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Join us to discuss our latest research on sexual exploitation in Australia, with a focus on victim-survivor support needs and barriers.

This event will be recorded and uploaded to Criminology TV on Youtube.

Sexual exploitation can have significant short- and longer-term impacts on victim-survivors. However, there is currently a lack of research exploring the support needs of victim-survivors who received support in Australia, and barriers to support provision. To address this knowledge gap, in partnership with Project Respect and Australian Red Cross, the Australian Institute of Criminology undertook a research project which involved the analysis of case management records for 50 female-identifying victim-survivors of sexual exploitation in Australia, and conducted interviews with 12 victim-survivor caseworkers.

In this webinar, the AIC will present the findings from the study, describing the complex and co-occurring support needs of victim-survivors, as well as the individual-level, interrelationship and systemic barriers to support provision in Australia.

About the speaker

For over a decade, Samantha has published extensively on a range of modern slavery issues including forced marriage, sexual and labour exploitation, voluntourism, and Australia’s policy and legal response to these crimes. In the last few years, her work has focused on developing estimates of the prevalence of modern slavery victims in Australia, and the attrition of HTMS cases through the Australian criminal justice system and the role of technology in facilitating modern slavery. Internationally, Samantha has collaborated with the UNODC on forced marriage, and with statistical experts to accurately quantify the prevalence of victimization using multiple systems estimation methods. Samantha is currently undertaking a PhD at UNSW to better understand issues of consent and coercion in cases of forced marriage.

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