Jones, L. M. (2014).

Improving efforts to prevent children's exposure to violence: A handbook for defining program theory and planning for evaluation in the new evidence-based culture. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.
Summary: This handbook is intended to help implementing agencies (e.g. nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), development/foreign aid agencies, community-based organizations, not-for-profit agencies) make better use of existing research and plan for evaluation when designing and implementing child violence prevention programmes, and also to convey these intentions to potential funding organizations... Read more 

Jud, A., Jones, L. M., & Mikton, C. (2015).  

Toolkit on mapping legal, health and social services responses to child maltreatment. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.
Summary: This toolkit contains tips, recommended practices and resources for academics and decision-makers in child protection who are interested in conducting national or regional surveillance of agency response to child maltreatment and child maltreatment incidence through the collection of administrative data... Read more  

Kirkwood, D. (2012).
'Just say goodbye': Parents who kill their children in the context of separation (Discussion Paper, no. 8). Melbourne, Vic.: Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria (DVRCV).
Summary: This discussion paper examines the motives and background to 'filicide' - the killing of children by a parent. While these deaths are often described in the media as 'inexplicable', this new research identifies a link between the killing of children and violence against women. The paper considers international research, Australian Institute of Criminology data and case examples of both fathers and mothers who kill their children... Read more 

Parkinson, D. (2014).  

Women's experience of violence in the aftermath of the Black Saturday bushfires. PhD thesis. Monash University, Melbourne, Vic.
Summary: This thesis documents the first Australian research to interview women about their experiences of domestic violence after catastrophic disaster. As such research is rare in developed countries, it addresses a gap in the disaster literature... Read more    

Sturgeon, S. (2015).   

Strangulation assessment, evidence collection, and documentation guidelines for forensic nurse examiners: A pilot project. Louiseville, KY: ScholarWorks@Bellarmine.
Summary: Accurate and thorough physical assessment, with accompanying documentation, are essential components for appropriate legal intervention for victims in all strangulation cases... Read more 

Journal articles

Contact your local library for full text access to articles which are not freely available online.    

Bagwell-Gray, M., Messing, J. T., & Baldwin-White, A. (2015).  

Intimate partner sexual violence: A review of terms, definitions and prevalence.
Trauma, Violence & Abuse, Advance online publication, 4 January 2015, (20 pages).
Summary: Intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) is a significant aspect of intimate partner violence (IPV). While intimate partners commit one third of sexual assaults, IPSV is often overlooked in studies about IPV and in research on sexual violence... Read more  

Campbell, R., Greeson, M. R., Fehler-Cabral, G., & Kennedy, A. C. (2015).
Pathways to help: Adolescent sexual assault victims' disclosure and help-seeking experiences.  

Violence Against Women, Advance online publication, 1 May 2015, (24 pages).
Summary: In this study, the authors conducted semistructured interviews with 20 adolescent sexual assault victims who sought post assault help from the medical and legal system to understand young survivors' disclosure and help-seeking processes... Read more  

Choi, K. W., & Sikkema, K. J. (2015).  

Childhood maltreatment and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders: A systematic review.  

Trauma, Violence & Abuse, Advance online publication, 17 May 2015, (27 pages).
Summary: A systematic review was undertaken to synthesize empirical literature on the relationship between maternal histories of childhood maltreatment and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs)... Read more   

Darwinkel, E., Powell, M., & Sharman, S. J. (2015).  

Police and prosecutors' perceptions of adult sexual assault evidence associated with case authorisation and conviction.  

Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, Advance online publication, 18 January 2015, (8 pages).
Summary: This study examined the association between the quality of verbal evidence in cases of sexual assault reported by adults and professionals' (police and prosecutor) ratings of the likelihood that the cases will result in a conviction at trial... Read more    

Davis, E. (2015).  

