A university in England is the first to establish a Victim Support Outreach Centre on campus. Organizers said that “The project is about giving victims of crime on campus more support…students tend not to report crimes to the police, so they don’t always access the support available”. The units will also be manned by volunteer…
DetailsRecent statistics reveal that 25% of children will be a victim of bullying, with 77% of victims being mentally, physically and verbally bullied. A new study at Sam Houston State University has found that being a victim of bullying early in life may have significant outcomes in later life. The study revealed victims of bullying had…
DetailsOn Sunday the 27-10-12 at around 4.30 pm a twenty-four-year-old female was abducted from the Doncaster Shopping Centre and forced into a motor vehicle. The female threw herself out of the vehicle along Tram Road and sustained a fractured skull. The motor vehicle involved was described as a dark-blue Holden Commodore with tinted windows. For…
DetailsOn the 30-10-12 at around 7.00 pm a thirty-four-year old male victim was violently assaulted at a St Kilda Rooming House by several male assailants. The victim sustained serious head injuries and was unconscious when paramedics arrived and was treated at The Alfred Hospital. One assailant has been charged to date. On the same day…
DetailsA recent Australian poll found that: 3% of respondents had been victims of Cyber Bullying 4% to Online Stalking 16% to Stolen credit card 10% to Online fraud 1% to Stolen identity 29% to Computer virus that damaged computer/data 56% – None of the above 45% reported no financial loss and 8% more than $1000…
DetailsOn Saturday the 27-10-12 at around 10.00 am Ambulance Paramedics attended a call at a Dandenong Hotel where a female was suffering from abdominal pain. Police were soon called after the female’s twenty-year-old male partner threatened to harm the paramedics and he was arrested and had a knife and cannabis in his possession. Paul Bentley,…
DetailsOn the 12-10-12 at around 8.50 am a man attempted to abduct an eleven-year-old girl in Doreen. The unknown male assailant approached the young girl and tried to convince her to get into his motor vehicle by pretending that her mother had asked him to collect her. The male was driving a dark blue utility…
DetailsKaitlyn Welsh Sacred Heart College Geelong Becoming a victim of crime can be a very confronting and traumatic experience but the State of Victoria has made significant efforts to ensure that victims do not have to face these difficulties alone or without support. Unfortunately, crime does not discriminate – anyone can become a victim. Victoria has…
DetailsMatthew Campbell Monash University Every working day, Domenic Greco, psychologist, meets another unfortunate victim of assault. Battery, robbery, rape, abduction; these people have seen some of the worst Melbourne has to offer, but that’s not all they have in common. They all want validation, not just from loved ones, but from a state whose criminal justice…
DetailsTom Mullins St. Augustine’s College, Kyabram With crime in Victoria on the rise, an increased number of victims are seeking assistance. The total number of crimes against the person rose by an enormous amount this past year. In 2011/12, the number of criminal offences recorded in Victoria rose by 8.2% from the previous period, 391,325…
DetailsOn Monday the 29-10-12 a twenty-three-year-old male stole jewellery from a jewellery store at a Preston Shopping Centre. Security Guards confronted the man as he attempted to leave the centre. The male then threatened the guards and fled. Police pursued the male who physically assaulted the police officers requiring them to deploy pepper spray to…
DetailsHarrison Smyt Salesian College Chadstone Unfortunately, actions against the state that are punishable by law have become all too prominent in our community. More formerly known as crimes, there is no denying that the unsociable trend has been increasing steadily over a number of years. In 2011/ 12, Victoria Police recorded 391, 325 offences state wide,…
DetailsSarah Langley St Augustine’s College in Kyabram. Between 2011 and 2012 in Victoria, there were over 50,000 offences recorded as ‘a crime against the person.’ These crimes do not just affect the victim, as the community often suffers too. Financial burden, grief, and damages are all real consequences, and can take substantial funds and time…
DetailsBy Matthew Mennilli, Salesian College Chadstone Let me take you back at to an era that your parents may remember. It was a time where they rode their bikes to the local park for the day and their parents knew that their children would not be harmed. They could leave their doors unlocked as the…
DetailsIn 2011 – 2012 the South Australia Victims of Crime Fund earned $48 million and paid out $23 million. Crime Compensation lawyers have called for the maximum amount of compensation available to be raised. Stephen Ey, Barrister, said “If the Government is not using this money as it should to compensate victims, it should be called…
DetailsPolice have responded to 70,000 domestic violence incidents where children were present since June 2007, with more than 18,250 incidents during 2011 – 2012. In metropolitan Victoria Casey, Hume and Brimbank had the most police call-outs for domestic violence where children were present while in rural Victoria Ballarat had the highest. Zoe Price, Safe Futures,…
DetailsOn Friday the 26-10-12 at around 7.00 am a twenty-two-year-old male victim was driving his Mazda dual cab utility along Pascoe Vale Road when the male driver of a blue mid-eighties Nissan Skyline behind him signalled for him to pull over. The male victim refused to pull over resulting in his vehicle being rammed by…
DetailsThe Victims of Crime Assistance Tribunal (VOCAT) is an administrative tribunal within the Court constituted by members who are magistrates. Since 1997 VOCAT has received 62,773 applications, made 50,073 awards to victims of crime totalling $503 million. In 1997 there were just over 1,000 applications and over 6,000 from 2011 – 2012. These increased application…
DetailsOn Sunday the 2-10-12 at around 11.00 pm a male of Indian appearance aged around thirty years followed a female of a tram in St Kilda. The assailant then approached the female victim from behind and indecently assaulted her at which time she screamed and the assailant fled. If you have been the victim of…
DetailsA new Australian Federal Government report on incest reveals that “most parents usually ignore, deny or downplay sibling sexual abuse as child’s play”. The report said that such sexual abuse has “historically been ignored, minimised or denied by parents, professionals and authorities as benign sexual experimentation”. Younger female siblings are often the victims and older…
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