- This is the text of a talk that was given at a Public Forum in Wangaratta organised by a working group with the assistance of the Upper Murray Centre Against Sexual Assault on 12 February 1997. The conversational style of the oral presentation has been retained.
- Stuart Ross and David Brereton, ‘Explaining Trends in Reported Rapes: An Alternative to Crime Victim Surveys’ in Conference Proceedings, Crime Victim Surveys in Australia, Proceedings of a Conference held at Griffith University, November 1994, 157–72.
- See the Victoria Police Statistical Review 1993/1994, Melbourne, Victoria Police, 15; and the Higher Criminal Courts Sentencing Statistics Victoria, Annual Report 1994, Case Flow Analysis Section, Department of Justice, 1994, 72.
- See Victoria Polite Crime Statistics 1995/96, 72.
- See Melanie Heenan and Stuart Ross, The Police Code of Practice For Sexual Assault Cases, An Evaluation, Report No. 1, Rape Law Reform Evaluation Report, Department of Justice, Victoria, 1994. The findings from the evaluation showed that a high proportion of police were not satisfied that victims were telling the truth about reports of sexual assault. In fact, as many as 44% of the detectives surveyed doubted the validity of the allegation.
- Figures reported in Melanie Heenan and Helen McKelvie, The Crimes (Rape) Act 1991: An Evaluation Report, Rape Law Reform Evaluation Report No 2, Melbourne: Department of Justice, 1997. Figures supplied by the Case Flow Analysis Section, Department of Justice, Victoria.
- Annual Reports for the years 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, Higher Criminal Courts Sentencing Statistics Victoria, Melbourne: Case Flow Analysis Section, Department of Justice.
- Intentionally causing injury.
- Law Reform Commission of Victoria, Rape: Reform of Law and Procedure, Appendices to Interim Report No. 42, Melbourne: 1991, at 95.
- Police Code of Practice Report, above n5, 35.
- Office of the Status of Women, Community Attitudes to Violence Against Women: Detailed Report, Canberra: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, July 1995, at 39.
- The Australian Law Reform Commission, ‘The Use of Closed Circuit Television for Child Witnesses in the ACT’, Children's Evidence Research Paper 1, Sydney: Author, 1992.
- Gary LaFree, Barbara Reskin, and Christy Visher, ‘Jurors' Responses to Victims' Behaviour and Legal Issues in Sexual Assault Trials’ (1995) 32(4) Social Problems 389–407.
- Ibid, 397.
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