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New Report Released: Family violence and women’s deaths by suicide : A Victorian study

Authored by: Stefani Vasil, Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Australian Catholic UniversityKate Fitz-Gibbon, Principal Consultant, SEQURE Consulting and Professor (Practice),Monash UniversityMarie Segrave, Professor of Criminology and ARC Future Fellow, Melbourne University This study explores the overlooked link between family violence and women’s deaths by suicide in Victoria. Reviewing coronial cases and expert interviews, it […]
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“You can get failed by systems”: We say we care about victim-survivors of violence and yet we jail them as kids

Along with Matt Tyler, Executive Director of The Men’s Project at Jesuit Social Services, Principal Consultant Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon co-authored an op-ed for ABC. There is a contradiction at the heart of Australian government policy that is directly harming our most vulnerable children and young people.  Federal and state governments across the country are committed […]
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World Children’s Day 2024

Today is the United Nations World Children’s Day. 20 November marks the date in 1959 when the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. It is also the date in 1989 when the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This year UNICEF Australia are encouraging everyone […]
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We can’t solve family violence until we include violence between siblings in the conversation

Hayley Boxall, Australian National University; Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Monash University, and Silke Meyer, Griffith University Domestic and family violence (DFV) has received increasing attention in recent years. It is most commonly associated with intimate partner violence between current and former partners, followed by abuse perpetrated against children by their parents and carers. But what about sibling […]
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New research: Young people’s experiences and use of violence in the home

Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon has co-authored an article published this week in Child Protection and Practice with Professor Silke Meyer (Griffith University) and María Atiénzar-Prieto. Drawing on their ANROWS funded survey of over 5,000 young people in Australia, the article examines children’s experiences of family violence and the role of different types of child maltreatment on […]
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Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon leads new research on intimate femicide perpetrator risks and points of intervention

This week, in her capacity as a Professor (Practice) at Monash University, Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon and colleagues have released a new report, Securing Women’s Lives. The report presents the findings from their analysis of 235 sentencing judgments in cases of male perpetrator intimate partner femicide. The study examined risk and system interactions prior to the intimate […]
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