Indictable Offences in Victoria 5th Edition, is an invaluable resource for legal practitioners and police, assisting those who have responsibility for charging defendants and for prosecuting and defending them in the Victoria's criminal justice system. The work comprehensively and clearly sets out all matters relevant to the prosecution of indictable offences in Victoria utilising a succinct alphabetical catalogue of all indictable offences. Expert commentary by eminent barrister and academic, Dr Ian Freckelton SC, is accompanied by the text of the relevant legislative provisions. The fifth edition is revised to incorporate new offences from the Crimes Act 1958. It also deals with offences under a range of other legislation including the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004, the Infertility Treatment Act 1995, the Environmental Protection Act 1970 and the Marine Act 1988. References to textbooks, looseleaf services, articles and caselaw are all significantly updated to ensure Indictable Offences in Victoria continues to provide an excellent practical guide to criminal justice in Victoria, while ensuring the work is also accessible to students of law and legal studies. Indictable Offences in Victoria 5th Edition is an essential resource for anyone practicing, enforcing or studying criminal law in Victoria.

This report is about the directions that judges give to juries in the course of a criminal trail, and particularly at the summing up. These directions are designed to help jurors understand as much of the law and the issues that arise in the case as they need to make proper use of the evidence and to reach a verdict.

Summary Offences in Victoria is an essential resource for legal practitioners and police, assisting those who have responsibility for charging defendants and for prosecuting and defending them in Victoria's Magistrates' Courts. It is also an invaluable and highly accessible guide for students of law and legal studies.

This book investigates the causes and consequences of image-based sexual abuse in a digital era. Image-based sexual abuse refers to the taking or sharing of nude or sexual photographs or videos of another person without their consent. It includes a diversity of behaviours beyond that of "revenge porn", such as the secret trading of nude or sexual images online; "upskirting", "downblousing" and other "creepshots"; blackmail or "sextortion" scams; the use of artificial intelligence to construct "deepfake" pornographic videos; threats to distribute photographs and videos without consent; and the taking or sharing of sexual assault imagery. This book investigates the pervasiveness and experiences of these harms, as well as the raft of legal and non-legal measures that have been introduced to better respond to and prevent image-based sexual abuse. The book draws on groundbreaking empirical research, including surveys in three countries with over 6,000 respondents and over 100 victim-survivor and stakeholder interviews. Guided by theoretical frameworks from gender studies, sociology, criminology, law and psychology, the authors argue that image-based sexual abuse is more commonly perpetrated by men than women, and that perpetration is higher among some groups, including younger and sexuality minority men. Although the motivations of perpetrators vary, a dominant theme to emerge was that of power and control. The gendered nature of the abuse means that it is best understood as a "continuum of sexual violence" because victim-survivors often experience it as part of a broader pattern of gendered harassment, violence and abuse. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, law and psychology. Image-based Sexual Abuse is also an essential resource for activists, legal and policy practitioners, technology companies and victim-survivors seeking to understand the deeply complex nature of intimate-image sharing in a digital era.

It is generally considered that the requirement of unanimity results in more hung juries than does the alternative system of requiring only a majority of jurors to agree on a verdict. What constitutes a majority differs between jurisdictions that have embraced the concept, and may also depend on the type of offence being tried. This Report examines arguments for and against preserving the unanimity rule.

Uniform Evidence Law: Commentary and Materials, 5th editionhas been updated throughout to provide essential case and legislative extracts and thoughtful, concise commentary covering the uniform evidence legislation in the UEL jurisdictions of the Commonwealth, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.

This book contains commentary on three key sentencing statutes, and on sentencing law for nine offence categories.