Summary -- Introduction -- Sources of data and their limitations -- Factors affecting the decision to report sexual assault -- Attrition and hidden recording -- Sexual assault of indigenous women -- Sexual assault of women from non-English-speaking backgrounds -- Sexual assault in rural Australia -- Sexual assault and women prisoners -- Recording in other systems -- Conclusion
Notes
"... the Commonwealth Office of the Status of Women commissioned the Australian Institute of Criminology to undertake research on sexual assault and the criminal justice system. The initial phase of the project comprises an international literature review on the non-reporting and hidden recording of sexual assaults perpetrated against females aged 16 years and older."--p. 7
Bibliography
Bibliography: pages 120-135
Notes
Also available in an electronic version via the Internet. Address as of 14/10/2003: http://www.osw.dpmc.gov.au/pdfs/sexualassault_review_june03.pdf
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