ACSSA Aware

The newsletter for the Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault

No. 26 2011 Preventing violence against women: Developments in policy; Attitudes regarding the perceived culpability of adolescent and adult victims of sexual assault; Reflecting on sexual ethics and sexual assault prevention education
No. 25 2010 Addressing sexual assault through human rights instruments; Online communication technologies and sexual assault; Measuring sexual offender recidivism; Partners in Prevention
No. 24 2010 Ageing, dementia and adult survivors of childhood sexual assault; Public education media campaigns; Data from two studies of adults who had experienced sexual assault and had reported the incident to the police in the ACT; and more....
No. 23 2009 New technologies, unauthorised visual images and sexual assault; Rape mythology and the criminal justice system. Profile: On theorising the un-naming of men's violence against women; Profile: The No Means No Show; and more...
No. 22 2009 Developments in the sector: Prevention frameworks; Profile: Taking a national approach to sexual violence prevention; Profile: Responding to sexual assault within the Navy; Profile: Taskforce on the Prevention of Male Sexual Violence against Women
No. 21 2009 Feature article on Virtual violence; Virtual harm and attachment; Book review: Trafficked
No. 20 2009 Feature article: Subpoenaing counselling notes; Service profile: Sexual Assault Team Family Planning Queensland
No. 19 2008 Recent research on Western Australian alcohol-related harms study; Resource review: Silent No More; Resource review: Women With Disabilities Australia; Research report: The Jacaranda Project; Conference report: Victorian Offender Treatment Association Conference, 2007; Feature article: Wartime rape
No. 18 2008 Feature article: Serial survivors; Service profile: SADA project; Book review: Rape: A history from 1860 to the present
No. 17 2008 What is the outcome of reporting rape to the police? Feature article: Forensic medical care for sexual assault victims/survivors in Australia; Promising practice profile: Aboriginal Healing Project, Department of Health WA; Agency profile: Specialist Sex Offences Unit, Office of Public Prosecutions, Victoria; Forum review: Sexual Assault Forum, Melbourne
No. 16 2008 Feature article: Tell us what you know; Feature article: Engaging young people in leadership roles in the prevention of sexual assault; Research review: Where is care in the country; Current research: Partner rape and rurality
No. 15 September 2007 Review: Sex and the law; Review: Developing ethical sexual lives; Review: Lighting the path; Feature article: Perspectives on the treatment of men and boys who sexually abuse; Feature article: Considering 'elder abuse' and sexual assault; Interview: Friends of 'Comfort Women'; ACSSA's Promising Practice Database
No. 14 June 2007 Seminar review: The legal system's response to sexual assault; Feature article: Sexual pressure and young people's negotiation of consent; Feature article: Judging rape: Public attitudes and sentencing; Service profile: Preventing Prisoner Rape (SA); Book review: Real rape; Book review: The macho paradox
No. 13 December 2006 Family violence and sexual assault; Results of the Personal Safety Survey 2005; 'Elder abuse' and the sexual assault of older women: A new Australian policy response; ACSSA Publications Feedback and New additions to the ACSSA Good Practice Database; Good practice profile
No. 12 September 2006 Aboriginal women, girls and sexual assault;  ACSSA publications feedback; Identifying the woman, the client and the victim; Service profile: Deadly young women's business?
No. 11 May 2006 Sentencing trends for rape in Victoria; Rape for the 'Comfort' of Soldiers; New resources for those working with survivors of child sexual abuse; Safe at work?; Domestic and Family Violence and Sexual Assault Initiative: New projects funded; Service profile: Respond SA, for adult victim/survivors of childhood sexual abuse
No. 10 February 2006 ACSSA Co-hosts an Anti-Sexual Violence Event with International Speakers from the Philippines; No Longer Silent; Justice, equity and diversity: The criminal justice response to sexual violence in diverse communities; Sex, Laws and Videotapes: Legal Responses to Sexual Assault; News in brief; An Evaluation of the NSW Child Sexual Assault Specialist Jurisdiction Pilot; Responding to Sexual Violence - DVD/Video; Service Profile - Springvale Legal Service; Good Practice Profile - Sexual Assault: Its impact and how to deal with it - an information booklet for the Bosnian community
No. 9 November 2005 Service profile - Sister's Inside Inc; Body Talk - A power guide for girls; Research update - Mental health revisited; Service Profile - Sexual Assault Resource Centre: Client mental health survey; Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Survey
No. 8 June 2005 Young people and sexual assault; Overview: State and Territory sexual assault policy; For the first time in Australia, we have a national framework for sexual assault prevention!; Feature: Prevention of sexual assault: Working with adolescents within the education system
No. 7 June 2005: Good Practice Special Edition ACSSA highlights examples of good practice in service provision from each state and territory
No. 6 April 2005 Feature article: links between mental health and sexual assault, addressing this relationship in terms of how sexual assault impacts on women's mental health as well as looking at the vulnerability of people with mental illness to sexual assault
No. 5 January 2005 Major findings of the Final Report of the Victorian Law Reform Commission: Sexual Offences Law and Procedure
No. 4 September 2004 Making rights a reality; Service profile: Homelessness and sexual assault
No. 3 February 2004 16 Days of Activism Against Violence Against Women campaign; Women's Safety Awards 2004
No. 2 November 2003 The challenge of Indigenous family violence; Differing perspectives on "preventing" adult sexual assault; New estimates on the hidden figure of sexual assault
No. 1 September 2003 A Message from the Minister; Worldwide survey on violence against women; Introducing the Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault

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