Preventing intimate partner homicide in Australia

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Australian Institute of Criminology

Join us in a discussion with Australian homicide researchers about how we can prevent male-perpetrated intimate partner homicide

Intimate partner homicide (IPH) is one of the most common form of homicide in Australia. In 2019-2020, a woman was murdered by their current or former male intimate partner every 11 days. Despite decades of research, every time a woman and their children are murdered, we ask ourselves ‘what could we have been done differently?’This seminar aims to answer this question by exploring opportunities for the prevention of IPH in Australia at different stages across the offender and victim’s life-course. This includes during childhood and adolescence, once the relationship has commenced and when risk appears to escalate in the context of separation. Underpinned by their own and other’s research, each presenter will describe a key opportunity for intervention that is actionable, and the evidence supporting the intervention. <h3>Who is this seminar for?
</h3>This seminar is targeted at policy-makers and practitioners working in the violence against women and children sector, including law enforcement and legal professionals. This seminar is also for any front-line service provider who may have contact with potential victims and perpetrators of IPH.

<h3>About the presenters</h3>Dr Samantha Bricknell is a Research Manager at the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC). She oversees the AIC’s statistical collections, including the National Homicide Monitoring Program, National Deaths in Custody Program and the forthcoming Australian Sexual Offences Statistical collection, as well as the Indigenous Justice Research Program. She holds a PhD from the Australian National University. Samantha has over 15 years of research experience in the areas of homicide, deaths in custody, human trafficking and slavery, family and domestic violence, illicit firearms and environmental crime.

Dr Li Eriksson is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University and a Member of the Griffith Criminology Institute. She is a family violence scholar whose research focuses on the development and pathways of lethal and non-lethal violent offending. She collaborates with leading national and international scholars on grants examining intimate partner femicide in Australia using interview data. Her research has been published in leading academic journals. Prior to her current role, she worked as Research Analyst with the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention.

Associate Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon is Director of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre and an Associate Professor in Criminology at Monash University. Kate is a leading national and internationally recognised scholar in the field of family violence, femicide, criminal justice responses to violence against women, and the impact of criminal law reform in Australia and internationally. The findings of her research have been published in leading academic journals and books. Kate has advised on homicide law reform, family violence and youth justice reviews in several Australian and international jurisdictions. Her research has been cited by the High Court of Australia. In 2016 Kate was appointed as a member of the Victorian Government’s Expert Advisory Committee on Perpetrator Interventions. In 2021 she was appointed Chair of Respect Victoria by the Victorian Government.

Dr Siobhan Lawler is a Senior Research Analyst in the Violence against Women and Children Research Program at the AIC. Siobhan holds a PhD in Medicine from the University of Sydney. Prior to joining the AIC, Siobhan held research positions at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (UNSW) and the Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use (University of Sydney). Her research areas of interest include violence prevention, alcohol and other drugs, sentencing and restorative justice.

Laura Doherty is a Research Analyst in the Violence against Women and Children Research Program at the AIC. She was a co-investigator on the Pathways to Intimate Partner Homicide Project, and has contributed to research on homicide, deaths in custody, drug use in Australia and sexual violence. Laura has also contributed to the AIC’s Statistical Collections, including the National Homicide Monitoring Program and the National Deaths in Custody Program.

Dr Hayley Boxall (Facilitator) is the Manager for the Violence against Women and Children (VAW&C) Research Program at the AIC. Since joining the Institute over 10 years ago, she has published extensively on domestic and family violence (DFV), and has been the primary investigator on a number of projects aimed at improving criminal justice responses to DFV and victim/survivors and understanding pathways/trajectories into DFV offending and intimate partner homicide. Hayley is a member of various government advisory groups on DFV and regularly provides training on various DFV-related topics to policy and practitioner audiences.

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