Web resource:	http://www.adfvc.unsw.edu.au/documents/FinalNewsletter_000.pdf
Type:	Journal Article
Title:	National overview of domestic and family violence initiatives: how far have we come in the past decade, and where to next?
Other Titles:	Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse newsletter
Authors:	Diemer, Kristin Laing, Lesley Wilson, Mirjana Humphreys, Catherine Yaxley, Robin Hartwig, Angela Hughes, Megan Wilcox, Karen Petrou, Nicky Nancarrow, Heather
Keywords:	Overview
Year:	2014
Publisher:	University of New South Wales
Citation:	55, Summer 2014
Notes:	When the Clearinghouse commenced over a decade ago workers responding to and attempting to reduce domestic and family violence were concerned with the impacts of domestic violence on children, the increased rates and seriousness of victimisation experienced by Indigenous women, access and equity to services and justice system responses, particularly for women from CaLD backgrounds and Indigenous women, and for lesbian women. Mandatory arrest strategies were a hot topic and criminal justice system responses, including policing, dominated discussion, whether they involved crime prevention or enhanced protection orders. Some jurisdictions began to investigate integrated or cross-agency responses and specialist violence courts, and there was considerable concern about the economic costs of domestic and family violence. Domestic violence workers and the community at large saw assisting women to leave an abusive relationship as a first line response. In 2014, some of these concerns remain, but there are other issues which have emerged as 'hot topics', and new ways of thinking about and approaching domestic and family violence. The Clearinghouse has played an important role in encouraging discussion and development of many of these issues across the nation. For this final edition of the Clearinghouse Newsletter:, we have invited practitioners from each of the states and territories to provide a brief account of the issues they see as being crucial to work in the response and reduction of domestic and family violence, and Karen Wilcox from the Clearinghouse provides a brief overview of national issues.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/15925
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