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The law continues to treat intimate partner violence like a bar fight – considering only what happened in a given violent incident. But domestic violence isn’t about just physical violence.
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.
A sexual education program in Mexico City provides a blueprint for Australia. It shows how to engage students in conversations about lived experiences, among other effective methods.
Following the 2009 Victorian Black Saturday bushfires, more than half the women in one study reported experiencing domestic and family violence. Many had never experienced it before.
The protests carried on for days and continue to simmer in a country whose social fabric has been torn by toxic masculinity and a violent colonial past.
Australia first needs a better understanding of what coercive control is and how to respond to it. If law reform is rushed, victims will be put at risk.
Stay-at-home orders and social distancing make technology all the more important for maintaining human connections. They also make it easier for abusers to use technology against their victims.
Canada must consider funding programs that allow abuse victims and survivors to bring their pets with them when they leave their partners.
What would you do if you weren’t safe at home – and now you’re not allowed to leave because of the coronavirus pandemic?
Women who lived in more deprived neighbourhoods during the first 18 years of their lives were nearly 40% more likely to experience partner violence in early adulthood.
While popular portrayals of hairdressers and beauticians present them as “bimbos”, salons can also provide a refuge for clients to share painful realities.
Two interventions proved effective in reducing men’s perpetration, but not women’s experiences of violence.
Women and children remain vulnerable to harm even after intimate violence has occurred. Coordinating a community’s response can help avoid educational, employment, social, housing and legal problems.
New laws in the UK have led to convictions for a range of deplorable behaviours used to control partners in relationships. It’s time Australia reconsidered introducing such legislation here.
What’s often missing from domestic violence responses are investments and strategies to stop men perpetrating violence in the first place.
Very few women, especially those married, feel protected by the domestic violence laws in Sierra Leone.
From aggressive patients with Alzheimer’s to frustrated caregivers, dementia is increasingly entwined with violence in private homes and residential facilities.
As lawmakers debate the future of the primary federal program aimed at ending domestic violence, one scholar says the criminal system supported by the legislation isn’t the way to stop that violence.
Associated with intimate partner violence, there are many ways in which reproductive choice is taken away from women.
Top contributors
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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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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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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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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Research Technician at RESOLVE (Research and Education for Solutions to Violence and Abuse), University of Manitoba
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Associate professor, The University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology, University of Windsor
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Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan
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Senior lecturer, University of Exeter
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Professor of Social Work; Leneen Forde Chair in Child & Family Research, Griffith University
