Group
Subdivision
035 Intimate image offences
Latest release
Australian and New Zealand Standard Offence Classification (ANZSOC)
Reference period
2023
Released
30/11/2023
0350 Intimate image offences
Intimate image offences include any offence involving the creation and/or distribution of an intimate image, video, or other media without consent. This does not include child abuse material offences.
Inclusions:
- Create or distribute intimate images that may not be considered sexual, for example depicting a person without an item of religious or cultural significance
- Create or distribute sexual material of an adult, including filming or photographing intimate images or sexual acts, without consent
- Deceive an adult for the purposes of procuring intimate images
- Edit pornography to include a person’s image, including “deepfake pornography”
- Non-consensual distribution of intimate images, whether or not the image was taken with consent
- Unlawfully capture an intimate image in a public place, whether or not the victim was fully clothed
- Other intimate image offences against adults, or where the victim was above the age of sexual consent as defined in the jurisdiction and context where the offence occurred
Exclusions:
- Create or distribute child abuse material – coded to 0341 Produce or distribute child abuse material
- Create or distribute pornography that is unlawful due to prohibited content, excluding child abuse material – coded to 0399 Sexual offences, nec
- Distribute sexual misinformation about a person verbally or through written word only – coded to 0892 Defamation
- Sexual extortion of an adult – coded to 0520 Blackmail or other extortion