Resources

Our research published in international journals include reviews on reforms, frameworks and living with the legacy of domestic violence.

2026

Helps, N., McGowan, J., & Meyer, S. (2026). Victim–Survivors Accounts of Men's Change: Findings From a Combined Alcohol and Other Drug Use and Domestic Violence Intervention. Research on Social Work Practice, 36(1), 73-84.

Roberts, S., De Bondt, J., Acosta, C., Wescott, S., Pfitzner, N., Phelan, A., & McCook, S. (2026). From Compliance to Stewardship: How University Executives Must Meet the Challenge of the ‘New Misogyny’ on Campus. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 23(2). https://doi.org/10.53761/1y6aaq52

2025

Pfitzner, N. (2025). Lessons from lockdown: Designing flexible, responsive domestic and family violence service systems, Violence Against Women. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012251379422

Cho, H. (2025). Filling the gaps: Grassroots prevention of domestic and family violence within the Korean Australian community. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 9(2), 168–188.

Cho, H., Noh, J-E., & Papoutsis, L. (2025). Navigating faith and safety: The role of faith-based communities addressing family violence in a migrant context. Journal of Gender Studies.

Elliott, K., Block, K., Cho, H., & Murdolo, A. (2025). It’s really important that we listen to them: Engaging immigrant men in family violence prevention. Journal of Family Violence

Ralph, B., Helps, N., McGowan, J., & Fitz-Gibbon, K. (2025). Understanding Participant (Dis) Engagement From Domestic Violence Perpetrator Group Programs: A Review and Qualitative Synthesis. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 15248380251381824.

Reeves, E., & McGowan, J. (2025). Using a Queer Theoretical and Identity-Based Framework to Understand Bisexual Women’s Experiences of Coercive Control. Journal of Bisexuality, 1-30.

Tan, S., Segrave, M., Vasil, S., & Cho, H. (2025). Editorial. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 9(2), 1–15.

Scott, B., Pfitzner, N., & Fitz-Gibbon, K. (2025). Queering police legitimacy theories: (dis)trust, context, and visibility. Policing and Society, 35(8), 1068–1083. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2025.2453449

McGowan, J., Helps, N., & Fitz-Gibbon, K. (2025). The role of perpetrator interventions in acknowledging children as victim-survivors of domestic and family violence in their own right. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 37(1), 172-184.

Reeves, E., McGowan, J., & Scott, B. (2025). ‘It was dangerous, corrosive and cruel but not illegal’: Legal help-seeking behaviours amongst LGBTQA+ domestic and family violence victim-survivors experiencing coercive control in Australia. Journal of Family Violence, 40(1), 27-38, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-023-00569-9

Vasil, S., Segrave, M., Tan, S. J. & Cho, H. (2025). Intersectionality in policy: Feminist breakthrough? Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 9(2), 308–318.

2024

Meyer, S., Helps, N., McGowan, J., & Williamson, H. (2024). Domestic violence and alcohol and other drug use: Australian pilot intervention findings. Research on Social Work Practice, 34(7), 781-792.

2023

Pfitzner, N., & McGowan, J. (2023). Locked out or let in? Learning from victim-survivors’ remote help-seeking experiences during COVID-19. Journal of Gender-Based Violence,10(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1332/23986808Y2023D000000007

Vasil, S. and Segrave, M. (2023), Beyond Technology-Facilitated Abuse: Domestic and Family Violence and Temporary Migration, The British Journal of Criminology, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azad023

Brown, C., Fiolet, R., McKay, D., and Harris, B. (2023), Exploring the use of story completion to understand the perpetration of technology-facilitated abuse in relationships, Qualitative Research Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/QRJ-03-2023-0035

Reeves, E., McGowan, J. and Scott, B. (2023), ‘It was Dangerous, Corrosive and Cruel but not Illegal’: Legal help-seeking Behaviours Amongst LGBTQA+ Domestic and Family Violence Victim-survivors Experiencing Coercive Control in Australia, Journal of Family Violence, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-023-00569-9

Tan, S. (2023), When the Home Is Also the Workplace: Women migrant domestic workers’ experiences with the ‘live-in’ policy in Singapore and Hong Kong, Anti-Trafficking Review, 0 (20),  https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.201223205

Fitz-Gibbon, K., Pfitzner, N. and McNicol, E. (2023), Domestic and family violence leave across Australian workplaces: Examining victim-survivor experiences of workplace supports and the importance of cultural change, Journal of Criminology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/26338076221148203

Vasil, S. (2023), “I Came Here, and it Got Worse Day by Day”: Examining the Intersections Between Migrant Precarity and Family Violence Among Women with Insecure Migration Status in Australia, Violence Against Women, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012231159414

Dragiewicz, M., Woodlock, D., Easton, H., Harris, B., and salter, M. (2023), “I’ll be Okay”: Survivors’ Perspectives on Participation in Domestic Violence Research, Journal of Family Violence https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-023-00518-6

