Child exploitation material in the context of institutional child sexual abuse (PDF)

Conducted by Dr Jeremy Pritchard and Dr Caroline Spiranovic

Taking us seriously: Children and young people talk about safety and institutional responses to their safety concerns (PDF)

Conducted by Dr Tim Moore, Professor Morag McArthur, Debbie Noble-Carr and Professor Deborah Harcourt

Feeling safe, being safe: What is important to children and young people with disability and high support needs about safety in institutional settings? (PDF)

Conducted by Dr Sally Robinson

Our safety counts: Children and young people’s perceptions of safety and institutional responses to their safety concerns (PDF)

Conducted by Dr Tim Moore, Professor Morag McArthur, Dr Jessica Heerde, Steven Roche and Professor Patrick O’Leary

Scoping study for research into the prevalence of child abuse in Australia (PDF)

Conducted by Professor Ben Matthews, Associate Professor Kerryann Walsh, Professor Michael Dunne, Professor Ilan Katz, Professor Fiona Arney, Associate Professor Daryl Higgins, Olivia Octoman, Samantha Parkinson and Shona Bates

Evidence and frameworks for understanding perpetrators of institutional child sexual abuse (PDF)

Conducted by Dr Michael Proeve, Catia Malvaso and Dr Paul DelFabbro

Risk profiles for institutional child sexual abuse: A literature review (PDF)

Conducted by Professor Keith Kaufman and Marcus Erooga

Disability and child sexual abuse in institutional contexts (PDF)

Conducted by Professor Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Dr Sarah Wayland and Ms Gabrielle Hindmarsh

The role of organisational culture in child sexual abuse in institutional contexts (PDF)

Conducted by Professor Donald Palmer

Safe and sound: Exploring the safety of young people in residential care (PDF)

Conducted by Dr Tim Moore, Professor Morag McArthur, Dr Jodi Death, Steven Roche and Professor Clare Tilbury

Assessing the different dimensions and degrees of risk of child sexual abuse in institutions (PDF)

Conducted by Professors Patrick Parkinson and Judy Cashmore

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and child sexual abuse in institutional contexts (PDF)

Conducted by Patricia Anderson, Adjunct Professor Muriel Bamblett, Professor Dawn Bessarab, Professor Leah Bromfield, Dr Sharni Chan, Gabriel Maddock Karen Menzies, Margaret O'Connell, Glenn Pearson, Dr Roz Walker and Dr Michael Wright

Child sexual abuse in Australian institutional contexts 2008–13: Findings from administrative data (PDF)

Conducted by Professor Leah Bromfield, Craig Hirte, Olivia Octoman and Professor Ilan Katz

Child sexual abuse in institutional contexts: The reliability of police data, nature of allegations reported to police, and factors driving reporting rates (PDF)

Conducted by Samantha Parkinson, Dr Kerry Lewig, Catia Malvaso, Professor Fiona Arney, Professor Ilan Katz and Dr BJ Newton

Life journeys of victim/survivors of child sexual abuse in institutions: An analysis of Royal Commission private sessions (PDF)

Conducted by Professor Ilan Katz, Anna Jones, Dr BJ Newton and Dr Elizabeth Reimer

Framework for historical influences on institutional child sexual abuse: 1950 – 2014 (PDF)

Conducted by Dr Antonia Quadara

Scoping review: Evaluations of pre-employment screening practices for child-related work that aim to prevent child sexual abuse and Supplementary Materials (PDF)

Conducted by Dr Sandra South, Professor Aron Shlonsky and Dr Robyn Mildon

Child sexual abuse prevention programs for pre-schoolers: A synthesis of current evidence (PDF)

Conducted by Dr Claudia Pitts

Scoping review: Evaluations of out-of-home care practice elements that aim to prevent child sexual abuse (PDF)

Conducted by Dr Sandra South, Professor Aron Shlonsky and Dr Robyn Mildon

Key elements of child safe organisations: Research study (PDF)

Conducted by Associate Professor kylie Valentine, Professor Ilan Katz, Dr Ciara Smyth, Cathy Bent, Sophia Rinaldis, Catherine Wade and Bianca Albers

Creating child safe institutions (PDF)

Conducted by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

Grooming and child sexual abuse in institutional contexts (PDF)

Conducted by Professor Patrick O'Leary, Emma Koh and Andrew Dare

Help-seeking needs and gaps for preventing child sexual abuse (PDF)

Conducted by Vicky Saunders and Professor Morag McArthur

Rapid evidence assessment: Current best evidence in the therapeutic treatment of children with problem or harmful sexual behaviours, and children who have sexually offended (PDF)

Conducted by Professor Aron Shlonsky, Bianca Albers, Dale Tolliday, Dr Sandra Jo Wilson, Jennifer Norvell and Lauren Kissinger

Audit of primary school-based sexual abuse prevention policy and curriculum: Volumes 1 to 5 (PDF)

Conducted by Associate Professor Kerryann Walsh, Leisa Brandon and Dr Lisa Kruck

Mandatory reporting laws for child sexual abuse in Australia: A legislative history (PDF)

Conducted by Associate Professor Ben Matthews

Hear no evil, see no evil: Understanding failure to identify and report child sexual abuse in institutional contexts (PDF)

Conducted by Professor Eileen Munro and Dr Sheila Fish

History of Australian inquiries reviewing institutions providing care for children (PDF)

Conducted by Professor Shurlee Swain

History of institutions providing out-of-home residential care for children (PDF)

