Research and projects

COVID-19 project work

• Gender-based violence and help-seeking behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic (current)
• Temporary Migration and Family Violence (current)

Criminal justice responses to family violence

• Australia - Brazil Partnership & Exchange (current)
• Domestic Violence Disclosure Schemes (current)
• Domestic and Family Violence Death Reviews (2020)
• Evaluation of the Fast Tracking Initiative in the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria (2019)
• The criminalisation of coercive control: A national study of victim-survivors’ views on the need for, benefits, risks and impacts of criminalisation (current)
• Innovative legal responses to the prevention of intimate partner homicide in the UK, US and Canada (2016)

Intimate partner homicide

• Securing women's lives: Preventing intimate partner homicide (current)
• Domestic and Family Violence Death Reviews (2020)
• Innovative legal responses to the prevention of intimate partner homicide in the UK, US and Canada (2016)

Patterns of family violence

• International Network Addressing Filial Violence (current)
• Investigating adolescent family violence (current)
• Identifying economic abuse for women with disability in Victoria (2019)
• Women, disability and violence: Creating access to justice (2018)
• Temporary migration and family violence: An analysis of victimisation, support and vulnerability (2017)

Perpetrator interventions

• Evaluation of Taskforce early intervention for family violence (U-Turn) program (current)
• Family violence perpetrator focused screening and risk assessment: identifying current practice and future opportunities (current)
• Perpetrator Interventions in Australia: A national study of judicial views and sentencing practice for domestic violence offenders (2020)
• Evaluation of the Fast Tracking Initiative in the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria (2019)
• Review of Minimum Standards for Men’s Behaviour Change Programs (2017)

Police

• Evaluation of Trial of Digitally Recorded Evidence in Chief – Family Violence (2020)
• Evaluation Framework: Victoria Police Specialist Investigators Support Unit (2020)

Risk assessment

• Family violence perpetrator focused screening and risk assessment: identifying current practice and future opportunities (current)
• CRAF Review of the Family Violence Risk Assessment and Risk Management Framework in Victoria (2016)

Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence related work

• Royal Commission into Family Violence related research (current)
• Review of the Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme (2020)
• Evaluation of Trial of Digitally Recorded Evidence in Chief – Family Violence (2020)
• Review of Minimum Standards for Men’s Behaviour Change Programs (2017)
• CRAF Review of the Family Violence Risk Assessment and Risk Management Framework in Victoria (2016)