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Accessing justice: police responses to domestic violence

12 Dec 2018

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Michelle Rooney, Miranda Forsyth, Mary Aisi, Dora Kuir-Ayius

Devpolicy Blog

This post presents the findings on the relationship between the women in the study and the police, including the reasons they did or did not seek police help.

Commentary

Article

Submissions to family violence royal commission reveal a fragmented system

14 Jul 2015

143

Kate Fitz-Gibbon

The Conversation

On Monday, the public hearings for Victoria’s Royal Commission into Family Violence began.

The public hearings follow the completion of community consultations and the close of written submissions in late May. Nearly 1000 Victorians – advocates, experts and policy stakeholders – provided submissions to...



Discussion paper

Every 4 minutes: a discussion paper on preventing family violence in New Zealand

6 Nov 2018

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Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor (New Zealand)

Every 4.42 minutes, there is a care and protection notification in New Zealand. This paper discusses the context of family violence and uses findings from current research to prompt informed reflection, arguing that prevention of family violence in New Zealand is possible.



Report

Aboriginal women, girls and sexual assault

17 Oct 2006

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Hannah McGlade

Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault

Hannah McGlade who writes about how Aboriginal women and girls are being discriminated against by the criminal justice system on the basis of their Aboriginality and gender, notwithstanding the existence of formal legislation prohibiting such discrimination. In examining the legal system's unequal treatment of Aboriginal...

Report

Swift, certain and fair approaches to sentencing family violence offenders

20 Oct 2017

147

Anusha Kenny, Paul McGorrery, Donald Ritchie

Sentencing Advisory Council (Vic)

This report is the response to the Victorian Attorney-General’s request for advice on ‘swift and certain’ approaches to family violence offenders in Victoria.



Journal article

The Domestic Violence Protection Order system as entry to the criminal justice system for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

1 Sep 2018

315

Heather Douglas, Robin Fitzgerald

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy

This research shows that a disproportionate number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) people are named on DVOs, charged with contraventions of DVOs and significantly more likely than non-Indigenous people to receive a sentence of imprisonment for a contravention of a DVO, compared to...

Guide

A practitioner’s guide to domestic violence law in NSW

10 Aug 2018

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Women’s Legal Service New South Wales

Women’s Legal Service New South Wales

This plain-English guide to domestic violence law in New South Wales has been produced by the solicitors at Women’s Legal Service NSW.



Report

Transforming legal understandings of intimate partner violence

27 Jun 2019

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Stella Tarrant, Julia Tolmie, George Giudice

Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety

This report examines how and why changes to the law of self-defence have not had their intended effects. It explores how legal professionals and experts understand IPV, influencing which facts are selected and presented as relevant in the criminal process and the meaning made of...