Unfortunately, it is apparent federal and state governments are too often responding to men’s violence after the fact.
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A commonly prescribed antidepressant has sparked a reduction in domestic violence reoffending among highly impulsive, violent men.
Publishing the faces and names of people accused of violence isn’t the best way of getting them to change their behaviour.
Government bodies and community organisations have tried to tackle the problem of violence against women in marketing campaigns. Have they worked?
It has been a distressing time. Australians have been – and will continue – taking action to end gender-based violence. So, are we making any progress? Here’s what the data show.
Authorities across Australia and the UK are sounding the alarm about how data breaches have endangered domestic violence victim-survivors.
The threat of fire and burning as a tool of family violence isn’t routinely assessed and addressed in Australia.
Children exposed to intimate partner violence were two to three times more likely to have impaired language skills, sleep problems, elevated blood pressure and asthma.
Rather than focusing on specific cultural practices, we need to concentrate on all forms of economic abuse as coercive control.
Australians are more aware of domestic violence and sexual assault than before. But a worrying proportion blame victims for abuse, think women are lying, and don’t believe consent is always necessary.
In order to change public opinion, campaigns need to move beyond awareness raising and start addressing the perpetrators and causes of domestic violence.
Are claims that intimate partner violence is the leading cause of death for Australian women aged 18-44 substantiated?
The term “domestic violence” typically conjures images of physical assaults perpetrated by men against women and children in the home. But beneath the tip of the iceberg of severe violence lie a myriad…
Protection orders form a central plank of the various state and territory governments’ response to domestic violence. First introduced in New South Wales in the 1980s and known by a different names across…
“Why doesn’t she just leave?” is the common question people ask when trying to understand domestic violence. The answer is far from straightforward. Central to domestic violence is an ongoing pattern of…
The law’s response to lethal domestic violence in Australia raises complex issues. It requires a delicate balance to be struck between ensuring a just response to those who kill in response to prolonged…
Did the grim story of dapper real estate agent Gerard Baden-Clay’s calculated murder of his wife Allison in April 2012, played out recently in a Brisbane court with a life sentence, make you feel afraid…
Once a hidden crime, domestic violence has in recent years emerged as a mainstream criminal justice issue in Australia. Cases such as Queensland man Gerard Baden-Clay’s murder of his wife Allison and the…
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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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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Associate Professor of Social Work, The University of Melbourne
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Conjoint Professor School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Bond University
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University Distinguished Professor of Forensic Behavioural Science & Dean, School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate professor, Journalism, Monash University
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Professor and Program Head, Justice Health Research Program, UNSW
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Academic Program Director for the Mental Health Practice Program, UNSW
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Professor of Social Work, The University of Melbourne
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Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney