Building responses to technology-facilitated domestic and family violence

Project team

Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Bridget Harris

Project contact: bridget.harris@monash.edu

Project funding: Australian Research Council

About the project

This project aims to investigate one of Australia’s most pressing social problems: domestic violence and the emerging use of digital technology to enact and escalate abuse and stalking. Technology-facilitated domestic and family violence threatens psychological, emotional and physical wellbeing and safety (and signifies risk of homicide), and
so warrants attention. Existing prevention and regulation responses – including from the community, industry and State – are reviewed. The research expects to provide an evidence base to enhance and develop innovative best-practice and policy.

Relevant outputs

  • Harris, B., & Woodlock, D. (Eds.) (2022). Technology and domestic and family violence: Victimisation, Perpetration and responses. London: Routledge.
  • Harris, B. (2022). Interpersonal violence and technology in rural areas. In J. Donnermeyer, A. Harkness, J. Peterson, M. Bowden & C. Pederson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Rural Crime. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
  • Harris, B., Members of the Independent Collective of Survivors, Dragiewicz, M., & Woodlock, D. (2022). Submission to the Select Committee on Social Media and Online Safety. https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=4660862a-6d86-48d4-962b-6c9fc86b7eee&subId=719377
  • Harris, B. (2021). ‘Technology-enabled abuse: How ‘safety by design’ can reduce stalking and domestic violence’. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/technology-enabled-abuse-how-safety-by-design-can-reduce-stalking-and-domestic-violence-170636
  • Harris, B. (2021). ‘Bagaimana rancangan produk teknologi dapat membantu mengurangi stalking dan kekerasan rumah tangga’. The Conversation Indonesia. https://theconversation.com/bagaimana-rancangan-produk-teknologi-dapat-membantu-mengurangi-stalking-dan-kekerasan-rumah-tangga-171958
  • Harris, B., Dragiewicz, M. & Woodlock, D. (2021). Harris, Dragiewicz and Woodlock Submission on Online Safety Legislation Reform. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/208284/1/BH.MD.DW_SUBMISSION_ON_ONLINE_SAFETY_LEGISLATIVE_REFORM_.pdf
  • Harris, B., Dragiewicz, M. & Woodlock, D. (2021) ‘Positive uses of technology to address domestic violence’. In J. Blaustein, K. Fitz-Gibbon, N.W. Pino & R. White (Eds.), Emerald Handbook of Crime, Justice and Sustainable Development. Great Britain: Emerald, pp. 295-313.
  • Harris, B. (2021) ‘Technology-facilitated domestic and family violence’. In T.P. de Avila, A. Yamamoto, C.E. de Faria, J. McCulloch, K. Carrington (Eds.), Reflections on prevention policies for gender based violence against women and girls: Debates in Brazil and Australia. Brazil: ESMPU, UniCEUB, Monash University, Queensland University of Technology and Australian Embassy in Brazil, pp. 162-169.
  • Harris, B. (2021) ‘Violência doméstica e familiar facilitada pela technologia’ (TFDFV). In T.P. de Avila, A. Yamamoto, C.E. de Faria, J. McCulloch, K. Carrington (Eds.), Reflexões sobre políticas de prevenção à violência de gênero contra mulheres e meninas: debates no Brasil e na Austrália. Brasil: ESMPU, UniCEUB, Monash University, Queensland University of Technology and Australian Embassy in Brasil, pp. 168-175.
  • Harris, B. (2020). ‘Technology, domestic and family violence: Perpetration, experiences and responses’. Centre for Justice Briefing Paper, 4, 1-4.
  • Harris, B. (2020). ‘Technology and violence against women’. In S. Walklate, K. Fitz-Gibbon, J. McCulloch & J.M. Maher (Eds.), Emerald handbook on Feminism, Criminology and Social Change. Great Britain: Emerald, pp. 317-336.