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By speaking out about sexual violence and creating safe online spaces to seek support, victim-survivors may also encourage others to report the crime.
The royal commission’s recommendations seek a complete transformation of Victorian family violence services, and the state’s prevention of and response to family violence.
The genre that brought us the writings of Mark “Chopper” Read isn’t known for its impeccable gender politics. But two new books cast a critical eye on a culture of male violence.
The world is dragging its feet – and it’s costing lives.
Programs that aim to prevent violence against women through gender equality at work are facing opposition from leaders who don’t see it as a workplace issue.
The story of how psychology framed women for their own assaults began, as so many of psychology’s stories do, with some trapped animals.
By drawing on interviews with perpetrators and their ex-partners and police evidence, a common discrepancy in victim and perpetrator accounts of domestic and family violence becomes blatantly obvious.
More and more countries are passing femicide legislation. But work remains to make sure that the intent and purpose of these laws is communicated and enforced.
New research reveals how many people over the age of 60 have been raped in the UK – and it is time to act.
Part one of the ABC’s Hitting Home provides an insight into the work of those responding to domestic violence on the front line – including police, courts, refuges, and a specialist forensic unit.
Police are entrusted with enforcing the laws against domestic violence – the same laws that some are breaking in their own relationships.
It’s not just a lack of access to healthcare that causes child mortality.
Depictions of women bullying women are a mainstay of reality television shows, just as reports of Twitter fights between female celebrities are regular tabloid fare. It’s a phenomenon with a long history.
A report on young Australians’ attitudes towards violence against women highlights some worrying trends. But it’s not all bad news.
Can relationship lessons in the classroom end violence against women?
Global cities must guarantee women safe access to public space. But in cities like New Delhi, this access is conditional and bound by moral discourse.
As Ashraf Ghani nominated the first woman judge to Afghanistan’s Supreme Court, the same court took a decision that enraged Afghans.
Hate violence is as diverse and widespread as ever – and its effects are legion.
South Africa needs a new rape policy that will change the way the police collect statistics.
Top contributors
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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Professor of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Monash University
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Professor of Social Work; Leneen Forde Chair in Child & Family Research, Griffith University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor and Research Leadership Chair, Sociology, University of Guelph
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Professor of Criminology, Durham University
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Professor of Communication Studies; Research Chair on Intersectionality, Violence and Resistance, Concordia University
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Associate Professor in Criminal Law, Durham University
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Professor, Center for Research on North America, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Associate professor in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool
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Lead Researcher with the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre and Lecturer in Criminology at the Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Monash University
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Lecturer in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Durham University
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Associate Professor of Global Health, UCL
