National Conference on Domestic Violence

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Proceedings of a seminar held 11-15 November 1985

Contents

Volume 1

Preface

Section I: Opening address

• Richard Harding
• Lionel Bowen

Section II: Violence as experience: commentaries on individual and structural issues

• Life after the refuge
  Kerryn
• The syndrome of battered women
  Dawn Rowan
• Marginalisation and migrant women in refuges
  Anna Moo
• Migrant women and domestic violence: the dilemma of whether to stay or leave
  Eloise Maglizza
• Problems facing migrant women in domestic violence
  Irene Ciurak
• Domestic violence: Aboriginal women's viewpoint
  Beverley Ridgeway
• Repressive structures and the production of domestic violence: the family
  Yvonne Carnahan
• Breaking the silence of the church on domestic violence
  Jean Gledhill

Section III: Theoretical accounts: the construction of a phenomenon

• The foreigner within the walls
  Alicia Lee
• Love will tear us apart: domestic violence and sexuality
  Vivien Johnson
• 'Still the same old story ...': pornography and violence against women
  Jocelynne Scutt
• Desperately seeking solutions: changing battered women's options since 1880
  Judith Allen

Section IV: Research and methodology: inquiry and its techniques

• The impact of research on police practices: a case study of the Minneapolis domestic violence experiment
  Lawrence Sherman, Joel Garner, Ellen Cohn, Edwin Hamilton
• Report on the 1985 Community Program on Domestic Violence
  Clarita Norman
• Marital rape: the misunderstood crime
  David Finkelhor
• Methodological perspectives on 'domestic violence'
  Rosemary Knight, Suzanne Hatty
• After the refuge: methodological issues in follow up survey
  Judith Healy
• Community consultations in country areas: experiences of the Domestic Violence Task Force in Western Australia
  Nina Shatifan

Section V: Intervention: responses to structural and individual issues

• Domestic violence: ideology and practice
  Barbara Younger
• Ten years on: a review of women's refuges in New South Wales
  Jenny Noesjirwan
• Therapeutic approaches to domestic violence
  Kerrie James, Deborah McIntyre
• Preventing domestic violence: the role of community services
  George Walker, Fran Baum
• The Domestic Violence Service: a new experiment in South Australia
  Suzanne Heath, Libby Hicks-Maitland, Rosie McDonell, Patricia Rich, Leo Ryan, David Kinnear, Claire Pratz
• Working with violent men: issues, programs and training
  David Wehner
• On the reproduction of misogyny: the therapeutic management of violence against women
  Suzanne Hatty

Volume 2

Section VI: The pursuit of justice: the law, the police and the courts

• The case of Beryl Birch
  Zoe Rathus
• Policy as chivalry: the criminalisation of wife battering
  Linda MacLeod
• Legal responses to domestic violence - what is appropriate?
  Nicholas Seddon
• Policing violence against women
  Suzanne Hatty, Jeanna Sutton
• Domestic violence reforms in New South Wales: policy and practice
  Julie Stubbs
• Australian domestic violence legislation: proposals for change
  Helen Long
• The South Australia Police Department's restraint order system: 'three years later'
  Philip Cornish
• Domestic violence: the South Australian Police perspective
  Vicki Jacobs
• Police response to domestic violence, Victoria
  Jude McCulloch
• The police role in domestic violence: some implications for training
  Noel Comley
• The Family Court and domestic violence: more of the rack and less of the rubric
  Peter Waters
• Family violence - perpetuation and aftermath in the Family Court: an introduction
  Kay Moore
• Family violence - perpetuation and aftermath in the Family Court: a lawyer's perspective
  Myf Christie

Section VII: Closing address

• Pat Giles

Section VIII: Concluding overview: The conference agenda

• Duncan Chappell

Section IX: Future directions: resolutions and recommendations

Appendix 1: Statement from a group of men at the National conference on domestic violence