Authorities across Australia and the UK are sounding the alarm about how data breaches have endangered domestic violence victim-survivors.
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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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PhD candidate, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct professor, Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University
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Professor of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Monash University
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Honorary Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Family & Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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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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Senior Principal Research Fellow, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Gael Jennings is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Social Work, Flinders University
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Associate professor, Journalism, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Social Work; Leneen Forde Chair in Child & Family Research, Griffith University
