PI.17.02
The views of Australian judicial officers on domestic and family violence perpetrator interventions
1.5 years
Despite increasing acknowledgement of the importance of perpetrator interventions in the delivery of integrated responses to domestic and family violence (DFV) and promoting perpetrator accountability, there remains very little understanding of how Magistrates and other judicial officers view, manage and use perpetrator interventions.
This national project explores the views, understandings and practices of judicial officers (justices, judges and Magistrates) in relation to DFV perpetrator interventions.
The research has three key components:
- interviews with judicial officers and other relevant stakeholders;
- a review of mentions of perpetrator interventions in sentencing remarks in intimate partner homicide cases; and
- documentary and policy analysis, including a review of national and international best practice for perpetrator interventions.
The findings of this project illuminate the views of judicial officers about perpetrator interventions and offer new knowledge about how these views might influence the use of these interventions in DFV matters.
Further information
Additional information about this project can be found on the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre website.
Researchers
Project Lead
Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Monash University
Research expertise
Professor JaneMaree Maher, Monash University
Professor Jude McCulloch, Monash University
Kate Thomas, Monash University
Dr Jasmine McGowan, Monash University
Jessica Burley, Monash University
Dr Naomi Pfitzner, Monash University
Practice Expertise
Professor Gregory Reinhardt, The Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration
Cynthia Marwood, The Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council
Presentations
Keeping Perpetrators in View: How do we see the ‘Web of Accountability’? from Monash Arts
Budget
$179,890
Funded by Commonwealth Department of Social Services.