Differences have been found in elements of rape and in its impact on the victim based on her relationship to the offender. This paper examines these by looking at the differences in responses to and by the survivors of childhood sexual abuse, and in their willingness to disclose or report the...

The relationship of crime and minority groups within society is examined. Issues discussed include the stresses of migration and adaptation; the involvement of migrants in organised crime; ethnic crime rates; the alleged prevalence of wife battering and its non reporting; migrants and the police;...

Easteal provides a brief profile of the sociodemographic and sentence background of women in prison. She highlights the issues affecting female inmates such as the perpetuation of the three rules of dysfunctional families within the prisons and explains how the gendered needs of women inmates...

How do principles or notions concerning fairness of proceedings tend to play out in Australian rape trials? We look at two types of legislative provisions pertaining to evidence in chief and cross-examination that have been altered in the last three decades in Australia. They were enacted to...

This article seeks to draw conclusions about the potential impact of the Crimes Amendment (Abolition of Defensive Homicide) Act 2014 (Vic). We do so by considering whether defensive homicide served as a safety net in the 2014 case of Director of Public Prosecutions (Vic) v Williams. The article...

The main focus of this chapter is women as targets of their male partner's violence, although some information concerning abuse and neglect of children is provided. Easteal examines the context of violence, its incidence, and why domestic violence is under reported. She discusses the legal...