Books, Articles and PhDs

Increasingly, suicide is being linked with histories of domestic and family violence. While some abusive partners kill their victim in a context of domestic and family violence and then claim it was suicide, in other cases the cause of death may be less directly connected to the abusive partner.

Can legal reforms shift social norms around intimate partner violence (IPV)? We examine Vietnam's 2007 Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control using a difference-in-differences strategy that leverages the greater relevance of legal protections for married and cohabiting women relative to single women, generating differential exposure to the reform.

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.

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.

This book provides a comprehensive resource for accommodating and pursuing Indigenous perspectives in legal education.

Specialized nongovernmental domestic violence (DV) services provide critical support to victim/survivors. This research examines how expanded criminalization impacts support workers’ roles.

In many countries, one of the central challenges to the successful prosecution of domestic violence offences is the complainant’s disengagement from the prosecution process.