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The Australian Institute of Criminology has released its evaluation of Phase Three of the ACT’s Restorative Justice Scheme, which involved extending the Scheme to family, domestic and sexual violence matters.

The Australian Institute of Criminology has released new research examining stakeholder referrals to restorative justice for domestic, family and sexual violence.

We are pleased to share the draft program for AIC 2025 – Reducing online harms. The program features Australian and international experts presenting the latest research on the changing nature of online harms and approaches to preventing, disrupting and mitigating those harms, as well as approaches to support victim / survivor recovery.

The Australian Institute of Criminology has released a new study evaluating a co-located caseworker program for incarcerated women.

Acknowledgements: This research was conducted as part of the National Office for Child Safety’s Child Safety Research Agenda.

A new study by the Australian Institute of Criminology reviewed available research on the intersection between artificial intelligence (AI) and child sexual abuse, identifying 33 empirical studies focused on AI tools aimed at prevention and disruption.

A new Australian Institute of Criminology study systematically reviews literature on the impacts of sexual extortion on children under 18 years.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Sexual offenders
• Sexual offence victims
• Types of sexual offending
• References
• Appendix A: Methodology
• Appendix B: Data tables

New data from the Australian Sexual Offence Statistical (ASOS) collection shows the sexual offender rate was 42.61 per 100,000 relevant population, compared with 40.11 in 2021–22.

The Australian Institute of Criminology has released a Trends & issues paper that uses data from the Australian Cybercrime Survey to develop a harm index for individual victims of cybercrime.

The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) today released a report in collaboration with the eSafety Commissioner that examined the prevalence and nature of sexual extortion among a sample of Australian adolescents aged 16 to 18 years.