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Thursday, 25 August 2022 16:45

Domestic Violence and Abuse [JPIC Issue 05]

jpic domesticabuse 350The issue of domestic abuse is a national emergency: one in four Australian women has experienced violence or another form of abuse from an intimate partner. It is a gendered crime which is deeply rooted in the societal inequality between men and women.

Of the 87,000 women killed globally in 2017, more than a third (30,000) were killed by an intimate partner, and another 20,000 by a family member. In Australia, a country of almost 25 million, one woman is killed every nine days by a current or former partner.

(Jess Hill, “See What You Made Me Do,” 2019).

What is domestic abuse?

Domestic abuse is an incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening, degrading and violent behaviour, including sexual violence, in the majority of cases by a partner or ex-partner, but also by a family member or carer. In the vast majority of cases it is experienced by women and is perpetrated by men. It can include, but is not limited to: 
  • Coercive control (a pattern of intimidation, degradation, isolation and control with the use or threat of physical or sexual violence)
  • Psychological and/or emotional abuse
  • Physical or sexual abuse
  • Financial or economic abuse
  • Harassment and stalking
  • Online or digital abuse. 
 
(2020 Women’s Aid Federation)

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