Overview

Drawing on international research and practice, this fully updated new edition of Domestic and Family Violence: A Critical Introduction to Knowledge and Practice examines current debates and research evidence around domestic and family violence, including sexual violence, non-fatal strangulation, and coercive control and explores current legislative reforms. Taking an intersectional perspective, it addresses the deepening gender debate surrounding domestic and family violence and evolving construct of masculinity, new LGBTIQA+ research, and adolescent violence. It also examines victim challenges–including new research on male victimisation–support requirements, and implications for holistic service responses. Domestic and Family Violence provides a necessary update and will be an important resource to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, and social work engaged in studies of domestic and family violence.

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Praise for the 1st Edition ""This book, intended for students and practitioners, will be extremely valuable to each of these audiences. However, it also has the potential to reach other audiences both policy makers and academic. It is clear, accessible and incisive in its coverage of the complex issues surrounding domestic violence. The authors do not shy away from the hotly contested debates within this field but work through them for and with the reader. As a result, it offers the reader a refreshingly honest critical appreciation of what is known, what is yet to be known, and what might be doable as a consequence. Anyone interested in domestic family violence will learn much from it."" Professor Sandra Walklate, Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool, UK ""Meyer and Frost have created a book that provides a refreshing look at domestic and family violence. The authors address head on the tensions and challenges that exist in current theorising and practice approaches, and provide effective strategies for addressing domestic and family violence. The result is a book that is comprehensive and holistic. It is a must read for domestic and family violence professionals, educators, researchers and students."" Dr Yvonne Crichton-Hill, Senior Lecturer, Department of Human Services and Social Work, University of Canterbury, New Zealand ""This book is as scholarly as it is practical. Administration and practitioners alike will find this book accessible, informative, and thought provoking. It will undoubtedly be an important resource that will serve as a guide to our efforts to reduce domestic and family violence."" Dr Jayson Ware, Group Director, Offender Services & Program Corrective Services New South Wales, Department of Justice, Australia ""Given the expansive, complex, and multi-faceted literature of this field, this book contributes a much-needed summary and reformulation of our current knowledge and best understanding of domestic and family violence. It is brilliantly organized to enable readers to find given subjects of interest, while conveying an sensitive ""inside"" portrayal of victimhood and perpetratorhood alike."" Jerry L. Jennings, Ph.D., Vice President of Clinical Services, Liberty Healthcare Corporation, Pennsylvania, USA ""This book is very timely for practitioners, educators and students who need a critical yet reflective approach to responding to domestic and family violence. Importantly the book shows constructive ways to respond to perpetrators and victims. It highlights the need for a gendered approach as well as extending to other occurrences of violence such as in same sex relationships and those living with a disability. I fully recommend this book as a practical and thoughtful guide to this complex field of practice."" Patrick O’Leary, Professor of Social Work, Griffith Criminology Institute, School of Human Services and Social Work, Griffith University, Australia

""Meyer and Frost have produced a rare thing: a textbook that actually walks the walk of a perpetrator pattern-based approach. By centering perpetratorhood early in the book, they make clear from the outset that the perpetrator's behaviour is the source of the problem—while avoiding the reductionism that so often flattens this work. They hold perpetrators accountable while situating them as multi-dimensional people embedded in family and community contexts, an approach that aligns with what adult and child survivors consistently tell us: the behaviour must change, but arrest and court orders alone won't get us there. The book's use of a postmodern lens—treating narratives around perpetration and victimisation as constructed—is intellectually honest and practically useful, creating space for dialogue without sliding into essentialism or dogmatism. It surveys diverse theories and perspectives while still maintaining a clear moral compass on the harms of domestic and family violence. Particularly powerful is the attention to children. The sections on DFV-related adult homicide and the murder of children by domestic abuse perpetrators—framed squarely within a coercive control lens and the dynamics of revenge on survivors for leaving—highlight linkages that the child protection world has been slow to reckon with. Their work deepens and reinforces the connection between domestic abuse and child maltreatment that Safe & Together has long championed. This is the kind of book that changes how practitioners think—and therefore how they act."" David Mandel, CEO and Founder, Safe & Together Institute. ""As different forms of DFV have emerged from behind closed doors, the complexity of the issue has grown. Simple explanations just don't serve anyone well. The authors have recognised that the way we talk across all the spaces we work in requires a real openness to finding common ground while being honest about where we differ. At the heart of it, they have kept the focus where it matters most: on the people caught up in DFV. This book gives us a shared framework and a common language, so that our professional conversations don't end up reflecting the very dynamics we're working so hard to change. That's no small thing."" Ken McMaster, Director, Hall McMaster & Associates, New Zealand.""This book is a wonderful resource for any practitioner, educator or student trying to understand the complexity of domestic and family violence - including its causes, consequences, and responses. It is both theoretically and historically rich, but at the same time discusses practical strategies to tackle the issues. The writing is clear and concise with a helpful summary provided at the end of each chapter and plenty of references for those who want to explore further."" Professor Heather Douglas AM, Associate Dean (Advancement and Engagement), Deputy Director (Interdisciplinary and translational research), ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW) Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne. ""Meyer and Frost have created an invaluable resource for students and practitioners seeking to understand the complexities of domestic and family violence. The book is a comprehensive, deeply researched, measured, and thought-provoking compendium of what we know, what we think, and what is disputed about domestic and family violence."" Professor Leigh Goodmark, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Marjorie Cook Professor of Law, University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law.

Author Information

Silke Meyer is a Professor of Social Work at Griffith University and an Adjunct Professor with the Office of the Senior Deputy Vice Chancellor, Southern Cross University, Australia. Andrew Frost is an adjunct senior academic at the Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research, CQUniversity Australia and at Ara Institute of Canterbury in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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