intimate partner violence

Ellen Reeves, University of Liverpool; Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Monash University; Sandra Walklate, University of Liverpool, and Silke Meyer, Griffith University People experiencing domestic violence are often urged to report their abuse to police. But what if your abuser is a police officer? Our new research, drawing on 17 interviews with victim-survivors from two studies and published […]

Over the past 10 years, criminal legislation in Australia has been reformed substantially, to ensure the law reflects evolving contemporary understandings of different forms of domestic and family violence, including non-physical forms of abuse. This includes recent reforms to introduce an offence of coercive control and affirmative consent legislation On 15 November 2023, the Queensland […]

I am extremely grateful to Monash University Publishing for the opportunity to write another book as part of their In the National Interest, building on my earlier contribution to this series. 📌 Violence against women and children is a national crisis. Nearly a decade has passed since family violence was first declared a national emergency […]

Men’s violence against women in Australia is recognised as a national crisis. We urgently need to better understand what can be done to prevent it and intervene effectively. There is a need to hold perpetrators to account for their abusive behaviour. This is set out in the National Plan to end Violence against Women and […]

This week Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon, in her capacity as a Professor at Monash University, has released the findings from Australia’s largest study of men’s engagement with behaviour change programs. This research found the current approach to working with men who use violence is missing opportunities to more effectively engage men in behaviour change, to keep […]

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 […]

In her capacity as a Professor (Practice) with Monash University, Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon has released a new report examining the merits and limits of domestic violence disclosure schemes in Australia and New Zealand. This Final Report is co-authored with Professor Sandra Walklate and Dr Ellen Reeves from University of Liverpool (UK). Domestic violence disclosure schemes […]