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Research

Our research

Violence against women and children affects everybody. It impacts on the health, wellbeing and safety of a significant proportion of Australians throughout all states and territories and places an enormous burden on the nation’s economy across family and community services, health and hospitals, income-support and criminal justice systems.

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

News and events

ANROWS hosts events as part of its knowledge transfer and exchange work, including public lectures, workshops and research launches. Details of upcoming ANROWS activities and news are available from the list on the right.

ANROWS

About ANROWS

ANROWS was established by the Commonwealth and all state and territory governments of Australia to produce, disseminate and assist in applying evidence for policy and practice addressing violence against women and children.

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

Resources

To support the take-up of evidence, ANROWS offers a range of resources developed from research to support practitioners and policy-makers in delivering evidence-based interventions.

Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Program


The Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) Death Review Program is a partnership between the Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network (the Network) and ANROWS. The partnership produces landmark research exploring DFV-related deaths in Australia.


About the Network

The Network was established in 2011 to identify, collect, analyse and report data on domestic and family violence-related deaths across Australia. The Network aims to identify limitations and potential areas for improvement in systemic responses to domestic and family violence.

Past and current research

Filicides in a domestic and family violence context 2010–2018

Completed: July 2024

This report presents the first national figures for filicides that have occurred in Australia in the context of domestic and family violence (DFV). In this research, DFV context means the filicide was preceded by an identifiable history of child abuse, intimate partner violence, or both.

The report examines the characteristics of filicide victims and offenders, as well as some of the broader characteristics of filicide. In doing so, this report adds to the national knowledge base of DFV-context filicide and the drivers of DFV.

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Intimate partner violence homicides 2010-2018

Completed: March 2022

ANROWS and the Network worked in collaboration to update the Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network Data Report 2018 to include intimate partner homicide data from July 2010 to June 2018.

The study used a retrospective population-based case series analysis to examine the deaths of people who were killed by their current or former intimate partner following a history of domestic violence in Australia between 1 July 2010 and 30 June 2018. The data are sourced through death review teams in each Australian jurisdiction, and draw on coronial files, briefs of evidence, police reports, media reporting, sentencing remarks and agency records.

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Researchers

Project leads

Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network

ANROWS

Research team:
The Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network, consisting of

ANROWS Death Review team

Victorian Systemic Review of Family Violence Deaths, Coroners Court of Victoria

Domestic Violence Death Review Team, NSW Department of Communities and Justice

Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Unit, Coroners Court of Queensland

Australian Capital Territory, Domestic and Family Violence Death Review, Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Office, Community Services Directorate


Downloads

RESEARCH REPORT

Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network data report: Filicides in a domestic and family violence context 2010–2018

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RESEARCH REPORT

Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network Data Report: Intimate partner violence homicides 2010–2018

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see also

MEDIA RESOURCE

Tips for reporting findings from Australia’s first national report on filicides in the context of domestic and family violence

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FACT SHEET

“Who is gonna be that voice?” What we know about parents killing their children in the context of domestic and family violence

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FACT SHEET

Updated facts about intimate partner homicide

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See also

Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network national data update

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Missing, murdered and incarcerated Indigenous women in Australia:
A literature review

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Media release: 
Intimate partner violence found in majority of cases of a parent killing their child

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