Her comments come as a Central Otago indecent act victim fights to reveal her identity.
The victim's legal battle to lift her name suppression is set for next month, and her attacker has a legal right to challenge her bid.
This week the Otago Daily Times sought comment from Mrs Collins regarding name suppression
''In situations where a victim of sexual abuse feels comfortable about having details made publicly available, I'm strongly of the view that it should be encouraged in the wider interests of open and transparent justice,'' Mrs Collins said.
''Publishing an offender's name - unless a name suppression order is made by the court - would bring cases of sexual offending in line with other criminal offending and may help to prevent further offending.''
The victim's husband said the couple did not want to jeopardise their case, but noted if she ''was to lose this, I think it would create quite a bit of anger''.
After the 2011 offending and a string of appearances, the man pleaded guilty to an indecent act with intent to assault or offend, at his Dunedin District Court appearance in March.
Judge David Saunders granted an application for a discharge without conviction and final name suppression.
Mrs Collins told the ODT she could not comment on individual cases.
However, she was advised there had been several successful cases of victims applying to court to have automatic name suppression orders lifted so the victim and the offender could be named.
Whether or not name suppression orders should be made or continued was a matter for the courts and it was appropriate judges were given discretion to weigh up factors when making a decision about name suppression, she said.
Automatic name suppression occurs in various cases of sexual offending and where children are victims or witnesses.
Mrs Collins said the Government had been ''unrelenting in our focus on putting victims at the heart of our justice system''.
Introduced measures include an offenders' levy, victims being able to read victim impact statements in court, and a new chief victims adviser role to advise the Minister of Justice about further options to improve support for victims.
Part of that new role could be in providing further advice to the minister on the issue of name suppression.
