About the Project
This project aims to generate new knowledge about the victims appearing in child sexual abuse material, with the potential to transform police practice. It utilises an innovative methodological approach to deliver new insights about victimisation and identify: who is being victimised, who is the highest risk of repeat victimisation, and when/where victimisation takes place. Project activities engage restricted police data to triangulate information with existing databases to provide actionable priorities for investigators; with product delivery to stakeholders in Year 4. Benefits accrue for police/community by expediting rescue of vulnerable children; and for academia, overcoming data quality issues frustrating past research.
Funding Body: Australian Research Council
Research partners: South Australia Police, International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (Australia), Deakin University.