Survivor-led ethics in multi-agency work.
DVRCV Advocate, Autumn-Winter 2015, 28-33.
Summary: With the roll-out of Risk Assessment Management Panels (RAMPs) imminent in Victoria, Erin Davis looks at the UK experience and describes how a feminist ethical framework and survivor-led practice is essential for multi-agency initiatives that address high-risk family violence... Read more   

Falb, K. L., Annan, J., & Gupta, J. (2015).  

Achieving gender equality to reduce intimate partner violence against women.

The Lancet Global Health, 3(6), e302-e303.
Summary: This year marks 20 years since 189 countries signed the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and committed to prioritisation of women's empowerment and gender equality. This editorial introduces the article by Heise and Kotsadam (below) in this issue of The Lancet Global Health... Read more 

Heise, L. L., & Kotsadam, A. (2015).  

Cross-national and multilevel correlates of partner violence: An analysis of data from population-based surveys.  

The Lancet Global Health, 3(6), e332-e340.  

Summary: Little is known about the factors that drive the geographical distribution of partner violence or how macro-level factors might combine with individual-level factors to affect individual women's risk of intimate partner violence. The authors aimed to assess the role that women's status and other gender-related factors might have in defining levels of partner violence among settings... Read more 

Goodmark, L. (2013).

Transgender people, intimate partner abuse and the legal system.  

Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, 48, 51-104. (Open access).
Summary: The unique experiences of transgender persons subjected to abuse have not been the focus of legal scholarship; instead, the experiences of transgender people are often subsumed in the broader discourse around domestic violence in the LGBT community. This is the first law review article to concentrate specifically on intimate partner abuse and the transgender community... Read more 

Kiss, L., Schraiber, L. B., Hossain, M., Watts, C. H., & Zimmerman, C. (2015).  

The link between community-based violence and intimate partner violence: The effect of crime and male aggression on intimate partner violence against women.  

Prevention Science, Advance online publication, 26 May 2015, (9 pages). (Open access).
Summary: Both intimate partner violence (IPV) and community violence are prevalent globally, and each is associated with serious health consequences. However, little is known about their potential links or the possible benefits of coordinated prevention strategies... Read more  

Macy, R. J., Ogbonnaya, I. N., & Martin, S. L. (2015).

Providers' perspectives about helpful information for evaluating domestic violence and sexual assault services: A practice note.  

Violence Against Women, 21(3), 416-429.
Summary: This practice note presents findings from a statewide survey of domestic violence and sexual assault agency directors (n = 80; 77% response rate), regarding their opinions about the outcome information that should be collected from victims during evaluations of five commonly provided services: legal advocacy, medical advocacy, group services, individual counseling, and shelter... Read more 

McCauley, H. L., Silverman, J. G., Decker, M. R., Agénor, M., Borrero, S., Tancredi, D. J., . . . Miller, E. (2015).

Sexual and reproductive health indicators and intimate partner violence victimization among female family planning clinic patients who have sex with women and men.  

Journal of Women's Health, Advance online publication, (8 pages).
Summary: Sexual minority women are more likely than heterosexual women to have ever experienced intimate partner violence (IPV). Although IPV is associated with sexual risk and poor reproductive health outcomes among US women overall, little is known about whether IPV is related to sexual and reproductive health indicators among sexual minority women in particular... Read more 

Reitsema, A. M., & Grietens, H. (2015).  

Is anybody listening?: The literature on the dialogical process of child sexual abuse disclosure reviewed.

Trauma, Violence & Abuse, Advance online publication, 7 May 2015 (41 pages).
Summary: The authors conducted an exploratory review of the current literature on child sexual abuse disclosure in everyday contexts... Read more   

Salter, M. (2015).

'Real men don't hit women': Constructing masculinity in the prevention of violence against women.

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Advance online publication, 21 May 2015 (17 pages).
Summary: This paper examines the dependence of many violence against women VAW primary prevention campaigns and programs on regressive notions of 'real masculinity'. It describes how the scope of VAW primary prevention has narrowed over time... Read more