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Domestic and Family Violence by Justin Healey
Call Number: 362.82920994 DOM
Publication Date: 2014
Issues in Society, Vol. 365
Domestic violence : Australian public policy by Suellen Murray & Anastasia Powell.
Call Number: 362.82920994 MUR
Publication Date: 2011

Royal Commission into Family Violence (Victoria)

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The Commission's multi-volume report canvasses the many views heard by the Commission during its consultation processes and covers a broad range of topics including risk assessment, information sharing, service system pathways, police, courts, offences and sentencing, housing, financial security, recovery, the experience of children and young people and people from diverse communities, system governance and oversight, industry planning, primary prevention, and the role the health system, faith communities and workplaces can play in addressing family violence.

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Domestic and Family Violence by Justin Healey
Publication Date: 2014
Issues in Society, Vol. 365.
This book reveals the prevalence and causes of domestic and family violence, and explains ways of dealing with domestic abuse.

On the web

Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria
A statewide resource centre supporting workers and families to help stop family violence.
Domestic/family homicide in Australia
Domestic and family violence
by Christopher Angus. NSW Parliamentary Research Service, Briefing Paper No 5/2015
Royal Commission into Family Violence (Victoria)
Stepping stones: legal barriers to economic equality after family violence - Women's Legal Service Victoria (22 September 2015) Executive summary Women’s Legal Service Victoria has observed that there are legal and economic problems arising from family violence which result in serious financial hardship for women and, at present, there are no accessible legal remedies to these problems. We have researched the problems in the Stepping Stones project. This report contains the findings of the project and recommendations for solutions. In interviews with women, we explored the consequences of family violence on women’s financial circumstances. We specifically directed our attention to systemic barriers women faced in their economic recovery. Common themes emerged from the interviews including: •A lack of police understanding of the financial consequences arising from family violence, and a lack of police action in stopping economic abuse. •The conditions included in intervention orders of the Magistrates’ Court are largely unhelpful in preventing economic abuse. •Women who are victims of family violence often have to flee their home; this has serious financial implications and there is a major shortage of available housing for women. •Service providers such as energy retailers, telecommunication services and banks have low awareness of the difficulties faced by women experiencing family violence and are unhelpful when interacting with these customers. •The energy, telecommunications and banking industries insist on their right to enforce joint debts, even in circumstances of family violence. This places women and their financial recovery at risk. •Women have little knowledge of their legal and financial rights following violence and separation. This lack of knowledge can result in women staying in unsafe relationships. •Women who are involved in family law proceedings to resolve financial issues experience a lengthy and stressful process, and achieve outcomes that are often inequitable. Many women choose not to pursue financial settlements after relationship breakdown because of the particular barriers created by family violence. This causes further financial disadvantage for women. Perpetrators use joint debt to continue to perpetrate violence against women and there is no legal recourse to sever the joint liability. Although there are legal mechanisms available to address some of the problems women encounter, women’s access to these mechanisms is hindered. There is potential to make better use of intervention orders in dealing with some of the debt and small property issues that arise. There are also existing mechanisms in the family law jurisdiction that could better assist women. Improving the accessibility of available legal remedies for family violence victims is key to economic equality. During our research it became clear that reform to: family law, the family violence legal system and the regulation of energy, telecommunications and credit is needed. This law and regulation reform needs to be coupled with the adoption of better policies by industry and government departments which:
Specialist family violence services: the heart of an effective family violence system
Domestic Violence Victoria submission to the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence -19 June 2015
Domestic, family and sexual violence in Australia: an overview of the issues
Australian Government report
Domestic violence in Australia - interim report (19 March 2015)
Senate Finance and Public Administration Committee. Commonwealth of Australia
Domestic violence in Australia - final report (20 August 2015)
Senate Finance and Public Administration Committee. Commonwealth of Australia
Australian Institute of Criminology Family / domestic violence publications
Family violence across the life cycle
Australian Family Physician Vol. 43, NO. 11, November 2014
Domestic, family and sexual violence in Australia: an overview of the issues
Janet Phillips, Social Policy Section
Penny Vandenbroek, Statistics and Mapping Section
Parliamentary Library, Australia. 14 October 2014
The new silence: family breakdown and child sexual abuse
by Jeremy Sammut. The Centre for Independent Studies
Profiling parental child sex abuse
Trends in evaluation: preventing violence against women
Dr Wei Leng Kwok, Victorian Health Promotion Foundation 2013
Family violence intervention orders and safety notices: sentencing for contravention
Sentencing Advisory Council, Victoria, September 2013
Seeking security: promoting women’s economic wellbeing following domestic violence
CDF Reader Vol. 9 No. 3, March 2011-includes the article: Seeking security: promoting women’s economic wellbeing following domestic violence by Rochelle Braaf & Isobelle Barrett Meyering. Pg 11.
White Ribbon
Australia's campaign to stop violence against women
Recognising violence and abuse in families and relationships
Victorian Government Victims of Crime page.

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