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FAMILY VIOLENCE AND FAMILY LAW IN AUSTRALIA: THE EXPERIENCES AND VIEWS OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS FROM FAMILIES WHO SEPARATED POST-1995 AND POST-2006


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Geographic Coverage	Frequency	Data Availability
National New South Wales Victoria Queensland Western Australia South Australia Tasmania ACT Northern Territory Regional LGA ASGC Remoteness Other	More than annual Annual 2-4 yearly Less than 5 yearly Once only Ad hoc	Detailed publication / report publicly available Data cubes / spreadsheets publicly available Agency annual report Customised data - free upon request1 Customised data - charged consultancy1 Not published - may be available on request1 Not publicly available

• The effect that a history or existence of violence within the relationship has on the decisions that people make about accessing the courts and dispute resolution services;
• The effect that a history or the existence of violence within the relationship has on the decisions people make while they are at court and at dispute resolution services;
• The effect that a history or the existence of violence within the relationship has on post-separation parenting arrangements.

Data Item	Respondent (Victim1)	Respondent (Secondary victim1)	Offender
Demographics
Age
Sex
Indigenous Status
Disability
Country of Birth
Language spoken
Employment
Education
Income
Geography	Location (urban, rural, remote)	Location (urban, rural, remote)
Other	Race and ethnicity of self	Race and ethnicity	Race and ethnicity of ex-partner
Personal data items
Services used / referrals to services counselling legal financial housing crisis other	Community, health, employment, education, protective services; Views of services and service providers	Access to police, FRSP services, other community service providers, neighbours, extended family, friends; Views of services and service providers
Health factors pregnancy alcohol use / substance use mental illness	Physical health status	Physical health status
FDV-related perceptions satisfaction with police response seriousness/ regarded as criminal whether problem in neighbourhood feelings of safety / fear	Views and understandings of violence and its risks to self and children	Views and understandings of violence witnessed in their family and risks to them Perceptions of their ability to remain safe and to feel protected within their families Perceptions of sources of protection and safety for them when violence occurs; Understandings of issues of abuse and the effects of abuse on them and their parents
Prior history of victimisation / offending	Longevity, frequency, types, nature and extent of any violence and associated levels of fear and intimidation, power and control	Longevity, frequency, types, nature and extent of any violence and associated levels of fear and intimidation, power and control
Known outcomes application for violence order violence order issued offender charged offender went to court offender found guilty offender sentence type child protection involvement time off work / economic costs medical treatment received / type changed routine other		Effects of any violence on them, and their perceptions of the effects on their parents
Other personal data items	Length of relationship with ex-partner; Who initiated the separation; Nature of relationship prior to separation; Reasons for relationship breakdown; Views of self and partner as parents; Views of children’s welfare and/or safety; Effects of any allegations or denials of family violence on them and their children; Understanding of and attitudes to family law and their rights and entitlements, pre- and post-contact with the system; Views on the relationship between family violence, shared care and child support provisions	Length of parent’s separation; Views of their parents’ involvement in their lives; Views of themselves, their siblings and their family situation; Understanding of their rights as children; Understandings of the family law system and its functions

Data Item	Incident
Location home workplace school/place of education/institution public place other
Relationship between parties married/de facto spouse current / former partner/boyfriend/girlfriend parent-child sibling other member of household other relatives relationships of personal or financial dependency
Weapon use type of weapon
Alcohol involved Substance use involved
Physical injury sustained type of injury
Reported to police reasons for not reporting
Other

• Physical abuse
• Sexual abuse
• Psychological /emotional abuse
• Economic abuse
• Social abuse
• Control
• Neglect

Conceptual Framework Element / Sub-element	Amount of Information Available
	None	Some	Detailed
Context
Environmental Factors
Individual pyscho-social factors
Risk
Community prevalence
Community incidence
Understandings and acknowledgments of risk and safety
Incident
Responses
Informal responses
Formal system responses
Impacts/Outcomes
Programs, Research & Evaluation

• an online survey for parents (n=931)
• an online survey for children(n=105; 68 completed)
• two phone-ins for adult (n=105) and child (n=12) victims of family violence, one in South Australia and one in Queensland
• a call-back to a small sample of the online adult respondents who volunteered to be contacted (n=33).

• people who attended a Family Relationship Centre or another family dispute resolution provider
• people who accessed the court system (instead or as well)
• those who did not access either system (but who may or may not have accessed other services)
• children of the above groups of parents where family violence had been or was continuing to be experienced.