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Horizons Research Report 01 (2018),
Date
2018-01,
Description
This paper looks at innovative models to reduce family violence in remote Indigenous communities in Australia. It draws on a qualitative study of three Indigenous organisations: Marninwarntikura Women's Resource Centre, in Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia; Darwin Aboriginal and Islander Women's Shelter, in the Northern Territory; and Barambah Child Care Agency, Cherbourg, Queensland. It discusses place-based responses, the inclusion of men, court systems and justice, national policies and mainstream services, police and coercive control, trauma-informed responses, and intersectionality. The paper calls for a paradigm shift that moves attention away from a simple criminal justice model towards collective processes of community healing grounded in Indigenous knowledge.,
Notes
This material was produced with funding from the Australian Government and the Australian state and territory governments. Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety (ANROWS) gratefully acknowledges the financial and other support it has received from these governments, without which this work would not have been possible. The findings and views reported in this paper are those of the authors and cannot be attributed to the Australian Government, or any Australian state or territory government.,
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Table of contents
Executive summary -- Introduction -- State of knowledge paper -- Closing the gap -- Research methods and Indigenous knowledge -- The problem with law -- Coercive control, fights and gate keeping -- Western Australia -- Northern Territory -- Cherbourg -- Moving forward a new family violence approach -- Centring Indigenous experiences -- Coordination, integration and Indigenous women -- A paradigm shift -- Concluding comments -- References -- Appendix A: Family and domestic violence legislation,
Language
English,
Subject
Family violence,
Aboriginal communities,
Prevention,
Intervention,
Abused women,
Publisher name
Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety,
Place of publication
Alexandria,
Series
Horizons Research Report 01 (2018),
Format
2 documents : colour illustrations ; 30 cm.,
File type
application/pdf,
ISBN
9781925372687 (online),
9781925372700 (print),
Use
Copyright,
Copyright owner
Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety,