Criminal justice report / Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Sydney, N.S.W. : Royal Commission into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse, 2017.

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Australia. -- Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Child sexual abuse -- Investigation -- Australia.

Prosecution -- Australia.

Evidence (Law) -- Australia.

Children -- Institutional care -- Australia.

Trials (Child sexual abuse) -- Australia.

vol. 1. Executive summary and parts I - II

Part I: Our approach

1. Introduction

2. Our approach

3. The role of victims

4. Child sexual abuse, memory and criminal justice

Part II: Police responses

5. Introduction

6. Police responses since the 1950s

7. Current police responses

8. Issues in police responses

9. Police responses and institutions

vol. 2. Parts III - VI

Part III: Child sexual abuse offences

10. Child sexual abuse offences

11. Particulars and persistent child sexual abuse offences

12. Grooming offences

13. Position of authority offences

14. Limitation periods and immunities

Part IV: Third-party offences

15. Third-party offences

16. Failure to report offences

17. Failure to protect offences

18. Offences by institutions

Part V: Prosecution responses

19. Introduction

20. Issues in prosecution responses

21. DPP complaints and oversight mechanisms

Part VI: Tendency and coincidence evidence and joint trials

22. Introduction

23. Outline of the current law

24. Examples from out case studies

25. Unfair prejudice and the jury reasoning research

26. Overseas approaches

27. Our consultations on tendency and coincidence evidence

28. Discussion and conclusions

vol. 3. Parts VII - X and appendices.

Part VII: Other trial processes

29. Introduction

30. Evidence of victims and survivors

31. Judicial directions and informing juries

32. Delays and case management

Part VIII: Post-conviction issues

33. Introduction

34. Sentencing

35. Appeals

36. Post-sentencing issues

Part IX: Juvenile offenders

37. Juvenile offenders

Part X: Interaction between criminal justice and regulatory responses

38. Interaction between criminal justice and regulatory responses.

"August 2017"

Includes bibliographical references.

Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

9781925622232

3 volumes ; 30 cm