploitation of children; transnational serious and organised crime; and violent extremism.
Contents
About the editor
List of contributors
Introduction
1. Towards an understanding of Indigenous arrest
Don Weatherburn, Michael Doyle, Tegan Weatherall and Joanna Wang
2. Prevalence of recorded family and domestic violence offending: A birth cohort study
Jason Payne and Anthony Morgan
3. How police body-worn cameras can facilitate misidentification in domestic and family violence responses
Mary Iliadis, Bridget Harris, Zarina Vakhitova, Delanie Woodlock, Asher Flynn and Danielle Tyson
4. Alternative reporting options for sexual assault: Perspectives of victim-survivors
Georgina Heydon, Nicola Henry, Rachel Loney-Howes and Sophie Hindes
5. Police training in responding to family, domestic and sexual violence
Christopher Dowling
6. Targeting fixated individuals to prevent intimate partner homicide: Proposing the Domestic Violence Threat Assessment Centre
Timothy Cubitt, Anthony Morgan, Christopher Dowling, Samantha Bricknell and Rick Brown
7. Prevalence of viewing online child sexual abuse material among Australian adults
Rick Brown
8. Prevalence and predictors of requests for facilitated child sexual exploitation on online platforms
Savannah Minihan, Melanie Burton, Mariesa Nicholas, Kylie Trengove, Sarah Napier and Rick Brown
9. Guiding principles for developing initiatives to prevent child sexual abuse material offending
Alexandra Gannoni, Alexandra Voce, Sarah Napier and Hayley Boxall
10. Grievances and conspiracy theories as motivators of anti-authority protests
Timothy Cubitt, Anthony Morgan and Isabella Voce
11. Testing the application of violent extremism risk assessment to individuals who have radicalised in Australia: The case of the VERA-2R
Emma Belton and Adrian Cherney
12. Community perceptions of corruption by public officials
Alexandra Voce, Anthony Morgan and Timothy Cubitt
13. Motives and pathways for joining outlaw motorcycle gangs
Isabella Voce, Dominic Boland, Anthony Morgan, Christopher Dowling, Yi-Ning Chiu, Roger Lowe and Julianne Webster
14. Video visitation in Australian prisons: Perspectives on father–child contact
Dr Natalia Hanley, Dr Elisabeth Duursma, Professor Amy Conley Wright, Dr Helen Simpson and Laura Metcalfe
Index