Type:	Conference Paper
Title:	Community-academic research partnerships, the challenges and rewards: A Canadian experience
Other Titles:	WOW, Wellbeing of Women conference proceedings : research and practice
Authors:	Ursel, Jane
Keywords:	Interagency work;Criminal justice responses;Policy
Year:	2004
Publisher:	Community of Scholars, Gender Woman and Social Policy, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga
Notes:	Conference held at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga NSW on 10 December 2003. This paper outlines the Canadian research experience of academics working in partnerships with the community, and a history of their research network called Research and Education for Solutions to Violence and Abuse (RESOLVE) that focuses on interpersonal violence and violence against women. It also describes the various challenges including organisationally, money and trust issues, and community representations. A flowchart diagram of the organisational structure and process of community-academic partnerships is included. Benefits of the partnership are highlighted, including the recent success of obtaining one million Canadian dollars to follow a panel of women over a 5-year period to address the question of how to determine the most effective way of assisting women who have been abused; and how to assess the best determinants of women achieving a violence-free home. The scope of RESOLVE research includes small local studies to large projects on a national level. It mentions research in the final year of a 3-year study looking at the justice systems' response to family violence, since each province has different legislation for protection orders and different strategies. It emphasises the value of multi-jurisdictional studies in comparing institutional responses to domestic violence across the different Canadian jurisdictions, in order to learn from these inter-jurisdictional comparisons, giving the community and policy makers evidence-based results about the impact of each institutional model (whether it is specialised Family Violence Court; components of specialisation; or specialisation only at the police level). [Appended From Merge Migration] Evidence is given to support the concerns about high levels of family violence in regional Australia, and the limited attention to regional differences in research, policy and programs. Consistent with the directions of other Australian and overseas jurisdictions, commencing in 1982, New South Wales has implemented legislative reforms aimed at extending legal protections to women and children experiencing family violence. The recent review of the Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) legislation falls short of introducing a rehabilitative focus that extends support to applicants for civil jurisdiction protection orders and increases accountability and responsibility of perpetrators of criminal and non-criminal acts of family violence. Successive legislative reforms have proceeded in the absence of official data on the number and rate of AVO applications and outcomes, and the proportion of applications in which criminal proceedings were also initiated against the perpetrator. Analysis of published and unpublished Attorney-General's Department data provides evidence of variation in the overall impact of the Scheme through time and across court locations. At Wagga Wagga, an inland rural town, concerned critics of the AVO scheme are discussing the potential for collaboration in evidence-led praxis in a local initiative that aims to improve the justice response to family violence and increase its supportive and rehabilitative focus. Times Cited: 0Moore, ElizabethWellbeing of Women Conference 2003 (WOW)Dec 10, 2003Wagga Wagga, AUSTRALIA
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/20868
ISBN:	9781864671520
Appears in Collections:	Conference Papers

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