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What is The Policing Just Outcomes Project?
The Policing Just Outcomes Project is employing a range of innovative social research approaches to examine the way that Victoria Police respond to victim/survivors and reports of Sexual Assault. The Project will identify and develop ways to inform and improve this response.
Who is involved?
The Project is funded by a Linkage Grant from the Australian Research Council and is being undertaken by Edith Cowan University, in partnership with Victoria Police.
What are the main goals of the Project?
The main goals of the project are:
- To improve our understanding of the incidence, nature and dynamics of sexual assault in Victoria, police responses to it, and the outcomes these responses generate.
- To identify and understand the factors and dilemmas that influence the decisions made by adult victims of sexual assault on whether or not to report the offence/s to police.
- To inform and improve Victoria Police responses to victim/survivors of sexual assault and the ways that Victoria Police manage the reporting of sexual assault
- To identify and develop ways for the criminal justice system to better respond to and manage reports of sexual assault
How will it achieve these goals?
The project will achieve these goals through in-depth research and analysis of police response to reports of sexual offences and the management, investigation and outcome of sexual assault cases.
The project will examine the decision making of victim/survivors in regard to reporting a sexual offence to police, and the experience of reporting a sexual offence for those who have chosen to report to police.
The project will draw upon this research to identify and develop best practice model for responding to sexual assault.
News
Online state-wide survey of adult rape and sexual assault victims - Trends in Reporting of Rape and Sexual Assault: a snapshot of findings is now available
Click links below:
- ECU-led research project provides new insight into sexual assault victims
- Trends in Reporting of Rape and Sexual Assault
These findings will be a very valuable contribution to the final Policing Just Outcomes Project report due in late 2011.- 2011-02-04 12:18:05
Latest publications
Taylor, S.C. and Norma, C. The "Symbolic Protest" Behind Women's Reporting of Sexual Assault Crime to Police Feminist Criminology. first published Online, September 15, 2011. doi:10.1177/1557085111420416
- 2011-10-10 09:44:23
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