Domestic violence typologies : what value to practice? Hayley Boxall, Lisa Rosevear and Jason Payne
By: Boxall, Hayley.
Contributor(s): Rosevear, Lisa | Payne, Jason.
Material type: ArticleSeries: Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice.Publisher: Canberra, ACT : Australian Institute of Criminology, 2015Description: electronic document (9 pages): PDF file: 650 KB; HTML available.Subject(s): DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE | JUSTICE | AUSTRALIAOnline resources: Click here to access online Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, 2015, no. 494Summary: Over the last few decades, understandings of the nature and causes of domestic violence have increased in sophistication. This has been influenced by, and led to, an influx of domestic violence typologies that have attempted to identify differences between groups of offenders and victims based on factors ranging from physiological reactions to specific stimuli through to historical experiences of violence and abuse. While this research has been of undeniable conceptual and theoretical value, its applicability to the day-to-day work of domestic violence practitioners is less clear. This study represents one of the first attempts to speak directly to professionals about how domestic violence typologies inform their everyday decision making and case practice. (Foreword) Record #4724Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, 2015, no. 494
Over the last few decades, understandings of the nature and causes of domestic violence have increased in sophistication. This has been influenced by, and led to, an influx of domestic violence typologies that have attempted to identify differences between groups of offenders and victims based on factors ranging from physiological reactions to specific stimuli through to historical experiences of violence and abuse. While this research has been of undeniable conceptual and theoretical value, its applicability to the day-to-day work of domestic violence practitioners is less clear. This study represents one of the first attempts to speak directly to professionals about how domestic violence typologies inform their everyday decision making and case practice. (Foreword) Record #4724