Keel, C., Wickes, R., Lee, M., Jackson, J., and Benier, K. (2023), Vulnerability in the Neighborhood: A Study of Perceived Control Over Victimization, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency https://doi.org/10.1177/00224278221150280

Reeves, E. (2023), A Culture of Consent: Legal Practitioners’ Experiences of Representing Women Who Have Been Misidentified as Predominant Aggressors on Family Violence Intervention Orders in Victoria, Australia. Feminist Legal Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-022-09506-5

Walklate, S. and Fitz-Gibbon, K. (2023) Domestic violence disclosure schemes: the opportunities and limits of technology and information sharing. In B. Harris and D. Woodlock (eds.) Technology and Domestic and Family Violence: Victimisation, Perpetration and Responses. Routledge, pp.163-173.

Fitz-Gibbon, K. & Walklate, S. (2023). Cause of death: femicide. Mortality. 0, 1 - 14. DOI: 10.1080/13576275.2022.2155509

2022

Lee, M., Ellis, J. R., Keel, C., Wickes, R., & Jackson, J. (2022). When Law-And-Order Politics Fail: Media Fragmentation and Protective Factors That Limit the Politics of Fear. The British Journal of Criminology, 62(5), 1270-1288. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac038

Walklate, S., Fitz-Gibbon, K., Reeves, E., Meyer, S. and McGowan, J. (2022). In control, out of control or losing control? Making sense of men's reported experiences of coercive control through the lens of hegemonic masculinity. Journal of Criminology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/26338076221127452

Pfitzner, N., Walklate, S. and McCulloch, J. (2022). Body Worn Cameras: An effective or cosmetic policing response to family violence?, Criminology and Criminal Justice. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F17488958221108478

DeKeseredy W.S., Pritchard A.J., Stoneberg, D.M. & Nolan, J. (2022). Racial/ethnic variations in the polyvictimization of college women: results from a large-scale campus climate survey. Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice. https://doi.org/10.1080/15377938.2022.2092575

McNicol, E. (2022). The Significance of Socialism in Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe. Australian Journal of French Studies, 59(3), 253-266, https://doi.org/10.3828/ajfs.2022.20

Cook, E. A., Walklate, S., & Fitz-Gibbon, K. (2022). Re-imagining what counts as femicide. Current Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921221106502

Vakhitova, Z. I., Mawby, R. I., Helps, N., & Alston-Knox, C. L. (2022). Tourism and Crime: An Exploratory Study of Burglary From Tourist Accommodation From the Criminal Opportunity Perspective. Crime & Delinquency. https://doi.org/10.1177/00111287221106962

Vakhitova, Z., Iliadis, M., Harris, B., Tyson, D., and Flynn, A. (2022) ‘The merits and risks of body-worn camera footage in domestic and family violence incidents and legal proceedings: a study of police perceptions and experiences’, Policing and Society, doi: 10.1080/10439463.2022.2082421

Keel, C. Wickes, R. and Benier, K. (2022), ‘The vicarious effects of hate: inter-ethnic hate crime in the neighborhood and its consequences for exclusion and anticipated rejection’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45(7), 1-21. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2021.1930094

Reeves, E. (2022), ‘The potential introduction of police-issued family violence intervention orders in Victoria, Australia: Considering the unintended consequences’, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 1-12, doi: 10.1080/10345329.2021.20211721

Pfitzner, N., Fitz-Gibbon, K. and Meyer, S. (2022) ‘Responding to women experiencing domestic and family violence during the COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring experiences and impacts of remote service delivery in Australia’, Child & Family Social Work, 27(1), 30-40, doi: 10.1111/cfs.12870

Fitz-Gibbon, K. (2022) Gender, the Criminal Law and Violence against Women: Mapping the limits of legal interventions and approaches to reform. In A. Gibbs and F. Gilmour. (eds) Women, Crime and Justice in Australia and New Zealand: Contemporary Perspectives in Feminist Criminology, Routledge, Chapter 4. For. further details about the edited collection, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/Women-Crime-and-Justice-in-Context-Contemporary-Perspectives-in-Feminist/Gibbs-Gilmour/p/book/9780367321437

2021

Helps, N. & Segrave, M. (2021), ‘Move-on powers and practices of social exclusion: an examination of governance’, Policing and Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2021.2011276

Walklate, S. and Fitz-Gibbon, K. (2021), ‘Why criminalise coercive control? The complicity of the criminal law in punishing women through furthering the power of the state’, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. 10(4): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.1829

Segrave, M. (2021), ‘Temporary Migration and Family Violence: How Perpetrators Weaponise Borders’, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 10(4): 26-38. https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.1995

Godfrey, B., Richardson, J.C. and Walklate, S. (2021), ‘The Crisis in the Courts: Before and Beyond Covid’, The British Journal of Criminology. XX: 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azab110

Segrave, M., and Tan S. J. (2021) ‘Women migrant workers and counter-trafficking responses in Association of Southeast Asian Nations: The enduring challenge of safety and security’. Journal of Criminology. August 2021. Doi:10.1177/26338076211037077

