In 2003-04, it is estimated that 33 per cent of the 100,200 clients accessing the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP), were women escaping domestic violence. Two-thirds of the 52,700 accompanying children in SAAP were children who accompanied a female parent or guardian escaping domestic violence. This bulletin provides an overview of the 2003-04 data about...

This Interim Report makes recommendations to confer on members of Victoria Police a power to remove, hold and detain persons pending an application for an interim intervention order. As the initial response by police to a family violence incident is particularly important in the process of prevention, this power if introduced will be an appropriate...

Risk assessments are necessary to decide which offenders should be targeted for rehabilitation and to deal with the increasing demand by the public and politicians that offenders who are at a high risk of reoffending, especially violent and sexual offending, should not be released prematurely. Alfred Allen and Deborah Dawson report on a risk assessment...

Bernadette McSherry looks at the issue of violence prevention from a mental health perspective, discussing the implications for sentencing decisions and examining the ethical and legal background to such assessments.

Family violence and sexual assault are reported to be at crisis levels in many Indigenous communities. In response to calls from Indigenous people for change, a number of state and territory governments have established Task Forces, drafted policy documents, and held inquiries into the nature and extent of the violence. In this Briefing Paper Monique...