CEVAW Analysis - CEVAW Evidence Platform

Articles

Choking/Strangulation During Sex: Understanding and Negotiating “Safety” Among 18-35 Year Old Australians

Despite its potentially fatal consequences, sexual choking/strangulation is an increasingly common sexual practice. This paper examined whether and how Australian adults perceived choking/strangulation in terms of “safety.”

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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.

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Burn Violence Against Women in Australia: The Tip of the Iceberg From Australian Burn Centers

Our study contributes to emerging international literature demonstrating the confronting nature and consequences of burn violence against women.

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Reports

House of Representatives, Australian Parliament

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Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs Inquiry into the relationship between domestic, family and sexual violence and suicide

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Visual summary of Deaths by suicide in the context of domestic and family violence workshop report

Deaths by suicide in the context of domestic and family violence: Examining context, prevention and responses

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First Nations Women’s Engagement with the Family Law System: Insights from Women’s Legal Services, Final Report

First Nations women’s engagement with family law amid family violence: risks, barriers, and recommendations.

Pillar 3 - Responses Legal Responses First Nations Family Violence Family Law WLSA-2025

Information Sheets / Briefs

Visual Summary - Deaths by Suicide in the Context of Domestic and Family Violence

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Domestic Violence Fatality Reviews

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First Nations Women’s Engagement with the Family Law System: Research Project Overview

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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.

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