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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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Regulation of domestic violence: a global perspective

This study examines the global evolution of the laws addressing DV, providing insights on the number and types of laws adopted by countries around the world since early 1980s.

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Extreme drought and sexual violence against adolescent girls and young women: A multi-country population-based study

Exposure to extreme drought conditions may exacerbate risks of sexual violence against adolescent girls and young women, and gender-sensitive climate change adaptation policies are urgent.

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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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Workplace policy responses to family and domestic violence

This paper assesses the costs and benefits to Australian employers of providing 10 days of paid FDV leave to employees experiencing family and domestic violence.

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Theological arguments framing violence against women: Context, cause and the gendered impacts of scriptural priorities

This article examines how Lutheran theology in Australia represents gender and frames women and femininity as a problem for the church.