CEVAW Analysis

Articles, Books & Book Chapters

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Domestic violence and the role of imprisonment as a response: men’s post-conviction talk about strangling women

Men’s accounts of strangulation, the law and their imprisonment demonstrate how prisons can be a site for the reproduction of gendered hierarchies, misogynist tropes, and justified violence against women.

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Threats, domestic and family violence and workplace safety in the courts

This article examines existing knowledge about workplace threats and violence to judicial officers and other court staff and considers appropriate reporting protocols and responses to this type of behaviour.

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Restorative Justice or Colonial Compromise?

This paper examines the healing potential of community-led, culturally grounded programs as a response to family violence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

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CEVAW Conversations Podcasts

Episode 2
Does criminalisation prevent violence against women?

Professors Heather Douglas, Julia Tolmie and Kyllie Cripps bring legal expertise, research insights and lived experience to unpack the limits of the current justice system – and what we should be asking instead.

Creative Works & Films

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HDR Showcase 3 Minute Thesis - Charlotte (Charlie) Hock

Charlotte (Charlie) Hock interrogates the promises and pitfalls of justice in intimate partner violence cases, contrasting punitive carceral responses with restorative justice.

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HDR Showcase 3 Minute Thesis - Asaf Lone

Asaf Lone investigates how families of disappeared persons in Kashmir and Punjab pursue justice amid state denial and delay.

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HDR Showcase 3 Minute Thesis - Allanah Colley

Allanah Colley analyses how specialist family violence courts in Victoria balance their therapeutic, problem-solving aims with the constraints of adversarial legal frameworks.

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