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AIC: New research examines homicide of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women

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Link to: Homicide of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women

The Australian Institute of Criminology has released a Statistical Bulletin from the National Homicide Monitoring Program: Homicide of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. The report shows that:

  • Between 1989–90 and 2022–23, there were 473 incidents of homicide in Australia where at least one victim was an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander woman. 
  • Indigenous women experience a homicide victimisation rate between two and seven times greater than the national homicide rate.
  • Seventy-two percent (n=328) of victims were killed by their current or former intimate partner. 
  • Most offenders had a history of domestic and family violence. Of the 69 offenders between 2016–17 and 2022–23 (where data were available), two-thirds (67%, n=46) had a history of domestic and family violence.

 

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National Office for Victims

Public Safety Canada’s National Office for Victims (NOV) provides information and referrals to victims of crime where the offender has been convicted and received a federal sentence of two years or more. The office is always seeking new ways of reaching communities in order to:

An important part of their mandate is to write, publish and distribute information products to help victims understand and navigate the federal corrections and conditional release system in Canada. In 2022, NOV released the Victims of Crime: Staying Informed book in Atikamekw. This booklet is also available in 20 other languages, including:

English ● French ● Denesuline ● Innu ● Inuktitut ● Mi’kmaq ● Ojibway ● Oji-Cree ● Plain Cree ● Arabic Cantonese ● Italian ● Spanish ● Korean ● Mandarin ● Farsi ● Tagalog ● Urdu ● Punjabi ● Russian

In 2021, the office also released a booklet online entitled “Sentence Calculation – An Explanation of the Basics of Sentence Calculation with Examples” with five Fact Sheets that explain the basic sentence calculation rules for federal offenders.

Other publications available online and in hard copy, free of change, include:

●  An Information Guide to Assist Victims

●  Helping Victims Prepare for the Release of a Federal Offender

●  Overview of Federal Corrections and Criminal Justice – Victim-Centred Information and Assistance

To order free hardcopies of any of these publications, please complete this publication form.

AIC: New research explores using cloud-based technology for child sexual abuse investigations


Link to: Benefits and risks of implementing cloud-based technology for child sexual abuse investigations in Australia

A new AIC study conducted by the University of Adelaide assesses the benefits of using cloud-based technologies in child sexual abuse investigations.

  • The quantity of child abuse material being confiscated and processed during criminal investigations presents budgetary and computing resource challenges, while also limiting inter-agency collaboration.
  • The paper reviews the discrete benefits of cloud-based infrastructures and assesses the perceived risks associated with their use.
  • It demonstrates how a shared responsibility model can work in practice for child abuse investigations by developing a secure cloud environment in partnership with a cloud-based infrastructure provider.

Copyright © 2024 Australian Institute of Criminology, All rights reserved.

 

Only a few days left to register: the CEP & EuroPris workshop on Foreign Nationals Deadline 13 October

....a crucial workshop in collaboration with the EuroPris and kindly hosted by the Federal Ministry of Justice of Austria, as we address one of the most significant issues facing European prison systems today—Foreign National Offenders (FNOs).

 

As migration and global political shifts continue to impact Europe, the number and proportion of FNOs in prisons are rising, bringing unique challenges to prison and probation services. That being said, an FNO in one country is a citizen imprisoned abroad in another.

This dual perspective is central to the work of EuroPris and CEP’ Foreign Nationals in Prison and Probation (FNPP) Expert Group.

 

This workshop from 29-30 October 2024, will bring together professionals from across Europe, including those in prison, probation, and NGOs, to engage in presentations, discussions, and knowledge-sharing on this increasingly important area of criminal justice policy.

 

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