| Title: |
A Qualitative Exploration of the Impact of Increasing Criminalization on Domestic Violence Support Workers: Nonfatal Strangulation as a Case Study |
| Authors: |
Sharman, LS; Douglas, H; Fitzgerald, R |
| Publisher Information: |
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
The University of Melbourne: Digital Repository |
| Description: |
Specialized nongovernmental domestic violence (DV) services provide critical support to victim/survivors. This research draws on 14 semistructured focus groups with 27 DV support workers to examine how expanded criminalization impacts support workers' roles using a case study of a 2016 nonfatal strangulation offense legislated in Queensland, Australia. Our results describe a lack of governmental support intersecting with increased complexity and higher workload burden resulting from expanded criminalization. Expansions to criminal law need to account for and critically assess the full system impact of new DV legislation and the added burdens placed on the pivotal third sector of DV services. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
1077-8012 |
| Relation: |
https://hdl.handle.net/11343/366075 |
| Availability: |
https://hdl.handle.net/11343/366075 |
| Rights: |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 ; CC BY |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.303C1CD8 |
| Database: |
BASE |