Research

A Qualitative Exploration of the Impact of Increasing Criminalization on Domestic Violence Support Workers: Nonfatal Strangulation as a Case Study

Specialized nongovernmental domestic violence (DV) services provide critical support to victim/survivors. This research examines how expanded criminalization impacts support workers’ roles.

Pillar 3 - Responses Legal Responses Domestic violence Criminalisation Law 2024

Knowing and Doing: 50 Years of Change in the DFV Sector

Fifty years ago, the first women's refuge opened in Sydney. Today, Australia has national plans, specialist police units, landmark legislation, and a sector of hundreds of organisations. So what has actually changed – and what hasn't?

Pillar 2 - Contexts Pillar 3 - Responses Impact of Institutions Frontline Practice Responses Legal Responses Family Violence Policies Domestic violence Prevention of VAW Criminalisation 2026

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.

Pillar 3 - Responses Pillar 4 - Indigenous Legal Responses Future Lives and VAW Justice System Prevention of VAW Criminalisation

Books, Articles and PhDs

A Qualitative Exploration of the Impact of Increasing Criminalization on Domestic Violence Support Workers: Nonfatal Strangulation as a Case Study

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Knowing and Doing: 50 Years of Change in the DFV Sector

Does criminalisation prevent violence against women?