SEQURE CONSULTING

PROJECTS

We are currently working on a number of projects which aim to build the evidence base needed to improve responses to, and more effectively prevent all forms of violence against women and children.

The role and impact of Men’s Behaviour Change Programs in IPV desistance pathways

Little research has explored the factors which support men who perpetrate intimate partner violence (IPV) to stop or significantly reduce their abusive behaviours (sometimes referred to as ‘desistance’). This project aims to investigate the role of men’s behaviour change programs (MBCPs) in facilitating pathways out of perpetration, identify factors that support or hinder these pathways, and explore how these dynamics vary across a diversity of backgrounds and over time.

Project timeframe:
2024-2025
Funded by
ANROWS
Project team:
Led by Dr Hayley Boxall (ANU) with Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon (Sequre), Professor Silke Meyer (Griffith University) and Professor Lorana Bartels (ANU) with research partners – Domestic Violence Crisis Services (ACT), YFS Ltd (Qld), Meli (Victoria), Centre for Non-Violence (Qld) and Uniting Care (Qld)

‘Safe at home’ in their own right

This project aims to contribute to building the evidence needed to improve policy and practice to deliver improved housing options for children and young people experiencing domestic and family violence in Australia. This includes exploring children and young people’s views on the design, components and delivery of suitable housing that meets children’s needs.

Project timeframe:
July 2024 – February 2025
Funded by
54 Reasons (Save the Children)
Project lead:
Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon

Seeking help in their own right

Despite the high prevalence of family violence experienced by children and young people in Victoria, little is known about how different points of the service system intersect to respond to children as victim- survivors in their own right. This project examines Victorian young people’s experiences of accessing family violence supports at the point of crisis.

Project timeframe:
October 2024 – March 2025
Funded by
Safe Steps Family Violence Response Centre
Project team:
Drs Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Rebecca Stewart

Giving voice to children and young people’s early intervention, response and recovery needs for South Australia’s domestic, family and sexual violence Royal Commission.

In July 2024 the South Australian Royal Commission into Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence commenced. Through interviews with children and young people, this project will gather important views on the design, components and delivery of whole of system responses to children and young people impacted by domestic, family and sexual violence across South Australia.

Project timeframe:
September 2024 – March 2025
Funded by
The South Australian Government
Project team:
Drs Kate Fitz-Gibbon

RECENTLY COMPLETED PROJECTS

Innovative Perpetrator Responses in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) – Scoping study

This scoping study supported the ACT Government to better understand potential innovative approaches, available evidence to support proposed approaches across other jurisdictions and identify future trials and pilots that may be undertaken in the ACT to hold offenders to account, prevent them from reoffending, and improve victim protection.

Project timeframe:
June 2024 – August 2024.
Funded by
Community Services Directorate, ACT Government.
Project team:
Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Dr Hayley Boxall (ANU) and Jessica Seamer.

Community attitudes to defences and sentences in cases of homicide and assault in Queensland

On 15 November 2023, the Queensland Law Reform Commission (the Commission) were requested by Government to review particular defences and excuses in the Criminal Code 1899 (Qld). To inform the development of the Commission’s recommendations, this community attitudes research project was contracted.

The research team, led by Dr Hayley Boxall with Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Prof Lorana Bartels, utilised a mixed-methods research design, involving a community attitudes survey and focus groups. Specifically, we utilised a weighted representative survey of approximately 2,500 people living in Queensland, and focus groups with 58 members of the Queensland community. To assess community attitudes to the use of partial and complete defences, we presented community members with several scenarios describing situations where one person seriously harmed or killed another person. As part of the survey, we also asked participants about their sociodemographic characteristics, and questions to assess their understanding of and attitudes towards domestic and family violence.

Project timeframe:
July 2024 – December 2024
Funded by
Queensland Law Reform Commission
Project team:
Dr Hayley Boxall (ANU), Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon (Sequre Consulting) and Prof Lorana Bartels (ANU)

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