International

 

Australians' attitudes to violence against women : findings from the 2013 National Community Attitudes to Violence Against Women Survey (NCAS)
Carlton: Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, 2014
Report (106 pages); PDF
Summary: The NCAS involved more than 17,500 twenty-minute telephone interviews with a cross-section of Australians aged 16 years and older. This is the third survey of its kind... Read more
A brief summary of the findings and implications (8 pages) is also available... Read more


Family violence in Canada : a statistical profile, 2011
Statistics Canada, 2013
Juristat, 25 June 2013 (92 pages); PDF
Summary: Since 1998, Statistics Canada has released an annual report that examines the nature and extent of family violence in Canada. The special focus of this year's report is the prevalence and nature of family murder-suicides in Canada... Read more


The long-term effects of child sexual abuse
Judith Cashmore and Rita Shackel. Melbourne: Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2013
CFCA paper, no. 11; HTML
Summary: This paper reviews recent Australian and international research on the long-term effects of child sexual abuse... Read more


Relationship problems and money : women talk about financial abuse
Prue Cameron. West Melbourne: WIRE Women's Information, 2014
Report (79 pages); PDF
Summary: Women's financial hardship and insecurity, caused by financial abuse in the context of family violence, is a serious concern, particularly considering the increasing feminisation of poverty in Australia... Read more
 

Report on a scoping study into the effects of sexual violence on employees and the workplace
prepared by Inara Walden and Ludo McFerran. Sydney: Gendered Violence Research Network, University of New South Wales, 2014
Report (24 pages); PDF
Summary: In June 2013 the Safe at Home, Safe at Work project team embarked on a small scoping study into the workplace impacts of sexual violence. The researchers hoped to learn about support needs in the workplace context, such as time off to deal with legal, medical and counselling issues workers may have following experiences of sexual violence... Read more


Same-sex intimate partner homicide in Australia
Alexandra Gannoni and Tracy Cussen. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 2014
Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice, no. 469 (7 pages); PDF & HTML
Summary: While there is a sizable body of research on intimate partner homicide in general, there has been limited focus on intimate partner homicide involving people in same-sex relationships... Read more


Violence in deaf culture : my story, my voice
Cherrie Watson. The College at Rockport, State University of New York, 2014
Dissenting Voices, 3(1): 81-98
Summary: The author is deaf and a survivor of domestic violence. Her purpose in describing her experience of domestic violence within the deaf community and writing this article is to "awaken the hearing community to the fact that Deaf victims need allies... Read more


Who abuses children : fact sheet
Melbourne, Vic.: Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2014
Fact sheet; HTML
Summary: The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide an overview of the evidence available regarding those who abuse children. Identifying common trends from research can help to dispel certain myths and/or beliefs regarding perpetrators of child abuse and neglect... Read more


Women's access to justice : from reporting to sentencing
London: All-Party Parliamentary Group on Domestic and Sexual Violence Women's Aid, 2014
Report (64 pages); PDF
Summary: In March 2014 the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Domestic and Sexual Violence in the United Kingdom released a report revealing that the criminal justice system continues to fail women when they experience domestic violence... Read more
   

 

Journal articles

  

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Alcohol interventions, alcohol policy and intimate partner violence : a systematic review
Ingrid M. Wilson, Kathryn Graham and Angela Taft
BioMed Central, 2014
BMC Public Health, 14: 881 (11 pages)
Summary: A systematic review investigating whether alcohol interventions/policies were associated with IPV reduction within adult intimate relationships...Read more


Empowering children with safety-skills : An evaluation of the Kidpower Everyday Safety-Skills Program
Alaina Brenick et al. Elsevier, 2014
Children and Youth Services Review, 44: 152-162
Summary: "Changes in child safety knowledge concerning bullying, boundary-setting, and help-seeking were evaluated after participation in the Kidpower Everyday Safety Skills Program (ESSP), a workshop designed to increase children's knowledge of safe choices... Read more


Negative childhood experiences and mental health : theoretical, clinical and primary prevention implications
John Read annd Richard P. Bentall. Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2012
British Journal of Psychiatry, 200: 89-91
Summary: In this editorial, John Read from the University of Auckland, notes that researchers have recently established that a broad range of adverse childhood events are significant risk factors for most mental health problems, including psychosis... Read more


Childhood maltreatment and the structure of common psychiatric disorders
Katherine M. Keyes et al. Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2012
British Journal of Psychiatry, 200: 107-115
Summary: The authors used a latent variable approach to estimate the associations of childhood maltreatment with underlying dimensions of internalising and externalising psychopathology and with specific disorders after accounting for the latent dimensions... Read more


Childhood sexual abuse and suicidal behavior : a meta-analysis
Karen M. Devries et al. American Academy of Pediatrics, 2014
Pediatrics, 133(5): e1331-1344
Summary: The authors conducted a meta-analysis to quantify to what extent childhood sexual abuse (CSA) was associated with incident suicide attempts... Read more


A comparative study of violence risk assessment tools : a systematic review and metaregression analysis of 68 studies involving 25,980 participants
Jay P. Singh, Martin Grann and Seena Fazel. Elsevier, 2011
Clinical Psychology Review, 31(3): 499-513
Summary: The authors undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis of nine commonly used risk assessment instruments following PRISMA guidelines... Read more
 

Multi-agency risk assessment and management for children and families experiencing domestic violence
Nicky Stanley and Cathy Humphreys. Elsevier, 2014
Children and Youth Services Review, In press (8 pages)
Summary: This paper explores risk assessment and management in relation to children and families experiencing domestic violence; in particular, the communication and collaboration between child protection services, the police and independent domestic violence services... Read more