One person said: ‘I had to report at the police station where he works, where everybody knows everybody’.
Articles on Domestic assault
Displaying all articles
New research linking police and healthcare data shows that victims of domestic abuse are detectable before the involvement of the police.
For the millions celebrating on the Champs-Elysées last month, Frenchness was not just an idea, it was an intense shared experience. But what happens to that identity when the celebrations end?
Shocking new findings show that even in conflict-affected countries where soldiers and rebel fighters are a daily danger to women, their husbands and boyfriends are the bigger threat.
Acid attacks, mostly against women, are increasing globally, and toxic masculinity is to blame. It’s time for social, medical and legal reform to stop the scourge.
It’s uncommon internationally for workers to have a statutory right to paid domestic violence leave, but things may be shifting.
Othello is one of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies. But in the light of 21st-century understandings of abuse, the play is recast as a textbook case of domestic terrorism.
Was academic Marcia Langton right about the rate of violence against Indigenous women?
Top contributors
-
Director of Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Chief Investigator for the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW), School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies, School of Social Sciences (SOSS), Monash University
-
Lecturer Dispute Resolution Advocacy, University of Technology Sydney
-
Professor & Canada Research Chair in Global Women's Issues, Western University
-
Alumni, Western University
-
Researcher, Unit for Religion and Development Research, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University
-
Maîtresse de conférences HDR en psychologie sociale, spécialiste de la violence conjugale/contrôle coercitif, Université Paris Nanterre
-
Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland; Syracuse University
-
Lecturer/Research Fellow in Housing and Urban Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
-
Bishop Wardlaw Professor in the School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews
-
Research Officer and Data Scientist at the National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research, Swansea University
-
Senior research officer and data scientist, Swansea University
-
Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool
-
Lecturer in Criminology, University of Liverpool
-
Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
-
Professor of Social Work; Leneen Forde Chair in Child & Family Research, Griffith University