CEVAW Analysis - CEVAW Evidence Platform

Articles

Domestic violence and the role of imprisonment as a response: men’s post-conviction talk about strangling women

Men’s accounts of strangulation, the law and their imprisonment demonstrate how prisons can be a site for the reproduction of gendered hierarchies, misogynist tropes, and justified violence against women.

Pillar 3 - Responses Legal Responses Domestic violence Justice System

Threats, domestic and family violence and workplace safety in the courts

This article examines existing knowledge about workplace threats and violence to judicial officers and other court staff and considers appropriate reporting protocols and responses to this type of behaviour.

Pillar 3 - Responses Legal Responses Family Violence Justice System Family Law

Restorative Justice or Colonial Compromise?

This paper examines the healing potential of community-led, culturally grounded programs as a response to family violence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

Pillar 4 - Indigenous The Violence of Colonialism Family Violence Justice System First Nations People

Reports

Judicial Officers and Best Practice: Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Experience of Family Violence Protection Order Proceedings. Literature Review.

Shaped by intersecting experiences of family violence, structural inequality, and racial discrimination, most often within mainstream courts.

Pillar 3 - Responses Legal Responses First Nations Family Violence Justice System

CEVAW Conversations Podcasts

Does criminalisation prevent violence against women?

Professors Heather Douglas, Julia Tolmie and Kyllie Cripps bring legal expertise, research insights and lived experience to unpack the limits of the current justice system – and what we should be asking instead.

Pillar 3 - Responses Pillar 4 - Indigenous Legal Responses Future Lives and VAW Justice System Prevention of VAW Criminalisation