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Police-academic partnerships are key to the success of evidence-based policing. Growing support for coercive control legislation makes research collaboration all the more urgent.
People who have experienced domestic violence can have trouble finding and keeping jobs because of physical injuries and their abusers’ efforts to sabotage their employment.
Much of the media coverage of Tina Turner’s victim-survivor status overlooks the fact that as a black woman she walked a fine line in speaking publicly about her experiences.
Women in abusive relationships are much more likely to be unemployed and to earn less money than women with non-abusive partners.
Extensive evidence shows the harms of spanking, and 65 other countries or states worldwide have already banned it. Why has Canada not done the same by repealing Section 43 of the Criminal Code?
The mass casualty commission report into the Nova Scotia mass murders outlines the perpetrator’s history of sexual abuse toward sex workers and what should be done to prevent it from happening again.
The State of Knowledge Report on Violence Perpetration, released today, reviews the current data and research on who perpetrates domestic, family, and sexual violence.
An expert in intimate partner abuse on why the world should ‘listen carefully’ to Pamela Anderson’s Netflix documentary.
Providing men who suffer domestic abuse with the help they need can also reduce violence experienced by women and children.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that shelters helping survivors of domestic violence are essential. Retention and recruitment issues in the gender-based violence sector require systemic solutions.
Research shows that removing guns from violent abusers saves lives. But laws doing just that are at risk of being ruled unconstitutional, following a landmark Supreme Court guns case.
What does it say to victims of intimate partner violence when a convicted wife beater and murderer is invited to a public event by the ruling government?
We need not just an acknowledgement of children as victim-survivors in their own right but a commitment to boost resourcing of child-centred recovery support.
Young women lack voice and visibility in discussions about family violence in Australia, and particularly intimate partner violence. This must change, urgently.
Both NSW and Queensland have committed to criminalise coercive control. This has the potential to disproportionately impact First Nations people who often can’t report to police safely.
The findings are a stark reminder men’s violence against women is a national crisis and system reform is urgent.
Congress has pushed through its first gun control legislation in 30 years. Included in the legislation is a provision to expand a firearm ban to dating partners accused of domestic violence.
I’m certain this case will continue to be discussed in the media and academia and will continue to shape society’s understanding of the complexities of intimate partner violence.
Women in more prestigious jobs than their husbands were seven times more likely to experience physical and emotional violence, compared to women ranked lower than their husbands.
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Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Monash University
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Managing Director, Her Story Consulting & Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University
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Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Family Violence Prevention, Royal Women's Hospital and the Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne
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Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Associate professor, Monash University
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology, University of Windsor
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Professor of Social Work; Leneen Forde Chair in Child & Family Research, Griffith University
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Associate Professor of Criminology, Simon Fraser University
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Lecturer in Criminology, Sheffield Hallam University
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Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Windsor
