Without comprehensive legislative and societal reforms to address intimate partner violence, the measures in Bill C-21 risk being little more than a bandage on a gaping wound.
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Young people who are being abused or neglected are more likely to turn to informal online support systems than to authorities.
New Zealanders who have experienced interpersonal violence are more likely to end up in hospital for both injury and illness.
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.
Around half of all assaults and homicides that involve weapons happen in domestic settings, yet new laws overwhelmingly focus on public knife offences.
Police receive 50,000 missing reports in Australia each year. But not everyone goes missing by accident – for some people it’s a choice or a way to cope.
A study interviewing teenagers reveals how parents can coercively control their children under the guise of parental discipline.
The recent deaths of two babies have both been reported as family violence. The overdue change in language gets us one step closer to keeping children safer.
The public can choose to forget, to preserve the comforting fiction their favourite heartthrob is a ‘good man’.
Women were often imprisoned with their abusers, making it nearly impossible to escape.
One woman told the researchers: ‘He would come home and tell me that the group agreed with him.’
First came psychological abuse, then physical, then came sexual abuse.
Ghana needs to empower women by providing them with the resources they need to flourish and fight abuse.
GPs can engage men who are at risk of perpetrating family violence – and prevent them harming their families. Here’s how.
Australia wants to end domestic violence in a generation. To do so, we need to focus on the next one.
The results of a landmark longitudinal study into domestic violence paint a grim picture, but they also point to key solutions, especially before men offend.
New analysis finds vulnerable narcissism is consistently linked to insecure attachment styles.
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.
Top contributors
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Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Professor of Social Work; Leneen Forde Chair in Child & Family Research, Griffith University
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Professor of Law and Deputy Director of the Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW), The University of Melbourne
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Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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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
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Managing Director, Her Story Consulting & Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University
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ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Social Work, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Family Violence Prevention, The University of Melbourne
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Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Dean, School of Law, Deakin University
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Professor of Sociology, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology