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Pressure to hold the family together, visa worries and fear of social exclusion can make it harder to leave abusive relationships.
Restorative justice isn’t appropriate in every case of intimate partner violence. But it could bring justice to some survivors if it adheres to six important principles.
Violence toward animals and people often occur together. Understanding these connections can improve safety and outcomes for both.
One woman said her husband and his friends told her that, in Australia, police strip-search women who complain about domestic violence.
Guns are what make violent partners so dangerous. And in the US, Black women get less protection from laws meant to keep firearms out of abusers’ hands.
Intimate partner violence increases women’s risk of suicidal thoughts and actions by two- to five-fold.
Debates over Bill C-223 should focus not on whether reform is needed but on how to protect children while preserving flexibility for complex, highly individualized cases.
Women are at highest risk of being hurt or killed after separating from a potentially violent partner, but interventions such as taking away the former partner’s firearms can protect them.
A new study of nearly 40,000 family violence reports shows more than 99% of people with risk factors for killing a family member don’t go on to do so.
Labour migration separated husbands and wives for long periods.
More than 1,100 Canadian women and girls have been killed by men since 2018. So why is the federal government dragging its heels in adding femicide to the Criminal Code?
Lethal domestic violence is persistent, despite a statewide decline in overall homicides.
Exposure to violence during the first 1,000 days (from conception to the age of 2 years) has lifelong consequences for children’s health and development.
Uncontrolled inflammation is usually thought to be the culprit behind asthma. But in asthma patients who have survived intimate partner violence, a possible new pattern is emerging.
The way someone forms emotional bonds with their caregivers as a child can increase the risk they’ll be violent to a partner later in life. But other factors play an important role.
For hate crime legislation to be more than symbolic, crimes motivated by hatred must be reported, recorded, prosecuted and sentenced as hate crimes
Without comprehensive legislative and societal reforms to address intimate partner violence, the measures in Bill C-21 risk being little more than a bandage on a gaping wound.
Although there is a strong rationale for using popular media to confront sexual assault, many teachers identify and experience barriers to doing so in their classrooms.
One woman told the researchers: ‘He would come home and tell me that the group agreed with him.’
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Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
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Managing Director, Her Story Consulting & Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University
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PhD Candidate, Western University
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Professor of Family Violence Prevention, The University of Melbourne
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Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor of Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Professor of Law and Deputy Director of the Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW), The University of Melbourne
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Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Research Technician at RESOLVE (Research and Education for Solutions to Violence and Abuse), University of Manitoba
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Professor and Co-Lead of the Sexual and Family Violence Program at the Department of General Practice & Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan
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Senior lecturer, University of Exeter
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer in Criminology, University of Liverpool