Research and projects
COVID-19 project work
Criminal justice responses to family violence
- Australia - Brazil Partnership & Exchange (current)
- Domestic Violence Disclosure Schemes (current)
- Accessing the Family Violence Provision: enhancing migrant women’s safety (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)
Gender Equality and Primary Prevention
- Impact Measurement of the COVID-19 Community Fund (current)
- National stocktake and gap analysis of Respectful Relationships Education (current)
- New Parents, New Possibilities - Family Violence Prevention for LGBTIQ+ Parented Families (2019)
- Respectful Relationships (current)
- Respect Matters (current)
- Safe and Equal @ Work program (current)
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)
National Plan
- National Plan Consultation Project (current)
Patterns of family violence
- Adolescent family violence in Australia: A national study of prevalence, use of and exposure to violence, and support needs for young people (current)
- International Network Addressing Filial Violence (current)
- Supporting family reunification in child protection (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 (2021)
- 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)
Temporary Migration and Family Violence
- Accessing the Family Violence Provision: enhancing migrant women’s safety (current)
- Evaluation for the Northern Community Legal Centre of Abused and Abandoned: Family Violence in the Australian Indian Community (current)
- Migrant and Refugee Women in Australia Survey Gender-based violence and help-seeking behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic. (2021)
- Temporary migration and family violence: An analysis of victimisation, support and vulnerability (2017)
- Family Violence and Temporary Visa Holders During COVID-19 (current)
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)