Childhood victimisation as indicators of adult victimisation, 2004
A 2004 report on women’s experiences of male violence provides a detailed analysis of the Australian component of the International violence against women survey (IVAWS). The full report, titled Women’s experiences of male violence: Findings from the Australian component of the International violence against women survey (IVAWS), is available on the AIC web site [viewed 28/11/2006].The research found:
- Women who experienced abuse during childhood were one and a half times more likely to experience any violence in adulthood (78% compared with 49%).
- The risk of sexual violence in adulthood doubles for women who were abused as a child (54% compared with 26%).
- The levels of violence experienced by women over the lifetime were higher for women who were abused as children compared to women who did not suffer childhood abuse. This pattern held irrespective of the type of childhood abuse suffered by women.
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Children on care and protection orders in Australia, 2003
‘Between 30 June 1997 and 30 June 2003 there was a substantial increase in the rate of children on care and protection orders. On 30 June 1997 the rate was 335 children per 100,000 persons aged 0–17 years; by 30 June 2003 the rate had climbed steadily to 462 per 100,000. All states and territories registered increases over the period.’
Children on care and protection orders, rates per 100,000 children aged 0–17 
Source: Australian Institute of Criminology, Crime Facts Info No. 101: Children on care and protection orders in Australia, 5 July 2005, [viewed 28/11/2006].