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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.

Pillar 3 - Responses Legal Responses Domestic violence Justice System
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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
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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
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Feminist Legal Theory

This chapter provides an introduction to feminist legal traditions in Australia for readers to understand how they are rigorous and politically original, and open to be joined, and developed.

Pillar 3 - Responses Legal Responses Justice System Law
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Still Falling Short: Aboriginal Children’s Rights and Victoria’s Child Protection System

Victoria’s child protection system continues to harm Aboriginal children and violate their rights, requiring a rights-based reimagining within current Treaty negotiations.

Pillar 3 - Responses Pillar 4 - Indigenous Legal Responses Future Lives and VAW First Nations Child Protection Justice System