CANBERRA, June 29 (Xinhua) -- The total number of recorded sexual assault victims in Australia reached an eight-year high in 2017, according to government data. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its annual figures on Thursday evening which showed the number of sexual assault ...
Barry Sandison, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the AIHW, said that while the report was significant it only served to prove that there was more work to be done on domestic violence. "We know that family, domestic and sexual violence is a major problem in Australia, but without a compre...
Barry Sandison, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the AIHW, said that while the report was significant it only served to prove that there was more work to be done on domestic violence. "We know that family, domestic and sexual violence is a major problem in Australia, but without a compre...
Here we outline the age of consent laws in Australia; sexual assault, sexual act, sexual touching and harassment offences, defences and their penalties; the statutory rape laws in NSW; how alcohol or drugs affect a rape case, rape statistics in Australia, and the various ways your knowledge ...
Evaluating patterns of sexual violence against young people across the world in the era of the #MeToo movement presents great opportunities for research and practice but also challenges. The aim of this article is to critically assess an internet-based methodology employed in a comparative study con...
students were more than three times as likely to experience sexual assault and almost twice as likely to experience sexual harassment than male students (AHRC,2017, p. 4). These statistics point to a notable risk of sexual violence for university students and reflect embedded gender-based patterns...
(2015). Statistics about sexual violence. Retrieved from http://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/publications_nsvrc_factsheet_media-packet_ statistics-about-sexual-violence_0.pdfNational Sexual Violence Resource Center. 2015. "Statistics About Sexual Violence." Retrieved June 29, 2016 (http://www...
Given that transgender and gay males experience forms of sexual violence and coercive behaviours [77], the increased rates of adverse sexual experiences in this study cannot be fully attributed to an autism diagnosis or female birth sex. It would therefore be valuable to examine whether rates of ...
In the absence of word and body: Hegemonic implications of “victim” and “survivor” in women’s narratives of sexual violence. Women and Language, 18(2), 27–33. Google Scholar Statistics Canada. (2019). Annual demographic estimates: Canada, provinces and territories. Statistics Canada ...
sexually objectified. Because the unwanted sexual advances scale includes items related to non-consensual touching and harassment, it is essentially a measure of sexual assault victimization, by definition in the USA and Australia (Australian Bureau of Statistics,2018; Office on Violence Against Women,...