Conducted by Professor Shurlee Swain

History of child protection legislation (PDF)

Conducted by Professor Shurlee Swain

Analysis of claims of child sexual abuse made with respect to Catholic Church institutions in Australia (PDF)

Conducted by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

A national comparison of carer screening, assessment, selection and training and support in foster, kinship and residential care (PDF)

Conducted by Murray Benton, Rohan Pigott, Megan Price, Patrick Shepherdson and Dr Gail Winkworth

Analysis of complaints of child sexual abuse received by Anglican Church dioceses in Australia (PDF)

Conducted by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

Historical review of sexual offence and child sexual abuse legislation in Australia: 1788-2013 (PDF)

Conducted by Hayley Boxall, Dr Adam Tomison and Shann Hulme

Brief review of contemporary sexual offence and child sexual abuse legislation in Australia (PDF)

Conducted by Hayley Boxall

Brief review of contemporary sexual offence and child sexual abuse legislation in Australia: 2015 update (PDF)

Conducted by Hayley Boxall and Georgina Fuller

Sentencing for child sexual abuse in institutional contexts (PDF)

Conducted by Emeritus Professor Arie Freiberg, Hugh Donnelly and Dr Karen Gelb

The admissibility and use of tendency, coincidence and relationship evidence in child sexual assault prosecutions in a selection of foreign jurisdictions (PDF)

Conducted by Associate Professor David Hamer

A statistical analysis of sentencing for child sexual abuse in institutional contexts (PDF)

Conducted by Dr Karen Gelb

The use and effectiveness of restorative justice in criminal justice systems following child sexual abuse or comparable harms (PDF)

Conducted by Dr Jane Bolitho and Karen Freeman

A systematic review of the efficacy of specialist police investigative units in responding to child sexual abuse (PDF)

Conducted by Dr Nina Westera, Dr Elli Darwinkel and Professor Martine Powell

Specialist prosecution units and courts: A review of literature (PDF)

Conducted by Professor Patrick Parkinson

A study into the legislative – and related key policy and operational – frameworks for sharing information relating to child sexual abuse in institutional contexts (PDF)

Conducted by Carolyn Adams and Krista Lee-Jones

Jury reasoning in joint and separate trials of institutional child sexual abuse: An empirical study (PDF)

Jury reasoning in joint and separate trials of institutional child sexual abuse: An empirical study - Trial Scripts (PDF)

Conducted by Professor Jane Goodman-Delahunty, Professor Annie Cossins and Natalie Martschuk

Jury reasoning in joint and separate trials of institutional child sexual abuse: An empirical study - Request for feedback and researcher's response (PDF)

The impact of delayed reporting on the prosecution and outcomes of child sexual abuse cases and appendices to the appeals study (PDF)

Conducted by Professor Judy Cashmore, Dr Alan Taylor, Associate Professor Rita Shackel and Professor Patrick Parkinson

An evaluation of how evidence is elicited from complainants of child sexual abuse and online supplementary materials (PDF)

Conducted by Professor Martine Powell, Dr Nina Westera, Professor Jane Goodman-Delahunty and Anne Sophie Pichler

Oversight and regulatory mechanisms aimed at protecting children from sexual abuse: Understanding current evidence of efficacy (PDF)

Conducted by Professor Ben Matthews

Empirical guidance on the effects of child sexual abuse on memory and complainants' evidence (PDF)

Conducted by Professor Jane Goodman-Delahunty, Associate Professor Mark A Nolan and Dr Evianne L van Gijn-Grosvenor

Police responses to child sexual abuse 2010-14: An analysis of administrative data for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (PDF)

Conducted by Associate Professor Anna Ferrante, Dr Joe Clare, Sean Randall and Associate Professor James Boyd

Family relationships and the disclosure of institutional child sexual abuse (PDF)

Conducted by Dr Antonia Quadara, Mary Stathopoulos and Dr Rachel Carson

Service and support needs of specific population groups that have experienced child sexual abuse (PDF)

Conducted by Associate Professor Jan Breckenridge and Gabrielle Flax

Principles of trauma-informed approaches to child sexual abuse: A discussion paper (PDF)

Conducted by Dr Antonia Quadara and Cathryn Hunter

Pathways to support services for victim/survivors of child sexual abuse and their families (PDF)

Conducted by Dr Antonia Quadara, Mary Stathopoulos, Dr Rachel Carson, Serpil Bilgic, Rae Kaspiew, Helena Romaniuk, Briony Horsfall and Jessie Dunstan

Impacts of institutional child sexual abuse on victims/survivors: A rapid review of research findings (PDF)

Conducted by Dr Tamara Blakemore, Dr James Herbert, Professor Fiona Arney and Samantha Parkinson

Capturing practice knowledge from the Royal Commission support model (PDF)

Conducted by Claire Grealy, Joanna Farmer, Karen Milward and Morag McArthur

Rapid evidence review on the availability, modality and effectiveness of psychosocial support services for child and adult victims and survivors of child sexual abuse (PDF)

Conducted by Professor Aron Shlonsky, Bianca Albers and Nicole Paterson

Implementation of recommendations arising from previous inquiries of relevance to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and supplementary materials (PDF)

Conducted by the Parenting Research Centre

Implementation best practice: A rapid evidence assessment (PDF)

Conducted by Bianca Alders and Robyn Mildon

Inquiries and reports relevant to the Royal Commission (PDF)

Conducted by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

Timeline of inquiries and reports relevant to the Royal Commission (PDF)

Conducted by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse