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dc.contributor.authorFitz-Gibbon, Kate-
dc.contributor.authorWalklate, Sandra-
dc.contributor.authorMcGowan, Jasmine-
dc.contributor.authorMaher, JaneMaree-
dc.contributor.authorMcCulloch, Jude-
dc.coverage.spatialNationalen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-24T05:23:39Z-
dc.date.available2024-07-24T05:23:39Z-
dc.date.issued2024-06-
dc.identifier.urihttps://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/22708-
dc.description.abstract<p>In Australia, at least one woman a week is murdered by her current or former partner. According to Destroy the Joint, this equated to the killing of at least 57 women in 2022 and at least 64 women in 2023 allegedly as a result of men’s violence. At the time of finalising this report, an unusually high number of killings allegedly by men’s violence in the first four months of 2024 in Australia has reignited national attention over the need to better address women’s risk of fatal violence (see, inter alia, AAP, 2024; Priestley, 2024; Tuohy, 2024).</p> <p>Intimate partner homicides are recognised as the most preventable type of homicide because it is assumed that histories of abuse can provide clear indicators of risk (see, inter alia, Bugeja et al., 2013; Dearden & Jones, 2008; Virueda & Payne, 2010). While intimate partner homicides are monitored and examined in Australia via the work of the Australian Institute of Criminology and state-based death review teams, there is no fully funded, multi-systems approach to the prevention of men’s lethal violence against women (McPhedran & Baker, 2012). As in Australia, international efforts to review and count such deaths are carried out in different ways and are often fraught with difficulties (see, inter alia, Walklate et al., 2020; Dawson & Vega, 2023).</p> <p>In Australia and comparable international jurisdictions, a range of provisions, measures, laws and programs are designed to assess and address the risk of intimate partner violence. These include civil orders alongside programs that provide increased levels of protection and monitoring for women deemed at high risk of repeat victimisation. These instruments include the development of various risk assessment and management frameworks (Walklate et al., 2020). While magistrates, police and specialist support services use these instruments to identify and respond to risk (Boxall et al., 2015; Robinson & Moloney, 2010; Wakefield & Taylor, 2015), there is evidence that these approaches are limited by their conceptualisations of risk and in their scale of implementation and inconsistency in application.</p> <p>This project sought to contribute new evidence to inform the further development of whole-of-systems preventive approaches to repeat violence and intimate femicide. Specifically, the project aimed to build evidence based on the following touchpoints:</p> <ul> <li>Places where an intervention between the initial emergence of family violence and the fatal outcomes had occurred.</li> <li>What could potentially be known about those points of intervention.</li> <li>If/how the pathway from intervention to safety could be better supported.</li> </ul> <p>This report presents findings from the collection of over 250 intimate femicide sentencing judgments and the in-depth analyses of 235 of these. These judgements were used, in part, to identify potential points of intervention that might have provided an opportunity to prevent such killings. Sentencing judgments typically include narrative accounts from a judge, who describes how and where the crime took place as well as the circumstances that led to it.</p> <p>This project builds current understandings of the potential points of intervention prior to the killing of women by their male intimate partners. In doing so, this project has contributed to building understanding of who perpetrates intimate femicide.</p>en_US
dc.publisherMonash University and University of Liverpoolen_US
dc.subjectFemicideen_US
dc.subjectIntimate Partner Homicide (IPH)en_US
dc.subjectDomestic and Family Violenceen_US
dc.subjectIntimate Partner Violenceen_US
dc.subjectCriminal Justice Systemen_US
dc.subjectPerpetrator Interventionsen_US
dc.subjectRisk Assessmenten_US
dc.subjectPreventionen_US
dc.subjectHealth Careen_US
dc.subjectPolice, Law, Courts, and Correctionsen_US
dc.subjectDFSV Specific Servicesen_US
dc.subjectChild Protectionen_US
dc.titleSecuring Women’s Lives: Examining System Interactions and Perpetrator Risk in Intimate Femicide Sentencing Judgments Over a Decade in Australiaen_US
dc.typeReporten_US
dc.identifier.urlhttps://doi.org/10.26180/25855543en_US
dc.subject.keywordGender-Based Violenceen_US
dc.subject.keywordDomestic Violence Sentencingen_US
dc.subject.keywordVictim Supporten_US
dc.subject.keywordMurderen_US
dc.subject.keywordMaking Better Use of Existing Dataen_US
dc.subject.keywordWorking with Victim-Survivorsen_US
dc.subject.keywordValuing Practitioners' Expertiseen_US
dc.relation.urlhttps://bridges.monash.edu/articles/report/Securing_women_s_lives_examining_system_interactions_and_perpetrator_risk_in_intimate_femicide_sentencing_judgments_over_a_decade_in_Australia_/25855543?utm_source=Research+Review&utm_campaign=340e58d3c3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_July_ResearchReview&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-d2e4bffb50-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=340e58d3c3&mc_eid=59a24366c7en_US
dc.description.notesOpen accessen_US
dc.description.contentsAcknowledgements<br> Acronyms<br> Introduction<br> What Is Intimate Femicide?<br> About This Project<br> Research Design<br> Sourcing and Identifying the Dataset<br> Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria<br> Australian Intimate Femicide Sentencing Judgment Dataset<br> Data Analysis<br> Data Limitations<br> Intimate Femicide Case Characteristics<br> Characteristics of the Victim<br> Characteristics of the Offender<br> The Relationship Between the Victim and Offender<br> Method of Killing<br> Intimate Femicide and the Impact on Children<br> Perpetrators and the Role of Suicide<br> Offender Risk and Dangerousness<br> Bail and Parole at the Time of the Femicide<br> Prior Convictions and Civil Order Histories<br> Known Histories of Violence<br> No Histories of Legal System Interaction<br> Perpetrator Points of Contact Beyond the Criminal Legal System<br> Perpetrator Engagement With Legal and Service Settings<br> Victim Service Setting Engagement<br> The Role of Bystanders<br> The Invisibility of the Victim in the Sentencing Process<br> Discussion & Conclusion<br> Appendix 1. Process For Gaining Access to Homicide Sentencing Remarks<br> Appendix 2. Other Project Outputs<br>en_US
dc.subject.anratopicPrimary preventionen
dc.subject.anratopicCoercive controlen_US
dc.subject.anratopicImpacts of violenceen_US
dc.subject.anratopicPolicing and legal responsesen_US
dc.subject.anratopicPerpetrator interventionsen_US
dc.subject.anratopicStructural inequitiesen_US
dc.subject.anratopicSystems responsesen_US
dc.subject.anrapopulationAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoplesen_US
dc.subject.anrapopulationChildren and young peopleen_US
dc.subject.anrapopulationPeople who use domestic, family and sexual violenceen_US
dc.subject.anrapopulationPeople with disabilityen_US
dc.subject.anrapopulationPeople with drug and/or alcohol issuesen_US
dc.subject.anrapopulationPeople with mental health issuesen_US
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