Gatfield, E., O’Leary, P., Meyer, S. and Baird, K. (2021) ‘A multitheoretical perspective for addressing domestic and family violence: supporting fathers to parent without harm’. Journal of Social Work. September 2021. Doi: 10.1177/14680173211028562

Clough A. and Fitz-Gibbon, K. (2021) ‘The outdated defence of non-violent homosexual advance: Australian Provocation Reform and Lessons for English Homicide Law.’ Journal of International and Comparative Law, 8(1): 121-142.  https://www.jicl.org.uk/journal/june-2021/the-outdated-defence-of-non-violent-homosexual-advance-australian-provocation-reform-and-lessons-for-english-homicide-law

Reeves, E. (2021) ‘I’m not at all protected and I think other women should know that, that they’re not protected either’: Victim-Survivors’ experiences of ‘Misidentification’ in Victoria’s family violence system. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 10(2), https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.1992

Fitz-Gibbon, K., & Pfitzner, N. (2021). 'Ensuring access to justice for women experiencing family violence beyond the pandemic', Alternative Law Journal, 46(1), 3–4. DOI: 10.1177/1037969X211007651.

Walklate, S. (2021) ‘Criminological futures and gendered violence(s): Lessons from the global pandemic for criminology’, Journal of Criminology, DOI: 10.1177/00048658211003629.

Pierobom de Ávila, T., & Lopes Gomes Pinto Ferreira, G. (2021) ‘Primary prevention policies to face domestic violence against women: lessons from Australia to Brazil’, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 9(4): https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.1807

Myer, S., Reeves, E., & Fitz-Gibbon. K. (2021) 'The intergenerational transmission of family violence: Mothers' perceptions of children's experiences and use of violence in the home', Child & Family Social Work, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12830

Walklate, S., & Fitz-Gibbon, K. (2020 [2021]) 'Why Criminalise Coercive Control? The Complicity of the Criminal Law in Punishing Women Through Furthering the Power of the State', International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 9(4): https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.1829

Meyer, S., & Reeves, E. (2021) 'Policies, procedures and risk aversity: police decision-making in domestic violence matters in an Australian jurisdiction', Policing and Society, DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2020.1869234

Barlow, C., & Walklate, S. (2021) 'Gender, risk assessment and coercive control: Contradictions in terms?', The British Journal of Criminology, 2021;, azaa104, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azaa104

2020

Fitz-Gibbon, K. & Walklate, S. (2020) ‘Eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls: some criminological reflections on the challenges of measuring success and gauging progress’. In Blaustein, J., Fitz-Gibbon, K., Pino, N.W. and White, R. (eds) The Emerald Handbook of Crime, Justice and Sustainable Development. Emerald: UK.

Meyer, S., & Stambe, R. (2020). 'Mothering in the context of violence: Indigenous and non-Indigenous mothers’ experiences in regional settings in Australia', Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Online first: https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260520975818 .

Meyer, S., Burley, J., & Fitz-Gibbon, K. (2020) ‘Combining Group-based Interventions for Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrators With Comorbid Substance Use: An Australian Study of Cross-sector Practitioner Views’ Journal of Interpersonal Violence [online]. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260520969244

Reeves, E. & Meyer, S. (in press). 'Marginalized Women, Domestic, and Family Violence Reforms and Their Unintended Consequences.' In E. Erez & P. Ibarral (Eds.), Oxford Encyclopedia of International Criminology. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Williams, L. & Walklate, S. (2020). 'Policy responses to domestic violence, the criminalisation thesis and 'learning from history'. The Howard Journal, 59(3), pp. 305-316.

Bakon, S., Taylor, A. & Meyer, S. et al (2020) ‘The provision of emergency healthcare for women who experience intimate partner violence: part 2. Strategies to address knowledge deficits and negative attitudes’. Emergency Nurse. doi: 10.7748/en.2020.e1994

Cook, E. & Walklate, S. (2020) ‘Gendered objects and gendered spaces: The invisibilities of ‘knife’ crime’, Current Sociology [Online]

McCulloch, J., Maher, JM., Walklate, S., McGowan, J. & Fitz-Gibbon, K. (2020), ‘Justice perspectives of women with disability: An Australian story’, International Review of victimology [online].

Meyer, S. & Stambe, R.M. (2020) ‘Indigenous women’s experiences of domestic and family violence, help-seeking and recovery in regional Queensland’, The Australian Journal of Social Issues, pp1-16 [online].

Meyer, S. & Williamson, H. (2020) General and specific perceptions of procedural justice: Factors associated with perceptions of police and court responses to domestic and family violence. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology [Online] https://doi.org/10.1177/0004865820935941

Pfitzner, N., Humphreys, C. & Hegarty, K. (2020). Bringing men in from the margins: Father-inclusive practices for the delivery of parenting interventions. Child & Family Social Work, 1–9. [online]