Family Violence

This report presents police and court data on family violence safety notices (FVSNs) and family violence intervention orders (FVIOs) in Victoria in the 10 years to 2020.

Threat Offences in Victoria examines sentencing outcomes for five types of threat offences.

This report examines sentencing outcomes for Victoria’s five image-based sexual abuse offences.

The Council has responded to a request for advice on swift, certain and fair approaches to sentencing family violence offenders.

Our discussion paper considers ‘swift, certain and fair’ approaches to sentencing family violence offenders.

The Council has examined offending by 1,898 family violence offenders over an 11-year period.

This monitoring report examines sentencing for family violence contravention offences.

Family Violence Intervention Orders and Safety Notices examines contravention offences for 2004–05 to 2006–07 and 2009–10 to 2011–12.

The Sentencing Advisory Council as produced guiding principles for sentencing the offence of contravention of a family violence intervention order.

In Sentencing Practices for Breach of Family Violence Intervention Orders, the Sentencing Advisory Council looks at approaches to sentencing for breach and issues of inadequacy and inconsistency in sentencing.