Web resource:	https://aifs.gov.au/resources/practice-guides/just-keeping-peace
Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Just "keeping the peace" : a reluctance to respond to male partner sexual violenceIssues : Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault
Authors:	Heenan, Melanie
Keywords:	Sexual assault;Policy;Legal issues;Community attitudes;Health;Criminal justice responses
Year:	2004
Publisher:	Australian Institute of Family Studies
Notes:	"March 2004" Provides an overview of research and interventions into rape in marital relationships, tracing developments in policy and legislation over the past couple of decades, before highlighting some of the major gaps in current research, support and legal services for victims. Suggests there has been an historic reluctance to disclose, study or respond to incidents of marital rape, and some of the consequences this can have for women’s health and well-being are identified. The importance of changing cultural and community attitudes in addition to instituting legal and social reforms is emphasised. [Appended From Merge Migration] Just two decades ago in most Australian states and territories, men were able to rape their wives with immunity. Rape in marriage was quite simply not a crime. While state legislatures have enacted laws that now address men’s licence to rape1 women with whom they share marital or established relationships, our understanding of whether this resulted in effectively changing the social, cultural and legal responses to sexual violence by male intimate partners is surprisingly limited.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/12110
ISBN:	9780642395108
Physical description:	39 p. ; 30 cm.
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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