Title page
Contents
Acknowledgements 6
Acronyms and abbreviations 7
Abstract 8
Introduction 9
Data collection 10
Definitions 11
Data items and coding 12
Sexual offence categories 12
Age of victims 12
Age of alleged offenders 13
Dyads 13
Index event 13
Location 13
Relationship between alleged offenders and victims 14
Counting rules 14
Limitations 15
Sexual offenders 16
Sex and age 17
Indigenous status 18
Number of incidents and victims 18
Offender-victim relationship 19
Offenders with child sexual offences 21
Offenders with non-child sexual offences 22
Location of offending 23
Number and type of proceedings 24
Prior police proceedings 25
Sexual offence victims 26
Victims with one or more offenders 27
Types of sexual offending 28
Offender sex by offence type 31
Offender age by offence type 32
Youth offenders 32
Adult offenders 33
Offenders by offence type and victim sex and age 34
References 35
Appendix A: Methodology 37
State and territory data items coding 40
New South Wales 40
Victoria 40
Queensland 41
Western Australia 41
Australian Capital Territory 42
Northern Territory 43
Appendix B: Data tables 44
Table 1. Sexual offenders by sex and jurisdiction, 2021-22 16
Table 2. Sexual offenders by Indigenous status and sex, 2021-22 18
Table 3. Sexual offenders by offence type and number of sexual offence incidents, 2021-22 19
Table 4. Sexual offenders by relationship with primary victim, 2021-22 19
Table 5. Offender-victim dyads by relationship and jurisdiction, 2021-22 21
Table 6. Sexual offenders by child or non-child sexual offence and jurisdiction, 2021-22 22
Table 7. Sexual offenders by relationship with primary victim and location, 2021-22 23
Table 8. Sexual offenders by type of police proceeding, sex and age, 2021-22 24
Table 9. Sexual offence victims by sex, Indigenous status and jurisdiction, 2021-22 26
Table 10. Characteristics of penetrative or non-penetrative sexual offenders, 2021-22 29
Table 11. Characteristics of handling of unlawful sexual material offenders, 2021-22 29
Table 12. Characteristics of enabling unlawful sexual conduct offenders, 2021-22 30
Table 13. Sexual offenders by offence type and jurisdiction, 2021-22 30
Table 14. Sexual offenders by sex and offence type, 2021-22 32
Table 15. Youth offenders by sex and offence type, 2021-22 33
Table 16. Adult offenders by sex and offence type, 2021-22 33
Table 17. Sexual offenders by victim sex, victim age and offence type, 2021-22 34
Figure 1. Sexual offenders by age group and jurisdiction, 2021-22 17
Figure 2. Sexual offenders by relationship with primary victim and jurisdiction, 2021-22 20
Figure 3. Sexual offenders with prior police proceedings by type of prior offence and child or non‑child sexual offence, 2021-22 25
Figure 4. Sexual offenders by offence type, 2021-22 28
Figure 5. Sexual offenders by sex and offence type, 2021-22 31
Boxes
Box 1. Definitions of sexual offences, incidents, offenders and victims 11
Table A1. Location type classification 39
Table B1. Sexual offenders by sex, age and jurisdiction, 2021-22 44
Table B2. Sexual offenders by sex, age and jurisdiction, 2021-22 (rate per 100,000 relevant population) 45
Table B3. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sexual offenders by child or non-child sexual offence and offence type, 2021-22 46
Table B4. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sexual offenders by child or non-child sexual offence and offence type, 2021-22 (rate per 100,000 relevant population) 47
Table B5. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sexual offenders by age and sex, 2021-22 47
Table B6. Non-Indigenous sexual offenders by child or non-child sexual offence and offence type, 2021-22 48
Table B7. Non-Indigenous sexual offenders by child or non-child sexual offence and offence type, 2021-22 (rate per 100,000 relevant population) 49
Table B8. Non-Indigenous sexual offenders by age and sex, 2021-22 50
Table B9. Sexual offenders by sexual and non-sexual offending, number of sexual offence incidents and jurisdiction, 2021-22 50
Table B10. Sexual offenders by offence type, number of unique victims and jurisdiction, 2021-22 51
Table B11. Sexual offenders by child or non-child sexual offence, relationship with primary victim and jurisdiction, 2021-22 52
Table B12. Sexual offenders by child or non-child sexual offence, offence type and jurisdiction, 2021-22 53
Table B13. Sexual offenders by child or non-child sexual offence, offence type and jurisdiction, 2021-22 (rate per 100,000 relevant population) 54
Table B14. Sexual offenders by relationship with primary victim, offence location and jurisdiction, 2021-22 55
Table B15. Sexual offenders by number of police proceedings for sexual offences and jurisdiction, 2021-22 56
Table B16. Sexual offenders by prior police proceedings for any offence and child or non-child sexual offences, 2021-22 56
Table B17. Sexual offence victims by number of offenders and jurisdiction, 2021-22 57
Table B18. Sexual offenders by sex, offence type and jurisdiction, 2021-22 58
Table B19. Sexual offenders by sex, offence type and jurisdiction, 2021-22 (rate per 100,000 relevant population) 59
Table B20. Youth offenders by sex and sexual offence type, 2021-22 60
Table B21. Adult offenders by sex, sexual offence type and jurisdiction, 2021-22 61
Table B22. Penetrative or non-penetrative sexual offenders by child or non-child sexual offence and jurisdiction, 2021-22 62
Table B23. Enabling sexual offenders by child or non-child sexual offence and victim sex, 2021-22 63
Table B24. Sexual offenders by offender age, victim sex and child or non-child sexual offence, 2021-22 64
Appendix Boxes
Box A1. Sexual offence categories 37