The federal Senate inquiry into Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system should have mandated a minimum age of criminal responsibility.
- Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
These reforms violate human rights obligations, contradict the evidence and will be devastating for children and young people in conflict with the law.
New research points to ways systems could be improved so we have a better idea of how domestic violence is affecting suicides. It may help prevent women’s deaths.
The 700-page final report has strong recommendations and offers a model that should be examined across Australia.
Responsibility for children is scattered across portfolios, including social services, education, health and Indigenous affairs.
A study interviewing teenagers reveals how parents can coercively control their children under the guise of parental discipline.
One young woman told the study she could not do any homework at home because ‘it’s not a safe environment for me’.
After an election campaign largely silent on women’s safety issues, the major parties have unveiled their policies. They fall well short of what is needed.
Domestic and family violence hasn’t been a major election issue. While the major parties are starting to talk about it, it’s not enough.
One person said: ‘I had to report at the police station where he works, where everybody knows everybody’.
If Argentina repeals its femicide law, it could have a ripple effect across Latin America.
New research shows violence between siblings is prevalent among young people who have experienced family and domestic violence.
A United Nations report details the violence that women and girls in sport face around the world – including Australia.
New data from Victoria shows that in a quarter of deaths by suicide between 2009 and 2016, the person had experienced family violence before they died.
Programs to help men to stop using violence are crucial, but are men meaningfully engaging with them? Our new study found opportunities to increase engagement, and in doing so, better protect women.
Data from the Australian Institute of Criminology shows alarmingly high rates of sexual violence perpetration. Here’s what is shows.
A domestic violence disclosure scheme is a resource people can check to find out if a particular person has a documented history of domestic violence.
New research shows that for people living with long COVID and intimate partner violence, each was exacerbated by the other and services were inadequate.
There is increasing alarm over the lack of progress around sexual harassment and assault on Australian university campuses. Much of the focus so far has been on students but staff are also at risk.
While the actions outlined in the plans are admirable, achieving the set targets will require a significant increase in urgency and funding.
The new Personal Safety Survey shows eight million Australians have experienced some form of violence since the age of 15, but women are far more likely to be victims than men.
Our research found missed opportunities are evident in child protection, health settings, mental health settings, drug and alcohol interventions, and in corrections.
Many have looked to Victoria to gauge what a multi-billion-dollar government commitment to family violence reform can deliver.
We need not just an acknowledgement of children as victim-survivors in their own right but a commitment to boost resourcing of child-centred recovery support.
Young people who experienced violence between other family members, and had been directly subjected to abuse, were 9.2 times more likely to use violence in the home.
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